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redshirt posted:For many years I have been as diligent as possible to keep my personal information as private as possible. For example, I have a host of email addresses I use for various purposes - shopping, signing up for things, etc. I have a second phone number I can use for the same purpose. Its worked well for many years, until about 3 months ago. I can't think of a thing I did, but I'm getting tons of political texts now. Mostly Dems, which I can sorta understand since I've donated in the past, but also Trump stuff. And I have no idea how that happened, I've never even ironically signed up for anything there. But even the Dem texts are aggressive, and from people all over the country. I live in a county in Ohio that is a healthy purple, traditional farmland conservative that has exploded in suburbs bringing a lot of left/center voters, and I have received multiple texts in the last month asking me if I was interested in running for local office. I can only presume that they are scraping voter rolls for public information, and this might have happened to you!
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~Coxy posted:On instagram, if I try to report "@BrandX__AU" as being a impersonation/scam page, the form comes up where I have to say exactly who it's impersonating, and if I go to the actual effort of searching for the real tag "@BrandX_AU" most of the time it won't even appear in the list of results, and when it doesn't you can't even submit the report a scam form! Those report forms don't work either, but submitting a DMCA to the legal@ email address does.
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redshirt posted:I assume some list or lists got sold out there somewhere, and I was on it, but I don't know. My girlfriend got on some list for Christian charities (not, like, a single charity called " Christian Charities" but several generic "Be a Good Disciple of Christ and give us money!" charities) and about 2-3 times a WEEK she gets some big envelope in the mail filled with return address labels, very Christ-y Christmas and get well soon/thinking of you cards, and other brick-a-brack. You'd think they would have more money to supposedly help the downtrodden they claim to help if they didn't pre-print and mail all this stuff BEFORE asking for a donation, but that would require them to be legit charities and not just fronts that try to guilt-trip the elderly. I guess at least ONE is legit...or at least seems to be, about once a month she gets one from St.Jude's; but TBF I haven't looked into them and maybe they're as bad as the Susan G. Komen Foundation or something.
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Killingyouguy! posted:A million years ago I had a crunchy roll account and recently they decided I needed marketing emails 3x a day so I clicked unsubscribe and the page is loving broken and won't unsubscribe me from poo poo deep dish peat moss posted:You can forward those to the FTC at spam@uce.gov or report it at https://www.ftc.gov/complaint to get them fined up to $50k per email for not having a valid unsubscribe link KariOhki fucked around with this message at 20:41 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Yeah I reported the anime spam to the Canadian equivalent and copied crunchy roll support on it just to be a turbobitch
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Sentient Data posted:I'm actually really surprised that there aren't more receptionist-as-a-service companies out there. I know they exist, but the fact that they haven't taken over everywhere seems like a missed opportunity for vc stuff. Of course after a few months they would fire everyone and make it an AI Enhanced™ voice chatbot, then a few months later they can remove all dial in phone numbers and only allow access if they call in via the app Call taking services have existed forever. The issue is whomever you have answering the phone. Dial by name and directory search are de facto features in any IVR system, so if someone wants to speak to a receptionist, its because they have a need that couldn't be resolved by the IVR. Training a call center agent to answer "Thanks for calling Acme corporation, this is Vampire Panties, how may I assist your call?" and to know how to resolve the issue is pretty easy; training an agent to memorize twenty different prompts & have all the receptionist knowledge for 20 different orgs is relatively difficult. Then there is the actual connection costs - its another phone call (with phone call rates) to forward the call out of your PBX and to the call-taking service, and then (depending on configuration) its another call if the receptionist transfers them. The rates are only a few pennies a minute, but it adds up. As posted previously itt, companies decided that it would be better to just lose these calls than to have someone sitting around waiting for the phone to ring. The only companies that screw with call-taking services are tiny companies that try to make themselves look bigger. Think Amway types trying to spin themselves as  franchise guys
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Tarkus posted:KFC is loving putrid compared to every one of its competitors and I have no idea how it's still in business. when I worked in camden (the london one) we used to avoid the KFC unless we were absolutely trashed & thrown out of the pub too late to go anywhere else. we called it "unlucky fried kitten". we stopped going there altogether (so average annual visits went down from two to zero) when we saw one of the poo poo-boys (fast-food operatives) pick up a near-dead rat with his bare hands, lob it into a
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I'm not sure how well it would work with just subscriptions, but I signed up for some lovely temporary dental insurance while I was trying to get Medicaid, and I found out after the fact that you can only cancel by calling them up and requesting a form, then mailing that form in. But you could update your address via an online form, so I changed my address to a place in California and sent another email with a cc'ed (fake) lawyer-ish sounding address telling them that I had moved to California and that they were required by law to cancel my plan. Which they did promptly. It's probably not actually illegal but I figured nobody wants to risk a lawsuit over like $200.
