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<div>In fact, the cause of diabetes seems too [https://healthadviserpro.com/blood-balance-formula-review/ Blood Balance Formula] good to be true because it does not involve any drugs at all. But let's digress a moment. In simple terms, diabetes is a condition in which a higher than normal level of sugar exists in the blood stream. The effect of this is that body organs, like the liver, can be damaged, and the outward, visible sign is weight-gain, which all too often leads to obesity. Following years of arduous research for the causes of disease,<br />
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Dr. Young states that "acidosis" is the culprit. Acidosis is when high levels of acidic substances exist in the blood. The source of this excess acid is found in the foods we eat. Many scientists agree that the human body is meant to be alkaline-the opposite of acidic-in nature. And Dr. Young claims that these excess acids are flooding the pancreas-the organ that manufactures insulin-preventing the beta cells from producing enough insulin, which converts sugar and other carbohydrates into glucose, which the body needs. What it all comes down to is changing one's eating habits and getting moderate exercise.<br />
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Oh no, you say-not another diet that fails to live up to its promise! Life is filled with choices-you may chose to fight this vicious disease-diabetes, or you can simply take the "Lemming" approach. Lemming suicide is a frequently used metaphor in reference to people who go along unquestioningly with popular opinion, with potentially dangerous or fatal consequences...falling to one's death is called doing the lemming thing. (Wikipedia)<br />
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2245<br />
| date = December 23, 2019<br />
| title = Edible Arrangements<br />
| image = edible_arrangements.png<br />
| titletext = Any arrangement is an edible arrangement if you're hungry enough.<br />
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{{w|Edible Arrangements}} is a company that sells fruit, and other edible items that have been cut and arranged to look like flower bouquets. They can be ordered and sent to a given recipient for a variety of purposes. Flower arrangements are typically not eaten.{{Citation needed}} <br />
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In the first panel, [[Cueball]] seems to find the concept incongruous, and wonders how it came about. [[Megan]] points out the easy answer: picking out a gift for someone (i.e. for Christmas, which this comic was released two days before) can be difficult, but a tasteful meal is always welcome so long as it's something the recipient can eat safely, and the visual appearance of an edible arrangement offers further appeal.<br />
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Shortly afterwards, Megan uses the same incongruity of eating a floral arrangement to make puns. '''Vore of the Roses''' is a play on the '''War of the Roses''', either the {{w|Wars of the Roses|English civil war}} or the 1989 [[imdb:tt0098621|movie]] of the same name. Vore is most likely referring to {{w|Vorarephilia}}, an erotic desire to be eaten by, or to eat, another person, which is often called vore in slang, or simply to being voracious. This indicates that the items in the arrangement have a strong desire to be eaten.<br />
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Cueball is disturbed by the thought (or perhaps disturbed that Megan would anthropomorphize her food so) and says he will cancel the edible arrangement that he had bought for Megan. She tries to convince him otherwise by providing alternate puns, which are evidently not any more to his liking. Mouth Blossoms, Juicy Bouquet, and Oral Floral are all combinations referencing the eating of a floral arrangement.<br />
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The title text also makes reference to the fact that many flowers that are often found in floral arrangements, such as roses, violets, tulips, daisies, lavender and many more, are items that a human can eat. Such flowers are safe to consume, but usually unappetizing; Randall makes the point that if a person is sufficiently hungry (and thus doesn't care how appetizing their meal is), any floral arrangement can be eaten in the same was as an edible arrangements.<br />
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:[Cueball and Megan are sitting on opposite sides of a leafless tree. They are silhouetted.]<br />
:Cueball: I don't get how Edible Arrangements is a thing.<br />
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:[Zoomed in on Cueball and Megan leaning against the tree]<br />
:Megan: That's easy &mdash; picking out presents is hard and fruit is delicious.<br />
:Cueball: Yeah, true.<br />
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:Megan: But my question is, why did they call it "Edible Arrangements" and not "Vore of the Roses"?<br />
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:[Pan to just Megan. Megan turns to face Cueball]<br />
:Cueball: Just for that, I'm going to cancel the one I got you.<br />
:Megan: Nooo! I want my Mouth Blossoms! <br />
:Megan: My Juicy Bouquet! My Oral Floral! <br />
:Megan: Hey, come back!<br />
