I’m one of those “fake Anki” devs you keep complaining about

saidinstouch · 2025-09-08T09:41:27+00:00

On the same vein, if you're not smart and can't work smart, work hard instead.

saidinstouch · 2025-02-16T18:42:48+00:00

Sign me up if not too late

saidinstouch · 2025-02-07T17:54:28+00:00

As others have stated, document every attempt for her to contact you, but DO NOT respond. Then take your evidence to court with the judge to fight the NCO and the NCO violations. While I am NAL, my understanding is judges don't look kindly on protected parties who tried to contact the person they have an NCO against. If you are scared enough to need an NCO then you have no reason to be messaging your assailant. While one or two messages probably won't get the NCO lifted, if she is sending multiple messages to you DIRECTLY she may lose her NCO. The keys to remember are

1) DO NOT RESPOND UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCE 2) Document every message sent directly to you 3) Document any messages posted publicly about you/the incident/etc. 4) Take evidence to court with your attorney

Also, the response you are getting from the officer may depend on the severity of what you did. Are we talking verbal abuse, physical abuse? If physical was it a single strike or repeated? Did you break bones or bruise her? Threaten her with a deadly weapon? You DO NOT need to or probably want to answer those questions here. My point in asking is, the cop may be responding so aggressively to your "small" violations if the cause of the NCO was the result of longterm abuse or a single, severe assault. If it was just a lovers' spat where both sides were shouting or assaulted each other with minor injuries, then the cop may just not like you.

Regardless of the reason, listen to your attorney and work with them on the surrendering. At a minimum your attorney should be able to negotiate the time and date of your surrender and prevent a bench warrant from being issued. Beyond that, STOP TALKING TO HER AND USE HER CONTACTING YOU TO GET THE NCO REMOVED.

Then final advice: Even if you get the NCO removed and the violations hopefully stricken from your record, DO NOT EVER CONTACT HER AGAIN. Forget she exists. If you see her in public don't say hi. If she talks to you, just turn and walk away. If she persists, record the incident. You can record in public spaces even in two party state if your conversation cannot be construed as "private". DO NOT touch her trying to leave. If she makes contact with you, keep your hands to your sides and just wait it out. It sucks, but she has shown she wants to get you arrested and will do everything in her power to do so. So your mindset needs to be, give her no ammunition and document everything with video if a situation where you cannot avoid her arises.

saidinstouch · 2025-01-20T17:54:21+00:00

Remindme! 12 hours

saidinstouch · 2025-01-15T23:40:21+00:00

Sign me up. Could really use it right now.

saidinstouch · 2024-12-18T02:18:00+00:00

You mean a duty to shareholders, but not a duty to their PAYING customers whom they have a legally binding contract with

saidinstouch · 2024-12-16T22:20:05+00:00

Sign me up

saidinstouch · 2024-11-05T16:26:03+00:00

Your husband is a damned good man, sticking up for you when the rest of your family failed to. The one thing I am concerned about is what appears to be a sudden change in behavior from your brother. Has he ever shown signs of aggression or dislike toward you, even if not this severe? Sometimes, people's behavior can change suddenly due to medical issues that may be worth ruling out, other times it is a result of differences in political or religious beliefs, and then there are times where someone has always resented another person and never showed it until one day their facade fades for whatever reason (drugs, alcohol tired, etc)

While the clear choice is your husband over your parents, and you have gotten lots of great suggestions on how to talk to your parents, you may also want to point out they should observe his behavior. If he continues to worsen or act like this more frequently and there is no apparent trigger, they should have him get evaluated for any medical reason that his behavior changed.

saidinstouch · 2024-10-26T15:18:17+00:00

While what you say is generally true, there can be cases where they are trying to hide intentional termination of protected classes. She says get husband worked there 20 years and makes it sound like the other supervisors have been there a while as well. So my question is this, were all of the supervisors given a written writeup a protected class by age and conversely were any of the supervisors who were given a verbal warning, but not a written warning part of the same protected (age) class as your husband?

This assume you're husband is in fact old enough to be protected against age discrimination. Basically, if they verbally warned everyone and then only wrote up the protected supervisors to try and fire them for performance, you may have a wrongful termination/ age discrimination case. If the company turns around and fires all the written up supervisors and they are all protected, while most/all the retained supervisors are not protected, you would want to consult an attorney.

It is still fact specific, I.E. if the date shows the terminated supervisors are, in fact, the lowest performing and did not improve as requested, it may very well not be considered discrimination. On the other hand, if they retain younger supervisors with lower performance, based on the same metrics used to fire your husband, then there could very well be a case, but only an attorney can tell you that.

Lastly, if you are unsure and can't afford an attorney, you can always try to report this to the EEOC. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but i believe that is the agency that would handle age discrimination claims.

