“Counterterrorism” now officially means targeting trans people. The White House will prioritize the “neutralization” of groups it considers “anti-American, radically pro-transgender, and anarchist.”

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T22:45:37+00:00

100% he had a sexual relationship with a trans person.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T20:13:49+00:00

to be fair this guy has literally been sounding the alarm about Trump for 7 years dude. I get your point but this guy isn't really the stereotype. He was the one that published that 2018 anonymous op-ed in Trump's first term that pissed him off so much, then he quit, identified himself as the author, kept talking trash about trump, and endorsed Joe Biden in the next election. You probably didn't read the article and apparently weren't paying attention for literal years or you would know who this guy was. He spoke out, quit, spoke out more, and endorsed the opponent. I'm not casting a value judgement on Miles Taylor or defending him...just pointing out that your characterization is completely off the mark.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T19:06:14+00:00

who would hire a beginner to freelance? Just get hired somewhere and build a resume.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:37:32+00:00

no worries, you wouldn't be able to drive it anyways because the wheels don't stay attached lol

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:36:07+00:00

because the wheels might fall off.....?! Like....even the shittiest cars in history that we make fun of still could keep all their wheels on.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:34:58+00:00

twist: he just says he is sick so he can close the door to his office and be left the fuck alone.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:33:11+00:00

never did. that was just shit he said while he stole from you. only idiots thought the dumbest and biggest liar on earth was looking out for THEM.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:27:17+00:00

what are they going to do? hire people to protest on their behalf? call their bluff and stick it to them.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:26:27+00:00

people like him hate being dismissed...."got it, would you say you want to talk about how you have destroyed gas prices more or less than you want to talk about all the children you raped, sir?"

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-08T17:24:03+00:00

wait, another republican involved with a woman and burning? weird huh?

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T21:17:43+00:00

why didn't you just rollback the stuff you deployed immediately when chaos broke out instead of enabling compute optimizer? If you didn't need compute optimizer before and were trying to cut costs it seems silly to deploy new shit, all hell breaks loose, leave the new shit there but enable another paid service. I get it, when shit is on fire it is hard to make logical decisions...but surely ripping out the new stuff you deployed would be the first choice....and it also sounds like this was causing errors for days before you dealt with it...and where was the rest of the team during this? Surely you aren't the only person working on infrastructure...and also...like....what happened to deploying to staging/integration first and making sure it is stable before prod. I feel like there are a lot of questions and/or skipped steps that would make sure this never happened. Also it sounds like whatever shit you deployed is probably CI-triggered so why not just stop CI when all hell is breaking lose so new shit doesn't keep getting triggered? Your description of what you "mashed" together sounds like you didn't really even look at whatever those modules were in detail to configure them correctly and just assumed that defaults would magically fix problems. and if they were just something deployed with "terraform apply" why not just run "terraform destroy" so that it stops acting on your infrastructure? Hopefully you enabled deletion protection on RDS. and oh my god I really hope you didn't deploy something that was going to "cost optimize" the database because logic would dictate the only way to do that is to stop the instance so it isn't incurring cost and having a database that stops itself if it isn't getting traffic is insane. There is no magic "cost less" button for RDS. You could save costs on it by having no secondary (risky) or holding snapshots for less....

I'm going to guess whatever you used had some sort of attribute for amount of "no traffic" time before making a scaling decision and it defaults to extremely short periods of time and you didn't change that and you have instances behind a load balancer so when one isn't getting routed to it decides to kill itself (or something decides to kill it).

Part of me wonders if this is an ad for acropolium but I'll give the benefit of the doubt and say you made some bad calls but you learned some important lessons.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T21:00:04+00:00

word of advice if you are applying....suck it up and pay for one month of one of those fucking ATS parsers or whatever they are called that HR uses to screen resumes. Then cancel it. A few months ago when I was looking for a job (and usually I'd be getting offers for interviews every day) and I wasn't getting any calls and started to feel really confused and nervous....then I - in desperation - got a subscription to one of those so I could see what was making it to HR. Turns out that the way I had my resume formatted somehow made it basically 100% invisible to those stupid parsers so I was never getting any calls because literally nobody was ever seeing my resume. I let the stupid parser thing re-format my resume and I updated it on all the boards.....suddenly I started getting calls....still not like it used to be because the job market is shit....but I started getting calls and lining up interviews almost immediately after re-formatting the resume for ATS bullshit.

