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Cake day: July 15th, 2023

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  • They do that so that legally your wife can open the advertisement. They don’t and you wanted to be a loser, you could report her for tampering with your mail. I’m not sure what the postal investigator would do. “Knock it off and call a divorce lawyer” might feature somewhere in the possibilities.

    In any case they’re just pulling names off a list some where. They assume you’re married and in a typical cis relationship.

    Same reason they add “or current residents” as well.

    They want it read, they don’t care if it’s you or your wife or the luchador that’s randomly moved in with you.




  • the official explanation is “marketing”. (there’s a few reasons for it. 9 is considered unlucky in japan, for example. they wanted branding with 10. etc)

    The fun thing is that there was a version that should have come out between 8 and 10 and didn’t. they decided to abandon it in very very pre-alpha because it was just that bad. (No, that probably doesn’t explain the gap. but its fun to poke at.). Basically it was supposed to take all the stupid features like seamless phone OS integration and tablet stuff and become some sort of uber universal-operating system that sucks.






  • I work in contract security… I’ve been sprayed with all manner of things. had nasty ass mid-western-flavorless-potato salad thrown at me. (Dill. I spent the rest of that shift smelling like freaking dill.).

    I’ve been spat at. Pissed at. (sometimes on purpose. Also. Why do drunks pissing on your wall always try to shake your hand? Also, why do FNG’s never listen when I tell them to always initiate from a reasonably safe distance…?)

    I’ve also been maced. Quite frequently, actually. It’s part of training, and I’m the guy doing the training… Protip. If the attacker has been exposed to mace enough, it’s not something that’s going to stop them. We train our guards to build up that tolerance so they can work through it. otherwise it’d incapacitate the guard as much as the subject. Even if they’ve never before been exposed… if they’re determined enough, it still wont’ stop them. It’ll just make them angrier.

    Suffice it to say, lemon juice just ain’t that offensive. Wouldn’t want you to get slapped with any of a dozen possible charges involved in spraying people with chemical agents. And yes, any security or LEO outfit worth their pay is going to be framing that as “unknown chemical or possibly biological agent”. until they know-for-damned-certain its not. (and that gets expensive, so, uh, you’ll be footing the bill on that, at the very least. probably also some variation of assault.)