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[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

Does ublock do this?

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I thought it was that the guest in room one was doing some weird diaper/puppet sex shit and the prospective guest was no longer interested in the room.

But maybe that's a me problem.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Even ignoring the tires interacting with the road, you have air molecules. I don't think that would be enough to destroy a continent, but it would be very destructive.

Here is a cool What If? from xkcd about throwing a baseball at 0.9c.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'll do what I can but I can't stop the zoomers from listening to Rogan any more than I could stop the boomers from listening to Limbaugh.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess I don't understand how lemmy works. I see them continuing to post. How, if they can't log into their instance?

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

And better science refuted their junk science. What's your point?

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Years ago, before creditkarma, Fico scores and credit reports in my Amex app, and vantage scores and reports in my chase app, back when you had to go to annualcreditreport.com and wait for your shit in snail mail: I went to Fry's for a TV. They had some percentage off for applying for a store card. I was denied, which freaked me out because I thought my credit was really good so I assumed identity theft fucking my shit up. I paid with my normal card (still got the discount for applying), went to annualcreditreport, and waited; only to find out everything was fine.

I did some research and found out the industry considered me a "deadbeat." Not because I didn't pay, but because I did. I was the type of person that would get all these signup benefits and pay things off on time so I never got hit with all those retroactive usurious interest charges. I was rejected for having good credit.

The fact that it's legal to purposely extend credit to people who can't afford it to trap them in debt slavery is fucked up.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 2 weeks ago

Listen, of course I want a sandwich. I always want a sandwich. I just don't want to be the guy that tells you to make my totally-capable-of-making-my-own-damn-sandwich ass a sandwich, so I'm going to say "I'm alright", even if I'm starving because I've been gaming all day without eating.

If you want to make me a sandwich, just do it. If you put it in front of me it will be eaten. But I'm never going to tell you to do it.

(After a few years she figured it out and sandwiches just appear now.)

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

If that was remotely true half of lemmy would be in gitmo by now.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

Absolutely. I'm not advocating keeping the current dipshits that cancel shows that would have been kept around as "prestige shows" a couple decades ago. I just don't want to see it get even worse by going harder on numbers alone.

[–] roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I disagree.

Fuck this data driven bullshit. We need to return to a time where executives with a vision are empowered. We need to have decisions made by the kind of people who say things like "I know only 10% of people watch Mindhunters but that's the kind of show that brings people to our service".

If things stay the way they are get used to watching 7-8 seasons of mediocre lowest common denominator bullshit and having your favorite shows cancelled after one or two seasons.

 

I apologize in advance of this is too basic a question for this community.

I just learned about lexisnexis and went to their website to request my report, opt out of everything I could, and request my information be deleted.

Are there any other companies like this I should be aware of so I can make the same requests there?

If it matters, I'm in California and it's my understanding that I have a few more rights concerning this sort of thing than some others do.

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