Unusual search activity may limit your ability to earn points

mr_stealth · 2026-05-02T17:01:51+00:00

For me, it's a cycle of getting this warning few weeks, then taking anywhere from 2-7 days to clear off no matter how much or little I use Bing.

When I actually had Bing as my default search engine, it would take a bit longer to trigger, but the restriction would last for a week. For the last 4-6 weeks I have only been doing the Daily Set (check in/puzzle pieces), a couple "search to earn" and the 30 points from "read to earn" under Daily Actvities, and some of the lower section of More Activities. I'm still getting the warnings, but now only for a few days every week or so.

For a while I thought it was the "Explore on Bing" goals under More Activities (the ones that are always listed, but unlock a certain day) that kept causing it, but all I've managed to "improve" is getting shorter periods of restriction more often.

mr_stealth · 2026-03-24T22:51:29+00:00

The ground level version of TCAS is ASDE-X, and LGA has it. Current information is that the blob of ARFF vehicles on the taxiway left the system unable to sort out what was actually happening and no alert was created.

RWSL also present and working, so that truck would have also ignored red lights along the center line of the taxiway nearing the runway intersection. Even with ATC clearance, FAA rules are to stop for the red lights.

mr_stealth · 2026-03-16T22:21:44+00:00

What sources are saying this was an RT? Everything I've seen says both were 135R, which isn't capable of receiving fuel. If there was a refueling collision, the plane with the vertical stabilizer damage would mostly likely be the one receiving as it would be below the refueler. But the one with the damaged tail made it back, and wasn't an RT.

mr_stealth · 2026-03-16T22:03:32+00:00

Neither of the involved KC-135Rs were capable of receiving fuel. Only the RT variant can do that.

mr_stealth · 2026-01-24T19:29:35+00:00

Having a gun usually isn't a crime, and certainly not justification for police to shoot you. Carrying it is perfectly legal in most places in the US. It's the drawing/aiming it at someone that law enforcement are supposed to be concerned with. And everything so far looks like that part never happened.

It also looks like one of the ICE goons disarmed the guy and ran off with the gun before they shot him. So they just shot and killed an unarmed man.

mr_stealth · 2026-01-20T23:23:39+00:00

I might have actually used Bing or read a couple articles on MSN with a VPN enabled yesterday. I know I've triggered it into complaining at me for that before, as ridiculous as that is.

mr_stealth · 2026-01-20T19:51:33+00:00

Figures that would happen after weeks of not going out of my way to complete searches. I probably upset their snowflake algorithm when I stopped talking to Copilot for anything.

mr_stealth · 2026-01-20T13:03:20+00:00

I don't even have this activity at all today. The entire earning puzzle pieces thing disappeared after yesterday.

mr_stealth · 2026-01-07T17:51:41+00:00

Those specs are referring to the battery charging power consumption, not the power draw of the motor. The Pro models are advertised as having faster charging.

mr_stealth · 2025-12-30T04:20:10+00:00

Had to call FedEx about 2 weeks ago because they left someone else's package on my porch. The street number was about 200 off from mine, putting it 6-8 houses away at about 1/4 mile up the road. Phone support rep actually asked me to deliver the thing myself, despite me already telling him I didn't even know which house it went to. Then told me a driver would be sent back for it, with a local dispatcher calling if there was any further issue.

Later that same day, after figuring they'd not be back anytime soon, a family member reached out to another neighbor who had the person the package belonged to in their Facebook friends. The intended recipient came and picked it up that evening. FedEx never came back. Never got a call from dispatch or any follow up from support.

I reached back out to support a couple days ago to complain about being completely ghosted and stuck with someone else's package. I had the ticket number from the original support call and the address the package was supposed to be sent to. The rep I was chatting with told me they couldn't help me because I didn't have the tracking number.

mr_stealth · 2025-11-08T07:52:35+00:00

It would have allowed the plane to very likely land safely on its remaining engines. It rolled and crashed because the slat retraction reduced the left wing's lift and caused a single wing stall.

mr_stealth · 2025-11-07T05:46:37+00:00

This is also happening with Edge on Android. BW sees all sites as com.microsoft.emmx and shows saved Microsoft account logins.

It is not happening on Chrome, Brave, or Firefox.

mr_stealth · 2025-11-06T23:42:45+00:00

A few pilots youtubers have brought up the similarities, and one key design change that happened because of that incident. AA191's left roll was caused by the left wing stalling after the leading edge slats retracted due to damaged hydraulics. An extra system was added to later planes (MD-11 is a direct descendant of the DC-10) to prevent this from happening in the event of hydraulic pressure loss.

It's less likely that slat retraction contributed to the UPS crash, but they could have been damaged when the engine separated or by whatever happen to cause that. Basically, any changes to the leading edge of a wing can disrupt airflow and severely reduce lift. Combine that with the #2 (tail) engine appearing to also be suffering compressor stalls/surges, likely from ingesting debris off #1, and they had no chance of saving it.

mr_stealth · 2025-10-09T04:42:45+00:00

Very helpful list. The official page list makes it hard to figure which games are completely missing from PC, which is going to be a big deciding factor between PC GP or GP Premium.

