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  • Booker Today During His Ongoing 22+ Hour Filibuster

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  • That's fair enough, I absolutely agree that his resolve is notable and his voice should be elevated, but will we see that happen in reality?

  • Booker Today During His Ongoing 22+ Hour Filibuster

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  • Resistance seems like a bit much, can we compromise and agree it's the first sign that a Democratic senator has a pulse?

  • Yale ‘Fascism Scholar’ Announces On MSNBC He’s Leaving the US for Canada Before Trump Starts ‘Pulling People’s Passports’

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  • Is the blue state Canada?

  • You are not living in reality if you do not see the huge difference between THEN and NOW

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  • I've found it effective to follow this with, "yes, now you're starting to understand the problem"

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  • Yeah it's already a problem, but if we start ramming satellites against each other I could imagine the problem getting to a point where we have trouble launching things into space. The real issue is the relative velocity that orbiting objects have. If you're curious, the Wikipedia article has a really cool infographic and the section on hazards is pretty interesting if you like space stuff.

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  • At some point we will have enough shit orbiting the planet that we won't be able to launch anything into space for decades. That will be a good time.

  • Elon Musk is paying voters again ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election

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  • Tell that to the guys who got deported to El Salvador when the federal judge ordered the planes to turn around mid-flight.

  • Physicists vs Normal People

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  • I loose my mind with this kind of thing too. Do these people have a screw lose? What kind of rational would a rationale person use to decide to just use similar looking words with different meanings?

    It was almost painful to write that out actually, but don't worry I'll add it to the list of things to review in therapy 😂

  • LinkedIn ID verification

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  • Yeah I totally agree that the whole ordeal is unnecessarily complex and confusing. The number of websites that have started mandating 2FA despite having complex, unique passwords that have never been shared annoys me regularly. It's frustrating that because other people can't figure out how to use a password manager, we can't have nice things.

    My guess is that there is a certain number of account actions you're allowed to take (changing password, email, etc) before they force you into a cool down period where you can't delete your account for like a week. Maybe not, but this is one approach I've seen before.

    As for the video call, I totally see your train of thought. This is gonna sound dumb, but consider that nobody at LI knows you, so a video call is of limited value, especially in this world of ai models that can apply filters to video in real time. I'm not saying this is their rationale, but it could be part of it.

    I'm gonna nerd out here for a second but hopefully you'll humor me. Authentication is tricky, especially if you want more than one factor for 2FA/MFA. The factors are often explained as something you know (password), something you have (perhaps a yubikey, in this case a state issued ID), or something you are (biometrics). The biggest issue as I understand it is that people reuse the same password over and over, so if your LI password were compromised then it isn't too big of a leap to assume that your email was also compromised, meaning that any form of authentication relying on email cannot be trusted.

    If LI has a policy that any account deletion actions attempted within a month of changing the primary email require the account to have at least 2 factors, that would trigger the request for your ID, because they're assuming that a threat actor is controlling all of the relevant accounts and they are no longer useful for authentication. State issued ID is one of the best ways to authenticate because when your state provides the ID, they are providing a level of guarantee that the information is both true and being provided without modifications (authentic).

    Having said all of that, could you not photoshop a state ID and provide that? Some in the comments have suggested that as an option. If I were designing the program then this third party, Persona, would have relationships with issuers of state ids and could do some level of validation that the ID being uploaded is authentic.

    I realize none of this solves your problem, but sometimes I feel better about "stupid" policies if I can work backwards and understand how they came to be in the first place and what they're meant to accomplish. My advice is to wait a week or 3 and try to delete again, but obviously that is still no guarantee. Good luck!

  • LinkedIn ID verification

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  • Would you prefer that anyone be able to request that any non-verified account be deleted?

    I'd bet their security system saw you log in from a new IP, maybe even over VPN(?), then change the email and add 2fa, which are exactly the steps a malicious actor takes when securing an account acquired using credential stuffing. They presumably expect that your account has been compromised and are treating you as untrusted until you provide some form of validation that you are who you say you are.

    I suspect that if you were to seek legal action against them they would claim that you refused to take basic actions to positively prove your identity and throw out some statistics, ie (making this up) 98% of users are able to verify using their system without any issues.

    If you do seek to bring them to court under article 77, would you not then be putting into the public record a permanent association between your real identity and the account you seek to delete? Is that better than simply sending them a picture of your ID? With this in mind, is it worth the cost of legal representation to resolve the issue? I'm not sure where you're from and you don't need to answer me but I would encourage you to consider those questions when determining your path forward.

  • I went to a GOP congressman's town hall. The rage over DOGE is a force to be reckoned with.

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  • I understand where your anger is coming from here, as I was just recently raging about lies in modern day advertising, but I'm having trouble following the line here.

    Let's say we "stamp out of existence" all activities relating to marketing. Practically speaking, does this make all products commodities? When I walk into a grocery store, is every shelf just a plain brown box with a minimal description of its contents? "cane sugar 1lb", "laundry detergent", "vegetable soup"? Further, marketing includes identification of where there is demand for a certain good, so we should be shipping ice melt to Florida in July and sun screen to Montana in January?

    Can I suggest that perhaps what we actually need is better regulations around marketing practices and enforced penalties when companies go over the line?

  • AI will replace us all... trust me

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  • Being held accountable for outputs provided

  • Musk says DOGE is in almost every federal agency and plans to double staff

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  • I'd settle for just the one elite child agent with brain cancer, he can set his own hours.

  • Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data

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  • I need a gif where Scooby Doo removes the Librewolf logo and there's a Firefox logo underneath.

    You must recognize that there is no Librewolf without Firefox, right? In fact, Librewolf even says in their privacy policy that you should also refer to the Firefox Privacy Policy because they can't be certain that their browser won't ever try to send data to Mozilla.

    I'm not saying this to deter you from using Librewolf. If it works for you then that's awesome. It just made me chuckle when you said that you ended your friendship with Firefox and ran into the warm embrace of... Firefox with different default settings.

    In any case, all I'm trying to communicate is that Firefox and all of its many forks are fundamentally reliant on Mozilla and its ability to continue updating Firefox. That means Mozilla needs a sustainable business model, and that we can't all simply abandon our relationship with Mozilla for a tool that is dependent on the work that Mozilla does.

  • Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

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  • Bow down before my great powers to link to a change log, you imbecile. Now that this error has been revealed to you, certainly you will be less of a useless piece of shit. Enjoy your newfound knowledge and prosper!

  • Wayback Machine Saves Thousands of Federal Webpages Amid Purge of Government Data Under Trump

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  • Republican lawmakers no show as western Wisconsin farmers complain of Trump chaos, disruption

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  • Meteor coming? Probably best if we all collectively stop looking up. There, problem sorted.

  • HP to build future products atop grave of flopped 'AI pin' • The Register

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  • Omg same. There are literally dozens of us.