America's longest city name is a paltry 27 letters, Village of Grosse Pointe Shores in Michigan.
America's longest city name is a paltry 27 letters, Village of Grosse Pointe Shores in Michigan.
In case any of you are interested, didn't know, or want to share this with elderly relatives:
The vast majority of these are "refund scams"
They typically use an app like AnyDesk. They'll guide the "mark" through the install process and setup. At that point, they can control your computer, Typically, they get a person to pull up their bank, login and check their account balance et. Then they'll copy the bank's website source, and create a "fake" website which is hosted on the targets computer, and direct the browser to that one. (They'll black the screen out while they're doing this and say some nonsense about "performing an update or whatever" It doesn't take long because someone has written scripts that will do this)
They'll say that you're due a 200 dollar refund etc. Then they just open up a command prompt (and call it their "refund software")
Something like:
C:\ Welcome to Unibank refund processing center. Please type in the dollar amount to be refunded: $_
They'll tell the target to type in 200 and press enter (but right when the target types 200, they'll add another zero to it in a flash, and then press enter)
At that point, the scammer pretends to get angry, "WAHT DID YOU DO! I SAID 200 not 2 thousand!!
They'll say they can't claw it back and that they're going to lose their job. (while they're doing this, and out of site of the target, they are modifying the "fake" bank webpage to reflect a deposit of 2000 dollars.
They'll have the target pull up their bank (not realizaing their browser is pointing to the fake) and yes, it really DOES look like that money was deposited, because remember, it's a clone of their bank's actual website.
At this point they get people to go purchase 1800 dollars worth of gift cards (so the poor helpdesk person doesn't lose their job)
Once the target buys the gift cards, they get them to give them the redeem codes and voila, the person just lost 1800 dollars.
And it works, a LOT, because they specifically target old folks that don't know sh*t about computers.
Those bastards deserve to have their nuts cut off.
I posted one earlier.In case any of you hadn't seen this guy who scams the scammers... hilarious.
Definitely worth at least one watch of him doing a full call. Guy's a legend really.
Victor Davis Hanson perfectly explained the REAL function of USAID:
They are essentially job farms for the academic "elites", IOW kids that graduate from the elite schools with degrees that, to put it bluntly, are mostly worthless in the REAL world.
They graduate, and go to "work" at these NGO's, which are basically "resume builders" for future politicians and non-elected Federal government administrators.
Made up white collar jobs, for made up tasks, for a made up consumer/recipient.
The Federal government is nothing more than an employer or "career destination" for a large segment of well connected Ivy League School graduates, and so their friends and relatives that are already IN the government are going to make damn sure that those graduates are "tracked", and it's easy to do when you have unlimited funds , compliments of the US tax payer. And further, it is one of the main functions of "hidden agenda/line items" in bills/laws. IOW it's why you see a bunch of crap tacked onto say, a BORDER BILL, that at first blush seems reasonable.
That explains the hysterics about Trump wanting to go down to the basement, so to speak, and turn the light on in order to see where the cockroaches flee.
smarter than trump. You said it! hahahah. I wish. Im an average joe that relies on smarter people than me to make most of my decisions. I don't trust politicians. All are bought and paid forIs this set up to make it seem you are smarter than Trump?
That is doubtful.
You don't know what he is willing to risk either.
I was being nice. He's a buffoon. Im gonna tariff slap the chit out of youTrump isn't a politician. Far from it in fact.
That Social Security tax repeal is going to be impossible to sell I'm afraid. It would probably move the insolvency D-day closer by a few years.
Yeah, we're teetering on the brink of solvency/insolvency. Really need solid measures which alleviate this mess. Eliminating waste is one.That Social Security tax repeal is going to be impossible to sell I'm afraid. It would probably move the insolvency D-day closer by a few years.
Or.....Keep cleaning up the Wasted money programs that Doosh is supposedly making and then............As a SS recipient, I would benefit but understand and agree with your point. My counter would be to raise or eliminate the FICA maximum. When I was employed, was good with it but it would help in keeping the system somewhat solvent imo
Thankfully.Trump isn't a politician. Far from it in fact.
As a SS recipient, I would benefit but understand and agree with your point. My counter would be to raise or eliminate the FICA maximum. When I was employed, was good with it but it would help in keeping the system somewhat solvent imo
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Let’s just turn the Middle East into a glass factory, eh?Fun to search “Syria” and see what everyone had to say back in December.
I had one of Scammer Paybacks threads come across my X feed recently. Good stuff.Sometimes I like to watch that guy on youtube, ScammerPayback
In case you don't know, he traps scammers in India, and reverse connects to the scammer's desktop. There are a few guys on youtube that do this but Scammer Payback is the best. He's got a network of guys that work together, and they've actually been responsible for getting some of the scammer call centers closed.
