Shit that annoys you

[BmillsSkier]

Does anyone physically read it when you text back STOP. I've taken to adding "go fuck yourself" and other similar messages when I reply to ads asking for money for Kamala and if I don't send money it's my personal fault if she loses. I would hate to think that only a bot sees my invective because bots can't feel. Yet.

Don’t ever reply STOP or otherwise. Guy on the local news here said all you’re doing is confirming to the spammer that your number is “live” and that helps them sell it to other marketers and spammers.

[riser4]

This is really interesting - I basically receive NO unsolicited calls/txts for political nonsense.

Same. I get a metric fuck ton of email but because I don't give out my phone number to candidates, parties, etc, they don't call it. VT is also very much not considered a swing state.

[toast2266]

I think you also live in a non-swing state like myself as well as Old Goat - Just imagine how many the swing state people are getting?
BMills and others in swing states- what have your text volumes been like?

Yeah, I'm in Montana, so definitely not a swing state. We do have a heated Senate battle though, so plenty of kerfuffle about that. I've also received a surprising number of texts about random down ballot elections - mostly for/against various judges.

But yeah, I can only imagine the swing states.

[yeahman]

I block every single number that spams me and it seems to have lessened the amount over time.

[skaredshtles]

Same. I get a metric fuck ton of email but because I don't give out my phone number to candidates, parties, etc, they don't call it. VT is also very much not considered a swing state.

Interesting... I don't get any political email either.

But I don't check my Gmail "Spam" folder either.

[BmillsSkier]

BMills and others in swing states- what have your text volumes been like?

Like this, no joke:

The joys of living in a swing state.

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Thank God election day is here.

I counted last night at dinner with my wife, between us we received 55 political text messages yesterday and 4 robocalls. We block each sending number but it just doesn’t stop. Extra fun is the fact our phone numbers are from a different state so we get all those political issue callers too. You should see the amount of print mail we get on a daily basis too.

“Oh, see here, now THIS is the piece of [red/blue] junk mail that has convinced me to change my vote. Don’t know what I would have done before this hit my mailbox”

Fuck these people.

[Buzzworthy]

This is really interesting - I basically receive NO unsolicited calls/txts for political nonsense.

Silence Unknown Callers is possibly the best phone feature ever.

[skaredshtles]

Silence Unknown Callers is possibly the best phone feature ever.

I've never heard of this feature... but it sounds like an awesome one.

I checked my Spam folder - no political emails in there for the last week.

I wonder why I don't get anything.

[Buzzworthy]

If you run an iPhone, it’s under Phone settings. It’s a lifesaver.

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[Buzzworthy]

But you also get that garbage lol. Damn app incompatibility with the new iOS

[MultiVerse]

The joys of living in a swing state.

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Thank God election day is here.

“And every four years, we will have suburban women in Pennsylvania decide on a new president”

“Just Pennsylvania, sir?”

“And Wisconsin and Michigan. Sometimes Georgia, for entertainment”

“No one else can vote, sir?”

“They can vote but it won’t matter”

[yeahman]

I wonder why I don't get anything.

Don't worry about it. You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you.

[rideit]

“I was today years old when I found out that xxxxx….”

So annoying. Cute the first time I heard it, but now…,

[BmillsSkier]

“And every four years, we will have suburban women in Pennsylvania decide on a new president”

“Just Pennsylvania, sir?”

“And Wisconsin and Michigan. Sometimes Georgia, for entertainment”

“No one else can vote, sir?”

“They can vote but it won’t matter”

Those skits really are good. Very timely indeed!

[skaredshtles]

Don't worry about it. You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you.

I chukkled.

[old goat]

I think you also live in a non-swing state like myself as well as Old Goat - Just imagine how many the swing state people are getting?
BMills and others in swing states- what have your text volumes been like?

I'm in California. They want money, they don't care from where. Blocking does no good because they keep using new numbers. I only get texts, not calls or emails--but I don't check my spam folder. As far as not replying stop, maybe it helps a little maybe it just tells them it's a live number but I doubt they care, easier to just send out texts than to try to curate their phone lists.

[406]

You guys all on iphones or something? My google phone filters all the political texts to spam, never had to do anything. But did check the spam folder the other day and seems I'm on the trump list, which is funny, looking at the day it started, I'm not sure how they got my number.

[Danno]

“And every four years, we will have suburban women in Pennsylvania decide on a new president”

“Just Pennsylvania, sir?”

“And Wisconsin and Michigan. Sometimes Georgia, for entertainment”

“No one else can vote, sir?”

“They can vote but it won’t matter”

well played

[yeahman]

You guys all on iphones or something? My google phone filters all the political texts to spam, never had to do anything. But did check the spam folder the other day and seems I'm on the trump list, which is funny, looking at the day it started, I'm not sure how they got my number.

Oddly my old Samsung phone used to filter all the spam texts into a separate folder I never had to look at, but my new one does not seem to have the same capability.

[anotherVTskibum]

Holy crap. I just looked at my Google voice spam folder. It's not a huge volume, but it's more than enough that I'd have been looking for a neck to wring.

[anotherVTskibum]

Also, the reason I came into the thread before I got distracted:

All-season tires on a rental van, particularly one coming out of Denver, annoy me. My van has better tires than the other one we rented, but driving between Frisco and Loveland on mixed conditions would be a whole lot less terrifying with proper snow tires.

[Name Redacted]

I really wish they'd require snow tires on all rental cars in Colorado. Would be tough to implement but sure would cut down on accidents.

[dcpnz]

No reason it can’t be done except apathy.
Rental car companies seem to manage it in Europe. When I was looking last year every car out of Munich had winter tires, out of Milan it was a readily available option.
Not gonna happen here though - high proportion of “locals” don’t even run suitable tires so no way rental companies will until CDOT implement and enforce passenger vehicle tire restrictions.

[The AD]

I was out for a walk in my neighborhood last night. To me it seems like common courtesy to say "hi" to people you pass going the other way, but there were a couple people who neither replied nor even acknowledged I existed as far as I could tell. That just seems weird to me.

[Buzzworthy]

I was out for a walk in my neighborhood last night. To me it seems like common courtesy to say "hi" to people you pass going the other way, but there were a couple people who neither replied nor even acknowledged I existed as far as I could tell. That just seems weird to me.

This is Utah right here. I don’t get it either. They literally look at me funny for saying hello to them.