"Karens" implies middle aged women.

This is not that.

This is a coordinated attack by organized conservative groups in order to drum up publicity and engagement, likely for an election that's coming up in your area. There might be a bond issue for the library that will be on the ballot that they want voted down.

Whatever the issue, they are trying to rile up the conservative base with a red herring about what's available at the library.

Instead of blaming this on unseen women, put the blame where it belongs - on the wider, organized conservative political action groups that are so well funded that they have the time and money to focus on random public libraries throughout the country

It is if you're elderly and downloading all kinds of whacky apps and responding to spam text links and phishing emails and such.

If porn is blocked in their country, how would an elderly person know how to get around that block?

Are you sure he was really watching it? More than likely he clicked on something and it was a virus that loaded it on there.

I doubt your elderly grandpa who doesn't even know how to use his phone knows how to find porn, especially in a country where it's illegal. It's really easy to accidentally download a virus that spams it onto your device if you don't know what you're doing.

Well, I'm actually glad to hear that there are banks or credit unions who will refund the money of their customers who get scammed. I think that's great.

I follow a lot of these scams, and usually the banks are like, "tough luck." So I'm really glad to hear there are some who don't say that.

Hard pass. I don't deal with amateur detectives, gossip hounds and fanbois and girls who think they have either guilt or innocence figured out. Makes me ill. These people forget there are real victims and families out there who don't need to see their loved one casually tossed around like this. The speculation is tiresome. Everyone forgets about the victims.

Thank you for bringing it to my attention that this is obviously a big case. I'll look into the facts of the case elsewhere, however.

Oh. I've never heard of this guy.

What is a "guikter"? Google was no help.

No they won't. I've never heard of a bank that will do that. You lose the money, that's on you

Ooooh, they've got an ebook copy of it! Checked it out and ready for the awfulness! Thanks for the Christmas gift!

OMG. That's so bad. It was written by a ghostwriter, but it's her stupid ideas. She's so unaware of how cringey she is.

That said, I'm on break and I'm 100% going to see if the library has this and I'll do my best to wade through it.

Oh dear god. I gotta go look into this. Brb.

Good lord, someone let her write a book? Is it fiction?

So post that. Primary sources are always more credible.

Ah, fair enough. Thanks.

I think this just came out in the last couple of days, so don't feel like you're out of the loop or anything.

Adobe is becoming like the Amazon of design. They are acquiring everything, and unfortunately, we can't do our jobs with it. They acquired a major SaaS company, and now they're running wild with the subscription model.

Last week was the Adobe MAX conference, and they've now structured it so that all the good sessions are in person, and the virtual sessions I attended were absolute crap.

I've been an Adobe user since Illustrator88, but I feel like they've just jumped the shark at this point.

This just happened recently. Adobe and Pantone decided that if you open a file, no matter how old, that contains a PMS color, it will show as black unless you pay a monthly subscription for it to show. Last I heard, it's like $21/month per color.

It doesn't matter if you're just an individual designer or even a school. This is obviously aimed at major corporations with major brands who will just pay it. But for everyone else, you will just see a black blob.

ADHD is not over diagnosed.

I haven't read the book, and the movie was okay, but it bothers me that the premise of these kinds of stories are based on the debunked notion that we only use "10% of our brains" and that we have some hidden superpower within us.

I know it's supposed to be science fiction, but too many people really believe that. It bugs me.

Lord help me.

I'm not sure I understand your question. Could you frame this a little more clearly? Are you asking why it is a fringe idea? I'm not sure there could be an objective answer to any "idea."

Is this a question about Black Hebrew Israelites? Or, like Sammy Davis Jr?

I'm so sorry. It's not you, it's not your fault. Your mother sounds like a very selfish person, who is blaming her own failure as a mother on you.

Nothing anyone says it's going to make you feel better, but I'm a mom, and I'm giving you a long distance hug in place of your mom. I wish you well. Please know this is not your fault. Please try to look up.

I was neither. I'm definitely not somebody who is like that. I criticized them and was instantly zapped by the bots as being hateful toward them. I guess it didn't recognize that I was criticizing public figures.

I didn't tag them or anything, and there's no appeal process. Just gone.

I also got banned from Twitter for saying unkind things about Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. I kind of thought you could insult public figures, but I guess not. I lost a 14 year old account.

That's truly disturbing.

Lmao. Brock.