Democratic Party Presidential Candidates for 2020

[Brenda Archer]

That's what I have, and I get a ton of spammy calls. Maybe your number is newer? I've had mine for a few years now.

It’s been more than a year *knocks on wood* hope my luck holds

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

But still the best way to stop calls is to just not answer. Then even illegitimate calls will stop eventually.

Just a point in addition: voicemail or an answering machine doesn't count as not answering just because a person doesn't pick up the phone. If a line has voicemail that just proves it's an active line, so it's all the same to them. For this to work you'd actually have to deactivate your voice mailbox or keep your answering machine turned off.

Like Adeon said, ideally you want your answering machine or voicemail message to mimick a dead line by including the three-tone "not in service" handshake; many telemarketing autodialers will automatically flag the number as inactive if they hear the tones. In theory you can have your message be the tones, a pause, and then a regular voicemail message so that human callers aren't confused. Unfortunately this only works on SOME of them, because technology is available to the industry to keep autodialers from falling for that trick.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Just a point in addition: voicemail or an answering machine doesn't count as not answering just because a person doesn't pick up the phone. If a line has voicemail that just proves it's an active line, so it's all the same to them. For this to work you'd actually have to deactivate your voice mailbox or keep your answering machine turned off.

THANK YOU!

I was about to post that I haven't answered my cell phone in 5 years and yet I still get spammed. Considering how seldom I check for calls, it might be better to disable voice mail, since any one who has a legitimate reason to call is lulled into thinking I got the message.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

And now it's text messaging​

 

[danielravennest]

I would love a way to block all spoofed numbers.

I just ignore any call that's not programmed in my contact list. If it's important, they can leave a voicemail. About 5% of telemarketers try to leave a voicemail, but robocallers are bad at it. I can easily delete those after listening to the first few seconds.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

And now it's text messaging​

I wonder how it responds to "oh FUCK no!"

 

[Adeon Writer]

I just ignore any call that's not programmed in my contact list. If it's important, they can leave a voicemail. About 5% of telemarketers try to leave a voicemail, but robocallers are bad at it. I can easily delete those after listening to the first few seconds.

I know the NoMoRoBO app works. It absolutely plagued the auto-dailing, robocall operation a company I worked for was trying to do.

Someone calls you, and if they're not on a whitelisted list of numbers, they get: "This call is protected by NoMoRoBo. To connect to your party, please dial the number [random 2 digit number]. If you are a telemarketer, please regard this as your notification to place this number on your do not call list and do not call again."

Official instruction was to disposition the call as a bad number (They know they'll never get through). This is what you want.

Sadly, it's 2 dollars a month. To most it's not worth it just to stop some calls, but some people REALLY do get plauged, especially if they've been scammed before, they end up on a "suckers list" and every single scam company starts calling them.

 

[Cristalle]

This is pretty amazing.

 

[Cristalle]

Jay Inslee just dropped out of the race on Rachel Maddow.

 

[Cristalle]

Shameless liars.

 

[Eunoli]

Jay Inslee just dropped out of the race on Rachel Maddow.

Michael Bennet said it best, I think:


I'm glad that Inslee is running for governor again. He does a great job at that and Washington state is important. But, really sad that we're losing someone with the most thought and emphasis that is becoming more and more super critical. The glaciers are melting far faster than predicted. The Amazon is burning. People are dying from the heat all over the place. I hope someone picks up this torch as more than part of their platform.

 

[danielravennest]

The glaciers are melting far faster than predicted. The Amazon is burning. People are dying from the heat all over the place.

Yeah, just this morning in Florida, where they launched a GPS satellite, the temperature was crazy. Maybe the thermometer shouldn't have been under the rocket engine.

 

[Kara Spengler]

Is the no call list still working for anyone? I'm getting at least 30 unwanted spam calls a day (which my voicemail kindly blocks for me)

No, I even get spam call on my cell. Legitimate companies pay attention to it, illegitimate one use random dialers or treat the DNC list as a phonebook.

 

[Romana]

So here's this guy I never heard of before trash talking all the female Democratic candidates.
Also claiming that 45 is the very model of a macho alpha male.
The ratios, tho. ..

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

So here's this guy I never heard of before trash talking all the female Democratic candidates.
Also claiming that 45 is the very model of a macho alpha male.
The ratios, tho. ..

Who the fuck is Jack Burkman? I'm willing to bet he's also childless.

 

[Romana]

Who the fuck is Jack Burkman? I'm willing to bet he's also childless.

And pet-less.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Who the fuck is Jack Burkman? I'm willing to bet he's also childless.

Pay up.

But seriously, quite the character. Jack Burkman - Wikipedia

 

[Romana]

Pay up.

But seriously, quite the character. Jack Burkman - Wikipedia

I think they were talking about 45 there tho.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

And pet-less.

Of that I have no doubt. I doubt he'd know how to take care of one.

Oh, and this:

He can fuck right off with that shit!

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

But seriously, quite the character. Jack Burkman - Wikipedia

Involvement with Jacob Wohl... That pretty much says everything it needs to say about him right there.