Nuisance is the legal term.
Say you want fries with that one mo time, mf.
Know what else is crazy in Turkey? The civil engineering.
Bear’s gotta fatten up for winter.
But the chips and salsa, too?! Rude.
Something about a red hot poker…
SO much spontaneous combustion in Russia, lately.
Oh, no. Anyway…
That third cop couldn’t slide out of the picture too quickly after seeing the kid’s head bust the glass.
I read something earlier that said the explosion was the result of ‘dust compression.’ I’ve never heard of that, and suspect it’s wrong. It’s a volatile atmosphere in the proper stoichiometric ratio and a single spark could set it off.
Compression would be like a diesel engine, and i don’t see how that level of compression could occur in a silo.
If’n somebody knows more about a compression explosion in this situation, please enlighten me.
Like so many things, they only seem expensive until you try to make your own.
It’s an important life skill, being able to plant a thought in the mind of another and in a way that is likely to be accepted.
It crossed my mind since my last writing that, in the 80s, I got a money back guarantee for any counter-surveillance equipment purchased that didn’t reveal surveillance equipment in a Fortune 100 facility. It was that pervasive back then. And my perception is that morals and business ethics have not improved in the interim. Far from it.
Good luck and thanks for the valuable, respectful input.
Points well made and taken, thanks. No hostility perceived at all.
Reasonable minds can differ and frequently do. And it could be that people may think my suggestion is unrealistic or even silly.
There’s no shortage of miscreants out there who just like to mess with things, thrown wrenches into spokes, etc. And these types could well be behind the daily local issues.
But here’s an important point, and no offense intended. Corporations are like The Terminator. But instead of getting Sarah Connor, they purse profits. And regardless of CEO intelligence or accumen, every Fortune 500 company has a department that deals in these areas. They all have their skunk works and use them. It’s been this way for centuries. A primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage
So whether they’re operating here atm or not, there is nothing paranoid about assuming they are. If they’re not, they will be. It’s what they do.
Thanks for the input. :)
Every account they lose hits them in the pocketbook. The bigger the fediverse gets, the more adherents, the greater the momentum it will have and the harder it will be to stop.
Nipping it in the bud is the best, easiest, and least expensive place to nip it.
The downvotes suggest their operatives are reading the comments.
I wonder if the owners of deddit, fb, tweetster, et al, might think it financially worthwhile to cause disruption in the fediverse, and even its ultimate failure.
Yes, watching the implosion. But there’s nothing implosive about this move. Hence, ‘don’t sweat the small stuff.’
They’re not shooting themselves in the foot again. It’s just an administrative function, moving on with what remains of their business, like paying their electric bill.
And here’s a friendly observation. Telling others what they should do comes across as grandiose.
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s dead. Let it go.
I don’t see how the app could possibly function without access to your call logs and messages. /s
I was admonished to be careful on a dirtbike as a child, had a fear reinforced in me. Meanwhile, this other kid was quite aggressive, and would piss me off when he’d fly by me on the track. In contrast with my parents cautions, his parents encouraged his style and he was a very highly ranked competitor in the state. He was WOT no matter where he was, turns, jumps, passing me. Absolutely fearless.
He had a bad day at the races when he was about 10 years old, suffered a significant brain injury. And he hasn’t been independent since.
I get that these aren’t tech people. But there’s a serious gap in protocol that seems to give them the ol’ Whoosh.
If I walked up on the street and asked to see somone’s dB? Lol
If a mutual acquaintance asked for your number? I’d call you with their number.
So would these non-techies. But put them on a machine and they seem to lose their minds.
Psst, want me to help you? Just give me your dB. I’ll make it easy for ya.
And they think that’s okay.
There are so many platforms anymore that I have neither the time nor desire to keep up with even a quarter of them. So maybe eight years back, a friend suggests I check out Snap Chat.
I jump on there to find about 20 pages of names of people who thought it was okay, acceptable, to share my info from their database. I’ve always been very careful and discreet with mine. But to have it thrown right in my face like that, whew. Here’s my message to those folks:
If you think it’s okay to share my private number, or anything else I’ve provided in confidence, with the planet, please delete my number.
What then - THEY steal it?