I work in web dev and one of my jobs is to get you to engage more.

Maybe it’s buy more products.

Maybe it’s read more content.

Maybe it’s click on the button.

Maybe it’s like and subscribe.

Sometimes I do it with good UI. Sometimes I do it with dark patterns. Sometimes I do it by not allowing you to opt out.

I also get data to increase that number based on human behavior.

The worst part – im one of millions of people and companies who are doing this. We are all wanting your attention.

I’ve been in tech for about twenty years.

People learning to code keep saying it’s hard, and they’re just faking it.

Like dude, I’m STILL faking it. Every week, I take another course so I can understand tech just a little more.

Impossible.

Signal jammers are trackable. If you drive the same routes, the disruption is an easy pattern.

Also it causes other issues (like with medical vehicles/first responders) and is a federal crime. But whatever.

I love getting transcripts and then returning the call that goes to their voicemail.

I’m gonna tell my kids this is how we used to play Pokemon before video games exist.

Seriously. Lego will be played with even when I’m a old boomer in 2070s yelling about our AI president and being against human-bot marriage.

Don’t know about funkopops. They look like beanie babies to me.

Joking aside, totally understandable.

I absolutely love getting a physical copy.

My kids don’t get the joy I have.

The onion CEO

Why would people downvote this?

We’re in shitposts. This is pure gold!

To support OP, the greatest movie came out already and it’s called Bad Boys 2 with Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.

There’s ways to bypass it. I’ve bought a virtual number.

And if you search for “How to create an account without a phone number” on whatever platform you’re using, you might find a backdoor.

Make up a dramatic backstory and post vague updates.

“My daughter’s quinceañera was last week. No photos, after ‘the incident’. Can’t believe it happened again 😭”

I’m surprised more people don’t create fake accounts with fake identities?

Be Goliath Giantman who lives in tinytown, Nebraska. Use the address of a Dominos.

Then Go one step farther. Make a social media profile. Post AI photos of Goliath’s family and dog. Assign him the job you wish you had. Sign him up for ancestry .com and create the family tree you want.

Getting increasingly hard.

I finally learned why those 50" tvs are so cheap, like $200. Buy a dumb TV that’s the same size is easily 5x the price.

Then again, nobody needs a TV and I only bought one during the pandemic, then connected it to my pi hole.

Learning about all the bugs that live in your hair and eyebrows made me lose a few nights of sleep.

It’s actually kind of nice to see this as a JS developer.

Not like, “Oh wow this is neat!”

But like, “Finally the golden child, Python, also has some fucked up shit”

These are one of those situations that absolutely can devastate a tourist destination.

It’s not just international eyes on their government. But also, news spreading that something is killing tourists will quickly turn into a panic and people traveling there. Because first, it’s “just alcohol”.

Moar wuuurk?

My wife and I do this voice when we go through our list of chores.

I’m going to trust that you’re correct.

But I’m still going to duct tape the psychopath for everyone’s safety, including the psychopath.