Talking to a friend you haven’t seen in a while about what’s new in your life is basically the opposite of "small talk’.

Only if something unusual has happened. Otherwise it’s just small talk about work and your family’s health. By a certain age there’s basically never anything “new” in your life.

The DiCaprio thing is funny.

In the 80s or 90s everyone knew that a movie star having a series of young starlet girlfriends meant they’re gay. They get a beard to cover their sexuality and the girlfriend gets exposure from having a famous boyfriend. They split up because it’s obviously not a real relationship, and the studio finds some new actress to link him to.

But being gay got so much more acceptable recently that people don’t understand being closeted any more. So they think DiCaprio is a dirty old man who will only date 22 year olds.

I wonder what people think of me calling stuff “wicked”, which I started saying because of Richard Blackwood’s song “1.2.3.4 Get with the Wicked” in the year 2000

Never seen anyone else mention this, but when I click a post on page 2 then go back, it shows the page 1 posts again. But because the URL is set up for page 2, clicking next goes to page 3. If I don’t concentrate I end up reading one post from each page and missing 90% of my feed.

But then I don’t get why they never ask me for money? When I get through to the scammer they just ask what I want. I’ll say “they said something about me owing money”, and they act like they don’t know what I’m talking about and get annoyed with me for wasting their time.

If the deal is “they take your money and will never get in trouble” then what’s the downside to just running the script on everyone who calls?

Been thinking about it and my theory is it’s a plausible deniability thing.

Company A runs the robocaller which says “You owe $250”, then forwards the call to Company B. They ask what you want and you say “I need to make a payment of $250”. If you say anything else they pretend they don’t know what you mean. Company B can record their calls and prove they never asked anyone for money, it all came from people volunteering to pay. They might have to return it but they can act like it’s an honest mistake.

I don’t get how scams work. Every time I get a scam call I stay on the line or press 1 or whatever to find out what the scam is, but no one ever tries to scam me. They just act like a normal business till I hang up. Can they tell by your voice you aren’t gullible or something?