qevlarr @ qevlarr @lemmy.world

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Because sticking up for Palestine while constantly getting smeared as a terrorist sympathizer and an antisemite... is taking the easy road?

🚨 ⚠ 🚨 Hoax alert! 🚨 ⚠ 🚨

"What about the children?"

Drives kids to suicide

Conservatism is a cancer

Disney used to make war propaganda videos

That's what I thought, yeah. Some people...

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.

I just wanted to share the story.

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.

What country?

When it got ya, it's gotcha

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

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 👍

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

Great joke, I must say

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

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.

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

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

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