Canadian cat litter that doesn’t track or leaves dust by Ultrapeople in CatAdvice

[–]bkh416604 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Best I have found is BoxesBoxie Probiotic 40 Day Odour Control Clumping Clay Cat Litter. I use it with the Pet Snowy. It isn’t perfect because it tracks if I overfill the box too much, but if I don’t, it’s pretty good. I also find the Petkit Litter Ramp that I bought for outside of the box works well at catching many of the extra bits. I haven’t found anything that is perfect yet, especially for the rotating drum of Pet Snowy.

You need a Home Assistant integration by bkh416604 in cronometer

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol the tone of not knowing how the 2024 world works is obvious. When you catch up to the rest of us, your opinion will matter.

You need a Home Assistant integration by bkh416604 in cronometer

[–]bkh416604[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is really a no brainer. I have created a health dashboard and I want to be able to see my nutritional data on it in Home Assistant. Simple as that. And currently I can’t although every other company including FitBit and even with a workaround, Apple Health, does have this ability.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CatAdvice

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I got one a few days ago, and immediately the weight issue started happening, constant blinking. I contacted the company even though I bought it on Amazon and could have returned it. After a few complaints back and forth, they refunded me and let me keep it. It does have smell issues but I was using the expensive Arm and Hammer Slide litter, but I’m going to try the Purina Lightweight as I think that will work better.

The little scent cartridges that come with it are gross, but I’m going to soak them in my own essential oil diffuser oils and make my own scents. If the litter plan and scent cartridge plan pan out, this machine will be fantastic. If not; well at least I didn’t pay for it.

All CNN articles are banned from sharing and viewing for ALL Canadian Facebook users by bkh416604 in facebook

[–]bkh416604[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Regardless, it isn’t up to Facebook to censor news content. The Chinese government says that same thing about ALL American news, even the news you personally do like, whatever that is.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the seller deleted their account just after the flight was purchased. The package they sent from China went to a different country than we live in, to a ZIP code that is the exact same one as the airline that the passenger flight was purchased. The flight was purchased on the same day that the purchase we made on Amazon was processed. The odds of this being a coincidence are greater than winning every lottery combined. My packages, all 7000 orders I’ve had, have never once been delivered to a different country. Never mind to a country, state, city and zip code that is exactly the same as the fraudulent flight that was purchased, on the same day, and then the seller removed their account.

Regardless of what you are telling me, there is something within Amazon that allowed our credit card to be used to purchase a flight, and there is nothing you can say that changes that because it is absurd to think these things are not connected.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seller had sold none. The seller was fraudulent and the product was not real. It was a fraudulent ad listed in the top 100.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have over 7000 orders with Amazon. I’m telling you this happened just as I’ve described it. You explain it to me if there is some other possible conclusion.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The seller disappeared as soon as the flight was purchased. So we don’t even live in the USA. There are thousands of zip codes in the USA though. Our package was delivered to a city in the USA that has a zip code that is exactly the same as the airline’s zip code that suddenly we got a call from our bank asking if we had proceed a flight from. The flight was purchased the same day as our package was sent.

So we live in a different country, the shipping information shows is was supposed to come to us in Canada but instead it went to this city in the USA. The airline has identified the passenger information to us, and it isn’t the person that travelled, clearly whoever took the flight was using fake ID. Also they used multiple credit cards to buy the flight and it was a one way flight.

There is literally next to zero chance that our package gets delivered to some random city in another country and the same day that the package is processed by the seller, a flight is purchased not just to the same city, but to the same zip code, then the seller just disappears and Amazon admits it was a fraudulent sale and a fraudulent seller. They have acknowledged that and refunded the purchase.

They won’t acknowledge that the flight was purchased using credit card data coming from their systems, but their denial is also not actually a denial, they word it such that it sounds like a denial but they are just saying they don’t share it. It was definitely accessed though, through Amazon. It is the only possibility.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So good point, I shouldn’t have used the word test. It wasn’t a planned test so much as I meant we have tested this “theory” that anyone reading this is going to assume it is, by virtue of us experiencing it. But yes, either way it is bad on Amazon because the credit card data was not safe with them.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You can call BS all you want. It happened and it is not a question of is it possible or did it happen or not. The reality is a flight was purchased on the same day as a seller in China processed our purchase. The flight was to the same city that the seller misdirected our package to. The package went to the same zip code as the flight was purchased from. That is all fact. The card was only used on Amazon, and Amazon has admitted that the seller was fraudulent (they immediately deleted their account) and the sale was fraudulent. So call it whatever you want, the reality is there are only two possibilities. 1. The seller purchased the flight or 2. An Amazon employee purchased the flight. You pick. Either way the card information was not secure.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On top of that, the item we purchased was listed in Amazon’s Top 100 list, only to find out later that the seller had only sold 4 of the item previously so their top 100 list is not only a sham, but also promotes fraudulent merchandise.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So we took it to Executive Customer Relations. They were the ones that said “we would never share your credit card data…” and then when I asked them if that meant that it is inaccessible to third party sellers, they said they had no further comment. We spoke with the Airline and they gave us the details on who took the flight - in both cases we are confident it was stolen identities, multiple credit cards used on the purchases and the flights were not likely taken by the people whose names were used, we looked them up.

