Same reason they do Nigerian prince scams still: it’s so ridiculous no one will believe it except the people you absolutely 100% can get a score off of, so you can send these to a million people easily and they self select into the “easy to scam” group and you only work that one. You automate the cheap part of the process (initiating the scam) while making the expensive part (chatting with the mark) more productive

These schemes all have the same problem that reddit and Twitter have: they need me more than I need them. If your website or app or whatever won’t work if I’m not on the right device I won’t visit it, and that’s not a bad thing

good tbh, their metro kicks too much ass to have everyone driving around, their system has it's problems but not driving isn't one of them

I feel like people might think this is figurative, or like maybe it's a simplistic story, but it's very real. In the 70s, it was never "LGBT" it was gay organizations, lesbian organizations, transsexual or transvestite organizations, gay and lesbian organizations, but not all together. It was only the threat posed by the AIDS crisis that spurred the creation of organizations like Queer Nation it was in this climate that the coalition building happened, and where things like equal marriage became a rallying cry (as many people watched their loved ones die and have their affairs revert to--often homophobic--next of kin rather than their lifelong partners)

This is revisionist, that sequence of events was what caused him to start to play footsie with the idea of buying Twitter, the SEC saying that’s a big no-no is what made him actually make the offer to buy it and then he was forced by a court to finish the deal after a long legal battle to not buy it

Lol, I mean it really says something about gig economy when concepts such as "minimum wage" threaten to flat out kill their industry

that's an awful lot of crying for a government that definitely didn't order the assassination of a foreign citizen on foreign soil

Boy if only the pentagon had a way to deal with rogue actors, I wonder what they’re in charge of

these people want war with you, they mean to subjugate you, and if you do not bow they mean to kill you

his brain is scrambled eggs

will vote Republican in 2024 anyway

That’s fine, I think they should be paid more, and unlike them my politics isn’t motivated primarily by ruining my political enemies

Please read past the headline, there’s an important story here with through lines of corruption, cybersecurity, and complexities of living in a state like that

You should probably cache results so users aren’tspamming other instances

it's bullshit that that's what got her job pulled tho.

We’re now at the point where tech media has turned and will now have you believe Google should be questioned, is untrustworthy, and that their promise means nothing

This is worse than even the most insufferable apple fanboy.

Google! Untrustworthy!

God I can’t imagine why anyone would think that

I'm with the people who miss 3.5mm jacks on phones on this one. Until there's an open, portable standard between iPhone, android, and physical media that I own, I'm not buying ur dumb infotainment system. I'll go on eBay and buy a physical Garmin GPS before I learn what "google automotive services" is

"I hope they both lose" no I hope Disney mops the fucking floor with DeSantis, Disney is evil and needs to be broken up into at minimum 5 different companies but DeSantis is doing fascism to eradicate queer people. One of these things is far more urgent than the other.

There’s a lot of countries with belligerent neighbors who so far have not developed a nuclear program watching what kind of help Ukraine gets and for how long very, very closely

The obsession with the fact that GN didn’t reach out for lmg’s response to the story is extremely rich given that ltt didn’t give billet labs that exact same courtesy

“In LA, you never know” what a fucking heartless thing to say while they’re in the middle of a hurricane