I've Never Gotten a Phone Call to Verify My Password

i get more phone calls for microsop than i now get from car warrante places. My password has been changed four times. I just hate everything about microsos usar authentication policy. That's me with discord. And i ran into it again this week, when something else i tried to get into discord threw up all these stupid road blocks. Soas i threw my hands up and said, ok, ned, that's fine. I don't need you.

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Self-driving cars, still 20 years away; Facebook won't use facial recognition, but Meta sure will; Phhhoto; Elon Musk's tax bill and twitter infantilism; delete your tweets; socialized robots; Uber to dispatch... taxis; ABBA; Olivia Rodrigo; the Cranberries & Sinead; Dexter; Four Hours at the Capitol; Star Trek; Stranger Things; Microsoft OneDrive; Alexa following you; USB chargers; Grammarly; Range by David Epstein; I have the best words; bricked Macs; NextDNS; Robinhood hack; 2FA Google; disrupting parking lots.

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