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socphoenix

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  • A scammer just tried to scam the Kroger pharmacy to get my info out of them by pretending to be my insurance company.

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  • One of the best anti-scam advice I was ever given was to always call the number I knew was valid like the one on my insurance card in this instance and verify that way.

  • Character.ai Faces Lawsuit After Teen’s Suicide

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  • Many states have little to no rules on storage. You also don’t really need a license to buy one just to carry it concealed in public (some states don’t even require this step). Of the states that have storage laws like my own, I’m unaware of any that require you to prove safe storage though. The laws only offer a punishment after the fact when something bad happens.

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  • The problem is everything is a massive chain so as one goes, so goes them all so to speak. I have Kroger, Albertsons, and Walmart as my only choices for grocery store. I don’t see any chance that if Kroger does this Albertsons (assuming the proposed Kroger Albertsons merger fails) and Walmart don’t do the same.

    Tl;dr it doesn’t need to benefit the customer if the customer has no real choice in where they shop

  • Goodwill is out of control

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  • The goodwill near me wants $21 for a pair of jeans that are very obviously used and fairly thin. A thicker pair of jeans is $15.99 at the Walmart 3 miles down the road…

  • Kroger's Plan to Use Facial Recognition Raises Concerns About Surge Pricing

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  • My town has three stores, Kroger, Safeway, and Walmart. As one goes so go they all most likely on this one so idk how I’d even begin to think about avoiding this longer term…

  • Report: Methane Emissions From Major Meat & Dairy Companies Rival Big Oil

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  • Do you have something to contradict it?

    Edit: well I can’t find anything refuting this poore-nemecek they referenced besides a correction issued to the paper itself so guess I’ll just link it here in case anyone else is interested like I was.

    article

  • Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs

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  • I would think Bluetooth or plugging it in once in a blue moon for a firmware/schedule update like the good old days would be far preferable to anything that could connect them to the internet. I’d much rather air gapped and slightly inconvenient than internet enabled spyware all over my house.

  • Hackers take control of robot vacuums in multiple US cities and abuse owners, yells racist slurs

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  • Why do these things need to be internet connected in the first place?

  • Looking for UPS suggestion

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  • Mines at least that as well, it’s good to know come next ups purchase as I would hate to get stuck with that kind of garbage. I’ll have to pay close attention to the battery now when searching

  • Looking for UPS suggestion

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  • My apc unit has a standard battery that has a replacement from Duracell, which model(s) have proprietary batteries?

  • Study Links Hurricanes to Higher Death Rates Long After Storms Pass

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  • One thing they didn’t mention but I’ve seen on the news before is that flood waters often contain carcinogenic/other polluting chemicals leeched from the ground, and other waste streams. How much of that gets left in people’s soil (or wells if they have a well system), or even in their house after rebuilding?

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  • A) you can survive without precooling or set it to start before getting deep into the store.

    B)if you want that feature fine, but leave it off everyone else’s car! No cell connections should be installed by default like this. It’s a walking cve list waiting to happen.

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  • Ubuntu is great for works out of the box kind of tasks, I have it on an old MacBook Pro 2012. With a free Ubuntu pro account I can get security updates for 22.10 lts until 2032! It’s already starting to act its age so security updates but a frozen OS helps not further tax it as software gets more complex. Point being there’s a niche even if in most other cases I might prefer something different.

  • In a First, Young Men Are More Religious Than Young Women

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  • Idk that a lot of people know/understand the difference to be honest.

    Edit: difference between obedience and respect

  • Feds target SUV, truck size to save pedestrian lives — ‘one of the last frontiers of vehicle safety’

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  • Counting the differences in cost (loan, gas, expected maintenance, insurance etc) it came out to where I would have to use the truck to haul something at least a very weekend possibly more to break even with a much newer car vs just renting a truck once or twice a year. Pickups are almost universally owned by people too stupid for middle school math imo.

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    A bystander the NYPD shot in the head during their mass shooting on Sunday, identified by his family as Gregory Delpeche, is now brain dead.

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  • The article doesn’t match the headline, did you link the right article?

  • A Plan

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  • Depends on whether the study is from places likely to be subject to bias like the “conservative” group institute for family values that claims county level polling shows more democrats get divorced (despite conceding the accuracy of state level polling?), or more normal groups that have shown for a decade plus now that red states have higher divorce rates. Top five are:

    1. Nevada
    2. Oklahoma
    3. Wyoming
    4. Alabama
    5. Arkansas

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  • Walmart consistently saves me $10 per grocery trip at a minimum and their vegetables are fresher!

  • Americans' inflation-adjusted incomes rebounded to pre-pandemic levels last year

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  • Our family income only went up because I picked up two (very) part time jobs lol it’s amazing that that is somehow a sign we’re back to normal in their eyes.