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Tried to tip a tumblr blog at 1am and it was such a suspicious transaction it immediately put a full fraud freeze on my account

Fortunately, banks no longer just ask 'did you make that transaction' they want to make sure you weren't scammed into making that transaction and 5mins after their call will give away all your money anyway.

This is an honest to goodness life saving movement and I cannot be happier banks are adopting it

Unfortunately, it meant I had to have the most embarrassing financial call of my life

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Me: Ah yeah I was just trying to tip a tumblr blog

Cash: right and were you directed there by a Facebook link? An Instagram advert?

Me: no I was just on tumblr...on purpose

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Caah: and this person asked you for money?

Me: oh no they just had a funny story, which happened to be about money and I thought, "wouldn't it be funny if I tipped them"

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Me: * covering a reblog by reblog update on the adventures my mutual was having *

Cash: okay I don't think that can actually happen though..

Me: It might not have, but i was happy to tip them just because it was funny

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Cash: and how well do you think you know this person?

Me: *considers explaining how much I know about a beloved mutual without ever knowing their name or face* ... I have no idea who this person is

I think in the end Cash decided there was no saving me from myself

dungeon-moss

410757864530deadcops

My current job is one step removed from this and yeah for normal people amounts of money we don't give a fuck beyond making sure you didn't get scammed, as long as you were polite then that person probably already forgot. I've run into both weirder and more mundane reasons we had to ask why a transaction happened, ain't no thing.

godkissedme

I’m not avoiding my destiny I just had to lie down

shingekicornwrites

Part of my process is admittedly reading a lot of trash between working on chapters. I go and seek out popcorn material. I crawl through webtoon for low grade villainess isekai and reincarnation dramas and read maybe 20 chapters before getting bored. I find shit tier manga and read every chapter. Every anime season I find the most mid show in the lineup and eye it for a rainy day.

This part of the process is so important though because I walk away thinking hard about how I would Make It Good and that's the secret sauce for really stretching the brain muscles

jukashi

ooooohh sorry buddy but examining our position is basically like questioning our position, which is basically like casting doubt on our position, so that marks you as The Enemy. and if I talk to or listen to you for longer than the space of like three posts then I'll also be marked as The Enemy, so...

tell you what, just do some groundwork to establish yourself as supporting our position, first, so we can trust you. all you need to do is publish three books spend five years as a political prisoner forswear all aspects of your identity that could ever be at all associated with The Enemy by anyone ever and get a really cool visible but not too ugly scar (mental is ok!), then maybe only like 80% of us will take everything you say in the worst possible faith, and to maintain that you'll just need to never do anything wrong according to the rules we won't tell you because having to ask means you're Not One Of Us which means you're The Enemy.

viralfrog

noknowshame

I know we’re all like lawless nonconformists but you really can’t be texting and driving. that’s one of the ones you’ve gotta listen to for real

inner-muse

Not even at stoplights!!! I know it’s so so tempting to just glance at your phone when you’re stopped, but there’s actually something called “distraction hangover” where even once you put your phone down, your brain is still processing the interaction and isn’t fully paying attention to the road for up to 30 seconds afterwards. So it’s still really dangerous even if you’re stopped when you look at your phone. If you need to check something on your phone, pull over.

theperksofbeingahugefuckingcunt

this especially applies to people with adhd. you know that symptom you may have heard of called “difficulty transitioning between tasks”? you don’t want piloting a ton or two of potential death to be the task you can’t mentally switch back to.

captain-acab

Interesting! I hadn't heard of the "distraction hangover" before, turns out because it's pretty recent research!

veryextraincorrectfegbaquotes

cookiethebirddoll

this post is ruining my life. i keep saying that im doing things “dustly” and that things were “mad of dust”

depsidase

vermilllionsands

Scott Gustafon

voyagers-stone

btw if youre young and scared of doing adult things without your parents ive learned that like 90% of the time you can just tell the doctors office or the dmv "haha sorry ive never done this without help before... can you show me how to do this?" the employee will not care. if that means anything to you

liopleurodean

literally walked up to a desk in the courthouse, said "is this where I register a car or is it the next one?" and she said it was the next one. and the lady at the next desk helped me. it feels embarrassing but I promise you can just ask

aspiringwarriorlibrarian

One of the most important lessons I learned in customer service is that no matter how much help you need, as long as you're nice about it, you won't even crack the top five of worst customers they've had to deal with that day. I will walk an old lady through every step on that pin pad with a smile as long as she's polite, because two calls ago I had to deal with someone screaming about politics for 45 fucking minutes because I wasn't allowed to hang up on him.

Everyone has their first time doing something, everyone makes mistakes, everyone has dumb moments, and as long as you're choosing kindness I'll just laugh it off and help out. Because no matter how dumb you think you are, there was already someone who was just as dumb but was determined to ruin my day over it.

sometiktoksarevalid

acerby

Shit I would do if I was a Stand user

leatherandmossprints

‘Street in Algeria’ (detail) by Frederick Arthur Bridgman, c. 1882.

jonbutter

hbmmaster

for those who don't watch game changer the context of this is that vic, as part of their attempt to do a challenge on this game show, decided to steal from sam's home, which resulted in them losing points

coffeeblend108-deactivated20251

I dont think I get whats happening, what did vic do?

hbmmaster

so basically what happened was they're on a game show and sam gave them a challenge and what vic did as part of their attempt to complete that challenge was they robbed sam's home, but instead of this getting them points they had a point deducted from their score because sam did not think vic robbing his home was good

nobodywasneverhere

wait so why did vic's points get deducted?

hbmmaster

because they robbed sam's house which sam decided was not in line with what he wanted the contestants to do with this challenge

youngmysticcy

On the one hand, part of me is like "well yeah, obviously he's not going to be happy about you robbing his house"

On the other hand, I've seen enough clips of Game Changer and seen the kind of psychological torture Sam inflicts on his contestants and can't help but think this was just kinda fair play?

hbmmaster

yeah that's what vic thought too which is why they robbed sam's home. didn't work out though because they lost a point for it

advanced-passenger-train

tsunflowers

this book I’m reading on female evolution for some reason uses bill and hillary clinton as examples of the typical differences between male and female vocal structures and the author is like “imagine if bill clinton had a throat sac like an ape which caused his voice to resonate” don’t say that? I don’t want to imagine that?

tsunflowers

billiam clinton saying his famous line “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” in a booming voice that can be heard up to two miles away and everyone starts hooting like monkeys and banging their fists on their chests