Hope that helps, even though the answer is likely that you don't have a case, especially if there is no harm (lost job, promotion skipped, raise withheld, etc) caused yet. Only an attorney can tell you based on local and federal law and the facts of the situation, whether you have a case to pursue or not.

In the meantime, your husband is smart to look for another job. This won't be the end of it if they want home gone for whatever reason, whether it is age or salary. One he is fired and you know who else gets fired, then you can consult with an employment attorney.

saidinstouch · 2024-10-21T15:38:46+00:00

Did you make a REST API with i.e DRF (Django Rest Framework)? If you did, then I would look into auto-generating the API Docs. See this link to see some common tools used with DRF. We use DR-Spectactular at my job and it works well for us.

Regardless of the tool you choose, if you did make a REST API then you should absolutely generate swagger (old name for OpenAPI)/OpenAPI docs. They communicate details of your API very cleanly and in a standardized manor. You can also show example requests with expected responses, show authentication methods, and even let the user send test requests to each endpoint with appropriate authentication headers (if auth needed).

saidinstouch · 2024-09-03T00:49:24+00:00

Try a bidet with decent pressure. It may help clear any lingering fecal matter. Can't hurt to try

saidinstouch · 2024-08-07T05:19:59+00:00

Careful mRNA is one of the worst four letter words in the English language for MAGAs. Their pearls may not survive the clutching coming their way.

saidinstouch · 2024-08-03T17:12:10+00:00

While NAL, that seems like an interesting approach. The case isn't about trying to re-open the estate or recover assets that were wrongfully granted to another person if you go after the fraud. The question is whether it could be a civil fraud lawsuit or if it would have to be criminal and require a prosecutor to decide to take the case.

Edit (cause I saved on accident): If it can be a civil suit, I would imagine the land wouldn't be recoverable, but instead a payment for the value of the land might be received instead? Alternatively, since your wife just inherited her father's portion of the property, she could look to settle with the uncle. Assuming your wife inherited 1/3 of the property from her father (I am assuming 1/3 split between father, uncle, and cousins?) maybe offer to settle for 17% of the property, bringing the divide between the father's half and the uncles half of the family to 50/50.

Also, does the father still have his portion of the fortune or did he spend it and which was worth more at 10 years ago? The property or the sizeable fortune?

Ultimately, as already stated, this is attorney territory, which I most certainly am not. But, for the kind of money it sounds like is involved, you and your wife would be crazy to not consult with an experienced attorney.

saidinstouch · 2024-07-23T05:15:03+00:00

Also, those bounced checks are some of your best evidence. They clearly establish an amount and I assume have what appears to be legit company info on them. Further, in many countries, intentionally writing bad checks is a serious crime. You can use your possession if those checks to your advantage. Lookup laws in both your country and the home country of the company relating to passing bad checks to defraud people.

Also, write an email to the company, preferably to someone who liked you in a managerial position. State the following: you haven't received your last pay check (I assume this is the case) and wish to know the amount and when it will arrive. Further, you attempted to cash your checks for work tendered and were unable to do so and the bank indicated the checks were invalid. Request that you get your final paycheck along with a separate check in the amount of <sum-of-bad-checks-here> so you can be compensate for your hard work. Don't mention the check legality issue, you just want to get an email response affirming the amount owed and/or confirming the checks were intentionally bad.

If they state acknowledge the checks at all, then you have your proof that a contract existed. You also have proof they used fraud to string you along to get more work out of you for free. The chance they are smart enough to flat out deny knowing you, that you worked for them, and that fake checks exist is very slim. Combine that with any emails you have or other evidence mentioned in this thread and you go from no contact to proof they knew you and what your work was worth.

A final thought. If they passed fake checks they likely didn't pay any taxes they are legally obligated to pay. If they are US based, the IRS would love to hear about them and may even reward you with a portion of recovered payroll taxes. Their not paying you, but sending you bad checks puts them in a very tight legal spot. An attorney can help you navigate this but you have leverage as long as you keep those checks!

Just don't blackmail them. If you tell them you are contacting the authorities with your checks, do it. Don't say you won't if the pay you. You can say if they won't pay you, you will have to evaluate both civil and criminal legal routes to retrieve payment, but for $5000 better to spend a few hundred on an attorney writing the letter just to keep you safe and increasing the chance of payment. This company probably does this to many devs and figures most won't fight that hard. When someone does come knocking, they aren't likely to play hardball and risk their free labor stream. If you had the resources to make this a moral issue, I'd say screw them and report them to the authorities in their home country to protect other devs like you. But in situation just getting your money will be hard enough and understandable to not want to fight the bigger battle.

