Verification Codes.
One-Time my ass, more like, repeated times. I’m so tired of verification codes up the ass these days. Just today, I had to reset my PayPal password. So that meant there was a code sent to an e-mail address after the reset process was set, to begin with. Then I had to go through the obstacle of verifying the information of the account. And then even after the password was reset, I’m sent ANOTHER freaking code right after!
And it’s even more frustrating to deal with, with my bank. I’ve gotten random verification checks for making internal transfers within my account. Things I’ve done without any issue. But just one day, I got THREE verification checks to do what I needed to do!
This verification shit has gotten out of hand! I want it to just die, just like captcha. Whatever purpose they originally were intended to do, is lost in translation, because now they’re just obstacles that wastes our time every minute we have to bother with them.
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Foreign agents and rich people buying the American political system. If they could just fuck off thatd be handy.
Scammers, hackers, con artists, things of this nature. I’m old enough to remember being excited when the phone rang because it could be anybody, like my friends! Then I got scared of it because its could be anybody, even my boss or my debtors! Now I dont even bother looking because theres absolutely no chance its anybody I know or even anybody who wants me, its either an Indian guy about to trick me about my Microsoft Computer, or some computer program about to trick me about being a real person about to trick me about my Microsoft Computer.
Same for emails. Maybe the Prince of Nigeria really was in trouble one time and just got drowned out? Maybe one of the penis enlargement pills were just from a misunderstood genius scientist? We’ll never know because scammers have absolutely fucked every single line of communication we’ve ever been granted access to.
Just. Fuck. Off. Die slow.
Cell phones, AI, and religion.
Hate. So many of the world’s problems stem from it. Imagine how much better things could be without it.
Entropy
Fake MC’s
Misused apostrophes and the people misusing them.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases. All of them. I would love to know a world without them.
Capitalism
temp/staffing agencies. They are middle men whose sole purpose is to be a prophylactic on a shitty manufacturing company’s high employee turnover affecting stock prices. Every single one of them is a “rent-a-meat” outfit, and literally no one should EVER work for any of them. They are almost as bad as payday lenders, preying on desperation to turn a profit. The perverse thing is that with one small tweak, they’d be on par with unions as one of the greatest bulwarks of labor empowerment, but nope, gotta profit on protecting the bottom line! (What I’m thinking of is something like a member owned/operated trade union that actively works to continue training, and to place members in viable and long term employment, that will also have your back as the worker, offering legal representation and arbitration services if your contractee employer treats you in bad faith.)
Religion.
To be clear, not belief or whatever, you do you. But religion is a cancer to this world.
I’m in IT and login to many different client systems and afcounts daily. I get at least 20-30 a day, swapping accounts, making changes, etc. once a month I have to completely wipe all history and cached data from Edge, otherwise things start getting weird and not working.
It’s a mess, but I will say MFA alone stops a LOT of attackers. Even if they know your password, unless you’re a specific target, they usually just quit once MFA is prompted. It’s a small balance between safety and convenience. I bet you’d be more pissed if they get into your account and were able to transfer it all out with a single password alone.
Hell, we use conditional access also, if your account teleports from florida to Colorado with a few moment, VPN or not, we get an alert and a phone call and will most likely lock your account until we speak.
Attacks are on the rise and getting better. Enjoy OTP and MFA, they’re probably saving you a lot more deadaches than you know.
The stigma against weed and psychedelics. You would think that legalization would make people more tolerant, but I’m finding the opposite to be true, especially among Gen-Z. Even the Boomers—who used to spread lies like weed will kill you or acid would make you go insane—still enjoy their 5mg edibles. IDK what is going on with the kids; I’m happy that they choose to abstain, but leave us who do partake alone. Stop being so damn judgemental. I got tired of arguing with people about this subject 20 years ago.
I’m not against drugs at all, people can do as they please.
I did get into with a neighbor awhile back, he’d smoke on his balcony and the smoke and smell would rise up and flow right into my living room.
It wasn’t a huge issue, but when I asked if he’d smoke somewhere else and explained why, he lied to my face about it.
THEN, cam to my door at 9pm one day with his wife and teenage kids, wife telling me I shouldn’t accuse them of smoking and bitching me out whole he sheepishly tood behind her. At that point I was done and would call his out. Literally that same night I catch him smoking again at 1am and he’s like “naw, it’s not me”.
In this case it was the person, not the drugs, that turned out to be a piece of shit.
Conservatism.
Liberals and leftists discussing things would be much better. They’d discuss policy and how to implement it.
We wouldn’t need to have “discussions” in the “marketplace of ideas” around murdering people, deporting people, removing healthcare, denying people’s existence, etc.
Just because horse piss is a yellow liquid doesn’t mean it has to be stocked on shelves next to Gatorade.
Leftists would be too busy screaming FASCISTS! At any liberal. Once the liberals leave, leftists will fight over the definition of words until actual fascists show up and kill/enslave them. Half of the leftists will join forces with the fascists to hunt down the leftists whose definitions they don’t like.
What do you mean by definition?! Sounds like you haven’t properly studied Kuwame Rosenthal’s Treatise of the Plebian in it’s original Portuguese. Try reading a book before having an opinion on words, you capitalist nazi!
user targeted advertising, I’m fine with content targeted ads and the basing of those ads on the users that watch the content but don’t determine the ads directly from the user.
People answering their own question in the post rather than making a separate comment.
