verylittlemeat

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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
How about the nytimes printing the names of 100,000 people who died of covid-19?
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I dont even mean 4k. Just simple 720/1080p quality amateur porn is a huge step up from what we had 5 years ago.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Porn video quality increases a lot year to year. There are probably multiple lifetimes worth of 90s porn out there and I bet almost no one watches it now besides as a curiosity. It's not just video quality either but style. I've n
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I strongly disagree. Bad actors thrive just as well if not better in places with moderation and even sign up fees. Metafilter is a forum which used to be very diverse in opinion and is now basically captured by a small vocal minority. How d
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
I use nordvpn that I purchased with a credit card. Before using it I would get notices from my ISP for pirating but not anymore. As far as I'm concerned it just makes me not the lowest hanging fruit and that's good enough for me.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Tracking flagged/removed comments would be very interesting. I have a hunch that there might be some interesting patterns there beyond obvious trolls or bigotry.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
As a black person among black people? Can, have and will continue to.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
You could say that for any informal familiar expression that makes the recipient bristle. It's so common people joke about it "don't call me dude, bro | don't call me bro, pal" etc etc
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Well it just so happens I am black and I've been using the word most of my life. Nigga is just "bro" or "dude" but exclusively used among black/minority communities. I realize the word nigga is A Big Deal for w
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
>Overall, using "du" is acceptable in 90% of social interactions. It's only when talking to people in higher positions or as a courtesy to elderly / unfamiliar people. That is pretty much exactly how nigga is used.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Crazy, I had the exact same symptoms during last week of Feb / first week of Mar. I was so wiped out that I was taking naps in a conference room at lunch. A friend of mine caught me and was surprised because normally I work through lun
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
On the contrary, articles like this remind me to not take life for granted. Ever since I read about Lee Holloway at Cloudflare I try to be grateful for every day on this Earth. I am 30 and yet so many promising and beloved people have died
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Don't sign the contract and take on the debt if you can't pay it. If the contracts are usurious and predatory then they probably will not stand up in court if challenged. Most collection agencies settle for 50-70% of the balance o
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Contact from a third party collector? Sure, don't respond. But if you're being summoned by the court under threat of a default judgment then you should probably show up or don't be surprised about the outcome.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
You can break your contract too by declaring bankruptcy and screwing over the debtors. Your debt might not be real or moral but you still legally have to pay it so what does that change.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
AFAIK harassment in most states is very illegal now and is a great way to get your debt dismissed. The same goes for fraud in debt collection. As I mentioned in previous comments, tactics like sewer service by debt collectors are a great wa
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Sure that aspect of debt collection can be improved and is a clear injustice. How many debt collections are of that nature vs people with real lapsed unsecured debt though? If i had to guess not nearly as many. I'm mostly taking issue
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
In order to have a default judgment against a person they must be served (aware of the situation). If you're being told "show up to court or face a negative outcome" and you do nothing then whose fault is that? You took on th
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
You're moving the goal posts on me. I'm talking about debt collection enforcement not the morality or circumstances of why people take on debt.
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Most states now have laws against debt collection harassment and have caps on debt collection interest and fees. There has to be proof in court that a debtor was served papers to get a judgment. There's a term called 'sewer servic
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
As I mentioned I have been to court for a debt collection. Before you go to court the debt collector has to send you proof they served you papers for your debt. They have to send you proof of the chain of debt from the original creditor on
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
>They've been avoiding collection calls for years as agencies sell and resell their debt. Piles of unopened mail, etc. OK but with the exception of fraud and incorrect identity then the rest of the people have a real original debt r
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by verylittlemeat 6y ago
Why would a person who legitimately owes a debt win just by showing up? I had a small unsecured debt that was put into collections and then I was served an order of execution by the marshal to appear in court. I went to court and the judge
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Did the symptoms get worse and/or did you test positive for corona virus?
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
I'm not the OP but I have read a bit about how "adequate PPE" can be controversial. It really boils down to how long certain ppe can be used, what is the risk of infection from reused ppe and how to sanitize ppe effectively.
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
I really have to agree with you. Anxiety is more than being anxious for a reason. Sometimes I will be sitting down perfectly content and all of a sudden my heartbeat will start racing for no reason and I start to panic and everything spiral
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Ask vs. Guess Culture (2010)(theatlantic.com)
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
Without going full armchair psychologist I would assume it has a lot to do with how they were raised. I find that most true believers get that attitude very early in life vs reading a book that told them to "fake it till they make it&q
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
It's definitely a form of control. I know that we're all fucked up in the head in our own special ways but one side of my family has the "positivity" problem. It leads to really intense passive aggressive powderkeg. The
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by verylittlemeat 7y ago
This thread is a funny coincidence. I was looking at mice to buy yesterday and came across this thing [0]. It's a dongle to make it look like your cursor moved because so many corporate laptops are locked down and it cant be done in so

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