Independent Rants (July minirants)

The BBQ Pit
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My spam filters are no longer NYTimes fishing for subscriptions, they are all the GOP pushing Trump and mooching for donations.

Look, I get it, my name is actually on the list as registered Republican [and don’t bitch me out, I know if you bother reading ANYTHING I put out, I am about as non-Trump as you can get, I stay registered for the millionth time, so I can vote in Repub only pollings as FUCK NO THAT IS AN ASS OF AN IDEA.] Last 3 weeks, I have had 2 NYT mooches and at least 15 per day trump and republican based shite. My phone a Sonim 8 / Verizon now lets me tag calls as spam and report them. Again, last 34 [just counted] spam submissions were Trump autocallers.

I really really really want all political based functionaries to be able to be blacklisted and put on the no call list. I want it so that you can put ‘affiliated’ businesses on the no call list and they can no longer call. I want to be able to put damned bill collectors that call because someone else had this number previously to stick the no call list.

I swear, I actually have a ‘burn phone’ I bought in Germany a few years back to be used when I am over there, I am debating getting a sim chip over here from Tracphone and only giving hte number to like 4 people that I want to keep in touch with and calling it good. Anybody that really needs to get me can ping me on facebook as far as I am concerned.

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Stoopit technology. I’m seriously at the stage where mules, candles, and books are where it’s at.
My former I.T Guy is happy to let me mooch off his H.B.O. account … but I gotta log in.

I’m getting the same fucking stupid red error message about not using my name or email address as the password. IT’S NOT, YA FUCKIN’ WHORE why do I keep getting this?!?

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I had the same issue - kid let me use her Hulu/HBO account and I was receiving the same errors. Turned out they really clamped down on borrowing accounts. I would’ve had to be using the same IP address as her to be able to log in.

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Really? Shit. That makes me feel better, that the problem isn’t PEBKAC, and worse, because I hung up on my friend. (In my pathetic defense, I was trying to avoid taking out my frustration on him.)

Now, if anyone can explain why I get the same error for YouTube, for my own account, which I can happily watch on my phone … well, I’d bake ya cookies or something, or my undying gratitude will hafta suffice.