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The alternative is catastrophic and widespread violence

Make no mistake, the response to general strikes will also be catastrophic and widespread violence once it starts actually impacting the bottom line. The distinction will be where it starts and who it’s directed against first. So you’d better be ready for that, too.

I don’t want to treat phone numbers as an ID, but for some reason my customers will give their phone number to me online far more willingly than they’ll cough up their email address, which is baffling only until you realize:

• Most people are technologically incompetent and are intimidated by the avalanche of crap they get in their email, and
• They never answer their phones anyway, so who cares?

I actually offer the option, because I don’t give a rat’s ass how people ignore me when I try to contact them. But when they place an order I at least need to be able to prove that I tried.

Maybe it was in their mind. But those are still phonetically the same, and similar to P, E, C, etc.

I once had a client tell me, “T as in… T.”

Yeah, that was helpful.

I had the Samsung notification whistle down pat back in the S3/S4/S5 era. Everyone had that as their default and it was so easy to fuck with people.

It gets worse. If you have “smart features and personalization” turned off for your Gmail account, which I do, you can’t even ask Gemini anything. Not even to get the inevitably wrong answer.

But this still doesn’t remove the damn button for it from the corner of your screen.

That’s not the point. When you respond to reviews like this the goal is to point out to everyone else who might be reading it that the reviewer is in fact a nut, and therefore their opinion should be discarded out of hand.

Probably. I have no experience with the Google Play Store end of things, but we’ve gotten non-reviews written by crackpots removed from our Google Business profile by just pointing out to Google that they were either off topic or from someone who we could not identify in any of our records as being a person who actually did business with us.

For example, there was one guy who went around copy-pasting the same one star rant to seemingly every retail business in the city whining about mask requirements during COVID, which didn’t have jack monkey squat do to with us and was in fact a state government mandate that we did not control. As a public business we have to comply with the law. Google took that one down when we reported it, although I still see examples of the same screed from the same guy attached to other businesses who apparently didn’t have the wherewithal to complain.

I imagine “app that serves third party content the author doesn’t control and reviewer is complaining about the content not the app” is a situation that is very well understood at Google. Whether or not you can make them give a shit is a different question…

Hey Google.

I still can’t create folders in the Android Gmail app. But somehow you had time for this?

The company pays for it. Not my dime. The expense doesn’t seem onerous and is just to name one example probably a small fraction of what we spend on pens in a year.

And we get everything of that ilk from one vendor with one bill. It’s all managed in one place. The renewals all happen at the same time. They like that.

Edit: It’s hilarious y’all are acting like you’re salty with me like this is my decision. I do what my boss tells me to do. Certainly there are better options for a lot of our business practices but at the end of the day if my recommendations are shot down it’s not my call. I hold the passwords and the keys, I do not hold the purse strings.

Yes.

I just had to log in and check. We pay $49.99 per year for our SSL cert. (Edit: Certs. We actually have two domains.) Do they do surge pricing or something…?

I feel like I must be the only person on Earth who has successfully used Godaddy for anything and not had a problem…

So, just like how pretty much every other drone manufacturers drones already work. Somehow people only give DJI shit over this and develop a curious blind spot about everybody else.

It is trivially easy for anyone with thumbs to kit-build a drone with no regulatory compliance whatsoever, in nearly any size, with absurd range and capabilities, for just a few hundred dollars. Despite that state of affairs having been the case for years, this has mysteriously failed to cause the Earth to fall out of its orbit into the sun.

Anyone who is planning shenanigans and doesn’t take phasing or teleportation is asking for it. Sooner or later some government entity or another is going to try to put you in some kind of prison and you’d better have an escape card. Especially if you also take immortality. If you’re immortal and some asshole Cask of Amontillados you, you’re going to be pissed off about it forever.

And is “divine powers” just a free combo deal of magic, invisibility, and immortality?

Boy howdy, I sure can’t wait for 99.9% of all manufacturers on Earth to completely ignore this as well, and keep selling devices and cables that are completely unlabeled.

And almost certainly so that uncoordinated users don’t slice the insides of their cheeks.

So is lobsters and crabs.

Eating them anyway, though.

Perennial camping-stuff manufacturer Light My Fire do indeed make a Knork, which is the first example that leapt to my mind. They may call it a “spork” but the fork end has a (butter-grade) knife edge machined into one side of it. As an added bonus, you get a whole entire unmolested spoon on the other end, too. Anyone who is cool enough to count would surely get the titanium version, which may just barely achieve enough rigidity to actually cut anything.

I used to have one but I lent it to somebody for a camping trip – damned if I remember who – and never got it back. Oh well.

Well, I can at least claim that I can legitimately claim an oft-unused spot on this diagram through being one of the probably select few who has ever put an edge on a spoon.

Look, some of us have a brand to maintain, you know?

Also, perhaps now is a good time to dredge up this.