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I make and break things.

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"Jade Helm, but we support it this time"

15.10.2025 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yeah, I got hit with a "marijuana-induced seizure" once. They're really diagnosing things like this.

15.10.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A large Creamsicle cat, curled up, asleep

A large Creamsicle cat, curled up, asleep

Awww, this is my creamsicle and his name is Eggs too!

13.10.2025 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐Ÿ™‚โ€โ†•๏ธ๐Ÿฆ†

13.10.2025 11:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 463    ๐Ÿ” 158    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
Screenshot of The Free Press homepage with three separate articles saying different people deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Trump, Machado, and Melania Trump.

Screenshot of The Free Press homepage with three separate articles saying different people deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Trump, Machado, and Melania Trump.

It's especially great when "taking on the mob" is just agreeing with everyone on conflicting opinions.

12.10.2025 22:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Meet the people preserving Texas history, one home movie at a time. Your home footage may be more specialย than you think, the nonprofit says.

It was an absolute joy to write about the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, a nonprofit that works tirelessly to preserve Texas' film history by digitizing tapes and film before they degrade. Their website is a treasure trove of cool state history: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

12.10.2025 20:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

โ€” Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
โ€” Against raising the minimum wage
โ€” Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

12.10.2025 21:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6660    ๐Ÿ” 1390    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 81    ๐Ÿ“Œ 60
Screenshot of some sort of tool

Screenshot of some sort of tool

Hey now, knives are dangerous

12.10.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A Cybertruck with the license plate CY3RTRK

A Cybertruck with the license plate CY3RTRK

I saw a rival for "most annoying" owner the other day.

12.10.2025 21:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The universe beckons us to use our voice. It demands we announce ourselves to each other in order to place ourselves within society. We cannot resist, we are coerced. Press X to honk...

12.10.2025 16:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 37    ๐Ÿ” 14    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I asked a Christian baker to write Charlie Kirk on a gay wedding cake and we've been staring at each other for 39 straight hours now

04.10.2025 19:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3184    ๐Ÿ” 571    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12

She clearly knows how to cover news. No one's doing it quite like her.

12.10.2025 16:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of The Free Press homepage with three separate articles saying different people deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Trump, Machado, and Melania Trump.

Screenshot of The Free Press homepage with three separate articles saying different people deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: Trump, Machado, and Melania Trump.

Ah, I see, they just take every possible position.

12.10.2025 16:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

These goons live on the grace that Americans forget our 2nd amendment. One of these dudes goes home in a body bag and we're going to have a wildly different playing field.

12.10.2025 02:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom breakโ€”never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week agoโ€”turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroomโ€”by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

11.10.2025 15:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4127    ๐Ÿ” 2374    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 219    ๐Ÿ“Œ 495
11.10.2025 12:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 44    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please, make yourself welcome at the Omelette Oubliette.

11.10.2025 13:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Every A.I. CEO is like โ€œWe invented a robot that can fuck your wife so you have more free time to mow the lawn!โ€

10.10.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2682    ๐Ÿ” 603    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 45    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 โ€ข 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about ยฃ45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have ยฃ45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 โ€ข 3d Join Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals Debt & Money Hi there and thanks for reading. I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem. Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about ยฃ45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset. Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity. I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k. Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have ยฃ45. Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts โ€ข 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output. Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API. Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days. tom_watts โ€ข 3d According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code. โ€ขโ€ขโ€ข 146

ShavedAp3 OP โ€ข 3d
Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to.
Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did.
If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much.
If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things.
Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours.
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ShavedAp3 OP โ€ข 3d Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to. Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did. If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much. If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things. Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours. โ€ข โ€ข โ€ข 4

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

10.10.2025 21:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1531    ๐Ÿ” 183    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 49    ๐Ÿ“Œ 44

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

Itโ€™s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

10.10.2025 21:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2031    ๐Ÿ” 1087    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 64    ๐Ÿ“Œ 102

Oh hell yes. Especially the xxxhot habanero one. Changed my whole perspective the first time.

10.10.2025 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Trump tweet from March 2nd, 2018: When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, donโ€™t trade anymore-we win big. Itโ€™s easy!

Trump tweet from March 2nd, 2018: When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, donโ€™t trade anymore-we win big. Itโ€™s easy!

It's easy!

10.10.2025 21:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The random people who called into this C-SPAN session had better questions for Mike Johnson than most corporate media outlets

10.10.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7356    ๐Ÿ” 1633    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 176    ๐Ÿ“Œ 37

Machado has embraced the United States's indiscriminate murder of Venezuelan mariners in international and Venezuelan waters in the Caribbean Sea. She thinks it will help her gain power.

This is your white "peace".

10.10.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 407    ๐Ÿ” 149    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The anti-fascists have to flee from the US to Spain now. Can you imagine telling Hemingway this?

10.10.2025 00:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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What To Know About NSPM-7 On Sept. 25, President Trump issued a directive called National Security Presidential Memorandum 7 in which โ€œanti-Americanism, anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianityโ€ were described as โ€œcommon threads...

The Onion had a post about NSPM-7 before The New York Times did lmao

THE ONION!
theonion.com/what-to-know...

09.10.2025 23:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1064    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Semisonic - Closing Time (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by SemisonicVEVO Semisonic - Closing Time (Official Music Video)

Just on repeat like a Myspace page

09.10.2025 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Colin Powell holding up a model vial of the supposed weaponized anthrax during a presentation to the United Nations Security Council.

Colin Powell holding up a model vial of the supposed weaponized anthrax during a presentation to the United Nations Security Council.

09.10.2025 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israelโ€™s 3D propaganda An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

Have you seen 3D animations from the IDF showing secret Hamas hideouts?

According to Israel's +972 magazine, many have "serious spatial inaccuracies or prefabricated assetsโ€”sourced not from classified intelligence but rather from commercial libraries, content creators, and cultural institutions."

09.10.2025 04:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 324    ๐Ÿ” 129    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

I like how the city is so dangerously overrun, that she takes her children out there for "countless hours" wearing american flags.

09.10.2025 13:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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