r/technology • u/chrisdh79 • Feb 03 '23

Netflix says strict new password sharing rules were posted in error Business

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/netflix-says-strict-new-password-sharing-rules-were-posted-in-error
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u/IntrinsicSurgeon Feb 03 '23 • Keep Calm Starry Vibing

“Sorry, my cat ran across the keyboard and posted that!”

-Netflix

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u/NotMilitaryAI Feb 03 '23

"Yo, man, it's crazy. So, like, my friend stole my phone while I was in the bathroom, and posted that as a joke. That's so craaazy, right?"

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

I actually had this happen. Complete with homophobic slurs. To my boss no less. I did get even though it took way too long

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u/NotMilitaryAI Feb 03 '23

That would have definitely ended that friendship for me....

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

Never was a friendship thing. Film industry backstabbing at it’s finest

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u/motorblonkwakawaka Feb 03 '23

I went to film school. By the time I graduated I turned heel and never looked back. Never mind the fact that the film industry in my country (NZ) somehow is the only place where normal labour rights and laws don't apply, making pay totally optional and giving film workers essentially no rights or protections. Pretty much the only way people make it through the first few years is by having a second job and never sleeping, or being lucky enough to have rich parents. But yeah on top of all that, it was the most toxic workplace I've ever encountered. Seemed like everyone out for themselves, no qualms stepping over anyone to get ahead, no such thing as honour or good will.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

You nailed it. I spent 35 years in it and finally just walked away before I died in some sleazy hotel far from home

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u/motorblonkwakawaka Feb 03 '23

Ouch 35 years. Well, hope you've found something a little more fulfilling! I've moved on to writing fiction. Don't need to hire expensive equipment, underpay or exploit people, or get up at fucking 4 in the morning just to hear the 1st AD tell us someone fucked up and filming won't start till after lunch. Just me, Microsoft Word, and a hot coffee, spilling stories :)

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u/idontsmokeheroin Feb 04 '23

I’ve worked as a background actor in Hollywood for about 20 years off and on when I can. Honestly agree with everything you guys have said. It was hell during COVID. I’m barely 40 and I’m thinking about hanging up my hat. I already work at a bar as well and I started just taking more shifts at the bar rather than trying to get to 6AM call times to be on set for 14 hours. The film industry is so goddamn exhausting.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23

Well I got a good pension, everythings paid for so I guess it was worth it. Don’t miss the 80 hour weeks at all. There are some really good people in the biz, but some real dicks as well. Life on the road just got to be too much in my 50’s

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u/DILGE Feb 05 '23

Congrats on getting out, man! Same thing for me, the road and the hours were wearing me down so so much. After 25 years as a live sound engineer, I finally was able to make the switch to IT. Now I'm 100% remote and it's glorious. No more 16+ hour days, I will never have to touch a fucking truck again, unless its moving day. To top it all off, I make almost twice as much. :)

You are totally right about there being a lot of assholes in show business. For some reason our industry attracts a higher percentage of scam artists, grifters, narcissists and sociopaths than other industries. Glad we both got out. Enjoy your new quieter life!

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u/Quizzelbuck Feb 04 '23

Yeah! No ones going to stop my dream of dying in some sleazy hotel near my home!

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u/Science_Matters_100 Feb 04 '23

I would read these books

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

There is a good one named “Below the Line”. A good and funny read that accurately describes the clown show. I know most of the people he talks about

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u/Science_Matters_100 Feb 04 '23

Is the Author Steven Levine? Michael HeDera? Meredith Jordan. Hmm, help me please, seems to be a popular title

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u/Successful-Shower747 Feb 04 '23

It’s crazy film industry doesn’t pay well. Watching the latest avatar I was scratching my head wondering where $2billion went. I’m in construction and you can build a lot of stuff for that much money. I came to the conclusion they must pay everyone really well

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u/jockheroic Feb 04 '23

It does pay well. At the top. Just about everyone starts out as a PA. They make pretty lousy money for the hours. Then, once you pick the dept you want to work in, the salary just about doubles every time you step up into the next role higher than your position in that department. However, you're a freelancer, so, no matching retirement contribution and healthcare comes out of your own pocket (unless you're in the union and their benefits aren't a whole lot better) and most of all, no job security. Always chasing the next job. The hours are pretty brutal, plus a lot of us spend a lot of time away from home. Damn, now that last poster is making me wonder if I can write a book.

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u/motorblonkwakawaka Feb 04 '23

Hi, last poster here :) writing the book is the easy part! Getting published and making money though... I'm not published except one self-published one on Amazon, but its just a nice creative outlet for me. Maybe one-day!

