Dаn̈ıel Раršlow 🥧 @pieist@qoto.org

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When someone continues to go on about something despite you giving no indication of sharing their outrage, never say "how about I just give you my proxy, so you can care about it twice as hard for both of us?"

On account of it smarts, if their reaction the dozen or so times I've done it so far is anything to go by.

@Nickiquote @davidallengreen Yes, exactly. In letters sent to me, I expect there to be a lawyer standing behind what's said in it and to whom questions, other interested parties, etc. may be referred. It wasn't precisely the lack of a signature I was speaking about; I did check for a named lawyer at the top of the letter as well before asking.

@davidallengreen @Nickiquote I see. In other words, this isn't necessarily the form of the correspondence that Starmer himself would have received.

@Nickiquote @davidallengreen OK. I don't recall ever seeing a letter from a law firm -- on a matter of law as opposed to a business matter -- that was not signed by a lawyer.

@davidallengreen I note that it is not signed by any person. It merely says "Asserson Law Offices". How usual is this in the UK? To my inexperienced eye it has a sense of "this letter is sent by our offices but no actual person in our offices sees fit to affix his or her name to it."

This, from bluesky. Aaaack.

@w7voa I'm thinking "The United States of Central North America", if you wanted to be both accurate and apolitical.

Meanwhile we can still rename the gulf. How about the Gulf of Texaco? The Gulf of Shell? Ooo, I know, the Gulf of Gulf!

Alternatively, how about the Gulf of Texaco? Or for strong historical reasons, the Gulf of Shell?

Ooo, I know, the Gulf of Gulf!

If anyone were in charge of Canada right now, he or she should probably suggest that the U.S. be renamed to "The United States of Central North America"

@carlysagan @DavidBruchmann @DoomsdaysCW

IIRC it was a reboot of Zelazny's "Amber" series of fantasy novels starring the original protagonist's son, who was more into sorcery than his pop.

@EugeneMcParland And that's not counting the deficiencies on the command deck

@gregeganSF The reason certain kinds of scam emails are so bafflingly illiterate is specifically to weed out people likely to catch on, as those people can end up being more trouble than profit. This misfeature will almost certainly sanewash many of those.

Just got one of those unsolicited pollster texts, which began:

"Hello, this is Kymberleigh. We are conducting a survey ..."

Of course I replied with the URL for reddit's /r/tragedeigh