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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:hey at least he's asking you and not just trusting it as legit it's funny that i mentioned this because i just got off the phone with him the dumb gently caress sent me pictures of what appeared to be a 35-40 yo woman and asked me to see if i could pull any data from it to confirm it was taken in ireland i asked him if this was a long lost sister or if he's talking to her in a different way and then had a long loving row about staying off internet dating apps if the only people you get bites on are 40 years your junior and can only call you via google voice
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my personal hellworld is having to deal with my 77 year old father who instead of seeing a therapist to help him accept the loss of my mother 5 years ago, instead ships probably stolen iphones to south sudan and accidentally helps warlords with child soldiers or gets sweet talked into forking over a couple hundred dollars at a time since "she really needs help and i cant just say no!!"
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Nov 9, 2021 06:13
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somebody i know irl is dealing with tearing away a family member off a bank account because they've already given away six figgies to fb scammers and gosh it's not an easy process
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:or gets sweet talked into forking over a couple hundred dollars at a time since "she really needs help and i cant just say no!!" this is literally a thing that is happening right now like unironically and can be from a couple hundred to 'they need $13,000 to complete the construction project and my name will be on it!'
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Nov 9, 2021 07:43
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one of my gfs old coworkers gave away thousands to a "veteran" even after she was told it was a scam she still kept sending money for a while
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Nov 9, 2021 07:46
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i lent $150 to an online friend i didnt really know very well and then we lost contact until a year later they paid me back
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Nov 9, 2021 07:50
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at some point people kind of know it's a scam, but they're too ashamed to admit it to themselves and keep sending money, because stopping it would mean admitting it was a scam
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Nov 9, 2021 07:51
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PokeJoe posted:even after she was told it was a scam she still kept sending money doesnt matter because spankmeister posted:at some point people kind of know it's a scam, but they're too ashamed to admit it to themselves and keep sending money, because stopping it would mean admitting it was a scam
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Nov 9, 2021 08:24
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hobbesmaster posted:restoring europe and japan after wwii was expensive and the way we did it was by largely preserving the existing structures of their societies
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Nov 9, 2021 08:26
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my dad got cleaned out by scammers over the past year and a half or so, even after we tried to stop him/told him it was a scam. he almost lost his house!
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its so weird how we claim to venerate the elderly and retired but have absolutely zero flashbang short barrel assault rifle hit squads assigned to dealing with any of those scammers, guess theyre all busy driving mraps into the apartments of brown leftists
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dont sign my posts jonny
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i cannot imagine my parents using twitter. the latest from my mom was she heard a podcast on cbc radio about people 'training' on warcraft then doing something bad irl with that training. no details. H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol dad autism graph posted:somebody i know irl is dealing with tearing away a family member off a bank account because they've already given away six figgies to fb scammers and gosh it's not an easy process My old neighbor talked about that, iirc it was an aunt with dementia. It sounded loving horrible. It's not just the legal stuff, there's the whole emotional dimension of taking away someone's autonomy when they can't process the reason.
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Nov 9, 2021 14:44
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shoeberto posted:My mom follows my wife's public Twitter, but doesn't actually have an account. She just goes to the page and reads the updates throughout the week. She'll ask me things on the phone that I don't remember mentioning to her, and inevitably it was just something my wife posted about. It's really weird. all of my grandparents passed away with all their mental faculties still working and i am eternally grateful that dementia doesn't seem to run in my family. i pray my parents are the same as they're getting into their upper sixties now. i can't even imagine how terrible it would be to have to deal with that
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my grandfather had luekemia but was able to tie up all his affairs in an an orderly manner. my grandmother’s mind was completely gone and she didnt have any money anyway so the worst that happened is my aunt got her to buy stuff for her. my dad was mad but he was giving both of them money at the time so he was more mad that his sister didnt just ask him for the money.
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Dementia and Alzheimers are super-prevalent in my mom's side of the family, and I've had to see a great-grandmother, grandfather, and grandmother all go down to it. The experience of having to deal with grandmother (who was never the most pleasant person under the best of circumstances) has resulted in my mother demanding that my brother and I just put her away in a home the second she starts to lose it, as she doesn't want us to go through all the stress that she and my uncles have had to endure.
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Nov 9, 2021 15:39
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my mom has dementia, she was diagnosed in her early 60s, about 10 years ago now. it's an unimaginably cruel disease. everyone's experience with it is somewhat different i think; Mom had the kind where her brain just sorta fried out and she babbled a lot. about 4 years ago she went completely non-verbal and has been bedridden since then. my dad was very stubborn though, and wouldn't put her in a home, so he burnt all his money on in-home caretakers because he couldn't take care of her himself. she's in the hospital with pneumonia and hasn't eaten in like two weeks right now, and we're putting her into hospice because he's finally been broken down to the point where he'll let go.