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u/Naki-Taa Feb 03 '23

You've just described employment conditions in the USA

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u/Switchy_Goofball Feb 04 '23

I also went to film school and freelanced in the industry for a few years. It was the most exploitative, slimy, underhanded business I’ve ever seen. It’s just absolutely normal for people to expect you to work 16 hour days for free, even when you have a list of credits as long as your arm. It’s an absolute meat grinder of a career and I’m glad I got out of it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

I don’t know how many times I heard “If you do this one for less, we’ll make it up to you on the next one”. That NEVER happens.

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u/Switchy_Goofball Feb 04 '23

And there’s always some eager new kid willing to work for free because they’ve been convinced they need to “pay their dues” and get some experience. Such a horribly toxic environment.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

Yes, but it will look good on your resume. If you play your cards right we may even give you a screen credit….that one kills me

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u/catsinspace Feb 06 '23

I work in unscripted tv and the vast majority of the people I've worked with have been amazing. People are always willing to mentor people and help them get to the next step, too.

Guess I am glad I don't work in scripted. It's so interesting how different they are from each other.

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u/Switchy_Goofball Feb 06 '23

I’m really glad to hear your experiences have been so good!

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u/catsinspace Feb 06 '23

I'm really sorry you had to go through all that. I hope everything is going well for you now!

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u/DNuttnutt Feb 03 '23

You just described almost every working experience in America that isn’t managerial.

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u/jamusnz Feb 04 '23

Peter Jackson sold out film workers rights in nz to please large media corporations....I fucken hated working film industry in New Zealand. I went back into radio and have had a lovely time for 20+years now.

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u/motorblonkwakawaka Feb 04 '23

Yep. I lost all respect for him that day.

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u/HitlersHysterectomy Feb 04 '23

Holy shitballs, right there with you. I started in film and one of the first things I learned was what a trust fund was. "Everybody's got a trust fund. You don't have a trust fund?"
What the hell is a trust fund?

But yeah. Overtime, work until you drop. I'd hit 40 hours by the middle of Wednesday. And overtime resets Sunday at midnight. Doesn't matter that you've worked 55 days straight. At that point it's easier to buy new underwear than wash the ones you have already.

And I did some time down under for a US studio. We had to be on call at 6 am for US meetings because the guys back home didn't want to interrupt their lunch. Cold stages, lousy food.

Tell ya what, though. 1st ADs are the platoon sergeants. Good ones get the job done and don't tolerate any bullshit. It's how it has to be.

A lot of people these days aren't directors - they're reactors. "I'll know what I want when I see it." Auteurs of the purest form.

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u/MonocledMonotremes Feb 04 '23

Is it cuz the NZ film industry probably has the most interaction with US companies and our shitty labor practices leech through? It would still be weird though, since our movie industry is, I think, one of the most unionized industries we have.

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u/motorblonkwakawaka Feb 04 '23

I think it's just because NZ is one of those countries where it is cheaper than the US to film precisely because the industry is so unionized there. We're a small country and our film industry got a colossal boost after Lord of the Rings, especially with Weta Workshop actually starting to get in ILMs level of competition. And one of the reasons it's so attractive for studios to film here is because they know people will be lining up to work 16 hour days for free in the hope that one day they'll "join the club".

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u/seriouslynope Feb 04 '23

Sounds like the entertainment industry in the US as well

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u/Pddyks Feb 03 '23

Got to love those hobbit laws

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u/whyreadthis2035 Feb 04 '23

Don’t tell me it isn’t the scenery that attracts movie makers to NZ!!!! This isn’t the wizard of Oz, it’s the internet! I just want my rolling hills!

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u/Playpolly Feb 04 '23

I wonder how Bollywood is

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u/blaghart Feb 04 '23

and of course when Peter Jackson was desperate to have The Hobbit filmed in NZ so Paramount bullied him into coming out against unions demanding some basic fucking worker rights.

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u/NotMilitaryAI Feb 03 '23

Ahhhh. Sheesh, that's really gross that they would do that.... Glad you at least were able to get even with them

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u/Dave-C Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23

Don't listen to them M-M-Morty, they are aliens wearing human skins to invade the world.

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u/bushido216 Feb 04 '23

My uncle found being a producer in Los Angeles too stressful, so he went back to school to enter the laid-back world of corporate law.

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u/Specter170 Feb 03 '23

You gotta tell the story.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

Nah, I enjoy my anonymity

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u/motoxjake Feb 04 '23

Well fuck mate, do tell...I love me a good film industry story of payback and revenge.

