CosmicTurtle0
joined 7 months ago
You have to understand that these people are clinging to anything they can use to identify others who are in their in-group. MAGA hats, diapers, and now ear coverings.
Cults do the same thing and for the same reason.
Are you not in the US? Equifax is a credit bureau and if you've never heard of them, you never needed credit or you're not from the US.
The other three, I've only heard of Ashley Madison because they had a very aggressive ad campaign before ad blockers became ubiquitous. One could say it was ads like theirs that made ad blocking a requirement.
Are there onion/i2p versions of pirate sites? I think we are reaching this point.
In the US, you can sue anyone for any reason, even if it's frivolous.
You force the other side to respond, making them hire a lawyer to defend you, even if the case is dismissed on its merits.
I very much disagree with lemmy.world's decision to block the community but I completely understand it. I exercised my right to move to a new instance in response.
There was a browser game some had developed where you had to spend all your money. It was similar to cookie clicker.
The point of the game was that once you have a billion dollars, you have so much money that you literally could not spend that much money.
Didn't Musk tell his advertisers to leave the platform if they didn't like Twitter anymore? Wouldn't that alone make any tort dead upon filing?
Yeah it ties up a few billable hours but we're not exactly talking about companies that can't afford it.
I think it was Comcast that refused to connect me with a human unless I said the right thing.
No matter what method, it would either hang up and tell me to try again or just not route me to the right place.
I ended up sending a letter to my state Attorney General. 30 days later my issue was fixed.
Eh....
Bank of America, Comcast, Wells Fargo, Amazon, Google...
Just to name a few.
Ticketmaster is in the top 25 for sure.
I miss old-school Consumerist and their annual Worst Company in America brackets.
It's your problem when they can't make payroll because of it. And it's your problem when they ultimately blame you for not having the solution ready to implement.
The first has happened to me once.
The second more times than I can count.
I absolutely cannot stand this kind of logic.
"We make a shit ton of money on this very critical piece of software!"
"Then let me fix it!"
"NO! It's making us money NOW! It only stops making us money when it's broken. At which point then we fix it."
"But that might be hours. We can minimize downtime if we plan properly."
"But it's making us money NOW!1!1!”
I shit you not I have had various versions of this conversation throughout my career, across industries, across disciplines.
I use a VPN just fine inside a Walmart. It's annoying you need a Walmart account now to use it.