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Re: The Garbage Dump: 100+ pages of well-aged compost

Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Fri Aug 21, 2020 6:58 pm

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I'd say I've experienced that before, but I think that's been the few times in my life I've woken up seriously hung over.
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Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:34 am

Random question: You know how robo-callers are impossible to catch now for some reason? Is it because they can literally claim to be calling from any number, even one that's already in use by somebody else? Or do they have to at least legitimately own the millions of fake numbers they're calling from? Like, if somebody were to write their numbers down, put them in a central database, and then employ a machine to robo-call them right back and leave really, REALLY nasty, threatening messages... would it actually go to them and not random innocent people?

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Post by Void Chicken (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:39 am

Call ID can be faked to whatever they want. So your callbacks will go to innocent people. On top of that, if you're enough of a shit to the wrong one, then your number is going on the fake ID list.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 1:48 am

I think I learned about faking numbers when I spotted somebody using a 555 number. Seriously.

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Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 2:46 pm

OK, followup question: Do you think it's irresponsible to even block individual numbers, then, knowing that they could coincidentally belong to real people who might want to call you at some point? Possibly even important people, like your doctor or something? Hell, I could see somebody setting up a fake telemarketing system that deliberately spoofs numbers of local individuals and institutions to trick people into blocking numbers that they shouldn't.
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OK, followup question: Do you think it's irresponsible to even block individual numbers, then, knowing that they could coincidentally belong to real people who might want to call you at some point? Possibly even important people, like your doctor or something? Hell, I could see somebody setting up a fake telemarketing system that deliberately spoofs numbers of local individuals and institutions to trick people into blocking numbers that they shouldn't.
you are extremely overthinking this. that said blocking individual numbers that almost certainly will not be reused is also kind of a waste of time. I still do it for any calls that come from like, the UK or wherever but deep down I'm aware it's a waste. unfortunately they've learned how to spoof Finnish numbers now so recently I accidentally ended up answering to one
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Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 3:33 pm

Oh, so this isn't just a US problem? Interesting. I've been blaming a combination of the American telecoms and the FCC for letting it happen.
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Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:12 pm

I wound up getting a call blocker that would block numbers from my same area code and dialing prefix because I literally never get calls from there, except telemarketers.

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I think I learned about faking numbers when I spotted somebody using a 555 number. Seriously.
I've gotten two calls with the prefix 911. Preeetty sure they don't use that one.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:37 pm

I feel like I lucked out being home-schooled when "Charlie the Unicorn" became a meme, because if I was in high-school I KNOW my classmates would have called me like how those unicorns did in the cartoon. "Hey Charlieeeee, let's go to Candy Mountain!"

Also "Charlie" came out in 2005. Damn :-I

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Ah. Those were innocent times. Innocent organ stealing times.
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:08 am

So one of the projects I've been mulling over is a series of biographical comics about Japanese-American animators who worked in the industry. People like Iwao Takamoto, Jimmy Murakami, and the ilk.

Would anyone find that interesting?

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Post by Madeline (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:01 pm

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Oh sorry. I borrowed it to help me render this meme I just made, I'll return it p soon k?
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I'd say I've experienced that before, but I think that's been the few times in my life I've woken up seriously hung over.
Seriouspost: it happens to me a lot after migraines and cluster headaches, and also sometimes when my blood pressure unexpectedly drops.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 10:20 pm

Welp, floodgates opened about the animation company I used to work for and their shitty business practices.

I worked with them for more than 2 years and my relationship with them deteriorated towards the end. Needless to say, seeing everyone talk about their shitty practices out in the open is VERY satisfying for me.

I'll probably write about my own experience with them eventually, but suffice to say a lot of what's being said I can verify is true.

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Fuck it.

I'm going public.

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Fuck it.

I'm going public.
I’m glad you went public. That’s very brave. And their practices are disgusting.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:42 pm

I got off relatively easy, too. Seems to be a shitshow now.

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Oh wow. That *is* a shitshow
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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Aug 26, 2020 12:58 am

I was starting to get disillusioned around my 2nd year or so, but I (naively) stuck around figuring I could use this as a stepping stone to get a better storyboarding job elsewhere.

Yeah....that didn't happen. Lessons learned.

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Wed Aug 26, 2020 1:00 am

But you were wondering what contributed to my depressive episodes last year, it was because I was dropped by them. I stopped getting work after production dried up for their 2nd cartoon (which is a story of itself) because it wasn't doing as well as they hoped. I later asked what's up and they said they dropped me because my style didn't fit with their vision anymore or some BS.

