Why was Ukraine not involved? These talks have absolutely no legitimacy.

Fair point :-)

Maybe… But I kind of doubt it 😁

This is not a big deal but it is entirely wrong. Why do I care so much about this?!

IMO it is a big deal, and you’re right to care.

Most obviously, and most importantly, this is a big deal because it excludes people who may require the subtitles in order to watch the show.

But it also points to some sort of speech to tech automation being used and then not checked by a human. Which implies poor quality control and a reliance on machine learning instead of employing someone.

If it was BlueSky forcing sign in, I would agree. But this is giving the user control of their own posts. I don’t really see a problem with it tbh.

Oh, I thought you were unhappy about the price. The soup itself sounds rather nice to me, will need to check that out 😁

If you want to find out more, you could try and contact the Citizens Advice Bureau - they may or may not be able to help directly, but if not then they would probably know who can.

https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/

In short, money.

To use the real name would likely require licensing it. Not to mention that naming a game made by a company owned by one major media conglomerate, might be an issue when you’re a show made by a company owned by a different competing major media conglomerate.

Possibly someone intended to cross post to NSQ on another instance? There’s one on Lemmy.ca for example. Maybe they just typed the wrong one?

!nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Not really interested in mounting a counter argument.

Nazis invaded multiple countries, caused a war that killed tens of millions, and systematically tried to wipe out an entire people.

Fuck their ideology, and fuck them.

if something is rated 7/10 I’d assume it’s better than something rated 3.5 stars / 5.

I think I probably would too. And yet, I would tend to instinctively think of 70% as worse than 7/10, even though that makes no sense.

So that Trump can swoop in and “save” it.

Yeah, ours went down this year too. Which was nice.

Indeed 👍

That’s some vivid and disturbing imagery! :-)

So, no difference then?

Meanwhile, Ann Telnaes, the cartoonist at WaPo has resigned, after her cartoon (see link below) satirising all this toadying behaviour was rejected:

https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

I wonder if any of the devices (assuming you still have them) might be a route to identifying where and when they were purchased.

The phone’s IMEI number for example, is unique to that specific device - so in theory there ought to be a way to find out exactly who sold it, where, when and ideally to whom.

Not that this is something for you to do yourself, but it could be a line of enquiry for police or (as I suggested in a previous comment) a lawyer.

If financially feasible, OP, I wonder if it would be worth contacting a lawyer? If nothing else they might be able to advise on next steps and/or pressure the police to do something more than nothing at all.

Based on this and the other message you posted, this person sounds pretty unpleasant, and potentially much worse. I hope this gets sorted soon. Be safe.

How would OP stop them getting the new number if OP doesn’t know who they are?

It could be any of the many people who has her current number and would likely be given it again freely when the number was changed.