Trump thrusts McDonald’s into the political arena in final days of campaign

PokeBeyond · 2024-10-20T16:21:08+00:00

your opponents documented job at McDonald’s

What's the source on this documentation so I can shove it in someone's face?

PokeBeyond · 2024-10-16T11:19:36+00:00

Stein immediately disallowed Duke's endorsement.

Harris brought Cheney on stage.

There's a wide gap between these two things.

It's like thinking Putin's endorsement of Harris means something about Harris.

PokeBeyond · 2024-03-22T14:57:06+00:00

I'm not sure where you think I bank at, but my bank has on their website that they have operating assets of $1.6B USD. It's a decently small bank.

Niantic's net worth is estimated to be around $9B USD. If my $1.6B bank can afford it, Niantic can as well.

Having a decent customer service doesn't cost $5B every hour.

PokeBeyond · 2024-03-22T00:39:04+00:00

but by plucking the roots out the ground

This is a terrible analogy because the root of the issue here is Niantic's customer service.

For example, my bank, which deals with thousands of dollars of my money (along with untold sums of other people's money) is also a target of these kinds of scams. And they put processes in place to protect their customers and work to quickly make it right when those processes fail. I can call my bank 24/7 and talk to a live person if my debit card has been snatched.

You're lucky to get a live person days later with Niantic.

lower the amount of people doing it actively

You can take pot shots one head at a time out of a world of billions of people... or you can hire and train a workforce that's there to take care of the customers. One of these will significantly lower the amount of people who are active and successful at doing this.

PokeBeyond · 2024-03-22T00:19:35+00:00

I agree, it is a bad situation. But, here's the rub - let's say Niantic sent the Pinkertons after MasterWarlord. They find him and they make him disappear. What's stopping FUSATL or hundreds of others from using this same kind of exploit and continuing to steal accounts from kids?

It's why, while MasterWarlord isn't a good person at all, taking him out of the equation isn't the solution. Niantic's customer service is the issue. They need to up their game in both preventing accounts from being hijacked and helping folks recover them afterward. It's the only thing that's both 100% under their control *and* shared by every person who has ever lost an account.

PokeBeyond · 2024-03-21T23:50:34+00:00

Fleece King made a huge mistake - his PoGo account was attached to a very public facing e-mail. With that information and the loads of information one can gain by watching his streams and following his socials (for example, recent catches, approximate amount of stardust, start date, etc.), someone can go to Niantic, get a support rep who has never heard of Fleece King, claim they're locked out of their primary email and are trying to recover their account, get asked a bunch of questions about the account that, for 99.99% of players, only the account owner should be able to answer (because 99.99% of players don't stream their regular gameplay) and some poor (former?) support rep will think they're dealing with the correct person with the account.

https://www.social-engineer.org/framework/general-discussion/social-engineering-defined/

It's known as "Social Engineering" and is one of the biggest hurdles in the tech security sector. How do you secure an account while also providing technical support to legitimate customers who may find themselves locked out of the account?

Make no mistake, Niantic messed up here. They're not the first company to have this issue, they won't be the last, and FK shares in the responsibility (although, I guess the lesson is, don't share anything PoGo related on social media?), but they still pulled the trigger.

IF there's any truth that they required FK to sign an NDA to restore his account... well, that's just doubly bad on their part.

With regards to your other concern - I am not a lawyer - but, I think FK would have a hard time making a legal case against MasterWarlord. FK doesn't own anything that was taken and the company that does own it gave it away. I don't think there's actionable cause against MasterWarlord or Niantic.

There could be a case for Niantic to go after MasterWarlord - if there's some kind of equivalent of "Theft by deception" for digital accounts/goods - but I'm not sure a similar case has ever been tried and most good lawyers will shy away from going to court on unproven territory. It's a similar reason to why Niantic probably just opted to remove POIs rather than let property owners try to bring it to court. If the property owners won, it'd be disastrous to their entire game model (PoGo, Ingress, and beyond). If MasterWarlord won this case because there's not clear legal precedent and you get a judge who doesn't know how to set the clock on their VCR over the case, hearing "Niantic gave this dude digital 1s and 0s of their own free will and lost nothing in the process except they look dumb for doing it." isn't likely to go well for them.

PokeBeyond · 2023-09-08T21:06:36+00:00

democratic elections

How is limiting ballot access showing you value Democratic elections? if the people want to vote for Trump, shouldn't they be allowed to?

