My wife bought one of these pieces of shit before we got together. A few months back I finally got to the point where I had the “honey we need to throw out your printer and get a new one.”

“OK - should we give it to my sister or see if any of our friends want this?”

“I’m not sure I dislike any of your friends or family enough to inflict this much frustration on them.”

I hear you. One of those ‘you shouldn’t have to pay for a service like this’ moments.

In a moment of weakness, I signed up for Incogni. I was getting 3/4 phone calls a day that weren’t leaving messages and it was getting overwhelming.

I will say, somewhat anecdotally because I’m too busy to crunch the numbers, but it doesn’t seem like the spam email, phone calls and text messages I get have dropped dramatically. My wife too.

Is there a service out there that’s the opposite of Incogni?

He knows. They can smell their own.

Unconvinced, Linda and Kayla Nordquist asked New York State Police Troop E to file a missing person’s report. They said a state trooper declined.

“She said I need to stop watching so much TV, something about it not being a true crime episode,” Kayla said. “I need to stop watching so much TV and that they don’t pass out missing people flyers.”

To Serve, Protect and Defend the People of New York?

I feel like “later rescinded” makes it sound like all the other aid that just got cancelled.

This case is more egregious and frankly scary.

The funds were in the city’s bank account, and the Trump administration went into that bank account and took the money back without telling the city.

It’s almost like Trump when to a seminar on the incredible healing power of tariffs, and believed every word he heard.

Late this fall, after all of the nonsense on Reddit, Facebook, and Instagram I asked myself a very simple question.

“Is the reason I joined these sites still valid? What do I actually enjoy about social media these days?”

The answer was basically “rose colored glasses.”

I joined **Reddit **after the ‘deaths’ of Slashdot and Digg. It became my source to get new and interesting content I probably wouldn’t have found otherwise. Now it’s bots arguing with bots and 75+% of the content is just recycled shit by people trying to make money. Much of the rest is from people trying to manipulate you.

Delete.

I joined Facebook to keep in touch with my friends and family - especially those I don’t see often. Over time, the amount of good content from people I knew dropped to maybe 25% of my feed. Most of it now is AI-generated bullshit or more of the same recycled content you see on Reddit.

Delete.

I joined Instagram to share some of my landscape photos and view some of the great photos some close friends were sharing. Over time that became less and less. Queue the recycled and AI-bullshit content.

Delete.

So, I challenge everybody to ask themselves do they actually enjoy social media? Do these sites actually add value to your life and in any way remain true to their promise when you joined them so many moons ago. Are you actually making any connections with people? The ‘social’ in ‘social’ media? Or just watching people talk at each other, not to each other.

After answering those questions, the answer about whether to stick around is pretty clear.

Mercedes also includes a number of items as a subscription in some countries. Some stuff is app related. Others are things like getting full use of your rear-steering wheels and unlocking extra horsepower.

So the blue states don’t have a National Guard to respond?

… and we’re going to get those hard drives back, right? And figure out what they did with that data, right?

Just looked and sure enough it was installed on Jan. 22.

Nothing screams “spyware” like installing an app without notice and providing no context for what it does whatsoever.

Btw this has been installed by “More than 1 Billion” devices, so if you have an Android devices the odds are pretty flipping good you have this.

When your reasons for dismissal is being a black woman, you have a pretty good case.

Generally that power is financial. The government can’t directly tell private institutions like NYU what to do.

But they can, and do, take away or withhold government funds for grants and research.

Buuuut … all that is held up right now. And if Trump has his way, that’s all gone regardless.

So I’m guessing this is a classic case of making decisions by the university based on old thinking.

This is the way these things work though. This will get attention. The next one will be even bigger.

Holy shit! A Schumer sighting!

And lets also not forget he repeatedly claimed he knew nothing about Project 2025. Not the policies. Not the people behind it.

Now he’s claiming a mandate to execute the plan he denied having any knowledge of.

It’s amazing how he always seems to have “the answer” AFTER something bad happens. But never the foresight to make changes before tragedy strikes.

Watching the video, it’s also very weird the helicopter didn’t seem to try and avoid the collision at all.

I think the places that believe in it are telling that to their employees on the regular, just not boasting about it more broadly so they don’t become a lightning rod.

A lot of folks firmly believe fostering a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture is ultimately good for your business. Aside from the points you and others have made about being able to attract more diverse customers, it also fosters an environment where people from different backgrounds can freely present their thoughts and opinions ultimately resulting in your company running better.

Compared to say Twitter where the opinion of only one white racist male matters, and I’m sure folks who used to feel inspired at work now feel trapped, unappreciated, and unable to truly innovate.