u/Physical_Courage_919

I grew up in East LA and I've eaten a million burritos in my life. I've ordered burritos a million times at all sorts of restaurants. I've eaten burritos all over the world, and I am aware of wet burritos. In Southern California groing up I associated wet burritos with fancy Mexican restaurants, and I love them. But mostly when I want a burrito, I want to eat it with my hands, otherwise I'd just order a plate of carne asada and eat it on the platter with a tortilla on the side. In 2014 I moved to Macon Georgia and I of course quickly embedded myself in the Latino community as I speak fluent Spanish. I even worked for a Latino restaurant and market chain... I have concluded that it is impossible to order a "dry" burrito in Georgia. I'm actually sitting in the restaurant I used to work at right now. I order in Spanish and explain in detail that I want the burrito "seco" (that doesn't really tell the mesera or cocinero what I hoped it would). And I have eaten burritos here dozens of times before too, and I usually order it dry and laboriously explain what I mean, and almost every time it comes to my table smothered in salsa snd melted cheese and the ends are not folded so stuff won't fall out. It is the same with every restaurant here. Try and DoorDash a burrito from any redtaurant, there isn't even an option to have the burrito any other way. Yet, growing up in California, I never had to say anything but "burrito" and it came to me like a neat package ready to eat in my car while driving if I wanted, and everything you'd find on a plate, rice and beans and even salsa would be inside, and not fall out the bottom because it was folded properly. I never had to explain this in my life. And if you are thinking this is because the cooks are not Mexica, you are wrong. Mexican food here in Georgia, and in the restaurant I am sitting in right now, are current Mexican nationals. The owner is from Tamaulipas, and all of the other workers are Mexican or Guatemalan. The owner has worked in Mexican food retaurants his whole life and is just as confounded and confused by the concept of eating a burrito with one's hands as anyone else in his retaurant. I was literally just talking about it with him, like I have many times before, but it's like explaining a 4 dimensional object to him. He litterally just told me, "No podemos hacerlo asi aqui?" Today they first brought me a wet one, after the waitres swore on her life it would come dry and Knew that I would be eating it with my hands, I even used elaborate festures. When I sent it back, what came later was truly the driest meat you could imagine, like they patted it down with napkins to absorb the juice, sitting on a tortilla rolled up, but ends not folded, so I still could not eat it with my hands. In 12 years, number of burritos succesfully ordered what I would call "California style" : ZERO. They even have a burrito called Calihornia Burrito here, but it is only served wet, like no Californian I have ever known eats them usually, but it has avocado in it. How do I get this message across? It seems that California may be the ONLY place a burrito is served "dry" without gooey junk on top of it, and the whole rest of the world understands burritos to be something buried in sauce to be eaten with a fork. Of course, Taco Bell, Del Taco and other similar American fast food restaurants serve burritos "dry" and you never have to tell them not to cover it in sauce, so you would think everyone would be familiar with the concept. But here in Georgia, no. I've also lived in New York, and there the concept of eating a burrito dry, with your hands seems to be known, but it's still not automatic. Order a burrito and it comes smothered unless you spell it out, and that is so unbelievably difficult in English or Spanish.

On my application to a PhD program it asked for my GRE score. I took the GRE back in 2005 before I got my Bachelor's Degree. Since then I have taken numerous other tests like the Praxis, and the California State tests, too many to remember. I was surprised to see it on an application. So I went looking on my ETS account for my scores. I actually may have taken it twice to be honest. Can't remember. But I couldn't get into my account to get the scores. Eventually I was told to make a new account but after that I was told I had to take the test again by GRE staff.

So I reluctantly went to look over the schedule of tests in my area but couldn't decide when to do it. I also had to find out about arrangements for accomodations for my disabilities which is always an issue, and I was already feeling overwhelmed and confused by the process. In the meantime while mulling it all over I filled out my cc info, and then tried to go back to the page of the schedule but when I tried to get out of the page and start over, somehow I ended up sending the payment for whatever test date was the first on the list, just two days from now. I think you know where I'm going with this...

Well they made up a rule that they will only reschedule you if you are 4 days out from your scheduled date, and apparently I accidentally scheduled it 2 days away to start off with, so I didn't have 4 days to give. I didn't really freak out because I relaized it within a few minutes. Based on how expensive it is, surely they must understand that people cannot afford a high stakes gamble where the simplest of mistakes can make you lose all your money and still not even get the test you need, so I really needed to think for a long time about WHEN I could afford it as well. So I called and asked for my money back several times and they said no, no, no. Then I realized that there was a LINK right next to my payment and calendar info that said, "CANCEL TEST" and I hoped that if I just canceled using the link they would have to give me my money back, or else what did I pay for? Apparently they say they don't owe me anything and they refused to do the right thing and at least let my $258.96 pay for what I originally ordered. They refused to either reschedule or even let me have my original date back. This is Mr. Burns level predatory.