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Tarkus posted:KFC is loving putrid compared to every one of its competitors and I have no idea how it's still in business. They cater to the "old tasteless boomers who grew up on military bases and only eat potted meat and instant mashed potatoes" crowd
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I had the opposite problem once where the business wouldn't take my money. Not Crunchyroll but owned by them service VRV used to have some nice perks included like horror movies service shudder. When I lapsed one year after a trial no matter what I did It wouldn't let me re up. I tried mobile and computer and 3-4 browsers but nothing worked. *Insert Phillip J Fry "take my money" meme This is from 8 pages back or so, but last I heard the edge of tomorrow sequel is cancelled again, but you could read the manga it's based on to get closure if you like. I am not a big tom cruise fan but I like that one a lot somehow.
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:but last I heard the edge of tomorrow sequel is cancelled again, but you could read the manga it's based on to get closure if you like. Can't do it without Bill Paxton.  https://i.imgur.com/S2zZuXV.mp4
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Vacuum cleaners. Do I need to pay $1000 for a "good" one? I'm suspicious it will still be mediocre, and break in six months.
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The pandemic ruined trying to find an e-commerce related job. I've spent most of my career working in e-commerce, managing storefronts, product photography, back-end stuff, marketing, shipping, etc. This often used to involve profit share and significant oversight over e-commerce operations. But every single "e-commerce" job posting now means minimum wage worker who sits in some retail stockroom packaging peoples' online orders. Or just sitting around doing etsy/ebay listings for some lovely artist or whatever for minimum wage. What the gently caress is this 
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Failson posted:Vacuum cleaners. Do I need to pay $1000 for a "good" one? I'm suspicious it will still be mediocre, and break in six months. I paid $120 for a discontinued $180 pet hair Shark at wallyworld 2 years ago and thing still works like a champ
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Speaking of being unable to reach anyone by phone, I tried to contact roadside assistance today and there are apparently no more real people involved in that, either. I tried it through my insurance first, and the site wanted me to fill out all this crap on a terrible interface, but there was a line at the bottom "Rather call? Click this number." I was like oh absolutely, so I called it and it was just a robot asking me a few questions and then saying "ok we're going to text you a link" and that link took me back to the same site I was on before!! So I tried Subaru instead and it was the exact same system, I even got the link texted to me from the same number. I just want to talk to a real person so I can get a real estimate for how long I'll be stuck sitting on the side of the road. Edit: Missed the last page but whatever it's still relevant to the thread Wile E. Toyota fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Youtube keeps recommending me random video game LPs or something that were released only 3 days ago and have like, 400 views max, even though I haven't actually watched any video game related stuff in ages. Pretty sure it's people who just pay for THE ALGORITHM to boost them
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Re: call answering stuff. A buddy of mine used to work for a call centre and their client base was mainly "businesses who say they offer 24/7 support." Outside of normal business hours they'd get onto my friend and he'd pretend to be the company but just write a ticket for a real employee to answer when they opened. It really sucked because his team dealt mainly with contracts relating to the health service and insurance companies so usually it was people in real distress calling. One time he had someone who totalled their car and was now stranded in the middle of nowhere in a different country looking for advice on what insurance would cover for emergency travel home, but as it was Friday evening of a long weekend no one was gonna be able to advise him for days.
