The fart telemetry from the in-seat methane detector is off the chain.

LOL, and no sense to…I don’t know, unplug it and use body heat like we have for centuries?

Campaigned like shit, arrogant enough to think they were a slam dunk, no platform, didn’t even investigate the very vocal voter fraud the R’s said they did. Why ever trust Dems?

The problem comes in so many directions in real life though. Say your company has a very large database. Replicating it across regions means you’re paying for data ingress/egress and more than one region’s copy of that already sharded and/or duplicated database. It even applies when transferring data across AZs in a given region. Backing it up to S3 is expensive, backing it up to Glacier is cheaper, until you ever have to do a restore, and then you have to lay off half the staff to pay for it.

Other issues can arise, possibly through the fault of yourself, sometimes at the fault of Amazon, if data traffic routing has a glitch and data is routing to the wrong place. The onus either way is on your company to show Amazon the receipts if you expect to get credits for the overage. At larger scale, this could be hundreds of thousands of dollars in overage. Easy to torpedo smaller companies with one mistake.

They didn’t used to nickel and dime as hard as they do now, which doesn’t help, but outside of history, they set up AWS to be the biggest slippery slope of wallet-deletion, as almost every move you make costs money. Entire companies exist to manage your AWS costs (for more money, of course) and other companies’ products you may use that are hosted in your infra may accidentally delete your wallet if you don’t constantly monitor them.

Using AWS cost-efficiently is only accomplished by ostensibly day-trading your cloud resources like a high frequency stock trader, capitalizing on unpopular/weird system types, and keeping your code as portable as possible.

…but if one didn’t care about cost, one would probably get pretty good reliability out of them, sure.

Not to be that guy, but having had to repair ovens with these GE control boards on and off, what that display is saying (as the oven is on) is “PRE” for pre-heating.

The updoot lover that created this image just photoshopped the E over the R. You can tell as the segments on both Es are exactly the same in brightness and intensity, which is highly improbable in simple digital electronics design used for these types of boards.

Quinoa obsession has damaged an entire culture. They can’t even afford to eat their own staple crop now.

While it does vaguely link to the Consumer Reports link, most sites just auto-link to the home page or some redirect.

Media should just show the list, and first, always.

I say vaguely because on mobile one has to hold their finger on the link and in some cases copy-paste it elsewhere to see what the contents is. That’s just malicious publishing.

With the advertisement culture constantly pushing “Total T” (which isn’t actually Testosterone) and whatever, it’s a profitable market selling to men that they are inadequate and some magic pill will make them a “man” again. Not to completely disregard the actual real medical use for it, however.

The advertisements (especially on linear TV these days like cable) are almost non-stop to push mail order prescription Testosterone and supplements that don’t do anything, as well, which suggests the male ego is a very profitable market.

Some info on this from the past:

A recent market analysis reports that prescription sales of testosterone have increased from US$150 million in 2000 to US$1.8 billion in 2011 worldwide, with US and Canada driving the growth in sales numbers. Interestingly, a significant portion of men prescribed testosterone replacement therapy did not meet laboratory criteria for hypogonadism, according to a market analysis.

a recent study revealed that out of seven online-only clinics, six prescribed testosterone to an undercover urologist who had normal testosterone levels and did not meet the treatment criteria set by the American Urological Association (AUA) and the Endocrine Society.

Windows ME had the same fixed 64KB user resources and 64KB GDI resources memory limits as Windows 95 and Windows 98 for system resource allocation regardless of how much actual RAM you had. Since ME was more resource-intensive than the previous versions, you could run out of these resource allocations while still having very much free RAM much faster.

The end-result was the computer becoming unusable even though you had resources available that the OS could have otherwise used. Certain inefficient applications like I believe Quicken could snarf up all of the system resources so you had to restart with everything you could disabled to run that one application. Same computer on Win2K would run circles around WinME.

Apparently a lot of older men are on supplements or prescriptions for testosterone. Any surprise they’re all so aggro?

To be fair, the crops didn’t exist when the native pollinators were alpha, so the argument is semi-irrelevant. Again, the bigger problem is just that insect populations are failing. The focus should be fixing that, with that comes the bees. Although, that means fixing climate change. Soooo…

There are so many little cuts that are surfacing in the US weather forecasting system this year. Daily forecasts wrong, weekly forecasts wrong. Storms that shouldn’t have happened or moved on just sit and spin. Flights are getting randomly more turbulent, as they don’t have the jet stream forecasts to plot daily routes and have to rely more on the first plane to hit it to report it back. The systems had enough failsafes that are slightly holding them together, but it is extremely apparent the damage is already present and becoming worse.

The muppets in the Federal government are trying their hardest to make this occur so they can try and find some loophole to go ahead with their martial law plans to arrest all the people they don’t like that week. What we’re likely seeing is mature restraint on behalf of firearm owners.

Some years back, the quote was something like, “as soon as you discharge your weapon, you are looking at spending at least $10,000 from legal fees” (if you don’t have firearm insurance and/or if it would even be applicable) - that number is probably tenfold now. Not to mention the very likely personal harm others have mentioned.

Legal fees or not, being dead is pretty hard to come back from.

Depends on the laws of the specific state.

Now I understand why all the 20-minute Internet videos that could easily be a simple 2-minute-read web page exist.

I figured it was just “video is in vogue” - no, people are too lazy to read/write and/or can’t.

I’ve done video editing, it seems more time-consuming to create edited video content than just typing.

It’s PopMech. It’s always been a rag, not something to be taken seriously. Maybe in the 1960s.

Wait, so illegal immigrants are now pedophiles? That’s the Department of Witch Hunt Conspiracies. Of course, the illegal immigrants weren’t ever illegal, just calling this out because everyone with a fart’s worth of a brain cell knows they’re just trying to Nazi like a third grader would.

Correct headline:

Business man that actually has no idea how business works asks incompetent alcoholic to pull money out of ass in pathetic attempt to keep soldiers from supporting America, the Constitution, and freedom.

The kinds of bees in the US are not native to the US. Plants were pollinated in the US long before Africanized or European honey bees were brought over.

Bigger problem is that we’re killing generalized insect populations, so the quantity of insects is on a decline.

Hey, that’s nifty to learn. And apologies I meant more that “existed” in devices in your hand, but I also own an actual pocket camera that has models running on it to detect objects like faces that is very much older, so… yeah.