>There’s no arguing with them. In a few years they will move on to being skeptical about the next thing.
I would but, Londons under 1 mile of horse manure because that trend never stopped and theres no electricity anyway because Bitcoin is using it all. Good thing people getting scared about runaway trends are never wrong?
Yes actually, I've seen both. It makes sense because nobody would impersonate me to give them money.
I also make sure they never owe me. Otherwise I get delayed money, ID thieves have another reason to target me, thieves might actually get it, and the IRS might not give it. And the last thing happened to me once with a large refund, for a year, because of a pure logistics error on their end that took me a ton of effort to get them to fix, and it was kinda related to ID. Identity situation is much cleaner if I just pay the IRS.
I REALLY struggle with Gemini 3 Pro refusing to perform web searches / getting combative with the current date. Ironically their flash model seems much more likely to opt for web search for info validation.
Not sure if others have seen this...
I could attribute it to:
1. It's known quantity with the pro models (I recall that the pro/thinking models from most providers were not immediately equipped with web search tools when they were released originally)
2. Google wants you to pay more for grounding via their API offerings vs. including it out of the box