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Well, not anymore. /s
This could be a great use for a voice AI chat bot connected to your phone line. Prompt it with something like,
"You're on a phone call to [Widgets Inc] to get a price quote for a [box of premium widgets]. You'll probably be put on hold to speak with the next available sales representative. Just wait until you get a person on the line. Then, ask for the price and immediately start negotiating for a better price. Use whatever strategy you want but never agree to whatever price they offer. Keep coming up with more ridiculous reasons that they should give you an even better price."
Then dial the phone, turn it over to the chat bot, and wander off to go do more important things.
"European countries" Includes Russia. Excludes Ukraine.
Amusingly, my brain naturally pronounced those appropriately for the context. It wasn't until another part of my brain said, "wait, they're spelled the same," and the first part replied, "right, that's the joke," before I realized what had just happened.
Been using Linux as my primary OS for (counts on fingers)... decades now. Called them folders the whole time. Never had a problem with it. Nobody who matters cares.
"the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.". Treaty of Tripoli, ratified by the United States Senate unanimously without debate on June 7, 1797, taking effect June 10, 1797
"You mean that series of tubes Ted Stephens would rant about? Pssh. We don't have time for that. 🙄"
Protesters were blocking ships that were sending weapons to Israel.
Link? Because that would be a high quality protest I could get behind.
That's not what the posted article is about, though. The posted article Is about protesters just blocking traffic. That's what I was commenting on.
Any small group of dingbats can block traffic for a while. What they never seem to understand is that this kind of low effort protest doesn't help their cause.
When you're disproportionately affecting innocent people, many of whom may actually agree with your broader message, all you do is piss people off.
Blocking innocent people from getting where they're going to protest something they had nothing to do with is just a kinder gentler version of bombing an apartment building and killing innocent people just because some militants are allegedly also in the building. They're both great ways to convince people that you're a shitty human being, but that's about it.
Yeah. I saw some of the posts across Lemmy trying to organize this.
There it was presented as blocking shipping ports. I thought that was odd. Wasn't sure how that was going to affect Israel, but whatever.
Then the day comes and they're doing this low effort reposting-of-a-meme-everyone-has-seen-already version of protest and I just rolled my eyes.
"Innocent people are being murdered in Palestine, so I'm going to go prevent someone that also hates what is happening from visiting their dying grandmother! That'll show 'em!"
🙄