Unless my math is wrong, early September is only roughly 8 months from New Year’s, not 9.

I was thinking more like an Ivy League graduate from a Lawyering the Dark Arts School of Deceptive Loopholes and Twisting, but I see your point.

Edit: added a word

Depends on the hardware, but generally, yeah.

(It’s a joke)

I love those. They’re underrated. Crackle is pretty nice, too.

Exactly!

Iirc, it all started with a misprint for a phone-Santa promotion that accidentally used a number at NORAD.

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned Dropkick Murphys’ The Season’s Upon Us yet.

It isn’t so much the volume of typing, it’s the typing a thought-out answer to all those various articles and responses that seems curious. I type at a pretty fast rate, myself, but I don’t consider someone else’s comments and think up (and then type) fact based replies in that timeframe. My comment about typing speed was more me implying that a 3-day-old account that is responding that quickly to that many people on so many subjects in such a short amount of time – well, it walks and quacks like a bot.

Hmmm, how on earth is it possible for you to have replied to 26 different posts in the last 60 minutes, across multiple articles, many with multiple paragraphs. Fastest typer in the world?

That’s a great solution to win an election if it were easy to find a golden candidate that people like and can’t be portrayed as less than ideal by the other side. Right now, I’ll happily settle and vote for less than perfect if that candidate is the only one not courting fascism. And I certainly won’t go throwing my vote to someone else just because the only guy standing between democracy and tyranny isn’t checking all my boxes. No, sir. Democracy is too important to throw away just because “I don’t love one candidate and actively fear the other, so I just won’t bother.” Democracy is my single-issue this election. Get out and vote, because this time, democracy is cracking, and it is at risk of collapse to fascism.

You’re basically correct, in this case. I’ve chosen my official “side” as that of humanity. I’m not fully certain what that means other than I feel for the protestors/people of both sides and don’t want bad things to happen to either. The governments directly involved here, such as they are, are in the business of revenge and power. The people in general are being played by their governments, pawns to be sacrificed or otherwise used to further the purpose.

Hurricanes could, and did, wipe out entire communities. It’s easy to forget how important the study of meteorology is, as well as how vital modern weather satellites are, in keeping people safe.

As one example of massive damage done in the not terribly distant past: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

I shouldn’t feed the trolls…

I suppose the better question is, what did he do right?

• Taunted Twitter CEO, culminating in what constituted a valid offer to purchase at a very inflated price
• Tried to back out of his legally made offer
• Fired the vast majority of staff that knew how to run the site
• Fired all of the staff in charge of ethics
• Stopped paying rent and other bills, despite having used the location/services
• Demanded employees devote their non-sleeping lives to the company
• Ignored all his other companies, from which he continues to draw paychecks (ok, maybe ignoring them is for their best interest)
• Failed to pay promised severance
• Change algorithm to promote his voice above all other
• Rebrand off of one of the most recognizable names and logos in the world

And these are the ones just off the top of my head.

I was beginning to wonder if the bot purging got a little too ambitious. Also, requisite “I am not a bot” statement. Beep. Boop.

That’s an interesting thought. I hadn’t considered that as an option.

I haven’t heard of them before. Awfully reasonable pricing. I’ll check them out, thanks!

Do you know – do most people run cloud instances, or just a spare computer sitting in the closet collecting dust? I’d be tempted to looking into my own, but don’t want to spend a small fortune keeping a large EC2 just because it sounded interesting one weekend.