ahugenerd

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  • ahugenerdtoMemes@lemmy.mldems the fact jack
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    7 months ago

    Checks are increasingly a US centric thing. They’re almost non existent in Canada, certainly on the personal front, and in Europe the last holdout is France. All they’ve said is that they’re not phasing out checks before 2030, but they 100% are planning on getting rid of them. They’re just archaic and far too easy to commit fraud with.


  • ahugenerdtoPeople TwitterTrump popularity.
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    9 months ago

    I think the post is literally implying that in previous elections, you absolutely could make the argument that people were being fooled, but that’s no longer true. People voting for this guy are doing so not because they’ve been tricked, but because they want to and are doing so with open eyes.











  • Sorry to burst your bubble, but this has actually happened. The case I know of, personally, involved a bar owner. He was exonerated after a few years being dragged through the mud, but he ended up having to shut down his bar and move out of town to be left alone. This stuff happens.

    Do I have a better alternative? No, it’s a complex issue and we definitely don’t want to victim blame, but we also don’t want to destroy people’s lives over just allegations. It’s a delicate balance. I think one thing we could do, at very least, is to actually stand by the innocent until proven guilty ideal and not publish the identity of the accused until a verdict comes out. This is the way it is in most of Europe and a “perp walk” happening like it does in the US would free highly illegal.


  • People, for a whole host of reasons, can be and very much are in different situations than you. Some have very little defense against such allegations, and so it should not be very difficult to understand that they could have their lives destroyed in an instant by false accusations.

    For instance, if they engage in non-normalized sexual relations (for their area or country, obviously), be that interracial, same sex, BDSM, etc., particularly if they are not “out”. It’s very easy to go from “he tied me up and we had a great time”, to “that guy did me wrong somehow so now I’m going to press charges and claim he tied me up against my will and raped me”. If you don’t think this happens you’re living in a dream land.






  • ahugenerdtoWeb³ XR*Permanently Deleted*
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    1 year ago

    Some of the same people that cry bloody murder about companies pulling tricks like these will be the first in line to shout “defederate!” from the top of the hills for any instance they don’t like. Pot? Meet kettle.