TessaRekt

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[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If you can talk your way out of it in person the account isn't frozen, at most it is flagged as potential fraud. Most bank fraud departments have first line fraud detection analysts in a call center where if the system detects fraud that department are the only ones who can remove the account freeze and if they get even a whiff of suspicion from a "customer" calling in to get the freeze removed it gets pushed up the line to specialists whose whole job is to do deep investigations into accounts to catch potential fraudsters. The first line might have you get in person to a branch for ID verification but the fraud department are usually still the ones who have to manually remove the freeze once it hits the work queue.

Putting an account negative like that on purpose is an easy ticket to the bank being audited. Hell doing it on accident would probably get the bank audited.

Source: worked as a fraud detection analyst for a major bank

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Actually, like most sitcoms of that era, it was filmed in front of a live studio audience, it's not a canned laugh track. The reason it lasts just long enough to overlap audio is because the actors wait for the laughter to die down before continuing. The whole point of the laughter isn't to make it funnier to the viewer, it's so the actors can see how the jokes land and tweak their performance, it's constant feedback. It's done for the same reason comedy has an audience even when it is a filmed special.

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is like the backbone of a lot of hip-hop and EDM. It's been a major thing for a while. You are probably just noticing the the full range of songs that do it because they are current, over time the bad and average ones will be weeded out and fall from memory and the good transcendent ones will be remembered just in time for you to notice it with a new decade of music.

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's less an advantage and more a necessity. You either become the person who knows people who can do things or certain things don't get done.

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago

It's also worth pointing out it's not a mental disorder, it's a developmental disorder, it just tends to also have co-current mental disorders. People with autism are not automatically mentally ill (not that there is anything wrong with that).

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

The first issue of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure came out in 1987, it's a series older than this woman is.

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Because something about them triggers the shrinking pokemon can do, and if a pokemon doesn't want to get in the ball it just doesn't get caught

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Said game also includes a mechanic where you can get big versions of the pokemon and there is gigantimax in sword and shield where they become kaiju sized

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Well since pokemon legends arceus tells us that the shrinking to go in the pokeball is done by the pokemon and not some technoscience in the ball, they could just change size and get out

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm sitting on like 900 million gold playing the game casually so no not really

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I mean in real life people thought mummies smelled good enough to want to eat them and make perfume out of them so

[–] TessaRekt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 5 months ago (19 children)

The DC to convince the hangman is 5, the DC to convince the head guy is 20. DC stands for Difficulty Check and it is the number you have to pass or meet on your roll + bonuses.

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