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The idea that "MSG is bad for you" is a bit of a con in itself.https://www.thecut.com/2014/08/msg-isnt-harmful.html posted:MSG’s bad rap began in the late 1960s, when the author of a letter to the editor of The New England Journal of Medicine complained of what he dubbed “Chinese restaurant syndrome” — numbness, weakness, and headaches, all of which he attributed to the MSG in Chinese food. But decades of research have found no link between MSG and weakness, numbness, or headaches in most people, though a small amount of people will experience very mild symptoms after consuming huge quantities of MSG. (They’d need to consume three grams at once; for reference, most of us consume 0.55 grams every day.)
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Tubgoat posted:The used video game store, Games and Go, is a loving scam. Motherfuckers offered me $2 for Duck Tales 2 (NES, original non-repro, no box, no manual). Said they'd probably resell it for $10, maybe less. I called a reputable game store and inquired about its approximate value. I used to work at a used game store and the reason we couldn't give price estimates over the phone was because people would (a) either claim "some guy" promised them a different amount that was way higher than what our systems actually said, or (b) bring in stuff that was dirty or had missing labels or, in multiple occasions, urine-stained, and get mad when we couldn't buy it at all or had to buy it at a discount. Also, sometimes people would wait like three months after they called in for an estimate to trade in their item, and then be shocked if we were offering less because we'd gotten more copies in since their last call.
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luxury handset posted:i joined our nextdoor mostly for lost pets and to sell off old furniture but i stopped checking it months ago because even though i live in a pretty hippy liberal place, it's still nothing but wall to wall retirees whining about noise and non-white people Mine is 90% stay-at-home parents complaining about "the homeless problem", but in that way where you can tell they're only upset that they have to see homeless people. None of their solutions have anything to do with actually helping people find shelter, it's all about punishing or humiliating them.
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BiggerBoat posted:I know people don't like Cracked around here and these aren't technically scams even though I put them in that category. Basically just common and dishonest sales techniques that commission are taught to implement  I'm not really sure how this one counts as a scam? "Our waiter did their job well even when their coworkers didn't, clearly the waiter is the bad one here"
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Job hunting is impossible right now. I have to answer all incoming calls in case they’re a job. It’s never a job. It’s always a scam.
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Just got this text at 12:14 AM on a Thursday night and I think it hits every red flag there is. quote:Hi, My name is Rodney. I received your phone number from care.com, can you work from HOME as a Personal Assistant to help with my errands? I work at General Atlantic with a focus on both local and international businesses, the majority of my clients are out of state and out of the country. I require assistance because I am frequently out of State. I'm currently on a business trip to Toronto, Canada. I'll pay you ahead of time to complete my shopping, pay my bills, and have some products delivered to the orphanage. The hours are flexible and can be done at your convenient time. In addition, I will provide you with sufficient funds and detailed instructions for each work. Payment will be via Bank Certified Check from my US Bank. You will be paid 730 USD each week for 4 hours of service. Please respond with your I don’t even have a care.com account…
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m0therfux0r posted:Within the past week or so, two friends of mine have separately gotten weird texts that are just a single picture of a woman's (or at least female-presenting) hand holding a drink. One friend got a picture of some kind of iced coffee or frozen drink, completely free of branding. The other got a photo of a bottle of wine (you can see the label in this one). Neither had any text accompanying the image whatsoever- it was just a photo sent over SMS with nothing else. I've gotten that one a lot - I think they're just fishing for active numbers. There's also one with a blonde lady's selfie that I've gotten like three times from three different numbers. I feel bad for the lady whose photo was stolen.
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Discendo Vox posted:Do we have any good effortposts or resources on how current MLM schemes work, how they're regulated and how they're legal? I'm not caught up in any, thank goodness, but I've always been curious about how companies like Amway have stuck around despite...gestures broadly everything. The subreddit /r/antiMLM is a good source.
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Professor Shark posted:Become Linda We are Linda.
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greazeball posted:We're part of a phish-hunting "contest" at work and it's dreadful. I work in a college but the contest is on the municipal level so you can see how all the different departments stack up. The secretaries and admins are beating the IT dept at reporting all the planted phishing emails we get. Meanwhile the teaching staff are under 60% so I'm also glad I have my own device and storage and I'm not sharing with these goobers. Every time I hear about someone's work doing those phishing tests, I think about this GoDaddy story: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/24/22199406/godaddy-wins-2020-stupidity-award quote:GoDaddy wins our 2020 award for most evil company email Keep in mind, this was Christmas 2020. The first Christmas during the pandemic. Great time to toy with people's finances!
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