6707 - Billionaires are out to get you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANuGHbXa9QE 

Your kids and grandkids are going to pay the price. We need Teddy Roosevelts trust busting team to come back.

6706 - Walmart price scamming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHmord8K0Bo

This is a link to a video about Walmart's digital price tags plus more. It's 17 minutes long but it will be over before you know it. You will be going back through it writing notes. Did you know their shopping carts take your body temperature and heart rate?

6705 - Scammers!!!

Another thing to worry about...

Hover and out

Image: ChatGPT/Kim Komando

Crooks are building fake bank websites that play dead. Check one directly, and it’s a blank page. Click it from a Google search, and it turns into a perfect copy of your bank’s login. These fakes jumped 40% in three months. And Google made my favorite “hover to check” trick useless on many results.

For years, I’ve told you one trick for spotting a bad link. Hover your mouse over it. Look at the bottom corner of your screen. See where it really goes.

Google broke that safeguard. Gee, thanks for that.

🕵️ What changed

Some search results now pass through a Google redirect first.  Hover over one, and the corner of your screen shows google⁠.com/goto?url= followed by a string of gibberish.  Not the bank. Not the store. Google.

Google says it’s fighting “evolving forms of abuse.” It didn’t say which. My read: It’s about stopping companies from bulk-copying its search results.  You got caught in the cross fire. You can’t check where a result leads before you click.

Google still prints a website name above each result. That’s a label. The hover was your second opinion. Now you get one, and it’s Google’s.

🦎 Why the timing stinks

Crooks game their way to the top of search results for phrases like “[bank name] login.” It works because that’s what you type when you’re in a hurry to pay a bill.

Here’s the sneaky part. Type the fake site’s address directly, and you get a dead, blank page. That’s what security scanners see, so they shrug and move on. Click it from a search result, and it turns into your bank’s login page. You type your password. They get your password.

The address looks close enough, your bank’s name with an odd ending like .ph.⁠com. On a phone screen, you’d never notice.

🔒 Lock it down

Stop googling your bank.  Type the address yourself once, then bookmark it.  In Chrome on a computer, click the star in the address bar. On iPhone Safari, tap Share > Add Bookmark. Better yet, use the bank’s app. Download it straight from the App Store or Google Play. Skip anything marked Sponsored when you’re looking for a login page. Read the address bar before you type a password.  Your bank’s name should sit right before the .com, with nothing strange tacked on. Let your password manager play bouncer.* It only fills in your password on the real site. If it stays quiet, you stop.

The hover trick had a good run.  Your bookmark never needed a search engine anyway.

6704 - Long Joke Sunday

The banker saw his old friend Tom, an eighty-year-old rancher,

in town. Tom had lost his wife a year or so before and rumor

had it that he was marrying a 'mail order' bride.

Being a good friend, the banker asked Tom if the rumor was

true.

Tom assured him that it was. The banker then asked Tom the

age of his new bride to be.

Tom proudly said, 'She'll be twenty-one in November.'

Now the banker, being the wise man that he was, could see that

the sexual appetite of a young woman could not be satisfied by

an eighty-year-old man.

Wanting his old friend's remaining years to be happy the banker

tactfully suggested that Tom should consider getting a hired

hand to help him out on the ranch, knowing nature would take

its own course.

Tom thought this was a good idea and said he would look for

one that afternoon.

About four months later, the banker ran into Tom in town again ..

'How's the new wife?', asked the banker.

Tom proudly said, 'Good - she's pregnant.'

The banker, happy that his sage advice had worked out,

continued, 'And how's the hired hand?'

Without hesitating, Tom said, 'She's pregnant too!'

6703 - Saturday jokes

AT MY FUNERAL PLEASE TAKE THE BOUQUET OFF MY COFFIN AND THROW IT INTO THE CROWD TO SEE WHO IS NEXT.

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE FIRST PERSON TO DISCOVER MILK?

WHAT WERE THEY EVEN DOING?

REMEMBER WHEN YOU COULD STRANGLE PEOPLE WITH YOUR PHONE?

THOSE WERE THE DAYS.

