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#3018069 7-Jan-2023 02:29

Aliexpress have decided that there is a limit on things in wishlists now. With how messed up they made wishlists it makes deleting things from them a complete chore, and I have no idea how many over this new limit I am for things to even know if I should bother trying to delete things from them or not.

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#3018078 7-Jan-2023 08:22

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Another neighbour held a housewarming party. They were extremely good neighbours.

They sent us all a notice as well as a strict timetable for when the party would move indoors, stop, and people leave by.

Neighbours up the street did something similar, they had some sort of anniversary bash and left notes in everyone's letterbox giving the date, time, and expected finish time, as well as an invite to drop by. The main thing was letting everyone know in advance, and pointing out that it was a one-off for a special occasion rather than some random noisy party, everyone was fine with it.

Common courtesy and consideration. Sadly all too rare nowadays.

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#3018127 7-Jan-2023 10:28

Chatting with CSR at trade tested web chat.

I'm looking for shelves with maximum height and width of X and y.

Sends me 3 links which exceed both dimensions by 10cm each.

UGH.

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#3018136 7-Jan-2023 11:14

Fairly certain this is a bot giving answers and not a human:

Hi, As a parent I have created an account to sign in but how does my child sign in on his chromebook? Do you allow for child and parent accounts or do parents need to give their children their google password to sign in to Brilliant?

Hi!

Currently, you have to be 13 or older to create your own account, in compliance with COPPA. That being said, If someone under 13 wanted to learn with Brilliant, they would be welcome to use a parent or guardians account, as long as none of their own personal information is a part of that persons account.

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Hi, thank you for the reply

I have already created an account and I selected that I was creating the account as a parent. So how does that work for my child?

Hi,

The courses we offer are all static, and available to all users equally, regardless of age, skill level, or any other factors. That said, we have a wide range of courses covering subjects from the simplest fundamentals of math, science, and computer science, all the way up through some very advanced topics. If you'd like to tell me more about what your child is hoping to learn here at brilliant, and what math and science they already have experience with, I'd be happy to recommend a few courses for them :-)

Warm regards,
Sandy

Hi, I'm happy to go through the courses ourselves.

I'm asking how my son can access the webpage when I have created an account under my email address

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Thanks for asking! If he is younger than 13, he is welcome to use your account to access Brilliant.org. If he is older than 13, he can create his own account.

Warm regards,
Sandy

Yes, but how does he sign in to my brilliant.org account on his chromebook? If I try this it automatically tries to use his own google account and not mine

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I'm sorry to hear that! You can manage your third party accounts and logins from your account settings, here: https://brilliant.org/account/social/connections/

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#3018148 7-Jan-2023 11:55

First new mountain bike in years, which took thirteen months to arrive. And hours after the rides my back aches bad enough to interrupt sleep. What's weird it's so close in fit to my old bike, but having got about ten hours in on it, it's slightly putting me off riding it.

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#3018154 7-Jan-2023 12:16

Trying to give the Sky set top box back. Used to be dead easy, take it to a 100% store job done. Now they need you to send it back in a Sky supplied prepaid courier package. OK so I cancelled Sky TV services in November and Sky advised they would send the return package. i rang mid December as the package had not arrived, told there was a delay. OK I will wait a bit...

6 December no package so I ring Sky asked about it CSR tells me the Sky services are still active, I reply no they are stopped. CSR checks again advised I only cancelled a couple of weeks back so 30 day notice still active. No I cancelled mid November. CSR puts me through to retention team because reasons. They confirm that service is indeed stopped and advise the return package had been sen early December, I advise not received. They were adamant that I had received it. Asked did they have a signature for receipt.

After my normal calm manner I convinced them to save them and myself a lot of time and send it again, I gave them precise delivery instructions. They said that my Broadband equipment will need to be returned under seperate cover, SIGH, I am not cancelling Broadband. After a lengthy period of discussion I sorted that , I hope.

I will ring them next week after taking tranquillisers and give notice of termination of broadband services. What an exasperating company to do business with. Just thought I would let the team here know my new years good lord take me now moment and time I will never get back

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#3018186 7-Jan-2023 14:54

Vodafone sent an upgraded modem was told nothing changed ie account details payment details everything would be transfered automatically......but not the phone number it appears....

