I almost entirely agree with you. This should never have gotten to the point it did. If after the first time they said to provide an alternate payment I would say they wouldn’t even necessarily need to give any credit. The manager 100% should have taken over the call after at most an hour. My only issue with this was them knowing this was a problem and then saying to just try again. That’s when fault moved over to the airline. If the person didn’t have the money to pay for a 3rd flight that’s not their fault and the airline should handle that somehow.

Again, if it failed once I would agree. It didn’t though, they told them to try again which then moves at least partial blame back to them. They also have credit which isn’t a direct loss of that amount of money. I’m not saying they needed to to everything they did but if I were in that position I would expect the company that told me to run the payment again to be held responsible for it not working again, at least partially. This could even just have been saying, we’ll book the tickets and when you get the money back charge you again.

That doesn’t change the fact this is clearly a known issue from AA and they continue to let that payment method get used. It’s their fault and on them to resolve because of that. Especially after they said to just try again.

I used to never charge my phone and only charge the batteries. Then just swap them out when they got low. 1 battery charging, 1 in pocket charged, 1 in use in phone. It was very convenient to never have to think about the battery life. Less useful now but I could see some people still wanting that flexibility.

Only the Democrats are under investigation so that should still show all the Republicans, right? (Though any Democrats on the list shouldn’t be protected either)

Today I Learned

A tree root grows into your pipes, nothing you could’ve done to avoid it but now you have to pay to redo all the pipes in your house.

Everyone else is correct that you can scan the helmet and 3d print it but it won’t include the signatures which you seen to want as well.

Just to clarify a few things from other comments. SMS MFA is still leagues above not having MFA for security. It’s not great but it will protect you in like 80% of cases where you would’ve been hacked if you didn’t have MFA at all. The primary problem with services that require any additional data from you though is that is an additional source for a leak. The same thing goes for name, address, phone number, etc. Phone numbers can be added to scam call lists which open you up to additional breach opportunities in the future, SIM swapping attacks, or even just using it as a number to spoof for other attacks. For most accounts that I don’t care about I would be reluctant to give my number as for those sites I value privacy over security, but that’s a separate discussion.

Organic bananas is just 94011

Normally these types of articles use more clinical verbiage

I googled “human thinks he’s dead” and that Wikipedia page was the first result

There are also State taxes that aren’t normally differentiated from when complaining about tax rates even though they go to different places. In some states it’s pretty much the same things.

My favorite windows shortcut is ‘Windows+shift+left/right’ to move an application between monitors. Very helpful for moving games around or snapping without have to use a mouse.

Last name as in quantity. “I have 4 names and this is the last of them”

Minor thing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nürburgring compared to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials

Completely agree and it doesn’t help that it’s an ever moving goalpost. I feel like most people understand that as long as you are acting in good faith it’s all fine.

I think you are the only one to correctly state that one can be true without the other making them not synonymous and I appreciate it.

It’s minor but I probably wouldn’t say supposed to have sounds like they are wrong

Fair point. Depends on how often it’s happening