Zompist Bboard Again

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:35 am

alice wrote: ↑Tue May 11, 2021 2:52 am
I wonder what you would make of Scottish nationalism.

Jan Smuts advocated for “Holism”

nations: "the unification of the four provinces in the Union of South Africa, the idea of the British Commonwealth of Nations, and, finally, the great whole resulting from the combination of the peoples of the earth were just a logical progression consistent with his philosophical tenets.

Nachtswalbe wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 2:26 pm Pastor Gordon terrified my brother when he described how he punished his daughters for not helping his wife when she had a knee injury by making them sleep in the garage (like Amy Chua, Tiger Mom). My brother was afraid dad would kick him out of the house and force him to freeze to death in the streets and started crying when he was about to leave. Dad, always the short tempered person, yelled at mom to make him get on the Only Car (to drive to his univeristy) when Mom called me to explain to my brother what the pastor "meant" : it disciplined his daughters so 10 years later during another accident they all dutifully showed up as young adults to care for their mother.
Both mom and dad believed that they did not discipline my brother harshly enough (e.g spankings) when he was a kid so he fell into self pity.


Mom and Dad are now accusing esch other of misraising my brother using untranslatable insults

malloc wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 12:30 pm I managed to get the replacement card cancelled and my mailing address updated although it took several hours of hassle. However the numbers on each card only differ by seven digits from what I have seen, so they could easily deduce the number for my new card with enough persistence. Whether reasonable or not, I can hardly overstate my anger at the bank for gobbling up my time off from work and leaving me open to identity theft or at least robbery.

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 1:51 pmYou do realize that the person receiving your mis-mailed card likely would not be able to activate it, because companies managing credit/debit cards require information to activate cards that is not available from the piece of mail (whether SSN or the phone number the card is activated with) they are sent in, for the very reason that otherwise people would be stealing people's credit/debit cards out of the mail and activating them on their own?

malloc wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 3:33 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 1:51 pmYou do realize that the person receiving your mis-mailed card likely would not be able to activate it, because companies managing credit/debit cards require information to activate cards that is not available from the piece of mail (whether SSN or the phone number the card is activated with) they are sent in, for the very reason that otherwise people would be stealing people's credit/debit cards out of the mail and activating them on their own?

Yeah, but they hardly need to activate that specific card. Based on what I have seen, card numbers differ by only seven digits and are assigned sequentially. Thus if one card has the number 1234-5678-5555-5555 then the next card issued will have 1234-5678-5555-5556 and so forth. Since my new replacement card was ordered one day after the other card, it will have a very similar number but incremented by several thousand or so. They would just need to try every number following the number on the card until they find one that works.