I don’t want to eat the skin

It apparently is if you are not allowed to get another Voice number…again, for secret reasons

I had a Google Voice number for well over a decade. One day any text I tried to send returned an error message. Went through the automated process to see why and was told, essentially, that “you did something wrong worthy of suspension but we won’t tell you what it is.” Did the appeal thing a couple of times and got little to no useful response. I also found out that, while Google was stopping me from using my Voice number and giving me error messages, they were still allowing people to text and call me with no error on their end so friends, relatives and companies thought I was a ghosting jerk. Finally, after not being able to use Voice for about 4 months, I got the message that “You haven’t been using your voice number so we are going to reallocate it…yesterday.” 10+ years of texts and voice messages just…gone. Last messages from friends (and my mother) who had died…gone. Picture attachments in those texts…gone. Messages telling me that a friend had died and this is when the service is…never received. That was the beginning of my slowly continuing (and almost done) degoogling. Fuck Google…and companies like google.

My radar detector (Valentine V1 Gen2) literally paid for itself the first time it alerted me of a speed trap ahead. I am guessing it has since saved me 10’s of thousands of dollars.

while right is favouring individual responsibility (meeting your basic needs is your responsibility, and if you die because you can’t, even if it is due to something outside of your control, tough luck).

Unless “you” are a corporation and then a taxpayer-funded bailout is almost sure to arrive.

Sammy The Slug of UC Santa Cruz would like a word with you

I’m guessing you don’t have chickens (who could totally make that mess) but birds of all sizes also dig and kick with their feet and claws in search of seeds or invertebrates.