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kcop , to mildlyinfuriating in These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too.

Yeah Starbucks does the same thing with “Promotions and Order Status”. :/

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/549c55c5-fb96-42e1-b826-6c492fba368b.png

snowsuit2654 ,
@snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Wow this is unethical. They should all be separate toggles.

Snowpix ,
@Snowpix@lemmy.ca avatar

As does SkipTheDishes. Want to be notified that your food is almost here? Fuck you, be bombarded with promotions and deals you didn’t ask for.

lnsfwuser ,

Why would anybody name a food company STD lol

TseseJuer ,

it’s not named STD it’s named SkipTheDishes

Lifter ,

To be fair, most of these apps were made before the notification categories were invented and they don’t keep the consultants that made the initial app, or want to pay for the change.

AHemlocksLie ,

Aw poor corporate behemoth doesn’t want to spend the pennies (compared to profits) to do things right. If we’re being fair, fuck them for cheaping out at our expense.

random8847 ,

The management executive who took this decision deserves a punch in the face.

nosnahc , to lemmyshitpost in stunted
@nosnahc@lemmy.world avatar

My favorite is “if you park like you fuck, don’t be surprised to be a cuckold”.

JoShmoe , to lemmyshitpost in stunted

got em!

erev , to lemmyshitpost in ultimate betrayal
@erev@lemmy.world avatar

Start another task manager instance; task manager is designed to always be able to force some resources from the system and it will kill other instances of itself that aren’t working.

BackOnMyBS , to lemmyshitpost in ultimate betrayal
@BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place avatar

penguins smugly laughing

PhlubbaDubba , to lemmyshitpost in no it do not

People like this deeply confuse me

The IRS ain’t sending an agent to you specifically unless you’ve done something well beyond the pale of what can just be excused as a mix-up or simple misunderstanding

You gotta be in a whole different kinda space for the tax man to be someone you gotta personally interact with.

Sorgan71 ,

anyone who actually pays taxes is a moron

PhlubbaDubba ,

Get off the road freeloader.

MindTraveller ,

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

“Home Depot™ Presents the Police!®” I said, flashing my badge and my gun and a small picture of Ron Paul. “Nobody move unless you want to!” They didn’t.

“Now, which one of you punks is going to pay me to investigate this crime?” No one spoke up.

“Come on,” I said. “Don’t you all understand that the protection of private property is the foundation of all personal liberty?”

It didn’t seem like they did.

“Seriously, guys. Without a strong economic motivator, I’m just going to stand here and not solve this case. Cash is fine, but I prefer being paid in gold bullion or autographed Penn Jillette posters.”

Nothing. These people were stonewalling me. It almost seemed like they didn’t care that a fortune in computer money invented to buy drugs was missing.

I figured I could wait them out. I lit several cigarettes indoors. A pregnant lady coughed, and I told her that secondhand smoke is a myth. Just then, a man in glasses made a break for it.

“Subway™ Eat Fresh and Freeze, Scumbag!®” I yelled.

Too late. He was already out the front door. I went after him.

“Stop right there!” I yelled as I ran. He was faster than me because I always try to avoid stepping on public sidewalks. Our country needs a private-sidewalk voucher system, but, thanks to the incestuous interplay between our corrupt federal government and the public-sidewalk lobby, it will never happen.

I was losing him. “Listen, I’ll pay you to stop!” I yelled. “What would you consider an appropriate price point for stopping? I’ll offer you a thirteenth of an ounce of gold and a gently worn ‘Bob Barr ‘08’ extra-large long-sleeved men’s T-shirt!”

He turned. In his hand was a revolver that the Constitution said he had every right to own. He fired at me and missed. I pulled my own gun, put a quarter in it, and fired back. The bullet lodged in a U.S.P.S. mailbox less than a foot from his head. I shot the mailbox again, on purpose.

“All right, all right!” the man yelled, throwing down his weapon. “I give up, cop! I confess: I took the bitcoins.”

