dualmindblade [he/him]

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Cake day: September 21st, 2020

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  • Your brain is working just fine for a normal hard working yet tragically uneducated upper lower middle classer, all three words mean the same thing in traditional English. However, as a liberal I see an opportunity to get my nuance on.

    It is thawing in the sense that it is heating up on the Russian front, pretty simple…

    It is dethawing in that we now have to put down yet another surge in radical leftist terrorist activity here in these United states in order to secure our place in the middle east you see.

    And it is unthawing because we haven’t yet had the opportunity to thaw China, our relationship was never particularly warm, they’re a cold and unfeeling culture you see. You don’t thaw ice cream, you melt it. But we cannot melt the Chinese, they would simply melt us back, and so begins the great unthawing, in which we invent newer and newer words for thaw, more than they could possibly represent in their primitive glyph based writing system, they will have no choice but to all learn English, this opens them up to the marketplace of ideas, this makes them vulnerable to debate, and the invisible hand takes care of Taiwan, no nukes required, hopefully, let’s say a minimum amount of nukes, probably just a few well placed tactical ones worst case. Finally, world peace.















  • So you have some kind of spectrum modem with a built in router and the wired connection is solid? Assuming you’ve turned it off and back on again…

    Last time I had spectrum you could still configure quite a bit from the modem admin UI, usually you can access it at 192.167.1.1, though this can vary. Get in there, if you changed the password (you should have lol) and don’t remember you’ll need to do a hard reset on the modem which you can look up by model number. Update the firmware and/or mess with random wifi settings till it works. All of this is reversible with a hard reset, unless the firmware update fails so maybe do that last. If this fails either replace the hardware or get a separate wifi router, don’t need to worry about compatibility really just get one with the same or greater Ethernet bandwidth as the model. Or you can go to the spectrum brick/mortar and wait in line and they’ll replace it.

    VERY IMORTANT: when you do end up getting off spectrum and have to return the hardware, take a picture of the receipt at UPS or wherever you happen to return it. They will very likely try to fuck you and say it wasn’t returned, I believe this is an unofficial internal policy. Even if you do this they may send you to collection even thought you proved to them more than once you returned it. Take screenshots and/or recordings of all interaction with spectrum agents. Then finally a strongly worded letter (registered mail) to the collection agency with all your evidence will end the nightmare. Is it worth it to spent 12 hours of work and $10 to send a registered letter so that spectrum only extracts $2 extra dollars by selling your “debt” rather than 50? I would argue that yes, it is