by volume, it’s trivial amounts of both, and those unresponsive numbers will often get recycled eventually. people just don’t hold on to phone numbers as long as they used to.
IMO we shouldn’t use phone numbers anymore. Usernames that can request to contact are far superior. The fact that my number can be passed around and shared against my consent then called whenever they feel like it is ridiculous.
I think there’s more anonymity away from phone numbers because the way phone numbers are plain text and sold. The only way to really keep a phone number anonymous is to constantly switch phone numbers instead of switching logins.
In today’s world I feel like it’s much easier to whitelist who you want to talk to instead of blacklist who you don’t. It’s way too easy to spin up another virtual phone number and just call again or spam texts.
They don’t? Everyone in my family has had the same numbers over a decade. I realize this is anecdotal, but I feel like people keep numbers forever now that phones can move from carrier to carrier much easier. Used to be in the 90s and 00’s new carrier meant new phone and new number.
my experience has very much been the opposite, which is also anecdotal-- but i’m going off of what a Verizon rep told me: that people, generally speaking, tend to recycle their numbers much more than they used to.
i don’t have any other data to back that up, i’ll be honest.
like i said, i’m going off what a guy in the Verizon store said, which is one step above pulling it out of my own ass, as far as data veracity goes.
but, if i were to guess, i’d speculate that it had to do with the disposability of numbers, how often people change providers after losing a number due to not having to pay or switching off of a parent’s plan, things like that. People used to go to great lengths to hold onto old numbers. people don’t really care as much now, even when porting them between carriers is easy.
I had a professor who when talking about a PhD would talk about the need for breath and depth. Im a generalist and I find I have as much depth as I need to get things done. Then I move on to another hole.
Initially I was kind of on her side but thinking about it I can’t really justify it. As long as the establishment is cool with it you’re good. If you’re bringing your own food in that’s a little worse IMO but the main thing is if you’re not spending money don’t create more work for them. Just occupying a seat at a table with a group who’s all buying stuff should be fine.
lemmy is created by and for techy dorks, star trek is for the same audience. Many of us are also communist or otherwise leftist, and star trek has done more for us than any other media. Major Nerys Kira, after which one of hexbear’s admins is named, was an explicitly violent terrorist who helped liberate her people from a fascist occupation, and she never gets mistreated because of it. Queer content on star trek has not been perfect, but was beter than anywhere else on TV for a long time because they had freedom to explore different ideas about gender and sexuality(when berhman wasn’t breathing down their necks) due to sci-fi having the excuse of being a fictional alien species. THe first inter-racial kiss on tv was from star trek, another point in the shows favor. There’s also a whole episode where a characrer becomes a Marxist, so coolest shit ever made. rommunism. I could go on for hours, but the bottom line is that it’s just peak fiction.
because they aren’t people 99% of the time, it’s a computer program. It’ll keep attempting, and if you do engage it will switch over to a real person once they have someone hooked.
They even have ones that garner attention, like shuffling noises, saying “Oh I’m sorry, hang on a second” and other gimics to keep you on the line and start engaging. You’d be surprised at how many people will say “Oh sure” out of politeness.
As for cost, to run a virtual machine in the cloud running 24/7 trying all the numbers one by one in the database would cost… pennies. We’re talking probably less than 5 bucks a month.
Sure it can be, what I’m trying to say is that there is no financial incentive for it to be though. Programming takes time and money, and there is literally no profit to be had for doing it.
They are going by volume, so the overall successes matter and the reason for why the rest are unsuccessful doesn't matter.
Phone numbers get reused all the time, so if they pull the number from the pool they miss a possible future opportunity. This is important when lack of success would massively shrink their pool of numbers at no real cost savings to them since they are going for volume anyway.
Basically you are asking from a logical and well intended point of view, but telemarketers are approaching it from a maliciously logical volume method that benefits from stumbling across enough gullible people to make the rest of the volume worth it.
Also, don’t underestimate the incompetence/lack of care that some of these companies may have. Just because they could reduce costs by flagging unresponsive numbers doesn’t mean they necessarily will.
Because that community decided to leave and start a place here when things blew up. Other communities didn’t. They’re active, so people hang out there. There’s a fairly low barrier to entry for new folks to participate (a lot of people have watched some Star Trek).
Really, having an active community say, we’re leaving and setting up shop here goes a long way. I wish my niche subreddit had done so as well.
garek is amazing and he is the best boy <3 i only said quark because i was commenting more on the socialist/capitalist topic from the previous comment :D
You’re right, that was obnoxious. I apologize for that. But the concept of a Federation is big part of the show. As is not being a dick, which I just failed at.
Starship Troopers. The bugs weren’t actually aggressors, and the big one they caught at the end was just scared and sort of cute.
The main character started as a neutral, somewhat open minded guy and ended up a heartless war machine who drank the fascist kool aid and helped recruit new soldiers for their unjust causes.
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