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  • yesman@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldLocal hero
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    7 hours ago

    I used to work at Blockbuster. (am old)

    They required a credit card to open an account. They would charge this account for late fees if you hadn’t paid them in 30 days or so. Their computer system didn’t check for valid credit card #s. The entire time I worked there, I misstyped almost every credit card number on a new account.

    Obviously with people changing accounts and cards expiring, the failure rate when we charged these accounts was always high and nobody ever said anything about it.


  • I visited Sequoia Nat Park maybe 10 or 12 years ago. The bears were crazy. I knew I was likely to see a bear, but the animals moved into the camp like they were clocking in.

    There were signs that advised campers to make noise like banging pots and pans to drive them off. Less than 30 seconds after sunset, you could hear pots and pans banging in every direction.

    I saw two bears that first night, one got close enough that I could hear it breathing.






  • I used to do meter work for the Power Company. I was taught that an arc flash would reach 40,000 degrees (F or C doesn’t matter, don’t ask), and could instantly vaporize tool-steel.

    I have a melted pair of pliers to prove it. Luckily, I was probably the only worker who actually used my PPE and was fine.





  • Our passwords are screwed because the companies that store them can’t be bothered to secure them. All of this could be solved with a regulation that every compromised account means the user is owed $500.

    But of course the contributors to the NYTimes can’t find fault with businesses, instead scolding customers that they’re not protecting the data that they didn’t want collected and the credentials and credit scores we didn’t ask for either.

    Nobody is going to steal your identity, they’re stealing credentials that you didn’t ask for, do not benefit from, and have no control how they’re stored or maintained.




  • You know it took 80 years between the time someone who looked like Obama could vote, and the time that someone who looked like Harris could. It shouldn’t be surprising that this same pattern would appear in electability.

    Harris probably can’t win, but it’s not her policy or resume’. It’s her vagina. Because at the end of the day, two women have run for the chair, and Trump beat both of them. Maybe their weakness is the obvious thing they have in common?

    Harris lost because America is such a misogynistic country, it’s a problem on the left too.

    If you disagree, then please explain why Harris’ weaknesses don’t apply to the (cock having) Joe Biden. I don’t remember Biden being a socialist hero, but he was still able to defeat Trump without leaving his basement.


  • Did you know that when obstetrics and gynecology was new, it was seen as absurd. Because midwives and clever-women had always dominated reproductive care and the idea of going to a man was ridiculous.

    The American Medical Association needed to discredit midwives and clever-women. Part of that campaign was legal oppression, by making things like abortion illegal. This is the birth of the anti-abortion movement in America. Not moralists, but capitalists; same as it ever was.