“Why’d you do it?” I asked, as I slapped a pair of Oikos™ Greek Yogurt Presents Handcuffs® on the guy.

“Because I was afraid.”

“Afraid?”

“Afraid of an economic future free from the pernicious meddling of central bankers,” he said. “I’m a central banker.”

I wanted to coldcock the guy. Years ago, a central banker killed my partner. Instead, I shook my head.

“Let this be a message to all your central-banker friends out on the street,” I said. “No matter how many bitcoins you steal, you’ll never take away the dream of an open society based on the principles of personal and economic freedom.”

He nodded, because he knew I was right. Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him.

blackluster117 ,
@blackluster117@possumpat.io avatar

Now this is a masterpiece. How have I not seen this al dente copypasta before?

GBU_28 ,

It’s a classic, but is cream of the crop

lemming741 ,

Can chatgpt write copypasta?!?

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

Nice, I used this to get the Ancap community to get shut down

PsychedSy ,

What? Ancaps love this copypasta more than anyone else.

Skullgrid ,
@Skullgrid@lemmy.world avatar

/u/Masterpain created an ancap community

he also left it devoid of content

the only 3 posts there were me saying ancap was a fake, paradoxical political idea, his intro to ancap post and me posting this copypasta

other people were also laughing at him and his community

he shut it down in shame and deleted his account.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Oh good. I don’t have to copy and paste it myself. 🤘 lol

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Fun fact, every capitalist dreams of taxing others for no reason, only they call it rent or subscription and won’t always deliver their end of the bargain.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

There are so many times a libertarian has told me their libertarian way of doing things and I say to them that it sounds to me like they’re talking about taxation with extra steps and bigger threats and it’s always “no no no, but see you don’t have to pay for the fire department to come to your house, but no one will insure your house and it will be worthless…”

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

As noted non-moron Wesley Snipes can tell you.

skulblaka ,
@skulblaka@startrek.website avatar

Well, sure hope you haven’t done a lot of existing in public lately, because damn near everything out there has my tax dollars in it, and I’d appreciate you not abusing them. Get off my roads, get out of my schools, get out of my parks, unless you’re paying into them.

Also, keep an eye out for the nice men knocking at the door. They’ll be there soon with some questions, I’m sure.

Pacmanlives ,
actual_pillow ,

So red pilled

LodeMike ,

IRS agents generally don’t like making their job harder. Don’t piss them off and you’ll probably be fine.

pelletbucket , to lemmyshitpost in math checks out

they’ll warn you 10 times about how high the call volume is and then there’s literally zero wait

Fontasia , to lemmyshitpost in no it do not

You know, of all the things of this post, it’s the Roku remote that really confuses me. Was he holding it when he answered the door? Was it in his pocket and he took it out when was looking for phone to make the Tweet?

Passerby6497 ,

There might be a TV just out of frame on the left. I’ve known so many people who have a TV of some kind in the kitchen/prep area.

Irelephant ,
@Irelephant@lemm.ee avatar

The police brought it, it was evidence.

Kazumara ,

I think those are two entirely different days, and the second day the friendly neighborhood FBI field office agents brought the printout of the first day with them to confront CoreyPilat over his vague threat towards federal officers.

So the remote being on his kitchen countertop is just random coincidence and does not figure into the continuity between the two posts.

RedEyeFlightControl ,
@RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world avatar

The remote for the TV in the adjacent room is often in the kitchen, as the tv will be on when I’m cooking.

Fredselfish ,
@Fredselfish@lemmy.world avatar

So did the cops really show up to these dudes house? What’s the deal?

KillingTimeItself ,

this is pretty regular. It happens a lot with people who order large amounts of “suspicious chemicals” Styropyro got a visit from, i believe the ATF, might be wrong it’s been a minute since i’ve watched that video, for procuring chemicals that can be used for nefarious purposes in mass quantities.

