These scams are effective because of a thing called Amygdala hijack which

"is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat."

You can get any human to do dumb things if you can by-pass their logical brain and have them work off the lizard brain.

I can see a future where the Internet is completely run by bots and AI to the point where no human actually uses the Internet anymore.

It's like an island that gets overrun with rats - there are just too many to deal with so you leave.

I think Jake Tapper and many others shouldn't be called a journalist but a "News Influencer"

my feeling is, is if you are going to be selling a product and you use certain words or phrases like "scientifically proven" or "research shows..." that you need to reference your claim.

It sets both the technical requirements and recommended best practices for determining the validity of methods used to authenticate digital identities online. Organizations that interact with the federal government online are required to be in compliance

My argument is that if this document (and others) are requirements for companies shouldn't there also be a more approachable document for people to use?

Sure, have the jargon filled document that those in the know can access, but without an additional not so jargon-y document you've just added a barrier to change. Maybe just an abstract of the rule changes on the front page without the jargon?

I don't know, maybe it's not a big deal to compliance officers but just seems to me (someone that isn't a compliance officer) that obfuscating the required changes behind jargon and acronyms is going to slow adoption of the changes.

The one that gets me is that if the Universe is infinite but how matter can organize itself is finite (albeit a very large number) then there is another galaxy just like ours, another Earth just like ours, and there is another GoofSchmoofer writing this exact some thing in the exact same way somewhere out there.

And if this is true then how many GoofSchmoofer's are there in this infinite Universe?

I'm going to make a snarky old man statement. I don't mean it in a belittling way it's just something I do.

Start reading books, there are no ads. Reading is more difficult than watching television but boy it's amazing when you find a great story and you just can't put the book down.

In 1816 was the year of no summer. The common explanation is that a volcano erupted reducing the amount of sun light that hit the earth making it much colder for that year. But really the Truth is much crazier.

Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials for 1000's of years, some wanting to see humans evolve technologically others wanting to stop or slow our knowledge due to our violent nature. Well after many decades of back and forth fighting, the anti-human ET's went all in and decided the only safe galaxy was one without Earth and started a chain reaction to destroy the sun. This was 1816.

But... we still have a sun you say. Yes but it isn't real. NASA (New American Science Academy) which was founded in 1690 in New York had been in close contact with the Pro-human ET's , who unfortunately were blindsided by this very radical display from the Anti-humans and missed their opportunity to stop them. So the only thing they could do was to 'rebuild' the sun giving NASA the information on how to keep it going.

LEMMiNO - doesn't post videos often but it's good stuff when he does

What's crazy to me is this is a well known problem yet the people that have the ability to legislate this have just 100% ignored it.

The presidential candidates in the US either completely ignore it (trump) or give a solution of building 3 million new homes (Harris). No one wants to actually start regulating the number of homes that an individual or company can own. It's an obvious solution to the problem yet, complete silence from the law makers.

If you’re an original 2017 CAH Saves America subscriber and you want to increase the pressure on Elon, here’s a thing you can post on Twitter (the platform he wants you to call “X” for his own sexual gratification):

In 2017, I paid Cards Against Humanity to protect a pristine plot of border land from Trump’s racist wall. But then an even richer, more racist billionaire—Elon Musk—stole my land and dumped his shit all over it. @ElonMusk owes me $100. #ElonOwesMe100Bucks www.ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com

Or if you’re not a subscriber, but you still think Elon Musk is a charity-embezzling, conspiracy-peddling eugenicist manchild who trades horses for in-flight handjobs, post this:

In 2017, 150k people paid Cards Against Humanity to protect a pristine plot of border land from Trump’s racist wall. But then an even richer, more racist billionaire—@ElonMusk—stole their land and dumped his shit all over it. Fuck that! www.ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com #ElonOwesMe100Bucks

For some unknown reason the phrase "thought leader" drives me crazy.

Remember when trump lashed out at FBI directory Comey when he produced a new piece of 'evidence' against Hilary in October of 2016, calling it 'election interference'?

... yeah me either.

Not online games but I've experienced this in other ways.

used to play in a 'beer-in-hand' kickball league. The game is played where you have to have always be holding a cup of beer (or water) while you are playing the game. It's silly and fun and most people don't take it seriously. Yet every season there was one team full of over achieving type A personalities that took it WAYYYYYY to seriously. Yelling at the refs if they feel they didn't get a call right, yelling at the other team if they didn't get the score right, being overall very aggressive. I swear they thought this was the Olympic tryouts or something.

No one liked playing that team, actually they were one of the main reasons that our group of friends stopped all together.

Fuck you Larry.

has the added benefit of potentially provoking them into getting themselves arrested if there are cops watching.

As long as the cops don't sympathize with the nazis

That was interesting.

Is there an add-on that changes the header information from an HTTP request to show bogus but common identifying information?

That is crowdsource the most common configurations and set that as the default in the add-on, so now you look like just another face in the crowd.

"Government Efficiency Commission" run by Elon, nothing corrupt would come from that. /s

Alice Walton, one of the owners of Walmart "while speeding in Fayetteville, Ark., she struck and killed Oleta Hardin, a 50-year-old cannery worker. She never received so much as a ticket. "

I also choose this man's dead wife.