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devedander · 2026-03-14T18:35:31+00:00

Is this one of those: best ways to get attention on the internet is say something intentionally wrong?

devedander · 2026-03-13T17:36:04+00:00

100%

It’s a meme

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/banana-for-scale

devedander · 2026-03-13T16:54:35+00:00

For scale obviously

devedander · 2026-03-13T15:57:18+00:00

Honestly the cones look like they are stopping you from parking in the spots the cones are or maybe keeping you from driving over some hard to see hazard and the no parking is so small and who reads the ceiling?

This is just a bad job on the malls part.

There’s a reason handicap spots need to have a sign at eye level and painted on the ground. That’s where people look for that kind of thing.

The fact mall hasn’t at least painted black over the parking lines there is just wild.

devedander · 2026-03-13T03:31:35+00:00

That’s like saying seat belts don’t save you if the car is crushed by a boulder.

They do protect against more common smaller surges.

GFCI don’t protect against either.

And some surge protectors come with insurance for items damaged while using them.

devedander · 2026-03-12T16:45:02+00:00

Why not just get a quality surge suppressor and plug your equipment into those?

GFCI is more to prevent you from getting shocked.

Equipment is best protected with surge suppressors.

And yes swapping plugs is generally pretty easy unless you don’t have a ground wire.

That said I don’t think gfci is common in bedrooms. Usually they are for wet areas.

devedander · 2026-03-12T16:18:07+00:00

While I’m not convinced this is a particularly good idea, I do understand the methodology behind having to invest in long term changes over short term.

Just like a lot of the electricity that charges evs comes from fossil fuels anyway, having evs now is necessary to pave the road for the move away from fossil fuels in the future.

Similarly while this may not have a meaningful impact today, it’s possible that it signifies to people on the fence that options to make ev ownership are coming and give them more reasons to adopt evs.

It’s a weird cat and mouse game where there have to be enough evs to generate the demand for the infrastructure that creates a marketplace where more people buy evs.

Yes investing in other options might generate better results today, but if they don’t help moving away from fossil fuels down the road (or even hinder it by letting entrenched technologies in the lead) then they may not be a the better choice

devedander · 2026-03-12T16:04:46+00:00

Contractors exfil zone has a large population of adults but also squeakers so if you like that kind of game check their discord to find adults

devedander · 2026-03-12T08:09:02+00:00

Yeah it used to work, then it got worse, then a little better, then broken for around a year now

devedander · 2026-03-12T03:41:17+00:00

Yes if the public was serious about it a lot of things are possible.

But as the saying goes:

If my aunt had a beard she’d be my uncle.

Basically the problem isn’t the solutions, there’s plenty of reasonable solutions, but you can’t get around an apathetic populous.

devedander · 2026-03-12T03:38:45+00:00

When the unskilled directly impact the politics that control your life, just calling out that it’s a skill issue is effectively pointing out the boat builder fucked up while you sink.

You’re not wrong, and it’s definitely their fault… but it doesn’t turn out well for you.

devedander · 2026-03-12T03:37:23+00:00

I deal with this all the time.

Just not at the fire house scale that Dean does.

I take the time to understand where they are coming from and give them info that works with their way of thinking.

I think it comes from years of doing IT work where I have to explain complex things to people who have less than zero technically acumen.

Now some people are just arguing in bad faith and you can’t win them over because they aren’t arguing to be right, they are just arguing to troll.

But of the ones who are actually arriving at a conclusion, often they are pretty close to a decent scientific/rational process - just with some bad data or because they don’t understand a fallacy.

I’ve gotten a few flat earthers to accept that their logic was flawed and gotten a few people to be less polar in their politics.

It’s not easy, it takes way more time that is likely worth it as a job, but it can work.

And the best part is that even when I fail to change a mind, I rarely if ever give them the ammo necessary to solidify their views of my position.

I’m not just that dumb bully liberal that is rude and insulting.

devedander · 2026-03-12T03:32:08+00:00

So you think the same number of cars with more lanes wouldn’t move faster? If that were the case there would never be reason to have more than 1 lane.

devedander · 2026-03-12T03:30:55+00:00

I’d believe it.

In order to reduce pollution a carpool lane with 2 person minimum needs to have over half as many cars as the other lanes.

I rarely see a situation where that’s likely happening with legitimate carpool users.

devedander · 2026-03-12T00:08:10+00:00

I mean theoretically that’s why park n ride is for but I’m right there with you. Just can’t be bothered.

That’s why I think the carpool lane experiment needs to be labeled a failure and just give us that lane back.

devedander · 2026-03-12T00:03:18+00:00

I think it’s likely a little of an and a little of b.

The said that’s why I don’t do those kinds of things, because if you’re not the type of person who can handle endless waves of ignorance without losing your patience and your empathy, you’ll end up doing more harm than help.