Still waiting for online to solve this....getting worried the number is no longer valid and I will face alot of calls telling people my new land line number

windows which are too small for the data they need to display yet you cant enlarge them......new modem window of connected devices

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#3018188 7-Jan-2023 15:00

It appears that sales forgot to transfer the phone number service when they sent a new modem....getting nervous

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#3018314 7-Jan-2023 18:49

A supplier made an error with an invoice and omitted GST on it.

i have gotten at least 12 emails today about all the various steps in correcting it.

Correct Process : Notify of error, send credit note, send new invoice. Could have been done with between 1 and 3 emails.

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#3018381 7-Jan-2023 20:44

mudguard:
First new mountain bike in years, which took thirteen months to arrive. And hours after the rides my back aches bad enough to interrupt sleep. What's weird it's so close in fit to my old bike, but having got about ten hours in on it, it's slightly putting me off riding it.

Ok well. I had a bad back (no bike involved) and took a couple of weeks off work thinking it was just one of those things.

When it didn’t clear up, I returned to the GP who sent me for an X-ray. Turns out to be a wedge compression fracture in one on my vertebrae.

So don’t ignore it if it doesn’t get better!

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#3018383 7-Jan-2023 20:45

networkn:
A supplier made an error with an invoice and omitted GST on it.

i have gotten at least 12 emails today about all the various steps in correcting it.

Correct Process : Notify of error, send credit note, send new invoice. Could have been done with between 1 and 3 emails.

Or one 60 second phone call!

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#3018446 7-Jan-2023 22:00

On New Year's Eve, 145 people, including 7 women, were provisionally arrested in Berlin because they ambushed rescue workers and the police and attacked them with fireworks.

- There were 18 nationalities involved, 45 people of them are German.
- 48 of them are guests in Germany due to the fact that war has been raging in their countries for years (not UKR). Our young soldiers were in their countries on a UN mission for them.
- 355 cases of criminal and administrative offenses, including dangerous bodily harm, breach of the peace and explosives explosions, are being investigated.
- Now the gun laws are to be tightened again - as if potential criminals would abide by the law?

When will politicians understand that the problem is not the tool, but the person using it? What if they used kitchen knives? Would there then only be spoons?

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#3018450 7-Jan-2023 22:16

Tinkerisk:

On New Year's Eve, 145 people, including 7 women, were provisionally arrested in Berlin because they ambushed rescue workers and the police and attacked them with fireworks.

- There were 18 nationalities involved, 45 people of them are German.
- 48 of them are guests in Germany due to the fact that war has been raging in their countries for years (not UKR).
- 355 cases of criminal and administrative offenses, including dangerous bodily harm, breach of the peace and explosives explosions, are being investigated.
- Now the gun laws are to be tightened again - as if potential criminals would abide by the law?

When will politicians understand that the problem is not the tool, but the person using it? What if they used kitchen knives? Would there then only be spoons?

So the USA must be the safest place on earth then...

Except its not, the USA has (per million people)

5 times as many murders as Germany

3 times as many rapes as Germany

There is ZERO evidence to show that increased gun ownership rates increases security.

Shall we mention the US 6 year old who took a gun to school to shoot his teacher this week ?

Based on if 4 or more victims are killed or injured from gun crime, then you consider it a Mass shooting, the USA had 648 in 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/article/mass-shootings-2022.html

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#3018452 7-Jan-2023 22:22

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So the USA must be the safest place on earth then...

In the US the problem lays between the ears of the people as well. It’s the mindset - no gun can fire by itself.

BTW: In Berlin they used fireworks (pyro) everybody can buy freely at any supermarket and they hacked / modified it.

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#3018454 7-Jan-2023 22:26

Tinkerisk:
sir1963:

So the USA must be the safest place on earth then...

In the US the problem lays between the ears of the people as well. It’s the mindset - no gun can fire by itself.

BTW: In Berlin they used fireworks everybody can buy freely at any supermarket and they hacked / modified it.

Nope. More guns = more gun deaths. The two go together.

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