I'm already insecure about my art, and I was basically being told I wasn't good enough for literal stick figures anymore (the series is stick-figure animation).

But they offered to give me another chance...if I took a storyboard test. Keep in mind I boarded for a combined 30 cartoons at that point, and now they wanted me to take a fucking test.

I decided not to take it.

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This is a curse :-I

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We'll see if they actually follow through on it, but if they improve the pay rates, good on them.

There are still other issues besides underpaying artists that needs to be fixed, from my memory of working for them, but that's a topic for another time.

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Post by Ragnar (?) » Wed Sep 02, 2020 3:52 pm

Is there a way to pay a speeding ticket online? I have the citation on my bedtime desk (nightstand?) so I don't forget to deal with it but they haven't mailed the actual letter to me yet, perhaps because the mail is busted right now or perhaps because there's a 30% chance any given piece of my mail is going to end up in someone's slot, bc I live in a weird little thing on someone's property (long story).

It's an infraction. I was in lane 1 anyway. I owe them like three days' worth of paychecks and then we're good. Someone tell me how to pay. Can I just mail a fuckload of greasy ones in a cardboard box and they can send me back the difference at their leisure? I just want to crime to go away so I can live my life already. I want to forget about the time a cop talked to me, but the alleged courthouse apparently thinks it's the 90s, unless they have a website that accepts debit.

fucking goddamn government out here drinking the blood of the working man and it can't even send me the pail to put my blood in w/o messing up :equestria:
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Post by The Ghost of Ember (?) » Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:03 pm

it varies state by state but i always had to go to a courthouse to pay
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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Sep 02, 2020 4:17 pm

Depends on your state, but my county has a website where you can look up citations and pay them. Yours might have the same.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Wed Sep 02, 2020 5:37 pm

If you want to pay online, I can almost guarantee you that your county/state government will be working with a third party payment processor that'll add a few percent on top, plus maybe a bullshit "convenience fee" or whatever. Write your government a check and you can at least avoid that.

Or, as you said, you might live somewhere that doesn't even take online payments at all, in which case you might need to pay it at ye olde courthouse or some other county office. Your county's website should at least have information about that.
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Post by diribigal (?) » Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:20 pm

In my state you can pay online if you have the citation number and there's no convenience fee if you pay from a checking account directly (but there would be for credit card).
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Post by Octavia (?) » Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:18 pm

Yeah most tax stuff you can pay online for free with a direct debit from a bank account, but they'll hit you with a fee if you use a credit card. I have to imagine paying citations is similar.
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Post by RIP Syndrome (?) » Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:39 pm

why does the US government/individual states make paying speeding tickets pointlessly difficult

surely it'd be in their best interest to make it as easy and simple as possible, unless the goal is to hit people with extra fees and fun consequences for being late. here the cops just print you a standard invoice as your ticket.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Sep 03, 2020 4:42 pm

Over here, anything that makes things at all easier for those who break the law is seen as being "soft on crime," which can be political suicide in the more conservative parts of the country. And more late fees means more money for the government, because raising taxes (also political suicide in the more conservative parts of the country) is so unpopular that many state and local governments count fees and fines like this as a significant part of their annual revenue.
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Post by Adiwan (?) » Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:01 pm

My father got a speeding ticket a long time ago, got mail with a photo from the speed camera, then he had only to do a simple bank transfer with a special code in the note field. That was all what he had to do. He also could pay it in person at any police station.

Making the payment process more complicated or more cumbersome is super counterproductive. In the same vein you could increase the ticket costs, make the process easier, and with the easier process you can save on processing costs as in personnel and the avalanche of other processes as a result of not paying. It would have probably the same result in "profit" without antagonizing the citizens.
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Post by Fizzbuzz (?) » Thu Sep 03, 2020 5:57 pm

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It would have probably the same result in "profit" without antagonizing the citizens.
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But, you see, ultimately the cruelty is the point. Our right wing takes collective joy in the suffering of anyone they can put down, even for something as minor as speeding.

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This is fucking insane :-I

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Post by DaikatunaRevengeance (?) » Thu Sep 03, 2020 6:43 pm

i watched that earlier and yeah :-I
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it does also talk about DMCA claims and how laws are abused, but also yeah :-I
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Fizzbuzz wrote:
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