Spends 45 minutes creating a vlan when he could have turned on the guest wifi and walled that off from the main network in about 3 minutes.

The blocking ports and QoS move was just funny as hell though.

I’ve been here a while, but I might need some help here. Everyone left of Biden is a tankie? Am I understanding you correctly?

No argument here, I was only explaning why it exists.

Not too far into my first campaign, I was playing a Hexblade warlock with a level of sorcerer for some extra spell slots / CC spells. We get ambushed by some bad guy guards trying to rob us. As they’re stalking us in the bazaar we were shopping in, the initiative rolls begin out of nowhere.

Roll a nat 20 for initiative, and end up going first. I cast grease and catch them all in it. 4/5 guards fail the save and fall prone. The 5th guard goes second and shoots an arrow at me, does a few damage. I react with hellish rebuke. It ends up engulfing all of the guards, the hay cart next to them, and half the bazaar into a raging grease fire inferno.

I learned to be more aware of my surroundings after that day.

followed by issues at Microsoft Azure that brought Xbox offline for hours.

It’s funny how this is how the Azure outage is described. All of my customers were locked out of their M365 admin portals all day. But won’t you think of the poor Xbox users.

As L2 support at a CSP for M365 customers, that day was fucking terrible.

It does look terrible, however it definitely serves a useful purpose. Since the LA basin is basically desert, the ground doesn’t soak up water very well, which leaves it prone to flash flooding.

So the dangerous part about physically being in the concrete river is that it might rain in the mountains 50 miles away, and in just a few minutes there’s a roaring wave of water passing through. Every time it rains out there, someone inevitably gets caught up in it and needs to be rescued, or worse.

¿Porque no los dos?

Doing things the “wrong” way is overwhelmingly about service issues, not money issues. I came across the same issues where I live, and decided to take up “sailing” instead.

Everyone in France speaks English the moment an English speaker tries to speak French.

My French sucks. I would intentionally butcher French just so they’d roll their eyes and start speaking English.

I’d like to add that if I can’t copy NYT articles into archive anymore, then I’ll just stop reading their bullshit. Because truly, all they publish is bullshit anymore.

So I guess the right move here is close down their footprint in the US (if they have one) and then sit back in Canada and tell the FBI to bury their subpoena firmly up their ass?

I’m sorry man. I’ll say that I’ve seen your posts around sporadically for a while now since I’ve been on beehaw. I kinda have a light grasp on your situation, but I don’t know your whole story. I feel like it could have been my story too, if things had gone differently in my timeline. Im not in any kind of financial position to pay for anyone’s plane ticket or even offer any kind of financial help, but I’m pretty sure we’re around the same age and if you want to DM me sometime, I’d be willing to listen and help out if I can. I’m truly sorry about your dad. My dad and mom both are also having serious health problems, and it seems like they aren’t long for this world either.

Either way, you can reach out to me and I’ll provide any sort of assistance that I’m able to.

Bye bye. Douchebag.

You felt personally attacked enough to come in here crying about misandry and calling everyone a hag.

If she’s genuine in her offer, and you would like her there, tell her so.

I’m very sorry for what you’re going through right now.

Not even probably, you’re 100% correct. Forbes has Zuck’s net worth at $213b.

If you lined up people with a net worth of $1m, you would need 213,000 people to equal what Zuck has. Or roughly 3x the population of Palo Alto - if every single resident was a millionaire.

I’m a guy, and not only was it an appropriate response to some clown who was just about to launch into his tradwife diatribe, I also thought it was funny as hell.

Consider that you might be a snowflake for feeling personally attacked by a silly meme, crying and raging and calling everyone a hag. That says infinitely more about you than anyone your infantile comments are directed at.

It’s really hard to accept help sometimes.

Our family went through the ringer the first half of this year and we had an outpouring of people offering support and help. It’s not that I didn’t need it, I just didn’t think I needed it at the time. Looking back on even 6 months ago, I was pretty dumb for not delegating some things that would have taken a lot off my plate that I didn’t need to deal with at all.

If you’re in a new place around new people, one way I’ve found that works sometimes is just asking someone for help with something really trivial, but not something that could easily be done yourself. Something that could just use another set of hands. It’s kind of an ice breaker and the other person might feel more inclined to be able to ask for some help next time.

Anyway, you seem like good people, I wish you were my neighbor. Don’t let people stop you from continuing to be a good person.

I’m basing this reply on the assumption that you do not know why the government shutdown is happening.

If the US Congress cannot pass a budget, the TLDR is basically that the government shuts down and many government workers end up working without getting paid, and many less fortunate and underprivileged citizens will lose access to the SNAP benefits and other various social safety nets that provides them with the basic necessities to survive.

One of the main reasons the budget bill is not passing is because the Trump administration and the Republicans want to strip the federal subsidies tied to the ACA (affordable care act). If the Democrats cave and help pass the bill, it will increase health insurance costs by an order of magnitude for most people in this country, and for about 40 million people, make health insurance completely unaffordable. So Trump directly said that those same 40 million people will face malnutrition or starve, because he wants to take those subsidies and put them in a tax cut for the ultra-wealthy. The same ultra-wealthy people that couldn’t spend the fortunes they currently possess over the next thousand years, even if they tried.

And they’re willing to let people starve and die, so that they can have more.

Edit to add: by “ultra-wealthy”, there are about 300-500 families in the entire country. So they would benefit, while 40 million people will starve.

Ah yes. “Make America Great Again”.

“We’ll starve you out if you don’t let us strip away your health insurance coverage”

“Both sides are the same.”

Yeah one side passed the affordable care act, and the other side wants to cancel subsidies for it so they can give incredibly, unimaginably wealthy people even more money that they’ll never get to spend before the world burns. But sure, both sides are the same.

I’m doing ok, but I live in a community where a lot of people aren’t. I’m gonna go spend a boatload of money to feed my neighborhood, because fuck the right, they can’t win this fight. If they win, not only do 40 million people go without affordable health insurance, but all of the rest of us with health insurance will see those costs skyrocket literally overnight, as most people have to elect their health coverage at work between now and the end of November.

Check on your neighbors in need. Make sure they have food. If you can afford to, help them out.