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People suck. Alot. And they lie. Worth a commercial insurance policy and an extra client a month to cover the cost.

Why? Insurance company has a “duty to defend” against claims. Their check, your lawyer in all the usual senses.

I’m marginally curious, can you give a high level example of the industry? Meritocracy is rare, anymore.

Haven’t seen it in a minute, but it definitely used to exist.

I would 100% both use and pay for it - forces me to put a bit more thought into phone trees, making me less likely to get lost in them.

It’s stupid af… Unless you have responsibly charged your phone through your multi-day backwoods hike and it saves your ass.

Wouldn’t suggest it as a frontline defense, of course, but… I can see a use case that saves a life, or at least a limb.

Hand-curated categories -> lists etc.

Think back to what Yahoo originally was. Drill down through categories, subcats, etc. to find what you’re looking for.

Worked for the time, but for a technical query today would be an absolute non-starter

Long term, that’s a decent idea - Mastodon and related platforms generally have a function similar to that, and it saves me scripting “Retrieve post, edit post, replace with ‘.’”

I’ll go one farther - unless it’s my doc, my wife, or my boss, I’m neither answering the call nor listening to the voicemail. That’s what easily skimmable voicemail transcription is for…

I don’t love the privacy implications of transcribed voicemail, ofc, but it’s better for my own privacy/threat model than answering the phone to robots, scammers, and etc. It’s also a hell of a lot better for my mental health, vs listening to them.