Looks like Verizon has scammers in their company.
My wife just called Verizon (the number listed on their website) to get a new phone line, and the guy who answered that's supposed to transfer you to the correct department actually transferred her to some random lady who, when answered, just said "hi".
My wife say's "hi" back.
Random lady: "who is this?" (on a sales call, btw).
My wife: "who is this?" (since it sounded suspicious).
Random lady in broken English: "Uhh... oh, this is Tasha with your phone company... what do you need?" (she didn't specify which phone company).
My wife: "I'm calling to get a new line."
Random lady: "Have you been on any trips recently?"
My wife: ??? *hangs up*
Then my wife calls the same Verizon number again from their website, gets on the phone with a different person who saw the record of my wife calling but it doesn't show that she was transferred at all.
So it appears some scammer got a job at Verizon and instead of transferring customers to a different department, he transfers them to his scammer friend.
This is super sketchy. I bet a lot of folks have fallen for this scam, unfortunately. Verizon needs to vet their people better.
You guys should look up how black credit unions were sabotaged and destroyed and how much money was lost. That money didn’t just disappear, it was absorbed into the treasury system.
Most apartment complexes bank on the fact that you won't look past the leasing office. They bet on the knowledge gap hoping you don't know how to find their Registered Agent or the LLC that owns the building.
The reality is, AirMD already confirmed my apartment is a biohazard. I’ve been fighting a systemic UTI (a direct result of living in a contaminated home) and trying to keep this from hitting sepsis which can lead to death in as little as 7-14 hours. I have a spinal cord injury, but my baseline has always been perfect health. I have NEVER gotten a UTI. And having a respiratory crisis paired with a UTI because of a sewage-contaminated home is literally life threatening.
Since they won’t cooperate, I’m going over their heads to the people legally responsible for this mess. If you can relate with having a slumlord, I’m going to show you exactly how to find these "hidden" owners so you can stop talking to a brick wall.
Stop emailing the leasing office when dealing with neglected maintenance and health hazards. You need to move the conversation from customer service to LEGAL liability.
Apparently landlords will use their lawyers to “intimidate” you by sending threatening letters while you’re already displaced and in a medical crisis. They really thought I was gonna be scared 😭
Today I officially served a 30-page evidence vault to the Registered Agent in Austin, Corporate HQ in Phoenix, their Eviction Lawyer in Nashville, and the local San Antonio office. This packet documents every maintenance failure and email they’ve ignored, my ER records, and the doctor’s mandates they willfully overlooked while my home became unlivable.
Each red folder was notarized, stamped as a Formal Legal Notice, and sent via Certified Mail with a Return Receipt. This creates a federal paper trail and a signature that strips away their "we didn't know" defense.
Awwww, you had your lawyer send me a letter? 🥹 I sent her a packet.
The 72-hour clock for a good faith response starts now.
i do not take jealousy lightly and i never will. every jealous person i have encountered has done something with that jealousy. it does not just sit there. it moves. i have had jealous people set me up to get jumped, cost me jobs, and destroy other friendships. jealousy is not a harmless emotion. it is a dangerous one that people with low character act on and call it human nature.
Everyone’s missing the real story here.
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.
7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”
Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.
Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.
This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.
Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.
And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.
The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash really convinced people to use their own cars, run up the mileage, pay for gas and maintenance… while the company takes a big cut.
Your car takes all the wear and tear and they not even liable for it. that’s one of the greatest pimp finesses ever.
They used to burn our neighborhoods, eat us, feed our babies to alligators, rape our kids, and hang us for public entertainment. We remember what was done to Black children, women, and men during slavery; the horrific things white people did on that island aren’t shocking to us.
My brother's god dad fought in vietnam and he said racists used to kill blacks and minorities with friendly fire on purpose. So many deaths were covered up.
do not let the government fool you. they absolutely do owe you functioning systems, they owe you clean water, they owe you access to housing, they owe you opportunities to work, they owe you dignity. that’s within their constitutional mandate, that’s their purpose and their duty.
Despite the headlines, Ilia Malinin is not the first Olympic figure skater to land a backflip. Surya Bonaly reacts to the renewed attention to her backflip in 1998.