You have more patience and perseverance than I do, to tackle this kind of outright misunderstanding (or falsehood). I am exhausted. Facts and narratives intertwine and build on each other, but people hand-waive away the nuance and reach immediately for the easy surface explanation. For example, the glib defense of the Jan6 rioters was that they couldn't ever "take over the government" by merely occupying the Capitol, it's laughable to even believe that. That's not the plan, the plan was to disrupt and delay the electoral vote counting process, and force the election into the House where the Rs have the majority. But, for me to explain this would take 5, 10 minutes of persuasion, and the person has to be open to persuasion, and understand electoral procedure, and there must be mutual good will between me and him. This is not the world I live in, so I just shut up and move on. I wish direct karma is more visible in this world, eg. if you act on your belief in X, the outcome would immediately resolve whether your believed rightly or wrongly.
> "war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select." Judge Holden, Blood Meridian
... instead, we have this state where a disastrously wrong belief occupies the same plane as the right belief in the facts, that is, there is no disincentive to believe the wrong thing, and no incentive to find the right thing. I'm exhausted trying to find ways to explain, and now I don't.
This happens to me frequently, I have an OG gmail account which a bunch of people have associated with their own accounts. The problem is the provider will verify a phone number, and once that's validated, will accept an email address, even if it's wrong. Two financial entities have accepted my email address tied to other people's account: Chime, and Venmo. There's no way to fix this since they all presume I am a customer of theirs, so the path to fix is to do it in their app. It is incredibly frustrating, more so when it's people who handles money do it. They should know better! The "We are not a bank (therefore not covered by banking regulations)" does so much work to cover their shoddy practices.
Same story with Gmail here, and unfortunately over the years it has simply become my primary. I'm still undecided on how I want to handle my own domain+email.
Someone opened a Venmo account using my gmail and immediately started moving thousands of dollars in small transactions, and my only options were to a) take ownership of the thousands of dollars of small transactions that were now associated with my unverified email or b) get my email banned???? Eventually I got an email saying the Venmo was disabled due to suspicious activity, hope that doesn't bite me in the ass in the future.
What if I wanted to sign up for Venmo in the future? Why do I need to create another email address to use their product in the future when they didn't even verify it in the first place? How are they allowed to run their billon dollar business like this?
I'm the recovery account to at least two accounts of real people with the same name (the people are real, despite the uncommon name). Don't bother reporting it via the link in the mails, it does nothing. I'm not even sure this isn't some Google shenanigans either.
> "war is the truest form of divination. It is the testing of one’s will and the will of another within that larger will which because it binds them is therefore forced to select." Judge Holden, Blood Meridian
... instead, we have this state where a disastrously wrong belief occupies the same plane as the right belief in the facts, that is, there is no disincentive to believe the wrong thing, and no incentive to find the right thing. I'm exhausted trying to find ways to explain, and now I don't.