I honestly can't think of a single busness in the world that is this predatorial in practice and policy. Their sole guiding principle is GREED. Who would have thought an educational tool could be turned into the most extreme version of profit hungry canibals. Even Vegas will comp rooms and meals for big losers in gambling. Even the mob tries to work with their victims to reach mutually beneficial outcomes. But you come up against a big monopoly when you deal with these dirty dealers. Where else can they take your money and also keep their product? They are really happy to take it al and give you nothing. And what happens when I need my score to get into school? I will have to pay all over again. Who else is selling GRE tests?

To top it off, when I went back to my program advisor I found out that since I had taken higher level tests like the Praxis and been a teacher and have a Master's Degree, it was really not needed. The GRE apparently is more for those who are graduating with their bachelor's. The staff at the ETS GRE, are incredibly uninformed about what it is that they are selling and misled me to believe I had to take the test again. But I am sure that ETS chooses to hire low wage call centers from over seas precisely so that there will be no one qualified to help answer questions about accomodations, scheduling, payments and the real meaning and purpose of the tests, and whether or not they are really needed in all cases. All mistakes made send extra money to the company. When every mistake and every example of incompetence always makes the company richer and never helps the customer, you have to wonder if hiring incompetent workers is part of the plan to make optimal profits. This is a financial model that has very little overhead and materials, while the product is absolutely required, they have a monopoly, and for tickets they charge more than Taylor Swift front row tickets. I would love to know exactly who is getting so rich off of this testing. Also, the prices for the tests have at least quadrupled since I was in school.

Thank you for reading this sob story. This whole ordeal has taken my entire day. I was supposed to have my application finished and turned in, now I can't afford the application fee, so I will have to wait another few weeks to turn my application in. By then it will be way past deadline. I don't know how anyone could have sabotaged me worse than this. It was supposed to be a day where I turned in my application and celebrated. Now I am exhausted and demoralized.

I have asked this question to Google AI every way I can, even asking for an exhaustive list of songs but all of googleverse does not seem to know: What song did Andy Samberg's character, "Cuckoo" in the show called Cuckoo, Season one episode 3 play in the party scene where he and costar Greg Davies are high o n "E" and takeover the dj booth? Samberg's character says the line "we're gonna play you a sick tune that's gonna make all you bros, and all you teenage hoes just lose your s@@@!"

All the templares and elements for text boxes or shapes are like one centimeter from top to bottom and 10 inches wide (for example.) I am creating a newspaper and all I want to do is create a narrow vertical column. I create a text box like I would in any other program, and as I pull it downward to fit my custom space, it expands sideways to. It retains its shape basically. In all other programs this is the very first thing you do. But as far as I can tell: 1. I am not allowed to create my own text box; 2. I am not allowed to create a long norrow vertical text box. Why?

In particular the genocide being committed by "Borovia" or however you spell it.

She just looks like the devil when she smiles or grins. As a kid, seeing her in movies her smile was not like that.

        I've been hearing about "rocket attacks" originating from Gaza and landing in Israel most of my life. We all have. Now, I've never been to Gaza or Israel, and I am not ethnically or cilturally aligned with either people, aside from some distant Jewish ancestry. So I really don't have any firdt hand knowledge. But what I've been told about Gaza is that Gazans are not allowed to leave for the most part. If they are born there, they die there. They cannot go on a Cruise of the Greek Islands or go skiing in the Alps, even if they had the money to do so. And no one can get in. If you have relatives in there, you will not be allowed to visit them unless you get permission from Israel, and that is hard to get. Even US Congress person Rashida  was not allowed to visit her ailing mother. In short, nothing gets in or out of Gaza unless it goes through Israel's screening process. Gaza is just a few miles wide, and pinned between a giant wall, and the sea. There is no port that I know of, where they can get stuff from other countries.

    So, how do they get high-tech guided missles? Personally, I think they just don't have any to speak of. I say that because I remember seeing film footage from ABC news in Los Angeles, of a Gazan man, running over and lighting a fuse, connected to what looked like a model rocket, the kind I used to shoot off as a kid and build out of cardboard tubes. The announcer said, "Gaza has been sending rockets into Israel, then they showed video of a guy lighting a fuse on a "rocket" tied to a stick. This is apparently what they have been calling "rocket attacks" on mainstream news for decades. Homemade model rovkets you light with a fuse. With a fuse. That you light. With a match in your hand.

  And this makes sense. How in the world would you get a real dangerous rocket into Gaza? And where would you hide it? A couple of miles this way is Israel, and a couple of miles the other way is the sea. There isn't anything of substantial size that you could hide on that strip.

  If someone could show me a picture of a Gazan missle, I'd appreciate it. Do they use Storm Shadow, Skud mussles, Patriot Missles, ICBMs? And how did they get them inside Gaza? And why can't Israel locate them all?

