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^ Give yourself some credit, you do sound like you know these things well.
To add to that list, there's also whether the diminutive suffix is "-ito/a" or "ico/a", tendency to use perfect preterite ("has been" vs. "was", etc.) and whatever else I'm missing.
I had a dream that I am responding to this very post and encouraging you to go ahead with the trope. There can be no other way; it has been ordained by the heavens.
Speaking of which, this year's Mystery Hunt just ended a few hours ago.
In other news, my government issue survival manual has finally arrived by mail. I kind of hoped it would be more extensive, but it's an appreciable starting point. The part that was a surprise to me was a warning not to give your documents or ID to folks offering you passage or transport. I've honestly never seen it mentioned by survivalists (who tend to focus on extensive practical knowledge of guns and bushcraft), but with all the immigration-slash-refugee stuff around, it feels very grimly practical.
Includes an arbitration clause. You can opt-out. There's a deadline: 30 days from when you first accept this agreement, which means 30 days after Feb 20 if you already have an account.
You have to mail them a form (no e-mail option); they have a form you can fill out and print.
https://www.ebay.com/help/policies/member-behaviour-policies/user-agreement?id=4259
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; please read the user agreement carefully yourself.
(This might not apply to you if you are not in the United States. I dunno.)
I guess it's saying something when our government services have learned to be more user-friendly than whatever that is. what's going on with this world i don't even
The company usually gets to choose where to go for arbitration (as opposed to you choosing to file your lawsuit in your own jurisdiction, or possibly "judge shopping" if you are a particularly well-to-do or well-connected plaintiff who's able to sue from one of multiple jurisdictions). And this process typically also says you can't join class-action lawsuits as a result.
In recent years, for whatever reason, more attention has been drawn to the fact that these arbitration clauses usually also have an opt-out clause. Not sure if this is new. But basically, if you write them within (usually?) 30 days (usually physical mail; sometimes e-mail is an option) of the agreement going into effect or your making a new account with them, you can tell them you don't want to be restricted to this clause. But you have to go do this yourself.
In other stuff, today I met someone a definitely autistic person. So that is how it looks like.
To a pessimist, the glass is halfway empty.
that's possible??
Whole story is I feel a pain like a mosquito bite, I look what's going on, and there's one of these things latched on right there. Didn't look like much afterwards (either nothing or a small red spot depending on if I found the right place), but I felt mild pain for a bunch of hours. Would be a typical insect bite, if it was any other bug.
May you never decay, may your life never be a half- one.
vtuberDefinitely in the social media manager-professional troll corner.
Technicaly speaking I don't know if it was a guy, but looked masculine. I imagine a female weaboo would make a very different kind of impression.
I gib cat.
This reminds me. Gotta saw off that plank-edge-thing I accidentally tore in the floor while moving the furniture. I guess this means my sh1tposting break is over.
Also somebody post in Images, memes are piling up.
To make up for it, I posted an image containing excessive amounts of text.
Why the lie? Well, there were two reasons. Firstly, I was around the ages of thirteen and fifteen when I made the exodus from TvTropes to IJBM2 to…other sites, and I knew well even then that chat forums on the Internet were full of child predators. I wanted to pretend to be older than I really was to guard against those unsavory elements, because this community was honestly one of the few spaces where I could get any sort of positive socialization. I had a hard time fitting in with my RL classmates, as you can probably tell from my awkward demeanor.
The second reason was that I was aware that the Philippines was (and still is) something of an embarrassment on the world stage. To be Filipino is to grow up constantly told bad news about one’s country and quality of living, and I didn’t want to associate myself with – to paraphrase a certain US president – a “shithole country.” I was much too proud a creature to do that. I just wanted to be treated as an equal, without the stigma of my country attached.
woah
Being able to convincingly pretend you're not from where you're from, is a skill many people don't have, so good for you on that. Did you get any of these moments when folks tried to call your bluff?
(I still remember that time when goons from SomethingAwful collectively decided Beholderess ain't Russian because she wasn't enough "greetinkz komradzz kho ho ho hoo" for them.)
I can kinda see that, except on our end there's also the sense that we ought to be respected because we wuz hussars n shit. poland stronk
So yeah. For what it's worth, my associations with the Phillippines have long been along the lines of "these guys have kick-ass stick fighting". I don't know what you think of it, but I hope it's better than being known as a shithole country.