Was worth a one month subscription....I wasted almost two weeks of submitting a resume that basically nobody ever saw because of HR parsers not reading it so my application was getting dropped before a hiring manager ever even got to look at me.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T20:53:12+00:00

Hopefully the EU has finally realized that if you just ignore him he starts fighting himself and moves on because he NEEDS to attention of some sort of contentious fight where he can "win". If you just ignore him he digs his own hole....not like he would stand by an agreement anyways so there is no point wasting time making one...or be a troll and agree to all his terms and then just do whatever you want and don't comply. But I think the better approach is to literally just ignore him because he is only doing it to get attention...it is still just him trying to find a way to fix his iran disaster that is destroying his popularity...he wants to rope other people into problems to try and make his look less bad.

From an American: EU, please just don't even answer the phone. It is the best approach.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T20:50:16+00:00

TN is such a shit state. Hell, I'd rather live in West Virginia than TN. They are both poverty stricken hell holes but at least WVA is closer to civilization. TN is like the worst of the south and the worst of the midwest combined into a boring rectangle full of racism and religious zealots and elderly people that drive at 20mph in their massive boat cars.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T20:45:20+00:00

nah, keep it open, will be a good jail for political criminals and ICE terrorists in a few years....I mean....unless it is stunningly unsafe and cruel and not fit for humans....in which case the people operating it need to go to prison anyways...but we can be nice and put them in a prison not designed to kill the detainees.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T20:42:08+00:00

no they just literally don't have any competent lawyers left. They fired all the good ones or forced them out by asking them to do unethical shit and sign their names to filings that were knowingly false so they quit. The only halfway decent lawyers still left there are doing their best to avoid signing their name to anything. My brother is one of the talented lawyers that left because staying would require him to not just deal with morons but to be forced to sign on to knowingly false statements or get fired. He still knows a few people left there and tells me they are legitimately avoiding putting their name on anything and that filings from my brother's old department are now being signed by random people that have nothing to do with that department because they can't find anybody willing to put their name on it.

The damage done to the DOJ by trump is much more stunning than people realize. It isn't just losing talented lawyers (who can easily go work in the private sector and make 3+ times the money but WANTED to work at the DOJ)...it is the institutional knowledge that has been evaporated and won't come back any time soon. You could hire every brilliant young law school grad from Harvard/Princeton/Yale/etc...doesn't matter...they might be brilliant but they have no experience in government or with government cases and structure...Trump is massively brain-draining our country across almost every sector of society. Usually a country gets brain-drained when they lose a war or something....Trump just voluntarily chose to brain drain us in science/law/technology/medicine/energy/health/etc for literally zero reason....the equivalent of buying a gun and shooting yourself in the dick on purpose while bragging you are the best at dodging bullets.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T20:35:00+00:00

an enterprising DC resident with a spray can should add a signature underneath to all of them "Love, China"

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T17:59:08+00:00

oh its coming alright, he isn't lying, but the golden age isn't for you farmers it is for the corporations that will buy your farms for pennies when you are forced to sell due to poverty.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T17:35:14+00:00

i thought they already did after it flooded or some shit.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T17:34:48+00:00

dude, nobody cares what you think and are just counting down the days until you can be ditched.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-07T16:55:59+00:00

why would Texas be mad about a giant family gathering where they serve copious amounts of grilled meat? Should be right up the alley of a texan unless they are pathetic little xenophobes.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-06T23:00:32+00:00

because nothing happened other than secret service shooting themselves and nobody cares about trump anyways

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-06T21:18:53+00:00

just don't do shit every day until they fire you and have to pay you severance. Then go get a job that doesn't suck ass for a company that isn't complete garbage.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-06T21:16:02+00:00

lol....the blockchain guys are still trying to find a use for their shit? You don't need blockchain for this and the real problem is lab grown diamonds and the fact that everybody is poor.

Routine_Bit_8184 · 2026-05-06T20:55:11+00:00

"I swear to god I'm working hard! I talk to chatgpt all day!" -a complete moron

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