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u/bluntmasterkyle Feb 04 '23

When I was an editor one of our colleagues had a stroke in his editing bay trying to marathon edit and get us an Emmy,he almost died. Not sure if he ever fully recovered. So sad. Never going back to that shit.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

I saw a lot of my friends pass away trying to do the crazy hours. 1 fell asleep driving home, a few from heart attacks, etc. Most while nearing retirement. It’s very hard to eat right and a good night’s sleep is rare. Even being unionized they just throw money at you like that makes it ok. Glad I made it out alive

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u/bluntmasterkyle Feb 04 '23

Sorry to hear that glad you are okay

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u/Acheilox Feb 04 '23

I want to hear more about your story haha

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

There is a good book a fellow film guy wrote called “Below the Line”. Very funny and accurate. I know most of the people he writes about

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u/Vaudesnitchy Feb 04 '23

I sincerely hope you got them good. and then some. I don’t get even, i get petty and vengeful.

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u/FocusedIntention Feb 04 '23

I’d watch a movie about this. Sounds intriguing and different

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u/5point5Girthquake Feb 04 '23

Depends on who it’s sent to for me, I could laugh it off with a certain select of people like other friends but to my boss I’d be upset lmao

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u/LoganSterling Feb 04 '23

that's definitely not a friend...

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u/sb_747 Feb 03 '23

I didn’t do homophobic slurs.

But I did join 50 different Trump Facebook groups during the 2016 election.

It was also the 5th time he’d been warned to stopped logging into Facebook on the work computer.

6th time was a shopping list “mistakenly” posted that included most Chuck Tingle titles, sex toys, and lube.

He learned after that one.

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u/UltraInstinctLurker Feb 04 '23

Chuck Tingle

A man of culture

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u/Chubby_Bub Feb 04 '23

How'd you get even?

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u/Hello_I_need_helped Feb 03 '23

it happens to me when i'm dm'ing girls ALL THW TIME

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u/steveosek Feb 04 '23

This is one reason I'm grateful for Face ID and it should be a thing on all phones imo.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

Yeah this was way before all that

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u/a_drunk_kitten Feb 04 '23

A former friend posted a picture of his literal balls on my Facebook timeline

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u/wrath_of_grunge Feb 04 '23

I had a friend named Doug. We were living with another friend of ours. One night we got all shitfaced and decided to call it a night. Doug went to his room and I crashed on my couch. As I was getting comfortable I found Doug’s cell phone in the cushions.

Being drunk I thought it would be hilarious to send out a mass text to everyone in his contact list, that said “Look at me, I’m Doug”. Afterwards I drifted off to sleep and forgot about the whole thing. A few days later he asked me about it. His phone plan meant he had to pay for each text.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

He was eventually blackballed from our union for other offenses. Turns out he was a sexual predator and I just made sure the evidence got into the right hands

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u/imjce87 Feb 04 '23

Photo or it didn’t happen.

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u/Scarletfapper Feb 04 '23

I’ve seen that happen on FB too - some idoit doesn’t disconnect from a public computer and then it’s slurs and insults all over the place.

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u/greece_witherspoon Feb 04 '23

How’d they unlock your phone?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23

It was just sitting unlocked at my bench. Keep in mind this was probably 15 years ago. Never really even thought someone would do such a thing. Now that I think back, it was done by Email, then deleted on my end. Couldn’t figure out why this guy was mad at me until he showed it to me. Thank god it wasn’t CC’d

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u/greece_witherspoon Feb 04 '23

Yeah that’s back in the time iPhones just made you slide to unlock so you didn’t butt dial.

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u/Hashtaglibertarian Feb 04 '23

I used to work in wireless sales a looong time ago - like the Razor was the biggest phone for years.

One morning we all got a text message from our assistant manager of his ass.

Confused of course.. I just ignored it until work.

He comes walking in shift to close and I said “I think you sent that text to the wrong person”

He looked perplexed - what text?

I showed him the text. His fiancé at the time had a little meth and things got bad. She texted all of his work contacts on his work phone. Including our district manager.

His only response was “that makes sense now why Todd sent me a picture of his ass”

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u/RevLoveJoy Feb 04 '23

Todd is a good guy who can try to make light of a crummy situation. I like Todd.

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u/alexagente Feb 03 '23

I actually had this happen to me once. My friends and I were drunk and I was complaining about some guy I was dating and she just snatched my phone and started texting him about how much a dick he was.

I was pissed at the time but she was right. Lol.

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u/Mteigers Feb 04 '23

I read this in James Cordens annoying voice.

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u/shuvvel Feb 04 '23

Me: I'm not resubscribing.

