That’s the excuse. But phone numbers tied to names are available all over the dark web and the light web—that’s a fundamentally worthless data point by now. They don’t actually want that, they’re just saying it so you think it’s for scam prevention.
If it were, they wouldn’t tie it to storage space. That doesn’t matter to scammers and spammers; they’d require it for sending to more than x recipients per month, or for API access, or for any number of other things. The one thing spammers and scammers don’t need is storage space. They just need a trusted email gateway and IP address.
Storage is incredibly cheap, though. If Google used S3, the cost for a 15GB account would be pennies a year, and since they host their own architecture it can be orders of magnitude less. This isn’t about recouping costs. This is just about shaking users down for more subscription money.
Yeah, this here is exactly the reason why anytime I have to migrate from any piece of software I’m migrating to something open source and standards compliant.
I haven’t been on Reddit in at least two years, maybe longer. I can’t remember and honestly don’t care enough to check. But that sort of statement sounds exactly what I would tell my staff to have the bots write when accused of being bots, if I worked at an agency aiming to stir up dissent on social media.
So how about this: if you want to prove that you’re not a bot, try being kind and thoughtful about what you say, be introspective about your edgelord views, and actually write something that has respect for the dignity of human life.
I think she’d be great because she would hire very smart people to advise her on her weak areas. “If you’re dumb, surround yourself with smart people. And if you’re smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.” She’s smart, and she knows a lot of smart people.
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Yeah, I’m dismissing this as rambling, but of a bot account funded by a right-wing organization.
Yeah, I can’t wait for the tell-all book that someone inevitably releases in 20 years about how Xwitter was a complete ghost town propped up by sports and racism. The company is clearly hemorrhaging money like a firehose.
Four months ago, we packed up our family and moved from middle America to New Zealand. It’s been amazing, eye-opening, terrifying, beautiful, fascinating, freeing experience. But through it all, I’ve fallen even more in love with my family.
And I’ve always been a family sort of guy, but facing this challenge with my wife as a teammate (she’s a force of nature!) and seeing my kids take to the new situation and flourish…I love these folks. It’s been hard, but they’ve been not just the reason we did it but also the reason it’s been a good experience.
It might not completely go away, but it will slide further and ever quicker into irrelevance. Just like Xwitter has done.
Sailfish is closed-source, isn’t it? I want to be excited about it, but I am hesitant about another closed-source OS.
Yep. And we’re seeing some movement on the outside making inroads into the party itself, which is great. There are more people trying to primary their establishment dems, and a lot of them are winning. But even if every Democrat in office right now were to lose their next primary, it would still take the better part of a decade to turn the entire party over.
If we survive this thing, the democratic party that comes out of it will be stronger for having been infused with younger, more progressive voices; but the road to that future is long.
No argument there. But we can’t even get the man out of office right now; how likely is it that we’re going to change the whole system in light of that?
Americans must have some equivalent they can do at the local level at least.
Only at certain times. There was just a primary election (some locales had a special election too) yesterday, and there’s another one in November, but neither of them included the president on the ballot.
May and November. That’s it. That’s all we’ve got, most of us; aside from protest.
But again, a general strike is something out of reach of most Americans, who live paycheck-to-paycheck and could be fired (and thus denied healthcare) at any moment.
nobody in America seems to care enough to meaningfully change it
People keep saying this as if we’ve all got a lever we could pull to get him out of office and just…aren’t doing it. No, there’s no direct way to make it happen. There’s no meaningful opposition party, and no way to remove a president from office without one. The indirect ways to do it–namely, protest and primary challenges–well, a lot of us are doing that. And those who are and aren’t protesting are held back by needing to work in an economic system that ties our healthcare to our employment.
The problem can’t be solved in just a few months. This is a coordinated assault against liberty that began decades ago; it’d take a few years to sort out even if the entire middle and lower class was in agreement, and a sizable undereducated, propagandized population in the lower class is going to take some time to get on board.
“Wake up” and do what? Take up arms? That’s a pipe dream sold by the NRA to keep conservatives buying guns. So what are we supposed to do that we’re not already doing?
Still almost half the planet, though. Way too much.
According to the AP story, you have to renew in-person at the State Department’s DC office to get it. Online people still get the non-fash design.
I don’t know that a Trump voter holds the same culpability as a Confederate soldier.