Anyway, I was just watching a video of his, and he downloaded everything from this scammers computer. All of his emails, some plane tickets, the dude's photo ID, and then low level deleted everything from the scammers computer, and this scammer is FREAKING OUT. Blowing up Paybacks phone (which is a decoy) and telling him he's going to come to America and kill him LOL
This dude provides a valuable service, and it's highly entertaining to watch.
I've seen him hack into the call center CCTV, and he can watch them as he's leading them on (voice changed so they think he's an elderly lady) 🤣
Scammer: "my favorite vacation spot is your Mom's p***y" 🤣 🤣
Not going to comment too much on Angel Reese and the WNBA other than to say I really don’t care what happens.Not really a political topic per se, but I just read where WNBA players, namely Angel Reese, are contemplating striking unless their salaries are raised. Ms. Reese plays for the Chicago franchise and makes roughly $75k annually. She is quoted as saying her RENT, presumably in Chicago, is $8/month. I've never lived in Chicago but I'm going to go way out on a limb and guess there are places Ms. Reese could live in the Chicago area that aren't $8/month and she could possibly even find one that is within her budget. What sort of DA lives in a place where the rent is higher than her gross salary and then complains that her employer, which has NEVER in its entire existence made a profit, should pay her more? If I'm an owner of a WNBA franchise that is bleeding cash every single year, once I stopped laughing, I would call Ms. Reese up and plead for her to strike and to convince many other WNBA players to do so, also, so I could cut my losses.
At least now I know all of the DAs aren't located in Washington, DC.
Back to politics, Jasmine Crockett is surely the dumbest individual in DC. I mean, almost every utterance is stream of consciousness full of stupidity, racism, falsehoods and, quite often, incoherent ghetto ramblings (and she's not from the ghetto, btw). AOC is a special kind of dumb, imo, but JC surely is the queen of idiocy.
in all fairness, here is what you're saying ... you're okay with younger people paying more in taxes so you can keep your benefits. There has to be a better way.As a SS recipient, I would benefit but understand and agree with your point. My counter would be to raise or eliminate the FICA maximum. When I was employed, was good with it but it would help in keeping the system somewhat solvent imo
I’ll need to remember this next time I see one of those hot Naughty Teacher Threads…..
She would have made a great GA Senator, but Pub voters disproportionately stayed home for the Jan. 2021 runoff. Strange. I wonder why. Hopefully she'll run again in 2026.
Sam’s nothing but a half awake babbling blowhard whose time is so worthless that he spends it here changing absolutely nobody’s mind. The cycle of insanity.“Happy populist….. Happy warrior….. moderate….” - describing Tim Walz
Absolutely pathetic. This country (and indeed the world) dodged a major bullet by making the right choice on Nov 5 - Sam’s protestations notwithstanding.
It's my understanding that even if you're working at 65, at a place that has great medical benefits that you still have to go on Medicare or face much higher premiums when you DO decide to.
I've still got three years but I'm sort of trying to figure it out/research, and frankly, it looks:
Expensive
and
Convoluted
(and, if you're hospitalized for a long time, and all you've got is Part A, with no supplemental private insurance on top of it, you're going to end up broke.)
We are right back to square one.I was being nice. He's a buffoon. Im gonna tariff slap the chit out of you
Supposedly their aim was to control the Canadian Geese problem. Thanks again Canada. Sheesh.
That Social Security tax repeal is going to be impossible to sell I'm afraid. It would probably move the insolvency D-day closer by a few years.
It's only true because Kamala doesn't live there anymore.Back to politics, Jasmine Crockett is surely the dumbest individual in DC. I mean, almost every utterance is stream of consciousness full of stupidity, racism, falsehoods and, quite often, incoherent ghetto ramblings (and she's not from the ghetto, btw). AOC is a special kind of dumb, imo, but JC surely is the queen of idiocy.
So are people for 2nd Amendment rights or not?I didn’t see this posted. I had not heard a staffer brought in a gun during Trump’s speech. This is also a multiple occurrence.
“This is the fourth instance of a gun being brought in a building policed by USCP Chief J Thomas Manger since Trump was elected President. What is frightening to me is that both dates that President Trump attended events at the Capitol it was on a date where a gun made it in one of the buildings and I’m told one of the guns made it in a room where President Trump was actually in and only feet away from him. “
Yeah, I worded that poorly. I was talking about taxes on benefits.They aren’t planning to repeal the social security tax.
They’ve talked about repealing the income tax on social security benefit payments.
If you have other sources of income while collecting social security, a portion of the benefits are subject to income tax.