Especially since this has been an identity theft scam for decades. People post fake, too good to be true, rental listings on Craigslist and the application asks for SSN and a “family reference” (asking for mother’s maiden name) and a weirdly small deposit paid by check. Now you’ve got all the info you need to steal someone’s identity. And I assume this kind of thing has gotten more sophisticated in the digital realm since I was last renting.
Yes you literally need to bring wipes around with you. Things are slowly changing but for a long time there was no TP in any bathroom stall outside of fancy hotels and maybe high end restaurants.
I’ve been to China many times, and this is arguably the least offensive TP situation.
The implication is that it’s operating as a general purpose mobile botnet of sorts, and there is likely someone out there selling services on it. It seems like someone was using it for swatting (which is how they found it), and others may have been using it for spam and forum bots. The narrative that it was specifically a tool for attacking cellular infrastructure is a bit misleading. It might have been useful for that but as far as well know it was never used that way.
Or just don’t use tiktok
I declare it!
Agreed - I really hate doing this “next generation bad” thing, but this really is a different situation than what we’ve seen before. The way the Internet creates a feedback loop of extremism around every single topic is terrifying, and people are completely missing the profound effects this is having on developing brains - priming them for radicalization while critical thought atrophies.
When we grew up we had a set of influences which grounded us in reality. Even if we found subversive places on the Internet, we still spent most of our time with our parents and teacher and coaches, etc. This is completely inverted now. Kids traverse the internet like a dog sniffing out idiotic ideas, and when they find the validation they seek, there’s seemingly no way to pull it out of them.
What’s the point of anything you aren’t immediately good at?
I thought conservatives don’t like cancel culture
Reminder that Ground news exists entirely to push a “both sides” narrative in a world where right wing media openly seeks to push “alternative facts” and big lies.
Hey he looks like 15 random names I just found in the phone book
Square one being the office down the hall?
I will bet my favorite testicle that the shooter is a right wing loon
So it’s basically the standard platformer formula going back three or more decades?
It’s because these spaces are just infested with fascists pretending to be leftists, telling the actual leftists not to vote, and they fall for it as reliably as Trump falls for teenagers.
Exactly what happened to Carter, Clinton, Obama, and Biden. This literally keeps happening over and over again and it makes me feel insane that nobody seems to remember
I get feeling let down about the localization, but to review bomb over it does feel particularly fragile, even for gamers.
We saw a massive, concerted “don’t vote, bot sides are the same” effort in Lemmy. It was incredibly obvious and shocking that some people still deny it.
They are mad that SJW has the meanwhileOnGrad com.
Google search AI mode says “no information” but Gemini in the app says that “some Doctors have speculated” about signs of cognitive decline.