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

Most of us who didn’t vote for the mentally deranged orangutan saw this coming from a mile away.

I’m in business operations, downstream from you guys. Reading posts like these are helping me understand better what you all are going through.

We had several of our systems “upgraded” and broke a lot of our tools. The dev team vanished off to work on the next shiny bullshit “upgrade” and turned my 15 minute tickets into 3-4 hour tickets.

My manager was telling me to ping someone and let them know. After nothing happened there, I started opening tickets. After about 140 in 2 weeks, I finally got someone’s attention and we’re grudgingly getting a couple devs assigned to start repairing the automation that broke.

I am sorry to have to do that, but our entire team was drowning and pinging someone on teams with API errors wasn’t getting anything done.

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?

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.

¿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.

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.

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.

If Canadians do what we did with travel, but apply it to US cars, they’ll be in a world of hurt.

(And whiskey/spirits, but you guys have already done a great job there)

Seriously, you’re 100% right. The more you fine folks of the north stop buying our shit, the more pain you’ll inflict. And our corpos need pain inflicted. If I could suggest, avoiding products from our red states would mean even more than blue states, but that’s a minor distinction at this point.

I wish it was easier for you and the EU to move away from big tech, because that would really start getting attention more than anything else.

You (externally): I already implemented that last year for you…

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.