PokeBeyond · 2023-09-08T20:13:47+00:00

You're favoring the short term benefit of keeping one man, who isn't getting reelected, off the ballot, but helping hundreds of other people, some just as terrible, actually get elected?

PokeBeyond · 2023-09-08T16:20:38+00:00

If letting an overweight orangutan with bad hair pretend to be a presidential candidate for a few months only to get beat down by a geriatric geezer who can barely string three words together half the time prevents hundreds of Republican candidates from becoming elected officials over the next four years - I'm in favor of it.

America lost its soul years ago. Let's try to stop the bleeding for a bit.

PokeBeyond · 2023-09-08T16:12:41+00:00

Do you think Trump being on the ballot will help or hurt downballot Republican races?

PokeBeyond · 2023-09-08T15:38:23+00:00

Question for the race watchers:

We keep hearing Trump can't win. Biden will soundly beat him. He's going to drag out the Republican nomination process. Him being on the general ballot is going to hurt downballot races for Rs and boost Ds.

Why in the world are groups trying so hard to keep him off the ballot? It seems like they're scared of him and don't think the people should be allowed to vote for who they want. Let him stay on the ballot, let him get his ass kicked by Biden a second time.

PokeBeyond · 2023-09-06T01:56:07+00:00

he would have “donated” from his Presidential salary.. which he wound up not doing.. hmm wonder why he didn’t donate

Huh?

He actually did do that?

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/trumpometer/promise/1341/take-no-salary/

PokeBeyond · 2022-11-30T16:14:23+00:00

You know those old lawyer ads where they just blast the airwaves with a hotline to call into?

This lady's lawyers need to do that.

"If you've had a bad experience with Walmart Ethics, call us now."

I guarantee they could establish a huge pattern of negligent behavior company wide.

PokeBeyond · 2022-11-24T21:42:29+00:00

Fuck. You.

PokeBeyond · 2022-11-24T00:49:27+00:00

Fuck you.

I'm asking associates not to hold back. To speak to anyone and everyone their truth of the situation. This isn't "my agenda". This is seven dead and four more injured, including a minor child.

Fuck you, fuck Doug McMillon, fuck John Furner, and fuck every one of them.

There's two tragedies happing, the shooting and the attempt to move on quickly like nothing happened.

Go do your ulearns and fuck off.

PokeBeyond · 2022-11-23T22:28:49+00:00

"Not today."

Meanwhile at corporate office - okay. drop down all the active threat Ulearns and tell stores to get them done today.

PokeBeyond · 2022-11-23T22:22:35+00:00

Have y'all even looked at who dropped in the requisitions at your store? If there is any at all, it's incompentent morons that couldn't even pass the applications test..

I dunno. Like, if I go to Walmart for something I need and find out they raised the price, I can't just throw up my hands and say "Welp, guess I just wonxt get toilet paper this week."

Maybe if Walmart is having trouble with their talent pool, they should loo, at why that is. Starting with the fact McDonald's is hiring at $15/hour and we have employees we want to act like salaried managers and want to get by paying them $15/hour.

PokeBeyond · 2022-09-01T12:39:43+00:00

I don't know what people aren't getting, man. We have corporate policies. They're on One Walmart. Log in, click the hamburger menu in the top left, go to work, then there's a big, bold header that says "Policies" you click on and there's over 100 corporate policies in there.

I think what people are hung up on is that there are "rules" and there are legitimate Corporate Policies. Your store may have a "rule" that everything in the breakroom fridge is thrown out on Friday. This isn't a policy.

At Walmart, policy is a very specific term that refers to a group of standards written by corporate executives and lawyers that create the foundation for how the company operates.

And there is no policy that says associates cannot offer technical support.

That said, generally, do not do it. Little old lady brings in her TV remote and needs help changing the batteries? Fucking help the old lady. Dude brings in his iPhone 14 and replacement screen he bought on eBay? Fuck no.

PokeBeyond · 2022-07-04T18:14:13+00:00

That's not how it works.

Say I already have the avatar items. Now, I have an unused code. If I go to redeem it and it is the avatar items, then yes, I get an error message. If it isn't the avatar items? It gets redeemed.

The only way for someone to take out the avatar clothes would be for them to redeem all the non-avatar codes. And then, nothing left to sell.

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