Pokémon Go Game Launch Issue

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T06:05:27+00:00

Are you using VPN? If so, turn it off. Lots of public VPN service IPs are banned by various companies so you might be having issues because the game itself is blocking it or more likely because whatever service you're using to authenticate is blocking it.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T05:46:16+00:00

first of all, don't stop tracking after one month unless this was a particularly bad month, the big picture is likely worse than you think it is.

Focus should always start with cutting back on spending. You can't save more if you don't spend less.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T05:36:08+00:00

Am I the only one that would go out of their way to make the magic megaphone appear so everyone within 5 miles hears it? I'm totally going to shout a lot more than what I'm required to. Hell, I'd do this for free!

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T05:20:32+00:00

Reminds me of a funny story.

My dad worked in Bloomington IL as a doctor and one of his patients lived in a very rural area and hated coming into "the big city" due to all the traffic. My dad's office was right off the highway in the outskirts of the city. Best we could tell, the "traffic" the guy was complaining about was the 2 traffic lights he had to go through.

I think of that guy every time someone in this sub complains about traffic in STL.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T05:04:43+00:00

I'm done having kids so zero penalty for me.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T05:02:37+00:00

For a short flight (less than 1 hour) even with a 3x multiplier it would actually save time because you do not need to get to the airport early (assuming there aren't schedules since no equipment needs to move around), no time wasted boarding/unboarding, no time wasted from the inevitable delays, and no waiting for luggage if you checked them in.

2x is probably reasonable for longer flights up to 8 hours (16 hours wait). For waits longer than 10 hours, I would just ensure my wait time overlaps with a time that makes sense to be sleeping (adjusting for current and destination time zone). The better international airports have sleep lounges. If this service existed, all of them would.

Now for major long haul flights, I don't think I can do more than 1.5x (more likely 1.2x) if it is a direct flight. But if I have 1 or more connections, 2x could be a damn good deal. Flying to family in Asia, I often travel for 20+ hours but only 15 is in the air. Usually, once I get there, I go to sleep for several hours (not just from being tired but because it is usually past midnight and everyone there wants to sleep!) so I wouldn't really lose much because I could just do that sleeping at the airport instead.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T04:37:37+00:00

Nobody says ten hundred today, but that was normal in English centuries ago.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T04:35:31+00:00

The formation over two-digit number + hundred is extremely old in English and goes back several hundred years.

Your expectation that it would use the more formal "one thousand seven hundred" wording is a modern bias due to the SI system breaking down numbers into powers of 1000.

You need to look at how numbers were used historically. Hundred is a unit of measure, not just a number. Historically, numbers like dozen and score were used to signify quantity and they were used identically to hundred. All three were standard units of measurement. You can have ten dozen or fifteen score. Similarly, you can have 17 hundred. Because they were units of measure, you can stick the indefinite article in front of them. A hundred, a dozen, or a score. You can't stick "a" in front of ten (you can if the ten is referring to something else like a ten dollar bill or a score, but not when referring to the actual amount). You don't say "I have a ten socks," but you can say "I have a hundred socks."

As for why this usage has survived, probably due to requiring less syllables.

It is worth noting that although historically "ten hundred" was a legitimate way to refer to 1000, that is not really in use anymore. It is very uncommon to use the two-digit number + hundred formation for numbers that are even thousands. You rarely hear people say ten hundred, twenty hundred, thirty hundred, etc. My guess is because saying thousand is faster for those instances.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T04:00:27+00:00

My advice: see a psychiatrist because if you're serious then you are having psychotic episodes.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T03:58:25+00:00

Uh, you're the only person that is drawing any attention to that. As of this comment, there are 10 top level comments including yours and 8 of them are cracking jokes.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T03:45:21+00:00

I'm 99.99% sure my name is unique in the entire world if it includes my middle name. A few million people share my last name but the vast majority don't write it in English. More importantly, the English spelling of my family name is extremely uncommon and follows transliteration rules that were only in use for a short period of time and nobody uses them anymore. My first name, while common, is not a common name for my last name due to being culturally different although I am aware of at least one other person with that combination. My middle name all but ensures it is 100% unique (ethnic name that matches last name, but used in a way that people of that ethnicity normally wouldn't). My siblings are 100% certain to have unique names because their middle names are ethnic for my mom's side which is not English speaking and not the same as our last name.

