10 years of scam adverts. I have the misfortune to be in 44% of them according to the police. I've sued. I've lobbied. I've cried at hideous cases of vulnerable people losing everything. Why has nothing been done. Please watch...
I'm finally reading Dune. This quote, which is in the first few pages, hits hard:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
THEY ARE BASTARDS!
We just got an email sent to MSE. The spelling was awful, and it was quite tough to understand. Lower down, the writer later explained she was 78 and her disability had stopped her being able to spell. So perhaps it is a stroke, or something similar.
I've tidied it and summarised below, changing some identifying details. In a nutshell, it was this...
"I invested, Martin, with Quotum when you first announced it on TV. What an opportunity for me to buy my own flat. My manager there passed me through to a nice man who asked me for ยฃ350 more. He showed me it was growing. I did what he told me to do."
She then goes on to explain how she really wanted her flat and she gave more and more money. And she has nothing left to help with her disability.
I'm honestly in tears typing this. These types of scam ads have now been going on for a decade. I have spent my career trying to help people with their finances. It feels visceral to get this, and to feel that this reputation has been perverted by criminals to steal from someone who is clearly so vulnerable leaves me feeling nauseous.
So many people, both vulnerable and not, lose money and see their lives and wellbeing destroyed. It's now seven years since I sued Facebook. And yet still nothing is being done.
Big tech makes ยฃ3bn a year from these scammers. We have a law in place to make them responsible for these ads they're paid to publish, yet it isn't implemented. How many more of these do I have to receive - and far worse, how many more people have to go through this?
This is relentless. It is wrong. Government has to take action! I wrote to the PM just two weeks ago on this very issue. I've not heard back yet.
(We are, of course, going to try and point her in the right direction to get help, but that will be stressful for her too)
The Israeli Occupation Forces took 10 small tins of baby formula from a doctor going into Gaza 2 days ago while they unashamedly bomb the population, but comments at Glastonbury is called terrorism.
This is where we are.
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95% of people already live better than the richest people in all of human history. And yet we still think that an age of AI abundance (aka more & better) is somehow going to be "different this time".
We suffer because of how we think about reality, not reality.
When Diana described Charles as a selfish father who never really put first the kids needs, he started sending them his program of the day and how he couldn't meet them. They were young. He had the time to tour country houses with Camilla though. Everything Diana said was true.
It's amazing how HRH Prince Harry was able to outmanoeuvre the royal institution.
They removed his security.
He launched a procedure to understand why.
He could have begged his father to intervene. But he didn't.
Now he has the names and his interview to BBC is a a master stroke.