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Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by latexr »

sharkweek wrote: post #91
bragr wrote: post #22

This reminds me of how my father (a lawyer) sent fake subpoenas to invite people to his brother's bachelor party. Most found it hilarious but it freaked a few people out. I suspect that this would have the same problem.

I remember in college (early 00s when music piracy was huge) someone set up a site where you could enter an email and it’d send them a fake letter from the RIAA about the downloading they were doing. Sent one to my college roommate and sat quietly while he got home from class and checked his email. He obviously started panicking until the link in the email revealed the joke. He didn’t think it was funny and swore col…

> swore cold blooded revenge that I’ve yet to receive. Still keep one eye open at night.

You’re receiving it right now. It’s the uncertainty, the uneasiness you have to carry with you every day, that is the revenge.

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Post by lnsru »

nicbou wrote: post #140
DavidSJ wrote: post #67

On a few occasions I’ve called the phone number on a professional vehicle’s “how’s my driving?” bumper sticker to report the driver for good driving. It’s always a fun experience.

I often give drivers a thumbs up when they are careful around bikes. German drivers are especially wary of cyclists, and I'm often surprised by how constantly they look out for me.

Be careful there! You need only one idiot to become a meat in a wheelchair. It’s my personal data point. Luckily it was only very close call. I can walk, run and dance again.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by adnanaga »

brna-2 wrote: post #164

@adnanaga the e-mail you specified for contact on the site does not work: continue@boondoggle.io gmails says it is miss-configured. I was wondering for EU, could I get the document template.

Yes! It's on the site too - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Um9z87Zv_zLRZRRHpii-Mwm...

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by egorfine »

omoikane wrote: post #66

> A official-looking legal letter [...] Surprise someone Having received actual legal letters before, my personal experience is that I would much rather receive normal looking holiday cards to encourage me in continuing whatever I was doing, rather than being surprised by official-looking letters. It might be different if this service offered help in other ways, but currently it seems like a practical joke of dubious…

Depends. I would be spooked and frightened but then I would be delighted.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by tomashubelbauer »

I think something like Keep and Persist would roll off the tongue better, though it is not perfect English. I can't think of another verb that would still rhyme and fit better. Overall well meant idea, but I echo others sentiment that this could really freak some people out. I'm trying to decide whether I'm in that group or not. Probably yeah.

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Post by 127 »

revscat wrote: post #16

As someone who is coming to increasingly believe that 99% of the world problems are caused by powers seeking to intentionally divide us one from the other, I cannot tell you how much joy this brings me to see. I wish you great success in this effort, however small it might appear to be in the scheme of things.

Nah, 99% of the world problems is caused by fraud.

Re: Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

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Post by infinitedata »

Regarding data privacy, but from a different angle, here you are not getting the consent from the actual person receiving the letter, you are getting the consent from someone else, does that allow you to use their information when the consent is not coming from the affected party?
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