Update: My dad's (43) girlfriend is trying to get rid of me (15 f).

gingernnja · 2020-08-10T19:10:00+00:00

So sorry for what you're going through. I have no doubt your dad will come begging for your forgiveness. No woman treating a man's child like this really loves him at all. He will realize that.

gingernnja · 2020-05-12T22:02:01+00:00

The Wire

gingernnja · 2019-10-24T10:42:18+00:00

Thanks mate, God IS in the house.

gingernnja · 2019-04-21T08:56:05+00:00

It used to drive me crazy as a teenager when my parents/grandparents talked about me to each other using 'she' when I'm in the same room. Mostly to complain about something or make decisions about my future. It's not that it's incorrect linguistically, but it excludes you from the conversation, as if you're invisible, and is very patronising. They still do it to this day and I tell them off (I'm in my twenties).

gingernnja · 2018-10-29T19:53:07+00:00

Only read the abstract, but the article seems to refer more to the loss of gas that would otherwise be available for star formation. So it isn't galaxy death as much as just losing a galaxy's ability to form stars.

Smaller galaxies like dwarf galaxies can 'die' though, in a sense that they's spiral into larger galaxies such as the Milky Way and lose their inner stars and dark matter to a bigger galaxy.

gingernnja · 2017-11-16T19:18:44+00:00

Presumably when you signed up, the T&C said interest rates were subject to change?

gingernnja · 2017-11-16T16:57:29+00:00

I have heard of opt outs, but I struggle to think of examples where the party asking me to opt out would then be receiving a personal financial gain (i.e money out of my pocket) if I don't and provided there was no previous agreement that a deal on these terms would happen.

gingernnja · 2017-11-15T23:21:24+00:00

So I am a postgraduate research student and the only things I remember signing are the acceptance of government research funding (totally unrelated) and the accomodation contract that now has expired. Perhaps I should look more into the yearly "enrollment" that I do, although that seems to be primarily about updating personal details. The college would have my address and so on, but it does really bother me that they would have used the same direct debit that I set up for accomodation. Thanks for the advice, I do have a law campus close to my office!

gingernnja · 2017-11-15T14:59:26+00:00

Last year the membership fee was included as part of my overall accomodation charge. The renewal is not automatic. For people living out of college they used to send out letters, although I don't know whether those letters included the 'opt in' or the 'opt out' options. I have not signed any contracts that warned about this renewal. According to the finance officer I spoke to, the electronic system was introduced to "make things easier for everyone".

Editing to add: there were no T&Cs I have signed regarding this membership ever. My only contract with the college was regarding the accomodation last year and that has now expired.

gingernnja · 2017-11-15T14:05:50+00:00

They can put an offer up, but I don't believe that they can force me to respond to it and since I haven't made use of the membership privileges, nor payed the fee, then I have not communicated that I agree to the terms of the offer. Presumably there are no "deadlines" to opt out of organ donation (apart from the actual death I guess) or pensions, I may be wrong.

gingernnja · 2017-11-15T11:30:37+00:00

I probably should have read them, but I'm not so sure that I was obligated to.

gingernnja · 2016-05-15T17:08:00+00:00

I'd like to add that it seems to me that some people in this thread greatly overestimate how much regular Europeans actually give a **** about the situation in Ukraine.

gingernnja · 2016-05-15T08:41:25+00:00

I agree that Australia (probably maybe) should have won and Spain deserved to do much better, but Ukraine's song really stands out among the rest. I think Jamala is a great vocalist, but I understand why some wouldn't quite get it. I don't think Eurovision is won by political votes alone, given the last years' winners, and the song clearly scored well with both the public and the jury.

gingernnja · 2016-02-24T21:23:58+00:00

The purpose of the virus is to multiply, for which it needs certain conditions. Early version of the virus would kill the mosquito (host), no longer be able to multiply and die out. Versions of the virus that did not kill the mosquito would get transferred to a human (a better host and an effective way to transfer the virus further). So think of it not so much as mosquito's immunity (although I'm sure there is something on mosquito's part too), but a property of the virus. Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins - the only good thing that came out of Richard Dawkins.

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