Similar things have happened with farmers, (fertilizer can often be used in improvised bombs) You will almost certainly see something similar if you directly threaten the government, though it’s usually "hey uh, don’t do this, this is bad, also we’re going to make sure you aren’t a terrorist real quick.

Treczoks ,

Especially farmers. Many of them have stores of diesel fuel and fertilizer…

KillingTimeItself ,

well i mean diesel isn’t that weird. Anyone running a construction business also has a lot of stored diesel fuel.

You’d be more concerned if someone had lots of gasoline, but even then that’s not a massive concern.

It’s not usual in the normal populous i suppose, but then again, there are a lot of things that aren’t so.

Treczoks ,

Anyone running a construction business also has a lot of stored diesel fuel.

But they don’t usually have tons of fertilizers, too.

KillingTimeItself ,

true, though the fertilizer would likely be the bigger concern.

MewtwoLikesMemes , to lemmyshitpost in no it do not
@MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world avatar

You don’t wanna fuck with the IRS.

Even the Joker is afraid of the IRS.

Mirshe ,

As Behind the Bastards pointed out recently in their Kent Hovind episode, the IRS doesn’t give a shit about what illegal or immoral activity you commit, they literally just want you to pay taxes on it.

MewtwoLikesMemes ,
@MewtwoLikesMemes@lemmy.world avatar

Not familiar with that show/movie/whatever, but they aren’t wrong. The IRS just wants to be paid. You pay them, they leave you alone. Done.

Duke_Nukem_1990 ,

It’s a podcast and it is delightful! In a depressive, horror-inducing kind of way.

DaleGribble88 ,
@DaleGribble88@programming.dev avatar

They do deep dives are random shitty people throughout history, and occasionally contemporary people like Andrew Tate. Usually it is people like 1940s gangsters, 1990s drug kingpins, King Leopold the 2nd, and fittest gurus from the 1800s.

Mirshe ,

Don’t forget megachurch pastors.

Anti_Iridium ,

Here, now you areEdit: upon rereading, I misread what you said. This is the joker paying taxes

afraid_of_zombies ,

It used to be tax deductable to bribe government officials of foreign governments.

Unrelated, if you get bribed in time with a hooker do you report it based on what she charges or fair market rate or is there a set amount? I feel like someone at the IRS sat down and came up with an answer to this.

rimmedalpha ,

It’s a separate form complete with nine pages of instructions outlining how to calculate market values based on region and services rendered. The formula isn’t helpful, so in the end you just put in half of what you paid and hope you don’t get audited.

afraid_of_zombies ,

Must be an interesting audit.

IRS agent: so you put down that you received a “Cincinnati Steamer” as part of your compensation for employing this vendor.

Dude: that’s right

IRS agent: please describe what goes into a Cincinnati Steamer so I can assign it to a category or categories. Also do you happen to have her W2s and social security number?

Dude: sure, and no I don’t have her paperwork. Surprisingly she didn’t share it with me.

greenhorn , to lemmyshitpost in no it do not

The banality of evil. A roku remote, Christmas themed tea towel, a Christmas snowman countdown calendar, and a suicide vest to and paying taxes

Chronographs ,

Suicide vest is in christmas colors too

eezeebee ,
@eezeebee@lemmy.ca avatar

Merry Christmas ya filthy animal

JoeBigelow ,
@JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca avatar

We’re the Wet Bandits

4am ,

I feel like Roku customers are just the right amount of intelligent to post their suicide vest jokes on Twitter and think it’s not a big deal

tar ,

jokes are protected speech. any amount of actual investigation would have found that they don’t own anything like that. fuck government intimidators

4am ,

This was the investigation and they apparently let him go if he’s posting about it. Right or wrong I’m not surprised they postured strongly at a guy making threat jokes.

BedSharkPal , to lemmyshitpost in no it do not

The IRS? Did he like, not pay taxes on his suicide vest or something?

Iheartcheese ,
@Iheartcheese@lemmy.world avatar

Who among us has not done that.