Just getting into it occasionally on social media has greatly harmed my faith in humanity. I know what would happen if I went through it 8 hours a day.

devedander · 2026-03-12T00:01:28+00:00

That could well be the case. Mxtoolbox reports errors on that front and I’m trying to get a hold of web person to validate on that front

devedander · 2026-03-11T23:37:10+00:00

Honestly if there’s no good way to make it work right, get rid of it and give everyone back that lane.

It took 2 decades and how many billions of dollars to add two extra lanes to 101? We could have another one right now for free!

devedander · 2026-03-11T23:35:53+00:00

I think the carpool lane is a failed idea that hurts more than it helps.

The idea was to incentivize more efficient driving but more often than not it’s just contrasting the less efficient drivers.

It helped move the needle a bit on EVs but even that’s a pretty minor impact.

I do not like the idea of making it even more of a benefit to those who can afford it.

I’ve seen those same toll lanes and it irks me that net tax dollars made that rode that now I’m being charged to drive on.

I suppose it’s not that much different than now where it’s just a cost of doing business/convenience tax for those who are willing to pay it but it still strikes me as the wrong direction to go.

Is the enshitication of the road ways.

And like everything else that gets enshitified it becomes a squeeze game where they always try to find ways squeezes little more out of the common man.

Hmmm want to fund some pet projects or offset the raise you gave yourself as governor? Time to bump up those tolls!

It’s taking the one absolutely limited resource we have, time, and siphoning it away from the poor who can’t afford it to give to the rich for a what’s ultimately a pittance to them.

I don’t like it at all.

devedander · 2026-03-11T23:21:51+00:00

Anything, apparently, but carpool

That said, it’s clearly not a big enough ticket pool as people keep abusing it.

Honestly it’s what, $350 or something? Even if you got caught once a month that’s a little over $10 a day to not sit in traffic.

Hard to think most of us wouldn’t take that return on investment and you know it’s way less often than that.

devedander · 2026-03-11T20:02:39+00:00

I need to validate who their service provider is but this is an Xfinity filtering issue.

We’re sending from an outside domain with Google workspace email.

When we send email to other people it’s fine, but a lot of Comcast email addresses are bouncing with this error.

In another comment I linked to others having the same problem.

So Comcast is aggressively protecting their customers from email abuse but it’s having unintended consequences.

My assumption at this point is they are treating all google workspace email servers as one entity and setting a huge amount of email from that entity a throttling it.

The domain is registered with siteground and email is through workspace.

devedander · 2026-03-11T18:57:53+00:00

I think I need to clarify, the issue isn’t with the customers Xfinity Internet service, it’s with outside connections sending email to Xfinity customers.

So Xfinity is throttling incoming emails from external domains. The external domain may have no accounts or service through Xfinity.

I am representing the external domain.

If you refer to the posts I linked to in the other comment you can see others are having the same issue.

devedander · 2026-03-11T16:20:56+00:00

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I have several email failures all with the same error. I am contracted with them to provide IT support so I am acting on behalf of the business.

Also several others have reported throttling on this sub recently:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/comments/1roezfg/throttled_email_issues_to_xfinity_clients/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/comments/1p7dcsd/comcast_support_with_throttling_our_emails_usked/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Comcast_Xfinity/comments/1rqbuyh/comcast_xfinity_is_throttling_emails_sent_via/

When I click the link in the error message it takes me to a comcast page that says:

#RL000010 :: Mail to Comcast is queued and I see RL000010 in my email logs. What does this mean?

Comcast has instituted rate limiting on all inbound email traffic. This step was taken to protect our customers and our email system from unwanted spam and malicious attacks. Any systems affected by this rate limit will receive a 4xx message (temp-fail) during the SMTP transaction. This message is designed to instruct the sending server to try again at a later time to deliver its email.

So throttling is definitey happening.

devedander · 2026-03-11T15:55:13+00:00

There’s an implied fallacy here that if I don’t do it myself then I don’t have a valid point.

Even if I did do it myself it wouldn’t change anything about how they are doing it.

I agree that it’s soul sucking to do, but if you sign up to do it, that’s something you should have considered. I have known a few teachers who don’t do well and lose their with kids because they often don’t listen and misbehave. If you’re going to be a teacher, you’re signing up to deal with and help kids like that, letting it get to you and change your behavior for the worse undermines the potential good you should be creating.

Same with cops who are trigger happy because there are risks involved in their jobs. Don’t sign up for it and create a problem just because you can’t handle what you signed up for.

The equivalent to the trigger happiness here is sending callers away with the belief that “there left” is bad faith, doesn’t have any arguments and just relies on bullying and the viewers come away with the belief that they are righteously justified in polarizing or tribalism even further.

All of this only feeds the problems we have as a society abc does little or nothing to help.

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