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I'm not quite sure I understand the comic. And no, the irony of saying that on a wiki dedicated to explaining them is not lost on me. Do the maps show which word/phrase is more common in google in each state by comparing only the options to each other or where they actually the top searched words/phrases at some point in time?[[Special:Contributions/162.158.92.34|162.158.92.34]] 10:28, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:Pretty sure they're all top searched words/phrases in some states at some point in the past. It's just that Randall has merged maps from different time periods. For example in the first map, "heat stroke" and "frostbite" are two real results, but the former is likely a result that appeared in summer, while the latter is likely one that appeared in winter. By merging the two maps you get a map that doesn't make sense, as it looks like they were the top searches in the same time period while in reality they weren't. [[User:Herobrine|Herobrine]] ([[User talk:Herobrine|talk]]) 11:04, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
::I think that Randall is just clarifying that each map may be showing trends for a different time range (otherwise people might try to compare the maps to each other, which isn't the point of the comic). I don't think he's saying that the individual results in each map are from different time ranges. [[User:Hawthorn|Hawthorn]] ([[User talk:Hawthorn|talk]]) 11:30, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
:::Yeah, if the results were from different time periods, you could pretty much manipulate them however you want. It would make it much less interesting. Not that statistician don't already manipulate data in any way possible...[[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 16:51, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
From what it looks like, these are year-long averages. [[User:Netherin5|Netherin5]] ([[User talk:Netherin5|talk]]) 12:17, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Here is an example for the Google Trends on the first example. [https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&geo=US&q=frostbite,heat%20stroke] It looks like he picked last 5 years for that one. There should be a table with links to all of them. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.59.142|162.158.59.142]] 17:48, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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For those that find the actual image to be mysteriously missing, that's because the image source URL is https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/images/a/ad/google_trends_maps.png , and some ad blockers will silently block it because it looks like a path to advertising images. So maybe turn off your adblocker on this site? [[Special:Contributions/172.69.170.64|172.69.170.64]] 22:37, 20 March 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Is it just me, or does the sexting graph look like the midwest is "giving it" to the southeast, with Arkansas and Tennessee playing the naughty bits? I wonder if Randall did this intentionally or if I'm just a perv. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.108|162.158.186.108]] 01:37, 21 March 2019 (UTC)</div>162.158.186.108https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2101:_Technical_Analysis&diff=168444Talk:2101: Technical Analysis2019-01-21T14:09:10Z<p>162.158.186.108: </p>
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The Tobin citation comes from James Tobin's Fred Hirsch Memorial Lecture "On the Efficiency of the Financial System" in 1984 [https://economicsociologydotorg.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/tobin-on-the-efficiency-of-the-financial-system.pdf].<br />
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The explanation says “allego” and “prologue“ are “musical terms such as may be used in the introduction of a performed piece”. That may be true of “prologue” but “allegro”, according to Wikipedia, is “a tempo marking indicate to play fast, quickly and bright”. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 11:40, 21 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
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:And, derived from this, a movement of a piece that is performed quickly may be referred to as an allegro. It can also be used to refer to an entire piece, such as this piece by Mozart: [https://www.pianostreet.com/mozart-sheet-music/allegro-k-1-f-major.htm] [[User:Kazzie|Kazzie]] ([[User talk:Kazzie|talk]]) 12:00, 21 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
::But based on the placement of the allego and the way it is written it is most likely a tempo. Tempo goes just above the music and in this case it is the only word on the page that is italicized. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.108|162.158.186.108]] 14:09, 21 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
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How would this compare with “candlestick patterns” - the bathtub one looks like a funny name for a pattern *meant* to signal that prices could rise https://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/06/advcandlesticks.asp. [[Special:Contributions/172.68.144.145|172.68.144.145]] 13:55, 21 January 2019 (UTC)<br />
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Random Walk might refer to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk [[User:Curtobi4|Curtobi4]] ([[User talk:Curtobi4|talk]]) 14:00, 21 January 2019 (UTC)</div>162.158.186.108https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2082:_Mercator_Projection&diff=166770Talk:2082: Mercator Projection2018-12-08T06:12:22Z<p>162.158.186.108: </p>