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shoeberto posted:My mom follows my wife's public Twitter, but doesn't actually have an account. She just goes to the page and reads the updates throughout the week. She'll ask me things on the phone that I don't remember mentioning to her, and inevitably it was just something my wife posted about. It's really weird. it doesn't really happen as much since we got a kid and it's just photo-posting, of photos that are mostly mine
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Nov 9, 2021 15:53
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Jonny 290 posted:its so weird how we claim to venerate the elderly and retired but have absolutely zero flashbang short barrel assault rifle hit squads assigned to dealing with any of those scammers, guess theyre all busy driving mraps into the apartments of brown leftists this is the other thing, the only agency that is even sniffing any of this is the eff bee eye
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Nov 9, 2021 17:21
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I think the government tolerates fraud against olds because it fits nicely with the "crime is everywhere" mean world they've constructed to control their votes
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thankfully my parents are pretty scam-resistant. even back in the pre-caller id days we were the house that always let the answering machine pick up and only answered if it was someone we knew, and my dad ran a small business his whole life and basically spent every day telling phone scammers to gently caress off "hi, this is so-and-so just calling to confirm the model of your copiers before we send the 5 cases of toner you ordered" "hi, this is so-and-so from the phone company calling to talk to you about your long distance plan" (if they were really from the phone company they would know that the business had no long distance service) and other scams that basically relied on getting some random person at company x to say 'yes' so they can bilk them for some cash. it doesn't work when the only two people there were my dad and uncle
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Nov 9, 2021 17:47
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AnimeIsTrash posted:The neighbor was Indian and my dad is a lot darker skinned than the rest of the family so I wonder if it was some caste related thing. It was a strange interaction nevertheless. i swear i've heard this exact "indian neighbor demanded a darker indian neighbor shovel his driveway because of a presumed caste difference" story before somewhere but i have no idea where
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raminasi posted:i swear i've heard this exact "indian neighbor demanded a darker indian neighbor shovel his driveway because of a presumed caste difference" story before somewhere but i have no idea where That was probably me, i've mentioned it before.
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raminasi posted:i swear i've heard this exact "indian neighbor demanded a darker indian neighbor shovel his driveway because of a presumed caste difference" story before somewhere but i have no idea where indian caste politics have been in the news recently as it made it's way overseas and into hiring practices. when indian people, particularly those of the higher castes, would interview other indian people, they would start asking a lot of questions that they wouldn't ask of non-indian people, and those questions were specifically intended to try and figure out the social caste of the interviewee
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i think someone here was posting that they'd seen that in action in the valley, where some of the indian devs would just boss around certain other ones despite being on the same level in the business. i guess last name is a big indicator
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Nov 9, 2021 18:14
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raminasi posted:i swear i've heard this exact "indian neighbor demanded a darker indian neighbor shovel his driveway because of a presumed caste difference" story before somewhere but i have no idea where yeah theres a pretty well documented series of imported racism about this https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/10/27/indian-caste-bias-silicon-valley/ quote:
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hopefully at some point the rank and file chuds will realize that the rich people are never on their side and in fact actively hate them?quote:"You know, the other problem is holding a member meeting without an exhibit hall. The people you are most likely to get in that member meeting without an exhibit hall are the nuts," says LaPierre.
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Sagebrush posted:i think someone here was posting that they'd seen that in action in the valley, where some of the indian devs would just boss around certain other ones despite being on the same level in the business. i guess last name is a big indicator p. sure tori had a story like this, they hired a high caste manager and all his lower caste coworkers were talking like they were hosed and then all got laid off
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Nov 9, 2021 18:33
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my dad loved falling for scams. huge passion of his. he invested time and money in multiple get rich quick ones. he opened every email and clicked every link and no matter how many times i told him not to it continued until the day he died
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Nov 9, 2021 18:37
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qirex posted:I think the government tolerates fraud against olds because it fits nicely with the "crime is everywhere" mean world they've constructed to control their votes thats an interesting point
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Nov 9, 2021 18:38
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My 93 year old grandmother sometimes calls me by a cousin's name but she's got 100% of her mental faculties and does it partly because we have a huge family and mostly just to mess with me
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Nov 9, 2021 18:39
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graph posted:thats an interesting point I actually think the fact that fraud doesn't involve cops on the street brutalizing "perps" is part of it too but ultimately good fraud controls would inconvenience important companies and people, like how phone companies refused to do anything for 2 decades and now nobody ever answers the phone if it's not from a number they know
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Nov 9, 2021 18:46
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I got drunk and high with my dad at the casinos in Reno and we watched Monday Nighy Football together it was very nice.  I don’t get along with my mother.
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Nov 9, 2021 18:51
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qirex posted:I think the government tolerates fraud against olds because it fits nicely with the "crime is everywhere" mean world they've constructed to control their votes It's more that the government doesn't care who gets scammed unless they're rich. In that case the government cares a lot.
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Nov 9, 2021 19:03
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:lol nonwhite racism Hindi/urdu own as a language because there is a derogatory term or slur for almost every group on the subcontinent.
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Nov 9, 2021 19:04
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I mean, English has slurs for everyone on this continent too it’s not exactly a praiseworthy feature of the language
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https://twitter.com/llygad_y_nos/st...agenumber%3D551
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(britian is not, and has never been ok)
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It's fascinating how virtually every British sci-fi show will do some version of the Nazis (or some Nazi-analogue) winning and taking over the country, and it never feels like a stretch. Like the episode of Misfits where time travel shenanigans caused the Nazis to win and the new version of the present still has almost all the characters in the same type of roles, just wearing different uniforms.
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