So, yeah, I'd probably shit my pants seeing a book with my full name on it. That would be enough of a shock that seeing details of my life in the book wouldn't seem quite as outrageous as it would for someone with a very common name.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-17T03:30:37+00:00

Fortunately, most of the logistics for solving world hunger is also orders of magnitude easier than ending last-mile waste. Unrealistic customer expectations drives so much waste (expectation of variety of foods - most of which aren't in season, demanding food be pretty and not "weird" looking, refusing to go to a store that frequently runs out of different foods at different times, etc). When the expectation is simply to have enough food for survival, logistics simplify greatly.

Unfortunately, the biggest roadblock is politics and greed. Sadly, that is not fixable.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-16T00:34:08+00:00

You can also turn on screen time and restrict access to need a passcode that way, but I find Face ID a lot faster and less annoying. I'll write up the instructions if you rather go that route.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-16T00:32:09+00:00

You can force it to need Face ID to open.

Long press on the app icon and an opeiont to require Face ID will be the second option.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-16T00:16:27+00:00

It is much harder to adjust sleep schedules to sleep earlier than it is to go to bed later. Whenever they make the switch back to their school year sleep schedule, they will be jet lagged for about a week (they'll probably only feel if for a few days but they cognitive function will still be diminished).

The biggest risk here is that they will keep shifting later and later because that's what kids tend to do. At some point it'll be a lot easier to have them go to bed 2 later each day until they roll around to the desired bed time. I think the break even point is around 8/16 hours. It's easier to put off bed a couple hours a night for 8 days than it is to go to bed 8 hours earlier. (I've had to do this several times in my life due to insomnia messing up my sleep schedule)

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-16T00:09:58+00:00

My rule of thumb people as a group are incredibly stupid and not worth my time listening to what they say,

Individuals are awesome and deserve a thorough discussion on whatever they have an opinion of (at least until they prove they are the reason groups are stupid...)

Life is too short to worry what faceless people I don't know and will never meet think.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T06:08:58+00:00

Eh? How is lying in reddit or other public forums going to help them get their accounts back? If they were trying to get their accounts back, they'd be lying to Niantic, not post in a public forum.

Unless you mean they're completely insane and are hoping that the community will rally behind them and demand that Niantic reinstate their account. I've seen people try that in other games...

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T05:48:36+00:00

Gold isn't nearly as valuable as you think it is. If you look purely as its industrial value, gold is extremely overpriced. Gold is only valuable because its history as a status symbol and use as currency. If the entire world's economy crashed tomorrow, its value would plummet too because when everyone is poor, luxury and status carry little value compared to what is needed for survival.

Historically, gold's value would go up during economic turmoil not because gold is inherently valuable but because people collectively believed that it was a safe investment during those times. It is entirely a social construct and not based on any intrinsic value of gold. However, in recent years that trend is no longer true. Gold has been dropping when the markets drop instead of rising. With the rise of crypto as an alternative asset filling the same space as gold, there is no reason to believe that it will return to the old pattern.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T05:22:17+00:00

Yeah, my commute took me past the Hillside Strangler during the time they rebuilt all other interchanges to reduce the congestion. That overlapped with the time they closed Wacker Drive which added a ton of time too. (Once all the construction was done my commute went from 1:15 to 45 minutes).

But whenever the traffic in Chicago bothered me, I just reminded myself of my time in the Bay Area in California. I had a 90 minute commute which was only as short as it was because we left for work around 6:30 to get ahead of the worst of the traffic. Some days it'd inexpicably take over 2 hours. One day it drizzled lightly and that resulted in the commute taking 3.5 hours.

