"Phobia" doesn't mean "fear", necessarily. Fear can absolutely be a factor of a phobia, but not a requirement. Technically, "phobia" just means "aversion to". For instance, hydrophobic materials aren't "afraid" of water, they just don't interact with it.
That said, when it comes to homophobes, fear is definitely a common factor. Misinformation about human sexuality leads to people being afraid of being "converted". But there are plenty of homophobes who aren't as much afraid, as much as they are just plain hateful.
Chances are that you don't actually have their name; that's likely the name of another victim. Your credit card was never the hacker's goal; that other person's ID is.
Stolen credit cards are effectively worthless on their own. Your card is just a disposable tool for them to validate the ID with, and to see if it passes basic security checks like buying an airline ticket. If they are able to get through the purchase without being flagged, they know they've got a high-value ID to work with. They already know that the credit card is burned the instant they make a purchase with it, so they're likely not poking around further into your financials.
That said, any personal details of yours that they managed to capture in this breach, may also be used to try to steal your ID down the road, so start locking down any details that were ever given to that breached site.
Honestly, Best Buy's service plans are slept on. I had to use them for a couple TVs that both started failing a few months after the manufacturer warranty ended. Ended up getting a free upgrade on both units because they stopped making that particular model (I wonder why) so they replaced both TVs with a slightly bigger display.
Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the "actual act" but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.
This dude thinks he can prove a negative. What a fucking dipshit.
"Young Chinese women have small fingers," the article reads, "and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said."
This 100% reads like LLM output; it's confidently wrong, isn't using proper news copy syntax, and got weirdly vague as it trailed off ("the small device").
In April, Lavers and her team broke a disturbing record: 778 pieces of plastic were found inside a single 80-day-old chick. “I’m sad to say just yesterday we blew [the record] out of the water,” she said. “In one of the most pristine corners of our planet.”
That plastic load made up nearly a fifth of the chick’s body weight.
Earth is cooked.
EDIT: Fuck, the video is hard to watch. But you should. Everybody should. The sound is awful. Sorry for the Instagram link, but as best as I can tell, it's the original source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJ3fhlVTy1O/
That's actually a really clever use of Gaussian splats, though I'm not really sure what the practical use of it would be. You can probably create some really cool, interactive renders of shipwrecks and reefs and such, but I'm not immediately seeing the value beyond edutainment content.
Corridor does a really good breakdown of what Gaussian splats are here, for those interested. The explanation ends when the sponsor segment begins, for those who don't want to watch the whole video.
I don't know why anyone is buying those death-traps.
I've got good news, then! Fewer and fewer people are buying the illegal immigrant's dangerous and overpriced swastikar, with new buyers dropping and trade-ins rising every day as public support for the emerald mine nepo baby nazi dwindles daily.
"Phobia" doesn't mean "fear", necessarily. Fear can absolutely be a factor of a phobia, but not a requirement. Technically, "phobia" just means "aversion to". For instance, hydrophobic materials aren't "afraid" of water, they just don't interact with it.
That said, when it comes to homophobes, fear is definitely a common factor. Misinformation about human sexuality leads to people being afraid of being "converted". But there are plenty of homophobes who aren't as much afraid, as much as they are just plain hateful.