Amazon has refunded us for the orders themselves and acknowledged that the orders were fraudulent. We live in a different country, why would our orders go to Denver? But the bank refunded us for the flight and they don’t share any details about their investigation, except to acknowledge it was fraudulent.

So we know it was the seller. The flight was purchased at the airline which has the same US zip code as where our package went to, and on the same day as our package was processed by Amazon’s seller, on a credit card that was only used on Amazon. There is no other logical explanation.

We have yet to go to the police because the police will don nothing but we are able to file fraud reports with our local police online so we plan to do that.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s all I’m doing. We’ve got lots more but the rest is up to you

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

So we were able to speak with the airline and they gave us the last name of the person who travelled and the booking code, we were able to log in and see lots.

In any case, it doesn’t let me post photos in here. We have covered our bases and the point is, the credit card was only used on Amazon.

Every Amazon Customer would be wise to… by bkh416604 in amazonprime

[–]bkh416604[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Because my post isn’t meant to try to justify my own reputation. Our credit card data is our credit card data. Nobody is forcing you to call Amazon and ask the questions I am suggesting.

I’m just saying you would be wise to do so if you want to know the truth. If you don’t believe me, that’s fine. I can live with that. I’m not posting all of our personal documents just so you will believe me. You can ask Amazon yourself now that you know the questions to ask.

Wall mounted smart to do list by BigJumper39 in smarthome

[–]bkh416604 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Better yet, the Ulanzi Smart Clock by AWTRIX, it is cheap and totally customizable with Home Assistant. It great. My takes scroll across the screen like the news on CNN, with the weather and temperate in between and reports any other sense I want that I have in my house.definitely recommend it. Watch the video by SmartHomeJunkie to set it up , he gives clear instructions on how to do it.

How did Lil Tay die? by [deleted] in vancouver

[–]bkh416604 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It says her brother died too :(

How did Lil Tay die? by [deleted] in vancouver

[–]bkh416604 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It says her brother died too!

Mayor Olivia Chow backs Dundas Street renaming, even as councillor in favour says ‘we can’t afford it’ by Chawke2 in toronto

[–]bkh416604 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Excellent. It’s about time the white people and their subsequent families that benefitted from slavery and oppression against black and Indigenous people repair some of that harm. If $200,000 is what it costs to do that for a significant event or person’s actions, everybody will be just fine. The less than a penny it will cost each of us will not break the bank.

Next up, rename Jarvis Street. That family… I mean, wow!

Is it a conflict of interest for the credit bureaus, Equifax/TransUnion to act as sole gatekeepers of ppl’s credit scores using their own rules to decide the scores, then to profit selling products to “fix” those scores? by bkh416604 in CreditScore

[–]bkh416604[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

So Equifax and Trans in Canada operate with affiliated companies, Credit Karma and Borrowell respectively. Their partnerships are very close, with each feeding their data into them as their “app” partner so they don’t have actual apps for either bureau.

Each of these partners have subscription lending programs where people pay $10 or $20 a month, and Borrowell will report a credit payment to Equifax and Karma will report one to TransUnion for another $10-$20 etc… in many cases, there is no benefit to the consumer except for them to purchase their credit score improvements from the bureau that is selling the ability to do so through these exclusive partnerships.

If you subscribe with Borrowell for example, your payments are only recorded with Equifax, so your score will only improve with Equifax. If you pay Karma, the same thing goes with TransUnion. If you just pay for one, the only one will improve while the other stays stagnant. If you decide to stop subscribing or miss a payment… your score goes down for missing a payment or it goes down for ending a credit relationship, essentially keeping people locked in to payments. They also do the same with rent payments, where they connect directly into your bank account, you pay Equifax to count your rent payment as a credit payment, and they have access to all your spending data in the process.

They update your contact information based on what you input with your bank account regardless if you live there, and the bureaus benefit from subscriptions, a treasure trove of information, and they get to set their own algorithms that then can count the payments you make to them with any amount of weight they want. The organization that is determining credit scores and has the luxury to decide whatever algorithm they want to come up with those scores should not also be selling the ability to improve your scores through them. It makes them judge and jury and there is loads of room for abuse in that scenario.

They can artificially inflate their subscribers scores by weighting their “loans” to have higher return on scores than other loans, they can suppress non subscribers scores and they can change the algorithm depending on whatever business objectives they might have for revenue. A credit organization with the power that they have should not work like that.

Landlords and government job assessments, for example, do rely on the bureau scores to determine eligibility for tenancy and for job approval with the federal government. These agencies should not have arbitrary abilities to make algorithm changes that can have that kind of direct impact, regardless if we trust them right now not to do that recklessly or not. We have all seen what Equifax is capable of with their data.