Yeah, this would not normally have been my response to a small business, but there were SHENANIGANS (and one lamp that set itself on fire).
A sentence that fixes situations like this: "If this isn't handled in x days, I will inform my bank/paypal that you are a fraudulent business." They don't care if you file a claim for your stuff, they DO care if you threaten their payment processing. [Source: a lamp epic that went on for 13 MONTHS.]
If nothing else, in order for this to perform the tasks as intended, you have to imagine that in a lot of cases users would be trusting Grindr's security team with...blackmail fodder.
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If if were 2009 I might have said that this sort of thing is why they need more women on the boards of tech companies, but truly, by this point, they absolutely know that this is going to enable stalking and violence, and that women will take the brunt of that, and they just don't care.
New from 404 Media: someone put facial recognition on Meta's smart glasses to instantly dox strangers. You look at them, sends face to a facial recognition tool. LLM infers name, sends to people site. Gets phone number, address. I've seen it in action www.404media.co/someone-put-...
The technology, which marries Metaās smart Ray Ban glasses with the facial recognition service Pimeyes and some other tools, lets someone automatically go from face, to name, to phone number, and home...
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If you do already do shortbread, adding lemon zest and culinary lavender is an excellent variation.
im glad the washington post editorial board is addressing this vs say, abortion laws designed to keep women pregnant with death as an acceptable outcome
I can't understand how people are still baffled by this. From what I've seen, it generally boils down to huge costs, world going to shit, women learning they don't need to get forever stuck with a garbage man, huge impact on daily life that's even bigger if no local family support. Also, costs.
The question of whether or not to have children implicates lifeās deepest, most vexing questions.