Illegalmexicant ,

It’s a work experience. Well I’m about to have it as my uniform for a day

psmgx ,

If it’s a work uniform then it can be deducted

moosetwin ,
@moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Who among us

I had this entire sequence play through my head when I read your comment

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

He threw out the receipt after declaring it as a business expense.

Kolanaki , to lemmyshitpost in no it do not
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

He’s only not wearing the vest in the second photo because that’s the FBI not the IRS.

LifeOfChance ,

You gotta wonder though did it cross their minds to just say “IRS please open up!” To see what would happen

afraid_of_zombies ,

They thought about it but were too afraid of the IRS to do it.

RizzRustbolt ,

More likely the TCIS, as they investigate threats against the IRS.

WillFord27 , to lemmyshitpost in better part of valor

So fat shaming came over from reddit along with awful jpeg memes?

tkk13909 ,

How is this fat-shaming?

Kusimulkku ,
stonerboner ,

Omg stop being so reactionary. It’s obviously a case of pregnant shaming, unless you just casually call pregnant people fat.

A little offended you just assumed it was fat hate and not pregnancy hate

lud ,

Bruh, is not just that guy shaming because he is “weak”.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

unless you just casually call pregnant people fat

How you know Lemmy just got an influx of new Redditors.

just assumed it was fat hate and not pregnancy hate

Militant anti-natalism is another big red flag

AI_toothbrush ,

Its so funny that people like you who swoop in and “protect” people that YOU think need protection are a part of the problem. Its literally physics that an plus size/overweight/pregnant person or whatever it is, is heavier than thin people. I dont find the meme offensive, thick queens dont find the meme offensive but tou do.

db2 ,

No, but clearly griefing did.

lavalamp_tornado ,

Looks like it. Maybe it’s just evolutionarily inevitable that a Reddit-like platform will go through a ?/fatpeoplehate phase? It’s lame regardless.

Migmog ,

I thought they were shaming the guy for being too weak to hoist her up there…

Cosmos7349 , to lemmyshitpost in math checks out

Makes sense if the average includes the hours of zero calls when their phone line is closed

Viking_Hippie ,

Especially if it’s one of those awful ones that are only open for 5 minutes on the fifth Wednesday of the same month.

pivot_root ,

During a leap year. Where Squirrel Appreciation Day falls on a Sunday.

Shapillon ,

Squirrel Appreciation Day is everyday. The little furballs deserve some love.

Cosmos7349 ,

I found the squirrel

Shapillon ,

squee

You don’t have any evidence!

dogsoahC ,

Gotta cram an equinox and Jupiter in there somewhere.

JJROKCZ ,

Read here: all utilities and banks in America. Oh you want to call and talk about something important regarding your natural gas bill or mortgage? Call between 10am and 4pm Monday-Friday to talk to one of our dedicated Sri Lankan representatives. Oh you work during that time? Good, that’s the point lol

penquin , to mildlyinfuriating in These notifications are bundled together for some reason. So if I want to be notified when my subscriptions renew themselves, I have to also be notified of random games going on sale, too.

I think you can click it and choose from within it. Normally on android, when there is a switch with a line next to it, that means it’s clickable and has more options.

x4740N ,

I just checked my options on my Samsung and there is no individual option to fine tune that

Chozo OP ,

Unfortunately, this is as granular as you're able to get with the notification controls for the Play Store app.

ogeist ,

From the application itself, you can disable the Deals and Promotions. https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/392b8866-8107-4ad1-986a-4c531d15da94.png

I was wondering why I have not seen any ads even though I have this active for the app. So there you go.

penquin ,

I have this same option and it’s disabled, too. Not sure what kind of play store op has

Chozo OP ,

Good find, I just disabled that in my Play Store settings now. Thanks for that!

gnygnygny ,

You have to do it one by one for each app. Good luck if you have 300 apps.

ogeist ,

If you have 300 you might have other problems

gnygnygny ,

Nope. I don’t have any and most of them are FOSS

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