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>My plan is to do nothing until Demi Rose posts on Chirp Club

My email accounts still use the phone number that I had until 2013, when I ran out of money. This is insecure. The only reason to leave it in this insecure state is as a reminder that I once had money to pay for phone service.

The Lady and the Tiger. I know of this story because a NY Times article, or opinion piece, used the expression, and so I looked it up. The question is supposed to be the same as with the followup story, which references the original.

The kingdom official tells the five travelers that once they figure out which lady the prince had married, he will tell them the outcome of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" The story ends with a comment that they still have not come to a decision.

It may surprise someone who is reading this blog, but you could <redacted> today. Right now.

I don't think there was any evidence that Demi Rose could be involved in a government conspiracy before I watched Pey's WoW Classic streams in August 2019. I thought I would try to find Demi Rose's statuses, but scrolling back on Nitter only reaches Apr 2020, and search on Nitter fails to find any of the tweets by her after 2017.

She retweeted or said one thing that suggested she was upset, and then another thing that suggested she was calm.

I forget what I did as a result, other than spend another six years being poor. (And occasionally not drinking water, or not eating food, etc.)

Even though I'm not in a relationship, and Demi Rose has never said anything to me, I try to do what she wants. This is why, for example, I gave a warning before I deleted or hid the weblog posts and Chirp Club statuses that mentioned her. If she didn't want this to happen, it was her chance to change the outcome. I did not give a warning before I hid other weblog posts that may have mentioned other people, or before I made efforts to get my Chirp Club account locked for spamming, which led to it automatically being banned a few days or weeks later.

Most people meet accidentally. Pey just happened to be streaming WoW Classic when I checked the list on Twitch. If she hadn't made the mistake of not putting new spell ranks on her bars (which happened before I started watching, and I figured it out by comparing the damage she was doing to the ranks available at her level), I wouldn't have signed in and commented, and eventually I would have stopped watching without her ever being aware of me. If I had thought that Demi Rose did not want me to be watching game streams, where I might encounter someone attractive like Pey, I would not have watched them.

I recall the instance in 2010, when I was living in the same building as Kate. A Korean student, Soo-yeun, started studying at the same table as me one day. There was some kind of interaction that I don't remember, and then Kate started vacuuming her room which was next to the common area. As most people who use the Internet know, vacuum cleaners are very loud, and I felt Kate started vacuuming specifically because I seemed to be acting in a friendly manner towards someone who is female.

Note the detail that wireless in that area came from the router that was in Kate's room that I had lent her, connected via powerline adapter to the cable modem and two more routers in my room. Three walls made it difficult to get good signal at that location otherwise. No one else, such as Soo-yeun, was aware of this, but it was reasonable for Kate to think of my being at that location as a favor from her. For example, when I originally noticed that she might be interested in me, I immediately stopped studying at that location until a chance encounter when she hid her face while leaving the building, as I was standing at my door waiting for someone else for some reason.

So it was reasonable for Kate to think that me studying at that location was an imposition on her, and that I had only resumed studying there because it benefited her. This is the context for her possibly creating noise on purpose with a vacuum cleaner, to disrupt conversations or even to disrupt the act of studying.

And eventually I stopped studying there, based on her words suggesting that she preferred that I did not study there. Etc. I did what I thought she wanted me to do.

So, a smile or a frown? I think a smile is more natural, and that people would only use negative emotions, like anger, when positive emotions don't work. The Chinese drama about zombies: the male lead was nice to his neighbors, but they had no interest in coming to save him from the bully. As Machiavelli said, "it is much safer to be feared than loved, if one of the two has to be wanting". So it is that in relationships, negative emotions are used when positive ones fail, because they are perceived as being more effective. This, in a culture where many people use bad words. (Note the rest of the paragraph that contains that quote, beginning with "I say that every prince must desire to be considered merciful and not cruel.")

This is a bit random, but Warcraft III video that linked, with a story that's a reference to the US's treatment of Native Americans that many people don't realize because they're uneducated. Why is it a clear reference? Because kings did not create things with names like "the Alliance Internment Act". They just gave orders. An 'act' is something that seems like it results from a conflicted government. Words that are written down become fixed, though Chinese dramas also contain orders from a sovereign converted into words, as imperial decrees.

So 'acts' are seen as fixed, with individual words being important and so giving importance to the overall law, because they are created through a process involving conflict. Two or more political entities with different priorities and goals bargain to create a result they can agree on. Following the law is about adhering to the promises that all parties have made, to stick to their agreement. Not following it would be dishonest at some level; either a promise to follow it, or a promise to enforce authority on other people who have agreed to follow orders given to them. (So if a low-ranked official receives bad orders, they are not being dishonest, but the person responsible for the bad orders is dishonest.)

A sovereign gives orders without a promise that they will not change those orders. Even in the drama I linked, the sovereign could have revoked the decree, but chooses not do so for reasons that I don't remember.

In short, an 'Act' is out of place for the setting, which has a king, not a legislative body that drafts laws. (Ok, England has both a king and a parliament since like the Magna Carta in 1215, for  but the story in Warcraft III makes no mention of limited monarchies.) Therefore, it is a reference to — apparently no specific law; a search for "native american Internment Act" gives as third result, Internment of Japanese Americans § Prior use of internment camps in the United States, which says,

During the 1830s, civilians who were members of the indigenous Cherokee nation were evicted from their homes and detained in "emigration depots" in Alabama and Tennessee prior to their deportation to Oklahoma following the passage of the Indian Removal Act in 1830. Similar internment policies were carried out by U.S. territorial authorities against the Dakota and Navajo peoples during the American Indian Wars in the 1860s.

But apparently, if the Dakota and Navajo peoples were interned because of a law, the law wasn't important enough to receive a link in this article. (I'm completely ignorant of whether native peoples were ever interned in Canada like they were in the US, but I assume they were and probably still are treated badly.)

I worry that Demi Rose's Like count on Chirp has decreased in a sharp jump because she caused it to do so. (This would be like a frown in the short story: an ambiguous action with no explanation, that suggests displeasure.) The alternative is that she Liked tweets from a lot fewer accounts than Yara did, whose Like count usually decreases by 0~10 every day.

More posts loaded for me from Nitter, back to Nov 2019 on Demi Rose's feed, which is still not yet at the launch of Classic WoW in Aug 2019.

I am assuming that Demi Rose is not intentionally unliking tweets to lower her Like count. Hopefully, this will stop me from making another post.

I'm sure I've said this before, but from around Feb 2009 (after Mei's birthday) to around Jul 2009, I didn't try to contact Mei. My intention was that if she didn't reply to an email at the end of my military deployment, I would <redacted even though it has nothing to do with money>. The painting was unplanned; actually I don't know if I had intended to send an email at all, before that. Ideally, if she still cared about me, she would reply to an email, so the actual outcome where she refused to reply to an email, but possibly just stayed online for an extended period of time after she received the email (she was online when I signed on to an instant messaging program, and I don't know how long she had been online), was sort of like the flight controls being broken in the 1982 Thunderbirds Indian Springs diamond crash. But in a conversation after that, she made me aware of the song Love is War by Hatsune Miku. I'm linking it because of the possibility that it's relevant.

The line at 2:17, "the megaphone I shouted into was broken." Is me assuming that Demi Rose is not sending hidden messages through her like count similar to the megaphone being broken? Also note line at 1:55, translated here as "ardent love is a sin".

"How often do we invent things to make ourselves unhappy?" "When benefit to the group is unclear, motives can become distorted", etc.

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