orclev

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

It's also just a good policy in general. Anytime you receive a communication that's prompting you to do something that you weren't expecting to receive you should ignore any links, phone numbers, replies, etc. in that communication and instead reach out using a known good mechanism. Doing that one thing stops the overwhelming majority of scams in their tracks.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I suppose the real question here is, is Xi bothered enough to actually do something about it, or is this just more grumbling.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, the poll is accurate in so much as they really don't "support" Harris and her policies. If we had a proportional voting system they would be voting for her near the middle of the pack with Trump of course in dead last. She's just the second worst choice between the two choices we're given.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world -2 points 3 days ago (8 children)

A lot of people are answering undecided on polls in protest over Harris support for the Israeli genocide but intend to actually vote for her due to the significantly worse threat posed by Trump. She could massively improve her polling numbers by just committing to stopping arms shipments to Israel and imposing sanctions on them.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Not quite every Democratic voter as it's only 50%. Every Democrat and a majority of independents said he lies since that was 2/3rds and a bit over 30% of the population are Republicans with another about 10% being made up of right leaning independents.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If anything people living in a dictatorship are even less responsible. At least in democracies the people have a theoretical say in things to a certain extent. Not only does the public not have a say in a dictatorship, but they often don't even have the option to leave it. E.G. China confiscating their citizens passports to prevent them from fleeing the country.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Europe also had sanctions in place against Russia at this point now as well? Seems likely this would be an issue in pretty much any NATO country not just the US.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 84 points 5 days ago (25 children)

They must be panicking because they've found so few instances of illegal immigrants voting that even their delusional supporters won't buy it. If they had found a couple thousand they could probably spin it as "these are the ones we found, there's probably tens of thousands we haven't!", but I bet they've only been able to find less than a hundred so now they're looking for a scapegoat to blame their failure on.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah that was part of the brand reshuffling they did to obfuscate things. Lync was their shitty chat app they tried to convince businesses to use that everyone hated. They bought Skype, renamed it to Microsoft Teams, renamed Lync to Skype for Business, and killed MSN Messenger. When people still didn't want to use ~~Lync~~Skype for Business, then they killed that as well, and now it's just MS Teams.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 45 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Short answer, yes. Slightly longer answer yes but there might be statutory limits on the cumulative fine as well as it depends what kind of a mood the prosecutor is in. Odds are he'd just receive a slap on the wrist, a nominal fine, and be told to stop being a dumbass.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Which Microsoft then shit all over (to be fair, Skype started that process even before MS bought them) and eventually renamed it to Microsoft Teams.

[–] orclev@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago

Holy shit what a nut job. Reading the comments the real gold is apparently their terms of service. They've got a giant laundry list of things that will get you banned including using Chrome or having a gmail email address.

 
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