Philippe23

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[–] Philippe23 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

"Fox" could be confused with "box", so it goes with "Foxtrot".

Also, keep in mind that everything is a product of its time.

[–] Philippe23 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This Experian FAQ article indicates "thin file" is about number of credit accounts, not amount of interest.

https://www.experian.com/blogs/ask-experian/what-is-a-thin-credit-file-and-how-will-it-impact-your-life/

[–] Philippe23 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn't just look like a modified version of another of the victim's public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.

[–] Philippe23 23 points 9 months ago (4 children)

My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.

[–] Philippe23 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Good to know the Saturn is still kicking!

[–] Philippe23 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I don't have X/etc installed on my machine. I do not have the mentioned env var defined.

[–] Philippe23 4 points 9 months ago

I think it's that the parent company took out huge loans to buy Redbox. And that's the streaming service they setup has ongoing costs and overhead, like licencing. And the loans they took out to make their own content.

[–] Philippe23 17 points 10 months ago

Anybody else spend way too long trying to figure out why there were umlauts over the "n" in the second panel? 🤦🏻

[–] Philippe23 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The actress was born in Cleveland, Ohio. So there's that.

[–] Philippe23 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

3 is also shorter.

[–] Philippe23 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Are you sure that's not 7931 you're looking at?

7931 are the four corners, so it'd be an easy pattern.

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