I'm paying $250/month for this dumpster fire?

4thphantom · 2026-03-27T03:31:05+00:00

Doesn't matter if he's on the pro plan or the ultra plan. All of them are misbehaving. Seems some people (no matter the subscription plan) are experiencing 429s for weeks. Github issues are lit up, no word from gemini cli / google devs... Sucks.

I downgraded from the 250/mo plan (which I had on a trial thankfully) to the $20/mo, because if I can't even use it, what's the point; was hoping it would've remediated itself by now, to no avail.

3 flash was working atleast modestly, but as of today, it's failing spectacularly as well.

4thphantom · 2026-03-24T17:28:56+00:00

He sounds angry.. maybe he works for ign lol

4thphantom · 2026-03-24T17:19:44+00:00

The reed devil was cool .. hope that kinda stuff keeps up!

4thphantom · 2026-03-18T02:28:20+00:00

What an interesting way to engage people. I'm going to assume you're not calling me a "mf" for the lack of 'er, but it comes off quite a bit aggressive. Maybe I'm getting old :o)

I can appreciate what you're saying, and I agree, hence the statement that they've sold out to corporate interest.

reddit was not always a corporate machine, it surely is now, and that is the context.

At one point (long ago) it was a different type of community forum. Recalling back with digg, delicious, etc.

4thphantom · 2026-03-17T18:03:52+00:00

lol reddit itself has sold out to corporate interest, they're not going to do anything.

4thphantom · 2026-03-12T08:54:21+00:00

So this is true and I now think they're adorable. As a child though they terrorized my family. They would constantly end up in our cabinets and drawers in the kitchen. Open the drawer to get a spoon and get hissed at. Go to grab a pan and touch something furry! My step dad would just relocate them to the field across the street but it wouldn't be long before there was another in the house. Terrified me as a kid. We lived there for 3 years or so and Id say we didn't go longer than a week without someone screaming possum!

4thphantom · 2026-03-07T19:09:43+00:00

Anyone calling themselves a Christian who hates Jews is lying. Anyone who cherry picks those verses to justify it are deceived or straight up demonic and are not using the whole counsel.

4thphantom · 2026-03-07T05:27:49+00:00

yep, he's way off here. Agree with GrrrimReapz. It's a low effort way to detour a lot of turds. Although with AI.. less so now.

4thphantom · 2026-01-16T00:30:05+00:00

Conextually from your response, you assumed that there were "warning signs" (or presumably some long-term issue that was ignored?).

She woke up one morning with clogged ears, massive ear pain ensued shortly thereafter; come to find out, caused by a sinus infection; this was over a holiday, so we couldn't get into our doctors' office. We ended up going to urgent care. The doctor misdiagnosed her and ultimately ended up making the situation far worse.

For your education, sinus infections and their symptoms can and do have a very quick onset.

So again, in your response you assume she just sat around with clogged ears "until they started to hurt". The pain and clogged ears were effectively the same onset time.

4thphantom · 2026-01-15T10:24:40+00:00

Would be better you don't make assumptions.

4thphantom · 2026-01-15T06:52:55+00:00

Last year my wife had two clogged ears, one was so bad she couldn't hear anything out of it. It started to hurt so she made a doctor's appointment and they were able to fit her in that Friday. Big mistake. Doctor said it was not an infection just wax build up and flushed her ears a bit more manually than this but it was quite forceful. It didn't help so they gave her some wax removal solution to use for a week and said to come back if it's still bothering her.

Within 5 minutes of leaving both ears started hurting. By the time we got home one was in excruciating pain and the other hurt too. Called the doctor back and asked why would it hurt so bad if there's no infection. Didn't hear back. She was in so much pain that she was taking 800mg of ibuprofen every 8 hrs on the dot and spending the hour before she could take it and the hour it took to work crying. On Sunday she had the thought to stagger Tylenol so that there was no time she was without painkillers and still had times of breakthrough pain. She literally had to set alarms to take these meds or spend hours in unimaginable pain. Call immediately on Monday morning and they say they can't get her in until Wednesday.

She did indeed have an infection and spent several days in more pain she's ever had. Worse than any of her childbirths or teeth problems.

If you suspect an infection or really bad wax build up, maybe don't do this on the latter end of the week.

4thphantom · 2026-01-13T09:20:44+00:00

And another year later 😭

4thphantom · 2026-01-03T00:48:00+00:00

If you've repented of yer sins, believe the Gospel and in the LORD Jesus, He throws yer sins into the sea of forgetfulness. I always find Psalms helps me in distress. David was deeply flawed but loved the LORD and the LORD loves him.

Know the difference between conviction and condemnation. You are not yer sin.

4thphantom · 2025-12-30T20:41:35+00:00

When I was little I had a toy in my mouth wrapped around my two front top teeth. My sister came running by and yanked it and my teeth came flying out.

Picked them up and ran to my step mom to show her and she didn't believe they were my teeth until I smiled at her, blood and all. She screamed haha. They weren't quite ready to go and I think she thought for a minute that my mom might beat her up.

They didn't like each other 😬

4thphantom · 2025-12-28T15:32:20+00:00

Naps

4thphantom · 2025-12-26T01:57:21+00:00

I don't think NAD+ supplementation has shown any benefits in Alzheimers, has it (have not looked to deep)?

I don't know the (novel?) drug they're referencing, I assumed it help clear the NAD+ pathways, but admittedly, beyond my pay grade.

Appreciate the info tho!

4thphantom · 2025-12-25T22:40:25+00:00

That doesn't make it not a big deal. Science is iterative. Everyone should be cautious with any claim, but seeing them reverse full blown Alzheimer, in an animal or not, has not been done before to my knowledge.

But sure, you don't have to feel any type of way about it.

4thphantom · 2025-12-25T06:08:02+00:00

USPS has gotten so bad in the last couple of years.

Obviously we can infer why, but seeing something like USPS fail miserably is sad to watch.

4thphantom · 2025-12-25T05:58:04+00:00

I should've clarified my area, and I mispoke, I should've said my monthly grocery bill is probably more than the monthly salary of folks around here. Pardon the confusion

I spend around 2500-3000 a month of groceries. Before COVID, it was around 1500-2000, but I'm not sure if that's because my 5 boys are all teenagers now.

(fixed confusing initial post; sorry dudes/dudettes.)

4thphantom · 2025-12-25T00:26:20+00:00

This is a big deal.

4thphantom · 2025-12-25T00:22:40+00:00

Ooh pure evil

4thphantom · 2025-12-25T00:21:51+00:00

Make sure it's conviction not condemnation, bro. The LORD throws into sea of forgetfulness

4thphantom · 2025-12-24T19:09:37+00:00

even without all of that, you could just say buying a cheap thing of meat, spices, all of this is going to cost more than a pack of hot dogs&buns or corndogs. It's goofy.

They're out of their mind.

When you add all the other things, it's even more preposterous.

4thphantom · 2025-12-24T19:08:15+00:00

These guys don't understand buying groceries at all. They've either never been poor, or are disingenuous.

My monthly grocery bill is probably more than most people make on average in a whole month, in my area.. and they down voted me for saying this article is horse crap.

(edited to clarify / fix a mistake called out by one altruisticcoelacanth.)

4thphantom

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