They do want to call me. I had a significant decrease in spam calls after I started doing this instead of my actual number, including calls from companies I’ve definitely never given my number to, as well as straight up scammers.
However, you have a good point about tracking.
I just give them my old landline number that’s been disconnected for years since I just use my cell phone now
Ditto “aliens”, if we interpret it as “extraterrestrials that have been to Earth”.
This is an important distinction.
100% chance there is extraterrestrial life out there somewhere
0% chance any of it has come to visit
A Homestuck post in the wild in 2025?
I liked Blue Prince but I don’t think it’s anywhere close to “Game of the Year” material.
To be clear, the game released with the AI “placeholders” in the game, and only replaced them later.
Unfortunately if you sort by least popular musicon Spotify, you’ll get nothing but spam
You are supposed to cover the hole with a relatively heavy rock to deter animals from digging it back up.
VR chat.
AR is more complicated.
I’ve always liked that in Halo games you survive long enough to react, unlike in most FPS games where it’s basically whoever sees the other first wins.
5 is awesome. My house will be full of toasters hooked up as switches for things.
In the US this is supposed to be balanced by the judicial branch, which can decide if the executive is doing a good job of enforcing the laws or not. (Not that I think the US is a good example of a balanced government, given our current state…)
Some countries have more branches of government intended to help with this problem:
This kind of thing can be considered a form of “checks and balances”. If one branch of the government passes a law and another branch enforces it, both branches have to agree for the law to function.
Why
The server is sending me data and I’m choosing what program I’m using to interpret that data. That shouldn’t be illegal, regardless of the purposes of the data.
This is a nice CloudFlare ad
I borrow $1000, assuring you I can pay you back because I have $5000 worth of stock.
A few years later, I borrow $5000, assuring you I can pay you back because I have $10000 worth of stock (it’s not more stock, it’s just worth more now). I use that $5000 to pay off the $1000 debt plus interest, and then have some left over.
Few years later, I borrow $10000, assuring you I can pay you back because I have $50,000 worth of stock. I use that $10000 to pay off the $5000 debt plus interest and then have some leftover.
Repeat as necessary. The bank does eventually get their money (when you die or are for some reason forced to sell, paying off the debt with cash rather than promises). To the bank this is an investment. To you, it’s a way to get cash without having to actually sell your stocks, avoiding taxes, and letting your value continue to skyrocket.
Tested it right now and it worked fine. I was able to get “you too” or “you two” depending on the context, and didn’t get “U2”.