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The choice of characters in this comic is...interesting. I never got the impression that White Hat was gullible. [[User:GreatWyrmGold|GreatWyrmGold]] ([[User talk:GreatWyrmGold|talk]]) 21:27, 7 December 2018 (UTC)<br />
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I can convince people that all of Randal's maps are real? [[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 00:53, 8 December 2018 (UTC)<br />
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But wait, how does driving north reach Alaska? I thought it was an island near Hawaii to the southwest. More seriously, should we mention that the Mercator does have useful properties such as preserving angles or is that too much for explaining the comic? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.108|162.158.186.108]] 06:12, 8 December 2018 (UTC)</div>162.158.186.108https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2079:_Alpha_Centauri&diff=166539Talk:2079: Alpha Centauri2018-11-30T22:05:31Z<p>162.158.186.108: </p>
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Possible concept projects he's referencing:<br/><br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2069_Alpha_Centauri_mission<br />
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Starshot<br/><br />
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: Breakthrough Starshot sounds relevent enough to mention in the article. In 2016 an earth-like planet was discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, which is the closest star in the universe to our sun. Other destinations are considered for the project, but the plan is to visit this planet. Expected velocity is 37,300 km/s. Estimated departure date is 2036, arriving by 2066. Significant funding exists. But some of the technologies do not quite yet. (for those who don't want to click the link) [[Special:Contributions/162.158.187.25|162.158.187.25]] 21:06, 30 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
Alpha century does have 3 stars: Alpha Centauri A (also named Rigil Kentaurus[15]), Alpha Centauri B (also named Toliman), and a small and faint red dwarf (Class M), Alpha Centauri C (also named Proxima Centauri[15])<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Centauri<br/><br />
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I don't know what the (voices off) is complaining about. We only have one star! So Alpha Centauti is an upgrade ;-) [[User:RIIW - Ponder it|RIIW - Ponder it]] ([[User talk:RIIW - Ponder it|talk]]) 18:44, 30 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
:But if your going to upgrade, go all the way at least. (Definitely not an excuse I use to buy better PC hardware)[[User:Linker|Linker]] ([[User talk:Linker|talk]]) 18:49, 30 November 2018 (UTC)<br />
Check out figure 1 on page 3 of this 2016 study: http://www.ice.csic.es/personal/iribas/Proxima_b/pdf/Proxima_habitability_II.pdf showing how likely the researchers believe there to be oceans on Proxima b. They expect us to be able to determine what's true directly in 10 years when construction of larger telescopes is completed. Most other sources I found in my brief search are very careful to say that we do not know at all whether or not there is water on this nearby exoplanet. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.108|162.158.186.108]]</div>162.158.186.108https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2066:_Ballot_Selfies&diff=1650912066: Ballot Selfies2018-11-02T00:17:23Z<p>162.158.186.108: /* Explanation */</p>
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| date = October 31, 2018<br />
| title = Ballot Selfies<br />
| image = ballot_selfies.png<br />
| titletext = There were actually some good reasons for those laws, but IMO they now do more harm than good. Which raises a question: If there's a ballot measure to strike them down, how can I resist the urge to take a picture of my "yes" vote?<br />
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This comic was published six days prior to the {{w|United States elections, 2018|2018 United States general elections}}, also called {{w|United States midterm election|midterm elections}}, because they happen halfway between two presidential elections, two years before and after. At the time, the [[xkcd]] header still provided a link to [https://www.vote.org/ vote.org], a website that helps US citizens with essential voting issues, like how to register or how to find their polling locations.<br />
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In the United States, "{{w|ballot selfie}}s" refers to the practice of taking a picture of oneself with a completed ballot. These have been declared illegal in many states.<br />
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Without proof of how a vote was cast, if someone bribed (or even violently coerced) a voter to vote for candidate A, the voter could just vote 'B' and the coercer would be unable to tell whether they voted as instructed. This is at the heart of the concept of "a secret ballot". But if ballot-selfies or other proof-of-vote mechanisms are permitted then the evil-doer can demand verification that the voter did what they were coerced to do - and this jeopardizes the idea of a truly free and fair election.<br />
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However, since some voting machines produce a paper receipt showing the choices the voter made - and many jurisdictions permit use of a postal ballot - there are plenty of other ways to circumvent the law in those places. So the ban on ballot selfies is not entirely justifiable unless those other lines of coercion are also ruled out.<br />
