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Someone in Norway has the same name as me, and they made a PayPal account. They accidentally used my email during signup and I got some weird emails in Norwegian. So I called PayPal. I asked them to change the email. “You can’t, because it’s not your account, you just admitted”. Uh, ok. Can you close the account? “It’s not your account”. Can you contact the account owner and tell them to fix it? “We don’t have their email”. Can I use account recovery and close it? “Then you would be breaking into someone else’s account”.

So what should I do? PayPal put a notice on the account in case they log in, and told me to just ignore the emails. I was baffled. Just ignore the emails? Stop sending them then! But there really isn’t anything I can do. I tried account recovery anyway, but it didn’t work.

They never logged in I think. They probably made another account with the correct details and never thought about this one. So I’ve been getting the “our terms and conditions have changed” email once or twice a year and ignoring them. They’re still in Norwegian.

I just looked it up, this has been going on since 2015. Maybe I should contact PayPal again and tell them how ridiculous they’ve been.

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I just wanted to share the story.

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When it got ya, it’s gotcha

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Great joke, I must say

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All that hand wringing over what kind of protest should be ok, you guys are exhausting. The kind of protest doesn’t make a difference at all. A lot of people will say it’s unacceptable no matter what. I’ll even admit sometimes a protest misses the mark, but I’m still glad they did it.

The kids are alright

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Any protest is better than complaining or arguing on the internet. I’ll let the tactics to the actual people doing their actions. Nothing but encouragement from me 👍

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Don’t waste energy categorizing right or wrong ways to protest. All this is a distraction from the actual issues.

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I wasn’t really, only in a rhetorical sense. You’re kinda being a dick about it, tho. Are you on a mission to be the most downvoted commenter or something? Don’t let me get in your way.

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That’s what I thought, yeah. Some people…

Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” - Workers stayed remote even when told they could no longer be promoted. (arstechnica.com)

Big tech companies are still trying to rally workers back into physical offices, and many workers are still not having it. Based on a recent report, computer-maker Dell has stumbled even more than most....

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Promotions aren’t a thing anymore anyways, are they? Only if you switch jobs can you get a raise

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Nothing to worry about, everyone…

new York Times: A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

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True, but also there’s the more general point about “I support the cause but not the method” naysayers being absolutely counterproductive. Climate protesters are finding themselves cut off from every method of protest, violent or not. Because lots of people want to continue business as usual in peace without those pesky tree huggers complaining about, y’know, the fact we’re already well past the Paris 1.5 °C target with no end in sight

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Just Stop Oil is specifically pointing to governments to stop new oil projects. They aren’t blaming you, why are you so defensive?

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If it’s your personal choice, don’t fuck up MY planet then

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Here’s what you do: You have the AI take the order, but the human checks each item. They’ll have enough time to work out the kinks

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AI is a crapshoot, agree. But there has to be more testing before PR disasters like this happen. That isn’t “being my suppliers beta test”, rather sensible project managers not mindlessly putting it out there because the supplier said it worked. Now people are laughing at McDonald’s on top of their cost saving operations being delayed. But I agree overall that AI sucks to replace humans. I’m just criticizing McDonald’s jumping the gun

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cOuLd hAvE bEeN nAtuRaL cAuSeS

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Good for sticking to something you believe in. Highly underrated quality in engineers. “Take the money and run like a thief” is such a bullshit attitude

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I love it! 😀

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NY Times are so biased in this conflict.

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Save As dialog of Windows or the one built into MS Word, for example? Why they even did that, I don’t know

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No, this is behavior in MS Office products, not Windows.

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This is like Chuggy and the Channel tunnel 😢

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These have been their demands for capitulation for a long time. Why do media even reporting on this?

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I don’t think that’s true. Putin is not serious about this proposal. He’s not trying to get out of this war or he would have negotiated something more acceptable

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WTF

Oh, lemmy.ml, it figures…

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I hate superhero movies. Can’t wait for this crap to be over

Hamas Wants Guarantees Ceasefire Will Actually Happen, While US Says Hamas Is Rejecting the Proposal (truthout.org)

Following the UN Security Council vote to approve a three-phase ceasefire in Gaza, U.S. officials and other international allies of Israel are cynically placing blame on Hamas for a stall in current ceasefire negotiations — even as Israel has insisted on indefinitely continuing its massacre in Gaza and Hamas has said its main...

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Israel kills tens of thousands of innocent civilians, makes many more homeless refugees, destroys every piece of civil infrastructure, does not allow for food to enter into the region at a scale necessary to avert famine…

But it’s Hamas fault for not trusting Israel for a deal

“Look what you made me do”

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I’m done with you

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Conspiracy theories are so close to the scientific method. They’re looking at data, drawing conclusions from them. They can disagree with each other in a civil way like scientists do. These people aren’t dumb, it’s some kind of mental problem. I think it’s the same mental problem that can turn you into a sovcit if it happens in the legal field. These people need mental help

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ISrAeL hAs A rIgHt tO dEfEnD iTsElF

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mOsT MoRaL aRmY

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They already are, right?

Edit: found it. Look up Ahed Tamimi

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He won’t. They’ll be centrist/liberals at best

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Thanks for informing us. Of course you know this isn’t the most important thing about this, but at least I learned something new.

Netanyahu says deadly Israeli strike in Rafah was the result of a 'tragic mistake' (apnews.com)

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that a “tragic mistake” was made in an Israeli strike in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that set fire to a camp housing displaced Palestinians and, according to local officials, killed at least 45 people....

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“look what you made me do”

1,000 Harvard Students Walk Out of Commencement to Support 13 Seniors Barred from Graduation over Gaza (www.democracynow.org)

More than a thousand Harvard students walked out of their commencement ceremony yesterday to support 13 undergraduates who were barred from graduating after they participated in the Gaza solidarity encampment in Harvard Yard....

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youtu.be/Ap6PqQ9wPYA

This goes so hard

qevlarr ,
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Of course the Dutch version is about water

qevlarr ,
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Those medical professionals disagree

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That particular one exploded because the US had an embargo against Nazi Germany for the much safer helium rather than famously combustible hydrogen

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It’s because of our past and now Israel can do no wrong and anyone who even hints at Israel doing a genocide is an antisemitic Nazi sympathizer. The media and politics bias is extreme

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Can I read the full article without yet another goddamn account?

qevlarr ,
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Jews are also considered an ethnicity, not only a religion. There are nonreligious ethnic Jews and there are people who follow Judaism but who are not ethnic Jews.

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Fair enough. Point is, it’s not only a religious label

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Why not?

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Because of what they’re saying. Actions aimed at innocent civilians for a political goal, that’s terrorism. If you’d apply that definition to one, then also apply it to the other

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