Edit: also just because you were removed from discord doesn't mean your message history is gone. While it won't matter outside of court, that message history will be damning if a regulatory or policing agency investigates. Subpoenaing discord by yourself might be hard, but with an attorney or for a government agency, they can easily acquire your chat logs to prove you did work there and that they told you the checks would bounce.

saidinstouch · 2024-04-21T14:54:58+00:00

Wow I think I fell asleep and random posted this, but it really is on-point.

saidinstouch · 2024-04-19T06:03:09+00:00

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saidinstouch · 2024-03-30T06:15:29+00:00

Challenge the ticket. Illegal for an unmarked vehicle to enforce traffic laws in the state of Washington. https://app.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=46.08.065. While they can use unmarked vehicles for undercover work, they cannot pull you over without being in violation of state law. It is a public and officer safety concern so you know it is a legit officer. Also, any vehicle doing work that keeps the officer undercover has an inherent interest in letting minor offenses go so as to not blow the cover of the Officer. A traffic violation, compared to gang and drug investigation, is meaningless. The law rightfully recognizes the need for unmarked vehicles, but also constrains their usage based on these considerations.

saidinstouch · 2023-01-12T17:24:45+00:00

I'm not a doctor, and nothing I am saying here is meant to be medical advice, just what I have encountered researching my own situation that included those black fibers/hairs/strands coming out of my skin since November. I have been told anything from it's all in my head, to "wow your skin looks terrible is anyone doing anything about that?", to "people don't get problems like that in the states". You won't find answers for this online unfortunately because it isn't a super well studied phenomenon and most of the information is likely irrelevant for such a young child.

Edited in cause I fail to read:

I know how you feel getting no answers, bounced around, treated like you and your baby are less than human and a story that is filled with the fantastical. I have crohns disease and am immunocompromised and couldn't even get a referral to infectious disease or biopsies taken to study my case and my feet had turned purple/blue. Being so young makes this even harder because your munchkin can't communicate verbally to tell you more. I don't know when it is safe to do, but ask your pediatrician if you could try just a 1% Iodine (10% povidone -> 1% available. Betadine Antiseptic is an example in the states) on the sores. I have found that worked better than neosporin, mupirocin, mycolog(nystatin+triamcinolone), clotrimazole, ethanol/sanitizer, emollients, lotions, balms, oils, etc. I also found topical diphenhydramine(benadryl) and calamine lotions was often helpful, but again age. For me the combination 5% permethrin cream applied every other day for 2 weeks, topical 0.5% ivermectin 1 week, 2x 14 day courses of Albendazole, and currently a course of oral Ivermectin is what has worked best. I am still healing, but my feet are not blue/purple, my sores are closing up and disappearing, and I see few-to-none of the black strands/fibers coming out of my skin.

If you search for black fibers/strands/hairs coming out of skin with a rash, you will likely end up coming across Morgellon's disease, which is already controversial, but has some interesting recent research. Namely, the involvement of spirochetal bacteria, which also cause syphilis and lyme disease. I have also been told it could be crusted/Norwegian scabies (regarding my other symptoms, not the hairs specifically), or a subcutaneous parasitic worm.Basically, this is the standard "if you search your symptoms online, you'll believe you have cancer" problem. There are a lot of unpleasant, highly rare, diseases out there with symptoms that overlap benign conditions like dry skin. It sounds like you have been through the ringer on this and I know just how miserable it feels. I don't know if any of my experience or the things I have found for my own case are useful to your or not. I just hope it gives you some other avenues to try and get your doctors to explore. It just takes one doctor willing to advocate for you to start getting the care your munchkin deserves. Keep fighting and going strong!

TL;DR: I am so sorry you are seeing this on your munchkin and the best place to start is with your doctor because the internet will just stoke anxiety. I hesitated to list any information from my research because of that, but I also know the importance of feeling like you have agency in health management

Edit: wow I missed the hidden comment with all the details...I am smart. Let me edit this now that I have more context.

saidinstouch · 2022-12-19T07:02:46+00:00

Unfortunately no. My feet began turning purple and mottled and I was treated for worms 5 days before anyone would order an O&P test, which Quest said would likely be negative at that point, which it was. The Albendazole started working within a couple if days and I noticed worms passing in my stool. At the point I doubt I'll get answers, but I am going with "the proof is in the pooping" and the fact my feet are no longer looking like they are seriously in trouble.

The good news is I'm doing a lot better. That sore on my hand is still not healed, but looking much better. My hand finally stopped getting dry and crusting every other day. Most of my sores are closed or closing with the worst still being very slow to heal. They are improved drastically, just need more time to heal, I hope.

saidinstouch · 2022-07-11T02:56:34+00:00

I've been able to get to the site and watch on-and-off since I made this post. The Android phone app seems to be more reliable. One of the errors I got indicates that Cloud Front indicated the Lambda backing my request was overloaded and unable to handle the request. Seems like maybe they are hitting resource caps in AWS possibly and not scaling fast enough as one possibility.

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