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On the other hand, the desire to take and distribute ballot selfies often comes from an excitement in participating in the voting process and the desire to share that excitement in the hopes of encouraging others to vote, and anything that helps get more people to the polls is generally considered to be a good thing.<br />
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A possible upshot could be that there is little way to prevent somebody from photographing their ballot and privately showing this photo to somebody else, aside from searching for possible photographic devices all together. Meanwhile, voters storing evidence of their votes could be useful to prevent voting fraud performed by the state.<br />
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This dual threat/benefit has led some states to explicitly legalize ballot selfies, other states to specifically disallow them and even levy steep financial penalties, while the rest are still debating or ignoring the issue[https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/10/25/13389980/ballot-selfie-legal-illegal].<br />
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As [[Ponytail]] is aware of this law, she believes she has identified a solution wherein she will make an {{w|oil painting}} of her voting rather than taking a {{w|photograph}}. A painting being more of an artistic endeavor that doesn't have to faithfully record all aspects of the image, it may well be valid both on grounds of {{w|freedom of speech}} as well as not being a verbatim record of her vote - thereby preserving the secrecy of the ballot. Of course, making a painting of her vote may lead to additional problems. If she intends to paint the portrait herself, of herself (i.e. a {{w|self-portrait}}) casting her vote, it would be very difficult and time consuming to attempt to do that, especially without a mirror, which she apparently doesn't have with her and which is generally not standard issue in voting booths. She could also try to recruit someone else to do the painting, not knowing the level of their artistic talent, however, usually only the person casting the vote is allowed in the booth, and they are expected to close the curtain or otherwise ensure no outside person, like the painter, can view the vote casting act.<br />
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While [[Hairbun]] and [[White Hat]] are simply standing in line, [[Megan]] can be seen using a mobile phone - potentially checking for optimal Selfie Filters{{Citation needed}}.<br />
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In many US states, changes to state law can be made through the {{w|Initiatives and referendums in the United States|initiative and referendum}} process, which can be initiated and pursued by any citizen.<br />
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The title text refers to the legality of taking a ballot selfie whilst voting against the law against ballot selfies.<br />
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:[Megan, Ponytail, Cueball, White Hat, and Hairbun are standing in a line with Hairbun in front. All are facing forward to the right except Cueball, who is looking to his left at Ponytail. Megan holds a phone in her hand while Ponytail carries an easel under her left arm and a paintbrush in her right hand.]<br />
:Ponytail: Ballot selfies are illegal in this state, so to immortalize my vote I'm doing an oil painting in the voting booth.<br />
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The "other scammers" section is far too small. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.166|108.162.216.166]] 16:54, 1 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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We have two title texts explanations. With slightly conflicting information. Combine and brush up or should we just do one or the other for now? I like the CBS source in the first so I think we should absolutely preserve that at least. [[User:Lukeskylicker|Lukeskylicker]] ([[User talk:Lukeskylicker|talk]]) 17:15, 1 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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: Supposing that you are correct, I have to add that I have never heard of the headset trick being used to buy time to connect you to a real scammer. But then again, I don't get scammed that often. [[User:Kwonunn|Kwonunn]] ([[User talk:Kwonunn|talk]]) 17:44, 2 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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He forgot bill collectors. {{unsigned ip|162.158.63.52}}<br />
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As the link from the first title text explanation points out, they don't *need* your credit card or social security number as many phone companies, especially mobile companies, will allow a third party to add charges to your phone bill if you've agreed to pay the money. With that in mind, I don't think the second explanation flies. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.90|162.158.186.90]] 17:42, 1 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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This only makes sense if it’s proportional or percentage based. But then that makes one wonder if some of this might be because the number of calls dropped over time. {{unsigned|Mr.Dude}}<br />
