I thought everywhere was lemmyshitpost.
Nougat
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I'd bet that a good number of older people who fall for these scams are people whose interpersonal relationships have become thinner over the years, making the scams more attractive as personal contact.
When they were younger, and had people around them more often, these kind of scams might also have come up, and they might have fallen for the scams then, too, except for being able to talk to people more readily and have someone say that it doesn't sound right.
So it's a combination of "I've always been open to falling for scams" and "I have a weaker community support system now."
Long ago, I developed these skills:
- If it's not a physical fucking thing, and you can get it by paying money, you can probably get something close to it for free. Go look for that.
- If it's a service, and someone is offering to sell it to you without you having asked, it's either a scam, or you don't need it anyway.
I'm not saying I'm necessarily immune to these scams, I don't know what getting older is going to do to my brain. But I can say that I'm vaccinated against them.
This just leaves Musk to scratch at the base of the door and wave his fingers around in the gap beneath the door until Donald finally relents, allowing Musk to enter and curl up in the crotch of Donald's pants while he's taking a shit.
... the need for peaceful and just approaches to addressing societal issues.
If we're not already beyond "peaceful approaches," we're gonna be real soon. Prepare to [email protected].
There’s no way that apologia for brutal authoritarian dictatorships should be considered a left-wing idea.
Robespierre has entered the chat.
You're not a US citizen? Deported.
I feel like "resigning from your office" shouldn't be a way to keep forever sealed the results of investigations that have already happened.
Is the subtext here that they already can't stop this shit from getting to the public?
Insurance companies suck, and UHC sucks the worst.
They just need to redefine "persons."