  Recently in the Ukraine war, Russia was able to locate arms depots, missile launch sites and ptoduction facilites in EVERY CORNER of Ukraine, even way over by the Polish or Romainian borders. 800 miles from Russia. And then Russia sent their own misdiles to destroy the Ukrainian missiles. Why can't Israel do that just 2 miles away when Russia can find and destroy sites a thousand miles away?

I think the answer is that, Gazan Rockets are home-made from scraps of junk and they are probably harnless in comparison to the satellite guided ICBMs that Israel has. I have seen a report where some Gazans have found unexploded tank shells, and have modified them to shoot them, something that might resemble a "rocket" to a layman. You can imagine how dangerous it would be to recover, handle and modify tank shells, which are essentially gigantic bullets, not rockets. In the mean time Israel's weapons arsenal is second to none, enjoying all the finest the wotld has to offer. I don't buy that Israel is scared or in serious danger, especially when you consider Israel's incredible arsenal and scientific superiority. Any evidence of Gaza's massive military arsenal out there?

        I've been hearing about "rocket attacks" originating from Gaza and landing in Israel most of my life. We all have. Now, I've never been to Gaza or Israel, and I am not ethnically or cilturally aligned with either people, aside from some distant Jewish ancestry. So I really don't have any firdt hand knowledge. But what I've been told about Gaza is that Gazans are not allowed to leave for the most part. If they are born there, they die there. They cannot go on a Cruise of the Greek Islands or go skiing in the Alps, even if they had the money to do so. And no one can get in. If you have relatives in there, you will not be allowed to visit them unless you get permission from Israel, and that is hard to get. Even US Congress person Rashida  was not allowed to visit her ailing mother. In short, nothing gets in or out of Gaza unless it goes through Israel's screening process. Gaza is just a few miles wide, and pinned between a giant wall, and the sea. There is no port that I know of, where they can get stuff from other countries.

    So, how do they get high-tech guided missles? Personally, I think they just don't have any to speak of. I say that because I remember seeing film footage from ABC news in Los Angeles, of a Gazan man, running over and lighting a fuse, connected to what looked like a model rocket, the kind I used to shoot off as a kid and build out of cardboard tubes. The announcer said, "Gaza has been sending rockets into Israel, then they showed video of a guy lighting a fuse on a "rocket" tied to a stick. This is apparently what they have been calling "rocket attacks" on mainstream news for decades. Homemade model rovkets you light with a fuse. With a fuse. That you light. With a match in your hand.

  And this makes sense. How in the world would you get a real dangerous rocket into Gaza? And where would you hide it? A couple of miles this way is Israel, and a couple of miles the other way is the sea. There isn't anything of substantial size that you could hide on that strip.

  If someone could show me a picture of a Gazan missle, I'd appreciate it. Do they use Storm Shadow, Skud mussles, Patriot Missles, ICBMs? And how did they get them inside Gaza? And why can't Israel locate them all?

  Recently in the Ukraine war, Russia was able to locate arms depots, missile launch sites and ptoduction facilites in EVERY CORNER of Ukraine, even way over by the Polish or Romainian borders. 800 miles from Russia. And then Russia sent their own misdiles to destroy the Ukrainian missiles. Why can't Israel do that just 2 miles away when Russia can find and destroy sites a thousand miles away?

I think the answer is that, Gazan Rockets are home-made from scraps of junk and they are probably harnless in comparison to the satellite guided ICBMs that Israel has. I have seen a report where some Gazans have found unexploded tank shells, and have modified them to shoot them, something that might resemble a "rocket" to a layman. You can imagine how dangerous it would be to recover, handle and modify tank shells, which are essentially gigantic bullets, not rockets. In the mean time Israel's weapons arsenal is second to none, enjoying all the finest the wotld has to offer. I don't buy that Israel is scared or in serious danger, especially when you consider Israel's incredible arsenal and scientific superiority. Any evidence of Gaza's massive military arsenal out there?

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It seems more like an FBI PSYOP, or a purely sinister attempt to exploit me further for commercial gain somehow. It actually feels like the questions couldn't possibly help Uber, but might be useful to the third party they are selling the information to whoever that is. And there is no mention whatsoever of how Uber is using my answers , who the recording is going to be shared with or the logic behindcthe questions they are asking. Why do they want to know jow I "sequence doing errands" in my own head? Maybe I think of when my dog died as a child or when that man assaulted me and I sequence my personal errands based on the memory of childhood trauma. You see how that could be an incredibly invasive question. They want to know what is in our brains.

And for the guy poised at the keyboard about to write, "You could just opt to not answer the questions and not accept that particular feature of Uber," I'm just going to go ahead and say it myself: Hey, you could just opt to not answer the questions and not accept that particular feature of Uber. There I said it. So if anybody elses says it they are being a copycat.