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PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 3 months ago to nottheonion in Delta Burke says she used crystal meth for weight loss

I had no idea who this was so I went and looked on IMDB and she was in a show called “Designing Women” and one of the top rated episodes has this description:

Suzanne [Burke] attends her high school reunion, where people shun her because she weighs more than she did in high school.

Irony.

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 3 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Do not trust it. Do not follow it.

I mean…

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/63151104-2359-47fb-a756-a81a0fe1f040.gif

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 3 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Do not trust it. Do not follow it.

Recently I’ve been replaying Ocarina of Time and my stupid dog barks every time a chicken/Cucco crows. She gets up and barks and freaks out, even though I have actual chickens that actually crow all the time. When Ganandorf evil laughs though, no reaction.

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 3 months ago to greentext in Anon has prophetic visions

I can’t believe this is so old that the ‘not too distant dystopian future’ was 6 years ago. I remember when this was new and now I feel old.

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 4 months ago to lemmyshitpost in Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌

Except it’s more like I’m on my hiking forum describing an issue and the fishing people come in and be like “You wouldn’t have that problem if you just fished instead of hiked. Why do people even hike? It’s stupid. Fishing is the best.”

Also there is a bear in a tutu in this analogy and it’s posts a bunch of star trek memes and since it’s a bear you just leave it alone but since it’s in a tutu it’s funny.

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 4 months ago to android in I cannot stand these spam calls any more.

Yeah it was kinda fun. I figured ever minute I had them on the phone was a minute they weren’t scamming old people with dementia out of their money, so at the very least I was doing something mildly good too.

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 4 months ago to android in I cannot stand these spam calls any more.

Four hour guy I had a lot of clerical work to do at work that day and didn’t need to talk on the phone at all so I just kept him going. Would go off on long made up stories related to what he was saying. Told him about my kids and their kids and my deceased wife. They guy told me that my card was used to purchase (among other expensive things) “$3,000 worth of Bitcoin” and I kept being like “what’s a bite coin?” and he COULD. NOT. GET. PAST. me calling it bite coin instead of Bitcoin. He would correct me every time. Then I asked what that was and he told me it was a digital currency and I told him about my coin collection for like 8 minutes before he steered me back on topic. I only told him I was wasting his time because I was done with work.

I will say, one guy asked if I lived alone and I told him I do now because my wife of 47 years died two months ago and he said “Ahhh…that’s sad…” and hung up on me. So at least that guy wasn’t completely evil.

PM_ME_SNEKS_IN_HATS , 4 months ago to android in I cannot stand these spam calls any more.

This is a tactic that worked for me, but your mileage may vary. I used to get dozens of spam calls a day on both my work and personal numbers. I did all the things that you’re supposed to do and they just kept coming. I also needed to answer unknown numbers on my work phone so I couldn’t just block them.

So after a while, I started answering the calls and calling them back when I got silence. I made sure I could talk to a person/scammer as often as possible. In the beginning I would just ask them if they felt good about themselves trying to scam people out of their money. They would generally just hang up but one guy gave this long speech about how if you were that dumb you didn’t deserve that much money and how he was living the American dream (although I did ask him if he was in American at which point he hung up on me). After that, I would just start trying to keep them on the phone as long as possible. My job is such that I can work and talk on the phone at the same time, so I made a word document that had a fake name, birth day, social security number, address, a fake person basically. Then I would put on my “old man” voice and just act stupid to keep them on the phone. I kept one guy on the phone for four hours as I pretended to be too inept to turn on my laptop to give him my IP address. He was quite upset when I told him I knew he was scamming me.

Anyway, I haven’t gotten a scam call in like 6 months. I think scammers put me on their do not call list. Maybe worth a shot?