Seriously, I popped in just to say this. How fucking hard is it for people to understand the Streisand effect?

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?

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.

¿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.

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.

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.

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.

Except what? That was exactly my point.

If you’re in Europe, you can cross multiple countries in 3 hours. A 3 hour drive in any direction barely gets me out of my own state.

So I can understand why OP’s asking Americans. We’re pretty much secluded over here on our own plot with Canada and Mexico. Madrid to Moscow is about 4000 km as I understand it. Or 800 km less than it is from NYC to LA.

I’ve been to 44 States, Canada, Mexico and two other continents. Bad shit can happen anywhere. I will say that the best times I’ve had were hanging out with complete strangers from completely different backgrounds than mine and trading stories with them about home.

I fire roast my tomatillos and serranos before making my salsa, that’s why it’s green and hot as hell, and also doesn’t taste anything like raw veggies.

Assume whatever you want. I’m just saying you asked a question that was immediately answered at the very top of the column. They say they scaled up the things to do with the size of the map. I’ve spent hundreds of hours on these games, and I don’t have a reason to doubt that they’d make a map this much larger without adding “things to do”.

I’ll always upvote Yogi Berra quotes.

Not only large—huge, and stacked from top to bottom with stuff to do.

Literally the second sentence in the article, if you’d bother to click on it.

Oh, we need to raise our prices because of inflation and then inflation goes down but the prices don’t.

I mean, this is literally how inflation works. Inflation rates go down, but things don’t magically become cheaper again. It just doesn’t get more expensive as quickly. If they raise prices over what you’re willing to pay, then don’t buy it. That’s how prices drop.

Is it bullshit? Absolutely, no argument there. That’s just how things work unfortunately.

Just chiming in to let you know I’m rooting for you and hoping the last 11 days are going well for you.

Yeah this is where I’m at too. I’d definitely be willing to pay for some swag to get sent to other community members who otherwise may not be able to afford it, but I also would like it to be anonymous.

This bootlicking bullshit is really tiring.