New England, huh? I love that they texted us again to correct themselves.

Also the Rocky Horror Picture Show 2 that everyone forgets was a (pretty decent but not cult-level) thing.

Literally no idea what your trying to argue for here. I told the person above me that it doesn’t have to be some crazy conspiracy.

Were you trying to respond to him? Or are you one of those people who thinks Putin is a saint? In both cases, I’m the wrong person to reply that way to. I’m the voice of reason here.

I’d say it’s simpler than that. Russia keeps funding regions it wants destabilized so something bad is always happening at a time good for Russia.

No tinfoil hat, but total Scumbag Putin.

I’ve never thought anything over 10 years was appropriate to a once-in-a-lifetime type of crime of passion. It’s enough time for a decent remediation process to prevent a repeat offense OR prove a certainty that the person cannot be trusted free due to mental issues and put them in a permanent non-punitive form of imprisonment.

In his case, if he didn’t have access to firearms, he wouldn’t be able to kill anyone. Sounds like he needs specialized assisted living, like the old guy who held himself hostage with a shotgun the next town over from me

Nobody can mistake that the 100 years isn’t for the good of society, but to punish him for taking a life.

That I’m on board with. I worked IT at a company that processed overdraft debt and it was a breeze because the Banks have disgusting amounts of leverage against the poor customer.

But I also think this is a case of “we don’t care about the poor people, even enough to come up with ideas to hurt them”. They came up with this process that works well for middle-class and provides reliable profits, and they won’t actually look into the fact that it fucks with poor people because they don’t care. A few banks were giving my previous employer up 40% of their overdraft revenue to collection companies for years without a second thought. It’s not a lot of money for them, but it’s profits and they don’t care to change what makes money. And for most lower-middle-class folks, a rare fee because a bill doesn’t quite overlap with a paycheck is “better than being SOL”

I’m not gonna defend banks very often, but in fairness, it’s opt-out because most people prefer a $35 fee to having a payment rejected. There’s multiple reasons for that:

1. Payment Rejection or “returned check” fees usually exceed $35 and have worse consequences
2. They don’t always know whether you’re about to spend more or less than you have until they’ve committed to pay that for you. Most people would not prefer they reject all holds at places like gas stations just because you don’t have enough money on hand to cover the maximum.
3. Emergencies are just that. If you keep a perfect checkbook (lol), then you’re overdrafting because whatever is happening to you is worse than the $35 overdraft fee.

Now to put on my “but fuck banks” hat:

The REAL problem, IMO, is that the fee amounts to usury and should be regulated like any other debt. In most cases, your overdraft is equivalent to thousands of percent interest on the overdraft amount. Some “more honest” banks will limit your fee to the total amount overdrawn, making only 100% in fees (still over 36,000% effective APR if it’s all reconciled the next day). A few banks have come up with “small overdraft forgiveness” where they’ll just bloody not charge you a $35 fee over a dollar or two (like the guy in another thread has). But the DDA/overdraft market is so badly regulated, they can basically do whatever they want and then can collude to keep you from opening a bank account with another bank.

Fair point. That is free. I guess it would boil down to what the mail categorization would look like in this guy’s service. I will say I thought it was odd that it isn’t just mail middleware with the guy struggling with having to build his IMAP in node.js.

Last I saw, Google charges for this. More than this guy’s service.

Also, it seems like his service is about automatically having username-category email addresses. Definitely not hard to replicate, but it circumvents the common blocking of plus-signs in email addresses you see nowadays. And while not hard, it’s a bit less trivial to catch any old email with a dash in it and “magically” convert it to a category in the main inbox.

“Aw shit, I forgot about that scene. Wanna rewind it and watch it again?”

…yeah, no I don’t have kids lol

We got the Startup Overflow from San Fran. I interviewed a guy in a t-shirt before and hired him.

But now I work remote, which is why the “since 2016 or so”

Northeast here. Unless it’s gone dramatically backwards in time since 2016 or so, suites are no longer mandatory for IT applicants in most Boston companies. Sometimes they’re frowned upon.

Youtube’s margins are 38%, much lower than most of its competitors (that are in the 80% range). The primary reason for the margin being so low is that they give a far higher percent of their revenue to the content creators.

Just a reminder… 38% margins are kinda low for the type of product Youtube is.