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Failson posted:Vacuum cleaners. Do I need to pay $1000 for a "good" one? I'm suspicious it will still be mediocre, and break in six months. Actual good ones will run you about a grand. I've lived most my life on poo poo vacuums and then later on 'vacuums that market themselves as good, but are actually trash (post 2008 dysons)', but have recently finally bit the bullet on a Sebo unit. I loving love that vacuum, and I think if you have reasonable amounts of disposable income, it's a great thing to put some money into. The one I have ran about $1200~, but it does come with a pretty no nonsense 10 year warranty and all that. These high end manufacturers also will sell you parts and you can repair your sick vacuum if it breaks. Will you actually break even on longevity vs the cheap options? Maybe on a long enough time line, but it'd be a REAL long timeline I think. The real benefit is that you have a machine that's actually a delight to use AND you probably do break even against cheap options on the order of 15+ years. Stuff that 'just works well' is generally worth the price of admission if you have the means to afford it IMO. Other good manufacturers would be Miele and Lindhaus and they will all run you $Texas. E: There is actually a pretty good list of vacuums for all budgets on a vacuum subreddit of all things... Canine Blues Arooo fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Dec 5, 2023 |
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Power went out. Power company's website says to text a number with 'out' to automatically report. I text: "Unfortunately, we cannot associate this phone number to a valid electric service address. Please call [number] to provide more detail." I call the number and get a bot that immediately says "I see your number is associated with an account, are you calling about your service at [address]?"  Can the bot on your phone trade notes with the bot on your text service?
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MrQwerty posted:I paid $120 for a discontinued $180 pet hair Shark at wallyworld 2 years ago and thing still works like a champ I got the lowest tier Bissell for $60 and it still works great 13 years later with nothing but a single filter replacement, but I don't really have anything to vacuum up except for dust in the carpet. If you live with kids/manchildren that drop poo poo on the floor and leave it or have pets it probably destroys them a lot faster.
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Dip Viscous posted:I got the lowest tier Bissell for $60 and it still works great 13 years later with nothing but a single filter replacement, but I don't really have anything to vacuum up except for dust in the carpet. If you live with kids/manchildren that drop poo poo on the floor and leave it or have pets it probably destroys them a lot faster. I initially bought it just because the carpet here was kinda dirty, but then we kidnapped a kitten from the bush in the parking lot outside our fence and it turned into a prophetic purchase
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TBLALV posted:Youtube keeps recommending me random video game LPs or something that were released only 3 days ago and have like, 400 views max, even though I haven't actually watched any video game related stuff in ages. My Tube likes to recommend live streamers with only one or two people watching. Which may be The Algorithm trying to boost some poor unpopular tubers and retain them as customers.
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Dip Viscous posted:I got the lowest tier Bissell for $60 and it still works great 13 years later with nothing but a single filter replacement, but I don't really have anything to vacuum up except for dust in the carpet. If you live with kids/manchildren that drop poo poo on the floor and leave it or have pets it probably destroys them a lot faster. I probably have the same one, only it was $50 and I got it in 2007. Works fine. My sister bought a Dyson that broke in under two years.
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Mirage posted:My Tube likes to recommend live streamers with only one or two people watching. Which may be The Algorithm trying to boost some poor unpopular tubers and retain them as customers. I did this once and a nice lady making food in her kitchen gave me some good advice on baking casseroles
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Professor Shark posted:I did this once and a nice lady making food in her kitchen gave me some good advice on baking casseroles Well???
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TBLALV posted:Youtube keeps recommending me random video game LPs or something that were released only 3 days ago and have like, 400 views max, even though I haven't actually watched any video game related stuff in ages. I keep getting those as well, though I watch (and produce) enough nerdy video game stuff that I just figured the all mighty algorithm was trying to boost small creators with some kind of interest overlap. People buying boosting does seem sadly likely.
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withak posted:Mods please ban unless OP shares the casserole advice. Dont be a casserole asserhole OP
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Yeah I keep getting songs that have fewer than 10 views. They're usually bad!
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withak posted:Mods please ban unless OP shares the casserole advice. It's going to be an indirect lead-in to Chicago pizza.
