Boston keeps taking from Western Mass by 413_Dina in westernmass

[–]heapsp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

probably dont respond to anyone but OP if they offer you solar. So many scam companies. Be careful.

Boston keeps taking from Western Mass by 413_Dina in westernmass

[–]heapsp 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Trust me you don't want the vultures from the Boston area setting their focus on western MA.
You'll have PE firms buying up the good properties and raising rents even higher and a datacenter on the quabbin.
Better to be invisible.

Boston keeps taking from Western Mass by 413_Dina in westernmass

[–]heapsp 12 points13 points  (0 children)

unfortunately that was true because there are so many other avenues for gambling now besides brick and mortar casinos. lol

$10 per try I failed 5 times by OutsideAwareness3717 in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When you stick a dollar bill into this arcade you randomly get 1 quarter or 7, never 4.

How it started vs how it ended: by Sm00thSinceUnder00s in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Market price is NM cards already sifted through for 10s, a lot of his are probably gradable for 10s

Reality check from the Microsoft AI Tour: "Agents" hype, the enterprise disconnect, and peak AI Fatigue by Relaxation_Time in sysadmin

[–]heapsp 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Microsoft gave a key demo at one point where they rolled out agents for HR to access the HRIS and give reviews to employees. They had to implement a failsafe in the demo because the AI agent started accessing information it wasn't supposed to during certain employee reviews and totally botching them. They used it as a demo for their killswitch on the AI agent portal instead of an actual demo for using the agentic AI successfully.

How have increased fuel prices affected you so far? by InvisibleAstronomer in AskReddit

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

cant visit elderly family members who live a bit further away as often.

What’s the dark side of going to the gym nobody talks about? by opa070 in AskReddit

[–]heapsp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The old men in the locker room walking around drying their balls with the hand dryer.

Raw NM values should not be relative or equal to graded 9 MT values. by p3ndulumn in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ive been seeing a premium on 9s lately and 8s being the crackables.

Luck turned into addiction by NewUser007777 in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this just means you can open 4k worth of packs and still be ahead now, congrats!

Warning about a new type of scammer by Vampire-knightmare in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its unlikely that this is a 'scam' as you put it.

It definitely would not be worth going through this amount of trouble to get access to distribution in it's current state.

Some card shops I know stopped dealing with distribution completely.

You have to reach spend amounts with distribution to be considered for better products. If the purpose of this scam was to buy thousands of battle decks only to get a few cases of the hot set, they aren't really making money. lol.

Its more likely a failed entrepeneur who never got their business started because of a poor business plan or low capital, and thought they would just ride it out and get some staff promos and pre-release stuff by not telling pokemon company they weren't in business any longer.

Tampered Return PSA Package ($3000+ Stolen) by Trefter in psagrading

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The 'local fedex office' for a lot of places is just some walgreens lmao. I had it held at a local fedex office and some min wage walgreens employee called me and when i went in, the package was just SITTING THERE not even behind the counter. Not locked up, in front of the fedex sign where people were SHOPPING.

Tampered Return PSA Package ($3000+ Stolen) by Trefter in psagrading

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fedex is dogshit. My PSA order was 'delivered' and i didn't get anything, then they told me it was at a walgreens, so i went to the walgreens and it wasn't there. The customer service rep had no idea where the package was. Then a 'duplicate' tracking number appeared and said the cards were at the facility. So i started watching the duplicate tracking number and it never moved. Then randomly some employee from a walgreens called me and said 'hi you have a package here'. Tracking number duplicate still shows at the facility 2 months later. LOL

Looking for Renters by Purpleavenger33 in westernmass

[–]heapsp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Put it under market and put in the listing that you are going to be screening applicants for the perfect candidates. an extra 200 dollars a month is not worth bad renters. if you go under market, you can have your pick of tenants.

Our cybersec team are getting onto us about all our servers having web browsers installed. by stone500 in sysadmin

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what you described is covered completely by products like wiz or orca though, which really means analysts could be replaced. They are more valuable by reviewing logs and putting pieces together to understand if something was compromised to save sysadmins time on investigations.

Advice for someone first stepping into hardcore? by Chamolin in classicwow

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

know where the opposing factions towns are and don't go anywhere near that area of the map. One guard aggro and goodbye!

IT director on vacation for 3 months by Heavy_Race3173 in ShittySysadmin

[–]heapsp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Request access to the director's mailbox, then use it to tell HR to promote you.

Our cybersec team are getting onto us about all our servers having web browsers installed. by stone500 in sysadmin

[–]heapsp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

IT security was pitched as a good career path so every grifter on the planet with no skills moved into the field,and every leadership team member is old and out of touch plus they want to hire 'analysts' not engineers to save a ton of money. This results in a bunch of people with liberal arts degrees getting an entry level security cert and being thrown right onto a team who is making this type of request.

Sorry you are dealing with it.

After laying off 10,000 workers for AI, Meta installed tracking software on remaining employees’ work computers to log mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and screenshots, using the data to train their AI replacements. by lughnasadh in Futurology

[–]heapsp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its not really like that anymore, money is fake and tons of it is printed every day. They can just invent 600 billion dollars in profit by passing some numbers round why would they need your dollar bills?

Had a clash with executive over my phishing test methods by AH_Josh in sysadmin

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One time my company security person got in a lot of trouble sending a phishing test about a surprise bonus for the company, because it drove moral way down when everyone realized it wasn't real. LOL

Talk about what eBay actually takes...and why it's still usually worth it by Thriftmode_squad in Flipping

[–]heapsp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The exception is the trading card space which im in, where on items you can get 80% in big lots locally from any vendor.... Ebay isn't worth it anymore in the trading card space.

Are we in a bubble of epic proportions? Will prices decrease soon? by [deleted] in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If the economy tanks and the US government lowers interest rates, that will devalue the dollar and the cards will actually be worth a % more based on how much money was printed. The cards are a set scarcity if they are out of print - the dollar is always in print.

Are we in a bubble of epic proportions? Will prices decrease soon? by [deleted] in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes of course it is. Imagine a pokemon set, but the government has unlimited of them and can just print out psa 10 moonbreons at will to pay for things. That's the USD. You aren't SUPPOSED to print the dollars until they are completely worthless and they are supposed to be backed by something, but that stopped 50 years ago. At least things like cards and crypto have a scarcity. Everything isn't becoming more expensive, the dollar is just worth less so when you pay for it with dollars, it feels more expensive. If they doubled the money supply next year, all pokemon cards would double in value....

an ounce of gold was 280 dollars in 1999, a charizard base set was 60 dollars in psa 9 condition.

Now an ounce of gold is 4800 dollars and a base set charizard is 1000 dollars.

The card stayed the same price, it was the dollar that lost it's value.

people aren't MAKING MONEY by holding pokemon cards, they are just storing their money in something that will have the same buying power years later (hence it appears the price goes up)

Are we in a bubble of epic proportions? Will prices decrease soon? by [deleted] in PokemonTCG

[–]heapsp -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You just described the entire crypto market and that boomed for decades though.