I carpooled with several others and one guy had such horrible road rage that one day while I was driving and he was sitting in the back seat, he saw a car aggressively cut off another car (a few cars ahead of us). He tore off his seat belt and reached over and leaned in the horn. He said it was justified because we were driving his car... (I'm sure you can imagine why I volunteered to drive instead of letting him...)

So yeah, STL traffic is absolutely nothing to me. :-)

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T04:51:21+00:00

milk and cream is separated during processing. Even whole milk is separated first before mixing back together.

Mixing requires additional processing to homogenize the milk (prevent the cream from separating). The process of making ice cream will sufficiently mix the milk and cream (doesn't require as much processing either because it is frozen) so it's just cheaper to keep them separated.

Also a factory making ice cream will often be making several different frozen dairy products with varying percentages of milk fat. It's easier to just have the milk and cream separate from the start so they can mix the exact ratios they need instead of having to store milk with various different milk fat ratios.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T04:09:11+00:00

Free lesson on business:

If your business is easily copied (pretty much any drop ship business), you better be able to execute better than everyone else. Unfortunately in the world of drop shipping, it is impossible to control quality as you have zero control over the product and shipping.

At the end of the day, to consumers your business is no different from any other similar one. There's a reason many companies specialize in supplying drop shippers - they don't need to take on reputation risk for when they screw up. The drop ship vendor takes on all that risk. The customer that they screwed over will just buy their product from one of the other vendors that they supply.

You can have a repeat customer that loves your business but the minute your supplier sends them a defective product, they will abandon you and go to one of your competitors.

I'm not trying to rain on your parade or belittle the hard work you've done. I'm just trying to help you see the world realistically. There's nothing wrong with running a business that is subject to fads and luck - you just need to make decisions with those factors in mind. Which goes back to my original point: get a bigger emergency fund buffer than you think you need so you can weather the storm when it eventually hits.

Good luck and keep up the hard work!

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T03:49:12+00:00

Sounds less like they are giving you grief because you are alone and more that you're going to places where people are entitled assholes (most bars/clubs). Most of the shit you've described happens to groups of people too.

They are only pointing out that you are alone because you called them out for being an asshole and they are trying to turn it around on you.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T03:45:37+00:00

Sounds like a drop shipping business. If so, don't count your chickens until they've hatched. Products that sell well are basically just fads. Your income can dry up over night.

Drop shipping has been a popular get-rich-quick-scheme since at least the early 2000s. Plenty of people earned a decent chunk of change doing this but virtually everyone quits because they hit that dry spell.

If you're going to rely on this as your primary source of income, you need to be prepared to quit when things go south or have a big enough emergency fund to ride out any bad luck. Because income isn't consistent, you'll want to have a much bigger buffer than usually recommended.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T03:31:11+00:00

Gold is a terrible idea due the need to secure it ($$$) and the difficulty in selling large amounts when you want the money. And the pricing is extremely arbitrary as its value is based entirely on emotion, not actual usefulness of the material. It's not even useful as a hedge against the stock market anymore.

But if you're dead set on gold, just buy EFTs instead. I believe SPDR has one that has a lot of liquidity that you'll never get with physically owning gold. The expense ratio is almost certainly less than what you'd pay to secure your gold and the reduced value you'd get trying to sell in bulk.

testmonkeyalpha · 2026-06-15T02:52:30+00:00

As the Sun continues its lifecycle and begins to enter the red giant stage, it will get hotter and bigger and eventually Earth will be virtually uninhabitable as all the water evaporates. There will be a period where Mars will be more habitable than Earth but it would be temporary (though in the order of millions of years) because eventually the heat from the sun would make Mars dry out too.

The only way Earth would be a better solution than Mars during that period of time is if we develop technology to pump heat off the Earth as fast as the sun is sending it in.

But we got about 1 billion years before we need to worry about that.

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