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Canine Blues Arooo posted:Actual good ones will run you about a grand. I've lived most my life on poo poo vacuums and then later on 'vacuums that market themselves as good, but are actually trash (post 2008 dysons)', but have recently finally bit the bullet on a Sebo unit. I loving love that vacuum, and I think if you have reasonable amounts of disposable income, it's a great thing to put some money into. The one I have ran about $1200~, but it does come with a pretty no nonsense 10 year warranty and all that. These high end manufacturers also will sell you parts and you can repair your sick vacuum if it breaks. Will you actually break even on longevity vs the cheap options? Maybe on a long enough time line, but it'd be a REAL long timeline I think. The real benefit is that you have a machine that's actually a delight to use AND you probably do break even against cheap options on the order of 15+ years. Stuff that 'just works well' is generally worth the price of admission if you have the means to afford it IMO. Other good manufacturers would be Miele and Lindhaus and they will all run you $Texas. That's helpful, thank you! Especially this bit: quote:While they make up a majority of the market, bagless vacuums are not recommended for the following reasons: And yeah, two cats, largish house, and an elderly father that shuffles his feet. Dirt is a challenge. MrQwerty posted:I initially bought it just because the carpet here was kinda dirty, but then we kidnapped a kitten from the bush in the parking lot outside our fence and it turned into a prophetic purchase Congratulations on the kitten-napping!
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TBLALV posted:Youtube keeps recommending me random video game LPs or something that were released only 3 days ago and have like, 400 views max, even though I haven't actually watched any video game related stuff in ages. Killingyouguy! posted:Yeah I keep getting songs that have fewer than 10 views. They're usually bad! Both of these have been plaguing me for weeks now and it's annoying as gently caress
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We had a Rainbow when I was a kid. Essentially it's a vaguely R2-D2 looking thing that sucks up all the dust and filth and vileness of your house and dumps it into a watery chamber pot that is attached to its lower parts. As a child, one of my regular tasks was to take this water-filled dustpot off to the wooded edge of the property and dump out all the skin flakes we'd sloughed off and the dead hairs we'd shed in the past week and pitch it into the tangled undergrowth there. Did this ritual mangle me up inside? Did it make me a twisted caricature of a human, unable to function, always cognizant of the filth I leave in my wake like a snot spewing eel?? Absolutely not! The Rainbow is a wonderful vacuum cleaner and an excellent alternative to traditional bag and bagless systems. Don't be scared off by the price, a Rainbow will be with you for the rest of your life!
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:We had a Rainbow when I was a kid. Essentially it's a vaguely R2-D2 looking thing that sucks up all the dust and filth and vileness of your house and dumps it into a watery chamber pot that is attached to its lower parts. As a child, one of my regular tasks was to take this water-filled dustpot off to the wooded edge of the property and dump out all the skin flakes we'd sloughed off and the dead hairs we'd shed in the past week and pitch it into the tangled undergrowth there. Did this ritual mangle me up inside? Did it make me a twisted caricature of a human, unable to function, always cognizant of the filth I leave in my wake like a snot spewing eel?? Absolutely not! The Rainbow is a wonderful vacuum cleaner and an excellent alternative to traditional bag and bagless systems. Don't be scared off by the price, a Rainbow will be with you for the rest of your life!  My grandma had one of those, jesus christ that water would get disgusting
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Mine is a bagless canister vacuum. I've experienced none of the downfalls of bagless that people complain about and after trying a canister I'm never going back to uprights. Also holy poo poo I had completely forgotten about Rainbows, gently caress those things. It looks like these days they make fragrances to add to the water, as if that solves the actual problem. Dip Viscous fucked around with this message at 07:35 on Dec 6, 2023 |
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Failson posted:Vacuum cleaners. Do I need to pay $1000 for a "good" one? I'm suspicious it will still be mediocre, and break in six months. I saw a video by consumer reports or something and the old ones used to suck (non-pejorative) about the same or better
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Dip Viscous posted:Mine is a bagless canister vacuum. I've experienced none of the downfalls of bagless that people complain about and after trying a canister I'm never going back to uprights. ive been using a bagless bissell zing since 2017 and it's good, no problems and it's pretty strong.
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