Seems like your therapist would know more about the situation than random people on the internet. If you’re at this point, you probably should shift to discussing it with a lawyer to see if there’s a case. No need to plan time off if there’s not a case you can legally bring. You can take it one step at a time.

It’s still annoying that they spoiled the reveal of Spider Man in the trailers for Civil War. I try to always avoid trailers but there was no way to not know Spiderman made it into the MCU before seeing it in theatres.

Is it normal for a call center rep or lead to close customer accounts? I’d assume that the fraud department would be the ones making that decision and handling issues raised. Anyway, I’m glad you had the receipts to prove it wasn’t your fault.

The electoral college only applies to Presidential elections, but there are many more elections happening for primaries, local, and state elections, where the electoral college doesn’t apply. Your vote in these elections is arguably more important than the presidential election and there have been many cases of elections coming down to under a hundred votes.

As for candidates who are insufficient, your vote is not an endorsement of the policies of the candidate, and is an objection to other candidates. This is the flaw of our two party system, and the only optimal strategy is to vote against who you don’t want to be president. Voting for representatives who advocate for ranked voting is how this can be fixed, but requires voting in non-presidential elections to create the change, along with a whole set of other challenges.

She was 12 years old when she was in Taxi Driver, her breakout role.

You eat pieces of shit for breakfast, you piece of shit?

It has its downsides as well

Leaving a bar to catch a train and I did this when closing my tab. Ended up in a conversation and missing my train.

Not saying it’s not an internet meme, but NBC News seems to have ran the quote yesterday, and hasn’t updated the article with a correction:

he Biden campaign slammed the former president in a statement about the expected gun license revocation.

“When Trump tells the NRA he won’t do a damn thing to prevent convicted felons, domestic abusers, and other dangerous people from getting their hands on guns, he’s talking about himself,” said campaign spokesperson James Singer in a statement.

I checked James Singer’s twitter and couldn’t find a written statement, nor a rebuttal to NBC News article, so maybe this was a spoken quote off the cuff?

Ha ha!

I hope for future generations, they have to learn about the Simpsons in English class like we had to learn about Shakespeare.

They bought a company named Keyhole in the early 2000s

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/google-buys-satellite-image-firm-keyhole/

It’s a device to make phone calls, but that’s not important right now.

Exactly, like how an ocean liner is a step up above a sailboat. That doesn’t mean you’re unsinkable and don’t need to worry about icebergs.

Windows is banned in my household, so l’m not worried about malware.

This is a false sense of security and just because you’re not running Windows doesn’t mean you’re immune to everything and can let your defenses down. For example, KDE recently had to announce that downloading themes will execute arbitrary code and cited someone who had personal information deleted because of downloading a theme.

Are you able to include the HTTP Method being called and the amount of data transferred per request? It’s possible that the first request is an OPTION request and then the second request is a POST.

If you can see the amount of data transferred, then you can have some more indication that double the requests are being sent and quantity the bandwidth impact at least.

If your services are not stateless, work to make them such so you can learn about scaling in the cloud, which can even be done w/ VM-based services. how much more agility using cloud vs a DC gives you

This can’t be understated. Embracing elastic idology to remove single points of failure and decoupling stateful aspects of applications has been the biggest takeaway of being part of several migrations of services to AWS. Implementing these into your practices as you grow is a huge benefit that may is worth the cost.

Over time, if the scale you’re operating at grows, using experience/knowledge from AWS and applying it to running services in a datacenter could be beneficial. In my experience, if you have a large, consistent, asynchronous workload which you’ve maxed out on reserved instances or savings plans, it is likely cheaper to operate on your own hardware than in the cloud (or get credits from GCP or Azure to migrate services to reduce costs). This is where avoiding vendor lock-in is key.

have y’all factored in all the time/money spent on maintaining the server hardware, power, DC cooling, etc. too?

For sure, this isn’t 2007 where you need to purchase servers and network equipment to start a website. For most startups and small businesses, operating in the cloud will be less expensive upfront and likely over the first 3 years. This isn’t a one size fits all approach though, and it’d be prudent to evaluate the cloud spend periodically and compare with what’d it’d cost to manage it entirely. Obviously you’d need a team competent enough to manage this, without it going to shit.

“Ok Bob, we’re going to build a runway, it needs to be 3,962,000 mm long”

Spiderman 2: https://youtu.be/R0sTSUitYsQ?t=142

This is amazing! I guess limiting the destination times makes sense. I was envisioning something like Majora’s Mask where time would progress at an accelerated rate, and then you’d use the time travel mechanic to hop around.

This would mean that if you wanted to, you could age naturally from 1955 to 1985 if you wanted to, although it’d take a really long amount of time. This would require having more assets and time periods which didn’t happen in the movies, but could open up more storylines.

I guess this would mean you’d need to also manage the age of your character, since you couldn’t go to 1885 and live until 2015.

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-man-sued-himself-fiction-117569075050