Netflix: BITCH UR UGLY ANYWAY.

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u/IntrinsicSurgeon Feb 04 '23

Netflix as a whole gives me NiceGuy vibes tbh

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u/Strange-Bee5626 Feb 04 '23

Haha.. yeah.... but what if?...

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u/ptcounterpt Feb 04 '23

I had a friend once, but I ran out of money and had to cancel my Netflix account.

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u/usrnamechecksout_ Feb 04 '23

But what weirdo doesn't take their phone to the bathroom while sitting on the throne?

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u/naughtyobama Feb 07 '23

Unexpected succession

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u/JasonSuave Feb 03 '23

….And we realized it 4 biz days later

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u/zebrastarz Feb 03 '23

...unlesss?

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u/OdysseyZen Feb 03 '23

They string up the 'intern' who posted it against the discretion of the company to wipe another boss' ass with a half-hearted apology with no repercussions to the damage done to it's customers.

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u/pimppapy Feb 04 '23

Don't forget the CEO bonus, after he ousts the mischief maker.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '23

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u/OdysseyZen Feb 03 '23

Netflix account is shared by family who live in different places so yeah, it messes up the video streaming services we depended on. Another friend cancelled his subscription. Any other questions Netflix employee?

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u/nailz1000 Feb 03 '23

>Netflix account is shared by family who live in different places so yeah

So .. you admit you violated their TOS.

4.2. The Netflix service and any content accessed through our service are for your personal and non-commercial use only and may not be shared with individuals beyond your household unless otherwise allowed by your subscription plan.

So.. I guess... they didn't "damage you." Your family is just cheap. Which is fine, I get hit by the same thing, but I'm not whining like it's somehow my fault I'm using my parents login like some entitled brat.

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u/OdysseyZen Feb 03 '23 edited Feb 03 '23

It is a family plan idiot. The requirement to login to a specific location is what's wrong. Go back for more employee training and maybe you can offer better customer service instead of wasting time fondling your assets.

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u/nailz1000 Feb 03 '23

Calling me an idiot and assuming I'm an employee doesn't lend any credence to you not acting like a brat here.

Whatever its called, it's right there in black and white what is allowed and isn't allowed.

You can keep being mad at me if it makes you feel better, but I didn't make the rules you're breaking.

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u/sir_ramen Feb 04 '23

UwU

Subscribe customer-san?

UwU

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u/kodaiko_650 Feb 03 '23

GTG cat on fire BRB

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u/Glad_Inspection_1140 Feb 03 '23

Right? Like how do you accidentally post something that was consciously written and posted by someone? Lol

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u/IntrinsicSurgeon Feb 03 '23

For real. I’d probably just go with the Ambien excuse. That’s when I’ve said my weirdest things.

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u/Glad_Inspection_1140 Feb 03 '23

Bruh the one time I took ambien, a car drove by looking like a limo. It wasn’t a limo. It was a normal car that looked like it had stretched as it was driving down the road. I was legit just hallucinating.

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u/IntrinsicSurgeon Feb 03 '23

😂 That would trip me out. I didn’t hallucinate, but I sleepwalked. Apparently all I did was pee in my mother’s toilet (I had a bathroom connected to my bedroom, so I had no reason to be in hers) and screamed when she calmly asked what I was doing in there

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '23

Ambian is a hellava drug…

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u/bub2000 Feb 04 '23

CAT-LIKE TYPING DETECTED

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u/kyngston Feb 04 '23

“ChatGPT posted that”

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u/pebberphp Feb 04 '23

CatGPT posted that

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u/orangutanDOTorg Feb 04 '23

It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times?!

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u/haroldhodges Feb 03 '23

Then their cat, is a shrewd business cat, out to make a profit. Like most 🐈.

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u/Snarkaeopteryx Feb 03 '23

You'd think they might have noticed what happened to Paypal.

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u/gr234gr Feb 04 '23 edited Feb 04 '23

You obviously don’t have a cat… last week my Russian Blue put two meetings on my work calendar. Woke up at 3am hearing someone speak downstairs… Grabbed my 2nd amendment freedom to find little shit taking a nap on laptop keyboard. Guess windows got speech to text. Cats are evil Gods.

But yeah, fuck Netflix. Same lame excuse as with PayPal charging $2k if they don’t like your opinion

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u/SWHAF Feb 04 '23

Clara was using their computer.

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u/Spiritofhonour Feb 04 '23

“Peacock hacked my account and posted that.”

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u/maydarnothing Feb 04 '23

which is a more intriguing story than half the shit they produce every year