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@worldsendless Oh, wow. Did you need to record all three??

@matbesancon There, put it back to default and turned on Dark Reader again. That's still the best filter for me. :D

@matbesancon Oh lol. Shows you how much I pay attention to all random bars on top, bottom, left or right, since they're usually ads or promotions. I auto-ignore them.

Didn't notice they're viewing filters until I read your post. That's a funny one. :D

@Acer Lol... I'm actually suspecting that you're using this poor OCR Bot as an easy way to digitize all this text. :D

@JonathanMBR While trying, or while not trying to attract attention? Just making sure, because why do you want to attract attention because it's pay day?

@Acer That is what a chain letter is. It is called chain letter because it gets sent to the next X amount persons in a friend's list, and so on, and so on, friends of friends of friends. Ad infinitum.

But yes, it is basically a pyramid-scheme letter, indeed.

@Acer What do you mean? What toxic one?

You meant: You didn't know that a chain letter could be toxic?

A chain letter is pretty much spam. If you get 100s of chainletters a day, and then they go 'respond to all' to tell others to stop sending them those chain letters.. and those others 'respond to all' too (we didn't use BCC back then either, how foolish of us).. yeah, you got fantastic spam going on lol.

I'm glad that time's far behind me, and I hope it's not coming back. ;)

@Sphinx Because the update is a joke? ;)

Well, Apple is a joke either way..

@academicalnerd And everybody could appreciate it because it was a harmless prank and the pranked got some nice candy to nom on as consolation. :D

@Acer I did consider that it might be a joke coming from you, but considering that you did ask regularly about certain not-so-common English terms and phrases it could've been a legitimate question as well. :)

At the very least you learned something, which is a pretty good prank. ;)

@davidrevoy 🤣

@piermingo Time to give your phone a case that's totally unique. ;)

A few years ago I pulled a nice April Fool's prank at my job.

I'm working in some sort of IT support, so I posted a message in the newsletter to the whole building that anyone could swing by on that day to receive a wireless mouse for free.

I was handing out mouse-shaped candy. Hey, they were wireless! ;)

@stardust There are some other benefits too. Moving water, stays fresh, the pump has a filter below. So all you need to do is add some water over time, and have to wash/rinse less often because it won't get stale as quick. Could argue that this saves on water I suppose.

Well, for me it was still too much hassle as my cat prefers to drink from dirty puddles outdoors still anyway. ;)

@Acer This site actually seems to explain the concept of chain letters nicely: https://wikizero.com/www///Chain_letter

It usually plays on the gullibility of the people. An example of one that got emailed to me a few times by various friends (of whom I expected better) would be something like:

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Hello. Please forward this email to 15 friends. If you do not do it you will get bad luck!!!

Somebody hasn't forwarded this email and got hit by a car. He's now 6 weeks in the hospital. But somebody else who did forward this email won the lottery!!!!! This could be you too!!!!!!! Please get good luck by forwarding this email! Do not tempt fate!!!

This is not a joke!!!!!!!
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But it could be about any range of topics.

The problem is that if you have to send it to 15 others, and they too to 15 others.. and.. and.. and.. And you would eventually receive it 1000 times because people ran out of people to send to..

Yeah, email was pretty slow back then with this exponentional rise. :P

The solution is just to ignore this bullshit.

I don't think I've got a physical chain letter (via snail mail). Too much hassle, I suppose. Email is a nice low threshold for any gullible person to press 'forward' on nowadays.

I can easily imagine some structures with physical chain letters that's more like a ponzi scheme too.

@freemo Uhuh. ;)

@freemo You proved my point. :D

It's totally you, though. When I saw that joke I was like 'Damn, that's so Freemo!' ;)

@freemo Your idea of sexy humor would be like this:

A man comes home late and his wife asks why. The man says that he was looking at tits and boobies. The woman, clearly infuriated, asks him where he was. The man replies: "at the bird museum."

@freemo Even you don't know it so it seems. :D