This is the same company that sells an entire printer at a loss, as a semi-disposable item, so you’ll be suckered into buying their proprietary ink cartridges at the low low price of an arm and a dick. Inefficiency? From the company that makes disposable fucking printers? yeah that sounds about right.

small point of fact… they’re no longer loss leaders. They’re making a profit on the printer too, now. they only did that to push out other brands in the space- they’re at 20+% global market share… and that’s just HP branded printers. they own some other junky brands.

They want to see my dick, they need to subscribe to my only fans.

yes. Agreed. but it’s still bad business.

he’s gonna get eptsteined after the convictions blow over

absolutely not. The federal charges have the death penalty attached.

Remember, the rich fucks need this to end. They certainly don’t want us getting ideas. And the fastest way to do that would be to have him wind up dead before they can drag his name through the mud in a show trial. that would turn him into a martyr.

this is funny because before ww2, germans at the same relative stage of the nazis take over basically said the same things you just did. “We can protest, we can not pay taxes… and strikes…” hitler didn’t rise to power uncontested. His brownshirts showed up to the protests and ended them. violently.

fun fact. it’s the states that have elections.

the thing is, if it’s slow and they have to let you wait 15 minutes, that’s… ineffeciency. Like. it might not always stay slow. if someone wants to talk to a human, and there’s a human free, it’s bad business to make them go through all the other hoops first.

Fixing HP’s statement on the matter so it’s more honest:

We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience, because this is the first step in not doing that. This support offering was intended force you into less expensive options that didn’t involve live humans because we’re cheap bastards who don’t actually care if your printer works- you’ve already bought it, and it stopped being a loss leader in the 90’s. Seriously. the printers have not changed since then, but we jacked the rates when you weren’t looking and called all those not-actually-new features something new and cool sounding.

We have found that many of our customers were not aware of the digital support options we provide. because we don’t want you to use those, either. we want you to suffer in silence. and buy more ink. Based on initial feedback, we know the importance of speaking to live customer service agents in a timely fashion is paramount. As a result, we will fire most of our live representatives so that it takes then twenty minutes to get to you, instead of just telling them let you cool your heels.

also, we’re updating our onhold music play lists. they now include Justin Beiber’s “Baby”, Nickleback’s “Rockstar”, Rebeca Black’s “Friday”, and the entire sound track to Cats, the musical. oh, and in the interest of keeping it diverse, Walker Hayes “90’s country song”.

we’re in the end stages of a campaign by assholes to overthrow our deomocracy.

It’s been getting waged for decades. they’ve been doing this shit for years, behind closed doors and they now feel comfortable with being nazis in public.

protests are happening everywhere, in every state, though they’re mostly small. the news isn’t covering a lot of them because there’s no rioters and the news can’t push a narrative that people hate trump.

Unless you happen to live fairly close… which is fairly not likely…. So you drive to a rally point or someplace near some transit (or with plausible deniability,) etc. to get in.

Or just conceal your plates and don’t drive something flashy,

there is something to be said about being connected to others. particularly for protests that move around or so you can let people know you’re driving home etc vs locked up for bullshit.

it’s also convenient as a form of souseveillance. Just remember pictures and video are evidence, that cuts both ways; especially in the face of cops being excessive.

(opps, wrong person,)

I believe the pejorative is “creep” or “pervert” with the beginning called catfishing.

I’d suggest you let the cops know. He’s being that creepy.

Not really.

Most new phones use other identifiers. You might be able to buy very cheap prepaid phones or cards for them, but they’re going away from swappable sims.

For most carriers, if you occasionally want to swap to a different device it’s just a matter of going to your account online and swapping it (for example, travel. It’s safer to use a clean device rather than your normal phone. Both for border crossings and everything else.)

I highly recommend graphene.

And for anyone going to a protest to get a cheap burner and flash graphene, then leave your normal phone at home. You can swap phones on your plan pretty easily.

Alternatively, for the very paranoid, go set up a prepaid and anon line and move your device there. Pay cash for the card and set it up online at a public library.

Especially if you’re planning on a little civil disobedience.

Just a reminder, if police think something is about to go down, they’ll spoof the tower and collect device information… including things like phone numbers so if your suddenly changing behavior to go somewhere and do something the fascists dickfucks in office won’t like… best be paranoid.

A second device will still at least keep them from getting all your personal shit. And seriously, Don’t just turn off your normal phone. Leave it at home.

LOL

I should have worked in a kazoo. ah well. missed opportunity.

“Just”?

No. Not exactly.

First, they get a list of numbers from musk.

Then they need to filter out all the entries where he forgot to turn off the letters and symbols (look, he has trouble with the whole baby name thing, okay?)

Then they have to delete all the entries that are smaller than the numbers they used before.

Then they have to roll a custom d7, that’s transparent with a suspiciously phallic thing in the center (managers insist it’s a spacex falcon 9,)

This, if they can even read it, tells them which one from the bottom they use then….(it maybe takes a few tries because the knuckledraggers can’t count past 2. They should just use a d2.)

Then they roll a d4 which tells them if it’s “million”, “billion”, “trillion” or “Siri, what comes after a trillion?”