Some people can only learn the hard way. If they get their money back, they probably will not learn anything from it.
If they lose their money, they might think twice before doing stupid stuff like that again.

The 2 most popular scams are

1. 1. The classic nigerian prince (419) type scam, where the scammer will give you a lot of money if you pay a processing fee.
   This has been around since the first moron got an e-mail address.
2. 2. The guy calling "from the government, and you owe us money" type scam, where you can pay in gift cards before they send somebody to arrest you.
   No legitimate government has ever accepted gift cards as a payment method.

If you are stupid enough to fall for any of this, then you deserve to lose your money.

It is called Murphy's law.

You can't use just any pie dish. It has to be an explosion containment pie dish.
If you're in the UK, maybe big Clive will let you borrow his.

Most people are not very smart.

As a South African who is affected by this, I have been following the story closely for the last few weeks.
The 2 cables involved are WACS (West African Cable System) and SAT-3 (South Atlantic 3), and they were damaged in an underwater rockfall in the Congo canyon off the western coast of Africa.
It happened when the Leon Thevenin (The boat that was sent) was anchored in Mombasa, All the way over on the other side of the continent.

This is the 3rd major cable break we have had in the last few years. One just west of Angola, and another in the Bristol Channel.

If they want to make it immersive and exiting, they should just send someone to shove a grenade up my butt.
It will be less annoying.

I recently watched the HBO miniseries The Pacific.
If I adjust the volume so that the explosions are not deafening, the dialogue is barely audible.
If I set the dialogue to a reasonable volume, the next explosion wakes up my neighbor through 3 brick walls, a row of trees and a closed window.

Another thing that pisses me off are the stupid censors.
I have seen programs where they censor either the audio or the subtitles, but never both.
Ax Men, on the History channel was extremely guilty of this. They could not even keep it consistent through one episode.

If I understand this correctly, this is a bunch of rich narcissistic twitfaces selling "follows" to a bunch of stupid twitfaces.

Looks like it could be interesting.
Thank you.

Every time I see something like this, I am reminded of Thomas Jefferson, who said something about the blood of patriots and tyrants.
As a non-US citizen/resident looking at this from the outside, I can't help thinking that the USA is getting close to a point where a civil war is needed to turn things around.

There are so many problem countries in the world.
Sometimes, I find myself wishing for a good apocalypse that will kill off 90% of the world's population, so that the planet can get a fresh start.
A year ago, I was genuinely hoping that the COVID pandemic would turn into that apocalypse.

Now might be a good time for me to watch the Postman and Waterworld again (or any other good post apocalyptic movie if someone has a recommendation)

More than a few US submarines are capable of carrying (and firing) something that looks like a cylindrical cruise missile.

How many of those submarines are in New Mexico?

For some reason that site is not working for me.
Would you mind checking the spelling quickly.

You don't know much about childbirth. It comes out the other hole.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DEsNhCWsDVQI

I actually do IT support for two companies that still use legacy GW-BASIC code that was written in the early 80s.
Output from these programs is to dot matrix line printers (fortunately still easy to get these).