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Joe/29/IN/Aquarius/ESFP. Feel free to talk to me about whatever!

[hawkpartys]

big fan of bug names that sound like they were given by the bug's bitter ex

[dale-afficanado-blueberry]

I regret to inform you that Discord's new Terms of Service includes an arbitration clause. You can find it here https://discord.com/terms/#16. This clause includes an opt-out, which I have transcribed here:

Terms of Service | Discord

Read about Discord's Terms of Service

You can decline this agreement to arbitrate by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of April 15, 2024 or when you first register your Discord account, whichever is later; otherwise, you shall be bound to arbitrate disputes in accordance with the terms of these paragraphs. If you opt out of these arbitration provisions, Discord also will not be bound by them.

These clauses are underhanded ways that corporations seek to deprive you of your right to participate in class-action lawsuits and your right to a jury trial. (This does only apply to us users ,other people still spread the word though )

[ganurath]

#whats arbitration someone help me

Bad news, @noodelzmop. Arbitration basically means that if you want to sue Discord for whatever reason, the dispute needs to be handled in house. Specifically, in their house. If you don't get this email out, you're basically signing away your right to legal recourse if they do criminally shitty stuff to you, like with the McDonalds app.

[dale-afficanado-blueberry]

I have been told that emailing "I am confirming that as of the date of this email, I am choosing to opt out of binding arbitration to settle disputes with Discord." With the Email you used for your discord account is enough for the notice but take this with a grain of salt as this was not said by a lawyer

[everyone-needs-a-hoopoe]

reiterating that this only applies to US users

[batsandboba]

THIRTY DAY LIMIT BTW. I suggest taking sixty seconds to fire off a quick email with op’s recommended text. I have no plans to sue discord but better safe than sorry

[sugar-and-spite]

OH BOY! it's me again, your local internet privacy & safety enthusiast!

this was too big to fit into a tumblr post and i had to do Research™ so here, take this google doc i wrote outlining what exactly is going on, why you should care, and how to opt out (with an email template included):

Discord Arbitration Agreement

[yellowpoet]

hold on. Was suck him good and hard through his jorts supposed to conjour the image of someone who has an unzipped fly because this entire time I've been imagining someone slurping on wet denim

[yellowpoet]

Truly one of the sentences of all time. Wetpilled denimmaxer

[mostnormalthing-deactivated2024]

[virtualgirladvance]

[charitydingle]

FRIENDS 5.17 “The One with Rachel's Inadvertent Kiss"

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

[sovietnam]

[wokeuplaughing]

if someone brought karl marx back to life the first thing I would do is have a shopping montage to get him modern outfits where I shake my head yes or no to the outfits he picks out but then after that we'd get down to serious business

[saul-tortellini]

[psychotickenesis-deactivated202]

Oh sweet i can get ROCKS and STICKS in my shawarma

[hipshakingkingcreole]

Screaming

[inthefallofasparrow]

In the town where I grew up, there was a large statue in one of the parks, of a famous historical white colonizer. I'm not going to say who specifically, suffice it to say that it was someone who wasn't worth memorializing for their deeds. And as you can imagine, this statue was a frequent target of vandalism, with paint or toilet paper or eggs on multiple occasions. Now, the local council was generally pretty lax when it came to repairing potholes or other public damage in the town, but every time, 24 hours after this particular statue was hit, the same person would always appear in a Hi-Vis vest, hat, mask and sunglasses, carrying a bucket of water, and wash it clean. They would do it as quickly as possible, but always made sure the face and the name carved at the bottom were generously scrubbed. This only encouraged people to do it again, and so it became a vicious cycle.

Within a year, the statue had sustained so much damage that it was unrecognizable and the lettering unreadable, so eventually the council came and took it down. Also apparently, the person in the Hi-Vis vest didn't even work for the council. They were supposedly just some 'good samaritan' who cleaned it, often before the council even discovered it needed cleaning, so they just let them do it and ignored the problem. They didn't bother putting the statue up again.

Much later, we found out that the anonymous 'samaritan' had been deliberately washing the statue with a bucket of saltwater, which had dramatically corroded it, causing irreversible accumulative damage far worse than spray paint ever would have done. It's even theorized that they were also often the one spray-painting it, just so that they had an excuse to come back after a day to wash it.

[love-to-love-puppies]

A good samaritan indeed

[10001gecs]

got so high I got scared and had to get out of the car to calm down and a coyote immediately sprinted out of the underbrush and stalked towards me

[10001gecs]

i was like ok im a little too high and immediately there were beasts.

[spelldealer]

brutalist candy cane

[ryan-sometimes]

POV: your friend is an ecology major and has beef with random animals

[triviacrossing]

In New Horizons, if the game can't load an NPC due to their referenced model name being invalid, or for other reasons, the game will instead load a naked, unnamed Bob in their place as a failsafe. This was likely a dummy NPC used for testing reasons.

[hellsite-yano]

dont fucking look at me i'm fucking chilling

[dailyquests]

Obliterated that twink

REWARDS: 36 Gold, 17 EXP, Twink Hide (x1)

[fleshdyke]

every sunday i tell my liberal father that i'm off to go get another sex change. he tells me "yass monarch slay". but in reality i go to church to study the teachings of the lord. if my liberal father knew this i would be disowned. this is joe biden's america

[strawbebbynya]

Gonna scream oh my Gd