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There's a contradiction between "it's safe to assume that calls from his family didn't decrease over the years", and "Over time, Randall's friends and family have been less likely to make phone calls to him, likely due to the use of text messages and other messaging apps.". I'd suggest rephrasing the first part to say "it's possible the calls from family didn't decrease over the years, in which case they only make up a smaller fraction as the number of total calls increases since 1990.", or simply "some of the categories like family calls appear to be occurring less often but may only be decreasing in frequency in proportion to total calls" [[Special:Contributions/162.158.142.28|162.158.142.28]] 21:10, 1 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
:I know for me personally family calls have decreased as texting and other messaging apps have become more common, and the same might have happened for him. It is clear that this graph excludes texting as by the present the only friend calling is that one friend that hates texting. That person may be the best way to figure out if the absolute volume of calls has increased...it appears the volume of total calls has increased, at least recently, as that one friend originally took up a larger proportion of the vertical space (of course the frequency of correspondence with that friend may also have changed).[[Special:Contributions/172.68.46.5|172.68.46.5]] 16:51, 2 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
::Thanks for your written thoughts. You also can enhance the explanation. But for now I've added a new paragraph about texting, just because it's not part of the comic. And, sorry I missed it, I also hate tex...ng ;) --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 17:29, 2 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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At least not being British he missed the PPI calls. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.154.235|162.158.154.235]] 21:16, 1 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Along with the current spate of automated calls telling me that my IP address needs to be changed as it has been "compromised in multiple countries". [[User:Gearoid|Gearóid]] ([[User talk:Gearoid|talk]]) 06:44, 3 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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The trick is not always just to get you thinking you're talking to a real person. More likely it is to get a recording of you saying "yes", which can be used maliciously.--[[Special:Contributions/162.158.94.20|162.158.94.20]] 08:19, 2 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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AFAIK, that has only been done once, there is a question on it here: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/42050/have-phone-scammers-recorded-yes-statements-to-fraudulently-authorise-payments (I was going to say that it was probably a myth, but the accepted answer had not been written when I last read that page. Pays to check sources I guess, be it for updated webpages, or to counter scammers [[User:Baldrickk|Baldrickk]] ([[User talk:Baldrickk|talk]]) 12:57, 3 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Referencing "the famous WhatsApp" seems unnecessary. It could be replaced with something like "various mobile messaging apps" [[Special:Contributions/172.68.133.168|172.68.133.168]] anonanon<br />
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Could someone please provide more information about that "auto insurance scammer" part? From my foreign perspective, this means nothing at all and it seems odd that Randall's scammer calls were so numerous and so single-minded in their focus for such a long time. Were these calls really the only scams during that time? Did other scammers then copy their methods? It may seem obvious to you but it certainly isn't for me.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.88.196|141.101.88.196]] 09:30, 3 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
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: I don't specifically know what that scam is; maybe that was just a scam that Randall personally got a lot of calls about and/or has an especially vivid memory about? [[User:N0lqu|-boB]] ([[User talk:N0lqu|talk]]) 14:06, 3 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
:: I can provide some anecdotal context, because we (my fiancee and I) still receive this particular type of scam call, to the exclusion of any other type for some reason. Basically, they call and say that they are calling about your car insurance bill and that it's a critical issue. I don't know exactly how it proceeds from there because we don't have a car and well, that's our response to the call. My assumption here is, with Randall iirc living quite near where I live (eastern US), he received much the same call for a long time. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.186.108|162.158.186.108]] 23:55, 3 October 2018 (UTC)<br />
"Rachel" from credit card services deserves her own category. Whenever I have a few minutes to kill, I wait for a "representative" and then keep asking WHICH of my cards he's calling about and torment them with stupid questions until they hang up (or ask for the person in charge of office supplies and try to sell them toner). Also deserving of their own category are the scammers who call about changing my energy supplier and those offering solar panels. To these I usually tell that I like paying higher rates to my electric company, that we have a nuclear reactor in the basement, or that we steal our electricity from our neighbors. - alex</div>162.158.186.108