ONE MINUTE YOU'RE YOUNG AND CAREFREE, AND THE NEXT MINUTE YOU'RE CLEANING YOUR HOME TO THE MUSIC YOU USED TO DRINK TO.

THE OLDER I GET, THE MORE I UNDERSTAND WHY ROOSTERS SCREAM TO START THEIR DAY.

SO ... ABOUT THESE MURDER HORNETS.

DO I SEND THEM MY LIST OF NAMES OR WHAT?

HOW DOES THIS WORK?

IF IT MAKES YOU FEEL ANY BETTER, I KNOW PEOPLE OLDER THAN YOU WHO ARE STILL ALIVE.

DOES EVERY HALLMARK CHRISTMAS MOVIE HAVE THE SAME PLOT?

YES.

WILL I STILL WATCH EVERY ONE OF THEM THIS SEASON?

ALSO YES. (NO)

IF YOUR GRANDMA GOT RUNOVER BY A REINDEER, YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION.

JINGLE ALL THE WAY.

BECAUSE NOBODY LIKES A HALF-ASSED JINGLER.

THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FRIEND.

QUESTIONABLE LIFE CHOICE, BUT I APPRECIATE IT.

FINALLY GOT ONE OF THOSE EMOTIONAL SUPPORT PETS.

IT'S A CHICKEN.

IT'S CRISPY.

IT ALSO CAME WITH A BISCUIT.

I've been to a lot of places, but I've

never been in Cahoots. Apparently

you can't go alone, you have to be

in Cahoots with someone. I've also

never been in Cognito, either. I hear

no one recognizes you there. I have,

however, been in Sane. They don't

have an airport, you have to be

driven there. I have made

several trips. (John)

I couldn't get a reservation at the library. 

They were completely booked.

I told my wife she should embrace her mistakes. 

She gave me a hug.

I asked the librarian if they had books about paranoia. 

She whispered, 'They're right behind you.'

I don't suffer from insanity. 

I enjoy every minute of it.

NOBODY PREPARES YOU FOR THE

PART OF YOUR 60S WHERE YOU'RE

SIMULTANEOUSLY TRYING TO BUILD

MUSCLE, LOSE FAT, PROTECT YOUR

KNEES, FIX YOUR HORMONES, EAT

150G OF PROTEIN, AND REMEMBER

WHY YOU WALKED INTO THE KITCHEN.

BUT HERE WE ARE. (John)

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.

I FINALLY REALIZED THAT PEOPLE ARE PRISONERS OF THEIR PHONES. 

THAT'S WHY THEY'RE CALLED "CELL" PHONES.

The FCC approved SpaceX’s 15,000-satellite mobile network. 

Soon the Big Dipper will have to squeeze between satellites like a Buick in a Costco parking lot.

A mechanic asked me if I’d ever rotated my tires. 

How does he think I got there?

Politics- it's so silly, man.

I think it really shows that, like, we never grow up.

Like, I had a friend in middle school who would keep a chocolate milk from the cafeteria in his locker for months just to see what would happen to it.

He called it chunklate milk. He was awesome.

And the whole point was just to see how fucked up and awful it could get if you just never threw it away.

And now they're doing that same thing to Mitch McConnell.

McConnell's the chunklate milk of the Senate.

The first ballot question should be "do you think schools are performing secret sex changes" and if you answer yes your entire ballot is invalidated based on incapacity.

Got my flu shot today.

Feeling a touch autistic.

Might have transgender surgery later.

Let's have a moment of silence for all the guys who lost their girlfriends in the Russian data center attack.

Voting is like driving.

To go forward, select D.

To go backward, select R.

My favorite part of grocery shopping is stopping in the Oreo section just to see what those weird little freaks are up to.

I read today that 5 inches of fat can stop a bullet. 

So I'm not fat, I'm bulletproof.

My wife said, "Come at me like a purse snatcher. I want to try something."

What she should have said was, "I bought a Taser ... "

I'm not lazy - I'm in power saving mode.

I'm on a dating diet. I only eat girls I already know.😁

The key to aging gracefully is to lie about your age.

Also, don't let anyone take your photo.

Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

I have a fear of speed bumps. I'm slowly getting over it.

I have to exercise early in the morning (HA NOT!) before my brain figures out what I'm doing.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.