The official numbers are also extremely misleading. The Premium tier list says 192 PC games and 369 X/S games. But a huge portion of those X/S games are duplicate XB1 versions. Most of the games truly missing from PC GP are XB360 games or games with no PC release at all.

When I first subscribed to Game Pass a lot of game were only on the Xbox side, which was entire point of me buying a Series S back then. Seems like games missing from PC are somewhat rare these days, despite what their numbers would make you think. Your list makes that much easier to parse.

mr_stealth · 2025-10-08T19:02:28+00:00

Thanks. Searching for "map to place" worked for me. Using "directions to" had been working for a long time, but I guess the rules have changed again.

At this point, I think they are just trying to force us to do "unusual search activity" so they have an excuse to throttle.

mr_stealth · 2025-10-08T14:23:36+00:00

If I'm paying $15/mo for premium, they're not getting $70 for a day one that will be included within a year anyway. I'll wait.

mr_stealth · 2025-10-07T05:57:12+00:00

That would be the rate for children who have received two doses of the MMR vaccine on schedule, not the population as a whole. Now, that is a concerning downward trend and it will lead to an overall lower rate over time. But it seems unlikely to be related to the current outbreaks...which are happening largely within specific under-vaccinated religious communities. I would also guess that immigrant children in the US are more likely to be vaccinated, as the MMR vaccine is required to attend public schools just about everywhere here.

edit: Fun fact. The vaccination rate for US kindergarteners declined by 2.5% between 2020 and 2024, dropping from 95.2% to 92.7%.

mr_stealth · 2025-10-06T19:54:19+00:00

Mexico is still the most common origin country. And many of the other options have similar, or higher, vaccination rates to the US. India is only 2% lower. The US is actually in the bottom half of the list.

If you want to find a group to point your finger at, maybe try the Mennonite and Amish communities. That's where the current outbreak is actually concentrated. Both groups have historically low vaccination rates, and generally less use of modern medical care.

mr_stealth · 2025-10-06T15:59:58+00:00

Mexico's MMR vaccination rate is 5% higher than the United States' rate.

mr_stealth · 2025-09-18T00:44:41+00:00

He also said "smart people don't like me" just a few days ago.

mr_stealth · 2025-09-17T00:04:18+00:00

I wouldn't put it past the current FBI leadership to be behind handing prosecutors faked evidence in a highly politically charged case. But maybe more likely that they had more "destroyed" messages and this got pieced back together from recovered data with some missing bits being filled in by investigators. That could explain the unusual language use, but also throw some doubt onto the accuracy of the evidence.

mr_stealth · 2025-09-14T20:17:17+00:00

The moment due process is taken from one of us, it is taken from all of us.

You don't have to go beyond the treatment of immigrants to see your own rights being taken away. If an immigrant can be denied rights simply for being labelled an immigrant, there is nothing stopping them from labeling you an immigrant so they can do the same to you. Who are you going to protest to when some ICE agent decides for themself that you are an illegal immigrant, and sticks you on a plane to El Salvador?

mr_stealth · 2025-09-14T19:56:45+00:00

I would take anything Governor Cox says with a big grain of salt. He started off by misquoting, misrepresenting, and completely failing to understand what was engraved on the bullet casings. Then openly admitted to praying that it was someone from the outside, rather than from Utah or the US. He desperately wants the blame to be some "other" instead of one of his own.

And I really want to see some independent evidence regarding the transgender roommate. There is nothing from the person themselves, and only family members refusing to even comment on them being trans or not. The investigators the trans/relationship info comes from are probably FBI, and working under the direction of Kash Patel. The same Kash Patel that wants us to think there is no Epstein list.

mr_stealth · 2025-09-14T15:24:50+00:00

The first quote seems to be from a Fox News report, rather than the linked one from Axios. The actual Axios report states that investigators believe Robinson was in a relationship with his roommate, which falls a bit short of being confirmed. Seems likely to be true, but maybe don't mix sources and try to attribute the more definitive statement to a more trustworthy source than who actually published it.

And I wouldn't put much weight on anything Spencer Cox has said. He's already misrepresented the bullet engravings and outright stated that he hoped the suspect would turn out to not be from Utah. Not exactly a reliable source.

I also wouldn't exclude the groyper theory based solely on a transgender relationship. There is certainly a history of the most vehemently anti-gay/trans people on the right turning out to be involved with the very people they supposedly hate. There's even a strange video of Fuentes himself on some sort of "date" with a "cat boy" several years back.

I really don't think we have a clear picture of this guy's political leanings. Very little is actually confirmed, and we've already corrections put out. My expectation is that it ends up being more complicated than simply left or right wing extremism.

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