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This is literally the best time to have a headline of "US shoots down UFO" but noooooo https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/1624128340838780938?t=EDNnh2gxF2A-3yomCTwXMg&s=19
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Its Rinaldo posted:They said a fighter confirmed it was unmanned so must have got pretty close Not unaliened though 
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I want to be a ranch racoon since I love raccoons and am trashy but the reality is I'm definitely ashy but you can't see it. I've used "truck monkey" and "tractor monkey" a few times in conversation. That list has so many gems I'm having a hard time picking out my favorite ones but "iPhone on light mode" is some  -tier poo poo, and that's just on the first page.
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Hot Diggity! posted:This is literally the best time to have a headline of "US shoots down UFO" but noooooo Jordan Peele already at work on that Nope sequel.
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Whoever said their kid took a week to notice their pet was missing, you suck. It took my kid like 10 minutes to notice the cat was gone. I really had hoped I could put off that conversation for at least a day.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Whoever said their kid took a week to notice their pet was missing, you suck. It took my kid like 10 minutes to notice the cat was gone. I really had hoped I could put off that conversation for at least a day. When did they ask about the bird?
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Bird in a Blender posted:Whoever said their kid took a week to notice their pet was missing, you suck. It took my kid like 10 minutes to notice the cat was gone. I really had hoped I could put off that conversation for at least a day. Kids are so good at picking up on the exact thing you want them to ignore.
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I was wondering the other day, what’s going to happen when truly smartphone/internet literate people start aging into senility en masse and start racking up 50 thousand dollar Amazon tabs and sliding into 12 year olds’ DMs and stuff like that? I’m sure that kind of stuff happens now, but it seems like in 10-20 years it’s going to happen A LOT.
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Conservativism is assuming that once your mind goes you’ll of course try to gently caress a child.
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General Dog posted:I was wondering the other day, what’s going to happen when truly smartphone/internet literate people start aging into senility en masse and start racking up 50 thousand dollar Amazon tabs and sliding into 12 year olds’ DMs and stuff like that? I’m sure that kind of stuff happens now, but it seems like in 10-20 years it’s going to happen A LOT. I'm extremely concerned about your brain
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Remember the FedEx flight thing? jfc the video  https://twitter.com/DocumentingATX/status/1623745063388958720 This is a simulation recreating the incident, the real incident occurred at dawn with almost no visibility Intruder fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Feb 11, 2023 |
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I'm 99% certain that's Microsoft Flight Simulator... Unless  Edit: ok yeah, then if that's accurate holy poo poo
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Bird in a Blender posted:Whoever said their kid took a week to notice their pet was missing, you suck. It took my kid like 10 minutes to notice the cat was gone. I really had hoped I could put off that conversation for at least a day. How’d it go? Our son was around 3 when our dog passed. He had a lot of questions we answered factually and he seemed to get it. Def occupied his mind for about a week in an inquisitive way.
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Quiet Feet posted:When did they ask about the bird? He knows not to ask.
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General Dog posted:I was wondering the other day, what’s going to happen when truly smartphone/internet literate people start aging into senility en masse and start racking up 50 thousand dollar Amazon tabs and sliding into 12 year olds’ DMs and stuff like that? I’m sure that kind of stuff happens now, but it seems like in 10-20 years it’s going to happen A LOT. I mean we're already seeing people throw their finances away on crypto and NFTs and have verifiable proof that people like Bill Clinton took dozens of trips to a place known as pedophile island. poo poo dude, Chris Delia and James Franco have been outed for grooming. We're kinda already there, just replace senility with drunk/high/think they're invincible.
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Aaaaaaarrrrrggggg posted:I'm 99% certain that's Microsoft Flight Simulator... Unless Once again shoutout to flight sims for being so pretty you could believe they're real. Also yeah, if they got the reproduction down right and the audio is synced correctly that's utterly terrifying.
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I signed up to do my union's lobby day at thr state legislature so I can yell at politicians about what I do and why at least one bill related to child welfare is dumb as hell. It'll be fun!
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Ornery and Hornery posted:Thinking about all the good dogs My good dogs are in their crates and the super duper cuddly one just wants out to be in our bed but we can’t cause the babies still sleep in the bedroom.
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Tulalip Tulips posted:I signed up to do my union's lobby day at thr state legislature so I can yell at politicians about what I do and why at least one bill related to child welfare is dumb as hell. It'll be fun! Yelling at politicians on behalf of working people is one of the few truly excellent American traditions.
