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by fghsqwads 3y ago
> What makes this default even more egregious is that the stone-age-era IT system of the state’s Employment and Development Department (EDD) opened the floodgates to bad actors, permitting more than $30 billion in fraudulent unemployment
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
The morals and their exceptions are all people's opinions, and we now live in times where it's practically an act of courage to bother making a fucking decision on whether or not XYZ is morally okay. The bug-brained stance is to j
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
The only reason Zuckerberg wanted to pivot to the Metaverse was because he wanted to be president of the US but couldn't. The idea was spread briefly, and he found out that the general public hated him and he had no chance to win polit
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
> I've seen so much of the world that I wouldn't have if I'd be rushing between work, school and judo clubs. Ah yes, the old, life is so fulfilling when I'm a constant tourist, and also, climate change is bad but see
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
Now I want a used one just to rip open and find the SIM card. I wonder if I can use it for mobile data.
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
Just for fun and as a similar example https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/315/502/f76...
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
The fact that I could find, prior to Musk, fairly famous people who were refused blue checks whereas I'd see 'literal who' journalists made it clear the verification system was politically biased. People mad at Twitter '
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
The outcome is the same, people buying something they may not have otherwise. Also, the fact that viewers know something is an ad doesn't change the fact that they view it as a celebrity endorsement.
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by fghsqwads 3y ago
D-list celebs who promote shit on Instagram without pointing out they're being paid. Somehow, I'm supposed to view this as markedly worse than Tom Brady, Larry David, etc. doing the same thing in a commercial.
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by fghsqwads 4y ago
I do find the "unlimited" plan claims annoying. Most operators make this false claim. I know for sure that Tello does something similar, and their fallback is a "2G" (not actually 2G, just throttled) throttled speed to a
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by fghsqwads 4y ago
I've also been on Mint for about 4 years. Didn't realize this until a couple of days ago when I looked at my billing info. It's been mostly good, but MVNOs do get throttled traffic in some situations. When I lived in the SF B
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by fghsqwads 4y ago
It was even worse than that at the bottom of the market. There were people getting 'nodoc' loans where they did not prove their income. People were inclined to mark their income down as the presumed appreciation of the home value,