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  • What's a harmless phrase that annoys you?

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  • I find myself annoyed by "not gonna lie"/"ngl","just sayin'", or really anything along those lines that gets tacked on without adding anything to the statement.

  • You may qualify for AT&T's $177 million data breach settlement - how to file a claim today

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  • Headline:

    ...how to file a claim today

    Article:

    For now, there's no official settlement site to enter your information. If you're eligible, you'll get an email or letter over the next few months. Settlement documents say that notices will start going out on August. 4. When that happens, there will most likely be a site to file a claim.

    What a clickbaity shitpost.

  • You may qualify for AT&T's $177 million data breach settlement - how to file a claim today

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  • no one should be initiating or joining any of these class action suits

    The only real downside to doing this is losing the ability to sue individually. What's your success like so far in your suits?

  • Plot twist

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  • Maybe that's how we know it wasn't an intern or ai posting this time.

  • US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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  • I think it's all some level of FUD until there's an example of it being called out as a reason for denial. The fields have been on the application for a while, but I know someone who recently came in with a private ig profile and a vk profile that hadn't been used for anything but chat. Wasn't mentioned at all along the process beyond being on the application.

    That may change soon, but it also might just be rhetoric from dipshits playing to their dipshit base.

  • US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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  • Fair enough, though that's an ask from the State Dept., not a demand from the embassy, as indicated in the OP. It's an important distinction because the embassy holds the authority at that point in the process. They can ignore the guidance altogether or demand everyone open their profiles. They're probably more likely to do the latter now, but they could've done this two years ago too.

    Demanding the usernames for the past 5 years and being suspect of anyone not on social media isn't a new, that was my main point. I don't think many people appreciated how shitfucked our visa processes are, even before the current "administration" helping.

  • US embassy wants 'every social media username of past five years' for new visas

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  • The username requirement isn't anything new; that requirement was on our DS-160 years ago.

    The "wants people to set their social media profiles to public" isn't quoted, so seems less like an official policy anywhere and more like one embassy worker being a prick. Unfortunately, each individual embassy operates independently totally devoid of any accountability.

    This process is dehumanizing, inefficient, and totally fucked...but this particular part of it has been this was for a long-ass time.

  • Krispy Kreme says November data breach impacts over 160,000 people

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  • There also needs to be punishment harsher than a couple bad headlines and $600 worth of identity protection services. If they have personal data, it should be more expensive to have it leaked like this than to have adequate data security in place.

  • Fascists in power? WW3 escalating? Your workplace becoming more dystopic by the day? Join Tech Workers Coalition 101 and help us change that

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  • It's in a technology community but isn't really about technology. It doesn't contain much useful information (the post would be a better place to share what TWC is than assuming I'll be curious enough to join a Zoom session). This is straight up spam.

  • ICE AGENT FLED FROM ANGRY RESIDENTS OUTSIDE NEW YORK SCHOOL — AND GOT IN A CAR CRASH

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  • And "anti-law enforcement agitators" = non-whites who don't want their children kidnapped.

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  • Total non-issue. I'd be surprised if anyone can provide a single credible instance of this biting someone in the ass.

  • The Plane That Crashed Yesterday Was the Same One a Dead Boeing Whistleblower Warned About

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  • Yeah, the phrasing definitely makes it seem like "one" refers to "plane" not "model" here. Headline is textbook clickbait.

  • Is it just me, or is there a distinct lack of subtlety in right wing propaganda campaigns recently?

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  • Seems that if you tank education enough, the lack of subtlety becomes more of a feature. Lots of people who only pick up on loud, repeated, simple messages are still able to vote.

  • Lesbians Like Me Joined Forces with Conservatives. Now They’re Turning on Us. — Queer Majority

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  • she's perfectly fine with waging a culture war against people just trying to live their lives as long as she's not in the outgroup.

    They all are, she's just a little extra dumb for not realizing how quickly she'd be in the outgroup.

  • Television has moved to Television@Piefed.social

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  • True, though I was on kbin initially and found the microblogging stuff easy enough to just ignore.

  • News@lemmy.sdf.org weird mod behavior?

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  • Not to imply it isn't an asinine reason to ban you, but that's not a complete sentence.

    "The negotiations could have been a Signal chat" would be be, but what you have is a dependent clause that does not contain a verb indicating what the negotiations did.

  • Television has moved to Television@Piefed.social

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  • it defeats the entire purpose of Lemmy

    Piefed is a separate software, so more aligned with lemmy than a specific instance. Moot point right now, as there's only a handful of instances.

    I think the real answer is less advocating against Piefed (which is getting some preference thanks to QoL additions for community management, I think), but rather advocate for some of the larger communities moving to Piefed to spin up a whole new instance.

    As an aside, it seems like mbin isn't getting any love throughout this process.

  • [Video] LA cops force their horses to run over protester

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  • Not even escalate, just retaliate at the same level. The first part of the video isn't what will get played on or matter to the viewers of fox news.

  • [Video] LA cops force their horses to run over protester

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  • No commander in his right mind would trap their troops on low ground like that unless it was a sacrifice.

    Or they know the violent threat they're using as justification is total fiction.