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General Dog posted:I was wondering the other day, what’s going to happen when truly smartphone/internet literate people start aging into senility en masse and start racking up 50 thousand dollar Amazon tabs and sliding into 12 year olds’ DMs and stuff like that? I’m sure that kind of stuff happens now, but it seems like in 10-20 years it’s going to happen A LOT. I've talked about my mom's parkinsons before. She's glued to her iphone. We had to put her on a strict "no computer without direct supervision" rule for her laptop, and one time my stepdad called me so I could tell a new caretaker that it wasn't her husband being an ogre, and it wasn't that we didn't "trust her" it was just that after the first time she gave control of her laptop to a scammer and they tried to clean out her bank account she was told what not to do and then she got caught right in the middle of doing the exact same thing again. Meanwhile both my stepmother and my wife's mother have been taken to the cleaners to the tune of multiple thousands of dollars. My mother in law was stopped at Target trying to buy a second batch of loads of gift cards after she'd already sent three grand in gift cards earlier in the day. My stepmother lost an amount she won't tell me to scammers two years ago and then this winter she got as far as having the remote desktop installed, and they were trying to get her to buy bitcoin to "refund" an "overpayment" they were showing her on her bank account login (by distracting her for a minute so they could edit the raw HTML after she logged in and then show her a browser tab with the "accidental extra refund" on it) before she finally called me and I had her unplug the loving computer. So to answer your question, it's actually better for the senile ones because you can take away their devices. It's the not senile elderly who have just enough computer literacy to get themselves into trouble who are being preyed upon constantly. It's infuriating that our government doesn't do a loving thing about it. Like how is it that all of our phone systems are absolutely infested with scam callers? How do they have active working phone numbers, which you can supply to the police, and that does not immediately lead to an arrest at the physical location of that number's origin? Oh because we just let the phone providers provide anonymizing services, people out of the country purchase and use in-country area code numbers, all that poo poo just totally free and open. How is it that you can buy nine thousand dollars in gift cards and read the numbers to someone in India and now all that money is gone and irretriveable? All of my parents have had the lecture, don't believe popups that tell you there's a bug, don't call the number on the screen, Microsoft does not give you free phone support, don't install poo poo on your computer because a stranger pretending to be a bank told you to. But they all don't want to bother the kids, they want to fix things themselves, they want to feel smart and capable in their old age, and there's so many scammers preying on that impulse, they have their scripts down to a tee. Anyway sorry about the rant but yeah the problem's enormous and if my stepmom and mother in law were bad enough that we had to live with them and could just lock their goddamn devices down well, that'd be awful and a huge burden of course but at least they'd be safe from the scams. 
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My MiL has had her identity stolen at least once, is glued to her iPhone and is credulous as hell. I fear the day she tells us she’s had her retirement cleaned out by scammers. One time she asked to borrow my laptop so she could “go through” her “spam folder” because it’s “too slow on my phone.” Im not sure I’ve ever said no more emphatically.
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The sad thing is that getting scammed can be one of the early signs of dementia. So when you have parents that went from generally financially stable to giving away thousands in gift cards, you have to start worrying about the bigger problem.
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I, as a 37 year old computer toucher, bought a house in what historically has been a working class neighborhood of Madison. Since I've moved, two new apartment complexes have opened (one named after the iconic restaurant that used to be there that couldn't find a buyer), a mixed use bakery/coffee shop/brewpub opened in a former industrial lab space, and a new taco place opened with a neon sign to take Instagram selfies in front of. My neighbor and I joke about the neighborhood gentrifying, but also I don't know if it's a joke. Which, watch me stick this landing, is very similar to this:BlindSite posted:I mean we're already seeing people throw their finances away on crypto and NFTs and have verifiable proof that people like Bill Clinton took dozens of trips to a place known as pedophile island. poo poo dude, Chris Delia and James Franco have been outed for grooming. We're kinda already there, just replace senility with drunk/high/think they're invincible. It's tough to know when you're going through a particular point in time because it's incredibly difficult to have the correct perspective instead of day to day trudging. So I understand GD wondering when something that's happening is going to happen. Without a researched article or particularly enlighting conversation, it's really difficult to change your perspective and frame of reference to the correct view to see what's happening.
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Leperflesh posted:It's infuriating that our government doesn't do a loving thing about it. Like how is it that all of our phone systems are absolutely infested with scam callers? How do they have active working phone numbers, which you can supply to the police, and that does not immediately lead to an arrest at the physical location of that number's origin? Oh because we just let the phone providers provide anonymizing services, people out of the country purchase and use in-country area code numbers, all that poo poo just totally free and open. How is it that you can buy nine thousand dollars in gift cards and read the numbers to someone in India and now all that money is gone and irretriveable? you answer your own question in the next paragraph quote:But they all don't want to bother the kids, they want to fix things themselves, they want to feel smart and capable in their old age, it's this. the old and near-senile don't want to admit their own weakness, so it never becomes a political issue
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pmchem posted:you answer your own question in the next paragraph I don’t know, I consider myself pretty sharp and still don’t especially enjoy being bombarded by grift all hours of the day.
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General Dog posted:I don’t know, I consider myself pretty sharp and still don’t especially enjoy being bombarded by grift all hours of the day. sure, me too, but I was referring to "the old and near-senile". and for people like you and me, despite thinking scammers are annoying and lovely, they probably don't even rank of the top 10 of things I'd talk to a congressperson about
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pmchem posted:sure, me too, but I was referring to "the old and near-senile". and for people like you and me, despite thinking scammers are annoying and lovely, they probably don't even rank of the top 10 of things I'd talk to a congressperson about Those congresspeople can't take your call anyway. They have the Emperor of Burkina Faso on the other line who has a proposition regarding a bank transfer.
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Bird in a Blender posted:Whoever said their kid took a week to notice their pet was missing, you suck. It took my kid like 10 minutes to notice the cat was gone. I really had hoped I could put off that conversation for at least a day. Sorry dude but that was my experience. Anxiety about her noticing and having the talk sucked so at least you are going for it. Its a hard time no matter how it goes.
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