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Cake day: June 27th, 2024

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  • I gave up on this years ago.

    Figuring out how they got hold of your email won’t be very satisfying. It’s not possible, but if it were you would find it’s some obscure forum you signed up for 10 years ago to make the search function work, which hasn’t updated their forum software during that 10 years, and is now leaking email addresses.

    Point is, the horse has already bolted and now your email address is on the lists that get sold on the dark net. There’s no going back.

    My understanding with spam / phishing is that most email providers will identify and remove 95% of it. gmail will catch 99.9% just because of the volume of emails going through their servers. I personally would pry my eyes out with a fork before using gmail so I’m stuck receiving 5% of spam. It’s nothing really. Every day (or several days) I look at my inbox, action and archive as appropriate, and delete the rest. It literally takes less than 1 second because I would have to “delete the rest” anyway.

    As others have mentioned, “catch-all” email addresses are one method to kind of mitigate or manage the problem, but ultimately I’ve found it to be a cool trick but ultimately inconvenient and maybe pointless.



  • I think you’re pretty much talking about the fundamental attribution error. It’s a cognitive bias whereby we interpret the actions of others as the result of their character, but attribute our own behavior to external situational things.

    I think another component of this is generalisation, like how often does someone have to do mean things to qualify as “an asshole”. Once in a lifetime? Once a year? Every day? All day?

    I used to think I was a super nice person. These days I will absolutely acknowledge that there are times when people would think I was a bit of an asshole. I think sometimes it’s unavoidable if you don’t want to be everyone’s door mat. For example, when you disagree with someone sometimes you can just let it go to keep the peace, but if you feel strongly about it for whatever reason and have to stand your ground, it’s easy to end up looking like an asshole.





  • IDK much about Renault’s, or cars for that matter, but isn’t renault one of the badges which is really just a badge now?

    My grandfather swore by renaults. They were expensive because they were imported from France (to Australia).

    Now, they’re one of the cheapest cars on the road because they’re manufactured in Korea. They have terrible resale value because rightly or wrongly, they’re perceived to be very poor quality.

    What I mean to say is, does renault the company really make cars, or do they just license their badge to whoever can make the cheapest Megane? I honestly don’t know but that’s the impression I get.




  • I know I shouldn’t be but I’m just kind of astonished.

    I get that some states are predominantly red voters, but how many people must be involved in this process, and among them not a single person with a shred of integrity. I’m a lefty, but I’d like to think that if I was in a position to have any input into a process like this, I’m pretty sure I would be screaming blue bloody murder, even if the money was going to my own preferred party.

    It’s just so embarrassingly obviously corrupt. I would be genuinely ashamed to be involved, even if my involvement was simply not saying anything.