Gay badgercat who practically lives on bad puns and cursed computing. Fluent in typo
If Harris/Walz ran on ending spam calls it would be a landslide victory
My bank just called me today at 9:45am to confirm a credit card application I submitted to them last night and the number had no caller ID (until I picked up?) and I was waiting for half the conversation for it to turn into a social engineering scam where they ask for my social security number or something lmao.
I do agree it's a major problem, but also I fucking hate phones and have a phobia of them so like, that voice in the back of my head is going "they can all burn"
When the bridge in Baltimore collapsed, I remember seeing some story about how the mayor of Baltimore declined a call and some secretary had to tell them to pick up the phone because it was literally the president calling.
Yeah I remember seeing that too. It's fucking ridiculous that its come to this.
I think having some kind of national database for reverse lookups for business and government phone numbers would be useful. I want to know what this number from LA that keeps calling and never leaving a fucking message is
It's legitimately wild how we've just let the concept of phonecalls just become ceded territory.
Receiving a phone call or text message while my phone is on not-vibrate, not-silent, full notification sounds, instantly gives me a trauma response because I've associated the sounds with stressful work environments.
I'm not saying this is an excuse, I'm saying this is further evidence that we need to return to being able to trust a phone call is a real human that just wants to chat.
yeah i worked at a internet support call centre and i don't think i can ever not feel stressed about phones ever again
I feel like a lot of aversion people have to phone calls is a general shift towards asynchronous communication like SMS which is most cases is a superior form of communication.
I'm so used to having a written log of what was said as a side effect of communicating in text in the first place that it's affecting my ability to remember things that I didn't write down. To take a phone call I have to have a notepad ready or I will simply forget what you just told me
That’s true for people under 35 or so. It’s very much not true for those of Walz’s generation.
My parents very much would just call me out of the blue instead of sending me a text for a simple thing. It's kind of tiring actually.
I'm under the impression that the FCC is gonna start cracking down on this soon, but given the recent SCOTUS bullshit I have to wonder how long it'll take before some clown comes in and challenges that as a 1A case...
one of the most fucked up parts of that telemarketer documentary from last year is how, because a little bit of the money made via these schemes goes to police unions, those same police unions act as effectively heavies for the telemarketers. borderline racketeering protected by the cops
