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VCR technology isnt obsolete, it just hasnt made any advancements in nearly three decades. thats why we here at Sony are proud to annouce our new line of VCRs featuring a whole slate of new buttons, such as PREWIND, SLOW FORWARD, PLAUSE, and STAP

01.03.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3
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TEARSCAPE LAUNCH TRAILER

OUT NOW ON STEAM

02.02.2026 18:27 πŸ‘ 579 πŸ” 223 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 17

Your outdated pop music references are killing me softly

23.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 7
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Nancy 2/22/26… πŸͺ±WOIMSπŸͺ±

23.02.2026 00:37 πŸ‘ 7451 πŸ” 2016 πŸ’¬ 69 πŸ“Œ 129

the hot tub validates humanity’s inherent desire to become stew

19.02.2026 02:29 πŸ‘ 1957 πŸ” 392 πŸ’¬ 41 πŸ“Œ 21
Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy in a pawn shop talking to the employee at the counter. He has about half a loaf of bread in a bag in front of him. The seller asks, β€œhow much will you give me for this stale bread?” Panel 2: the unsure employee replies, β€œtell ya whatβ€” I got a buddy who’s an expert on this stuff.” Panel 3: a goose in a hat and sunglasses walks confidently through the shop entrance towards the counter.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: a guy in a pawn shop talking to the employee at the counter. He has about half a loaf of bread in a bag in front of him. The seller asks, β€œhow much will you give me for this stale bread?” Panel 2: the unsure employee replies, β€œtell ya whatβ€” I got a buddy who’s an expert on this stuff.” Panel 3: a goose in a hat and sunglasses walks confidently through the shop entrance towards the counter.

11.02.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 10845 πŸ” 2043 πŸ’¬ 52 πŸ“Œ 24

We hired the manager of The Lying Store and Mr. Steal Your Money to push our new technology and people are still skeptical?

11.02.2026 18:20 πŸ‘ 781 πŸ” 104 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

valentine's day is always a hard time for me because of the massacre

06.02.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 279 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 1

america is more divided than it's ever been. only one thing still unites us across all cultural, racial, religious, and economic lines: universal recognition that Cape Feare is the best sideshow bob episode

27.01.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 1061 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 73 πŸ“Œ 12

If i was garfield i would claw the absolute shit out of that beta bitch john arbuckle

04.01.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 43 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

when you insult me you're insulting the award-winning team of dozens of puppeteers and special effects wizards responsible for bringing my baffling physical presence to life. so maybe think twice about your careless words

01.09.2023 03:28 πŸ‘ 935 πŸ” 298 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

The FBI has a file on me because of the time I drank three β€œOld Timey BJs” (a 40oz bottle of Olde English 800 drank down to the label and refilled with Bartles & Jaymes) and briefly started speaking fluent Russian. They put me in the X Files under β€œBallers With National Security Implications”

28.12.2025 21:51 πŸ‘ 462 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0

Happy Birthday!

29.12.2025 00:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Friend: *sharing deeply vulnerable details about their life*

Me: *waiting to talk about which actresses I think wear wigs*

29.12.2025 00:12 πŸ‘ 451 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One thing I don't like about bluesky, and about social media in general, is that if you're just minding your business being a repulsive piece of garbage and trying to drive engagement by being obnoxious because that's your only viable option, people notice this and treat you like shit. Not fair!

21.12.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 1596 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 2

No matter where you're from, no matter what your religion calls it, I hope you have a merry Christmas ❀️

21.12.2025 06:24 πŸ‘ 275 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 2

I'm watching the documentary Christmas Vacation

15.12.2025 05:54 πŸ‘ 55 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
The header of a legal filing titled MOTION TO RECOGNIZE THE WORD OF GOD

The header of a legal filing titled MOTION TO RECOGNIZE THE WORD OF GOD

I’m not going to post the whole thing because it’s ten pages long but Onideus Mad Hatter’s pro se legal defense for threatening to kill a cop continues apace

07.11.2025 03:39 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 1

sorry for ruining your entire life with my perfect and beautiful thoughts

11.12.2025 04:01 πŸ‘ 297 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 6
18.11.2025 13:10 πŸ‘ 11805 πŸ” 2980 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

This one has both:

10.11.2025 22:05 πŸ‘ 199 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

the people in katamari damacy always seem pretty upset to get rolled up into the big katamari but I actually think it'd be kind of fun

18.08.2025 18:28 πŸ‘ 633 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 9

Please reward my low effort post with a heart because I smell delicious

20.10.2025 23:46 πŸ‘ 113 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

"oh, so you're saying--" no. i'm saying the thing i said, not the thing you made up. go back and read the thing i said

27.12.2024 14:31 πŸ‘ 3893 πŸ” 638 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 15
r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 β€’ 3d
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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
Debt & Money
Hi there and thanks for reading.
I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem.
Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about Β£45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset.
Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k
The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity.
I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k.
Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have Β£45.
Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 β€’ 3d Join Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals Debt & Money Hi there and thanks for reading. I tried to keep this brief and just ended up rambling on trying to get as much in as possible so here is my edited hopefully a lot smaller problem. Google are charging me 7k for a mistake that I told them about within a day, the bill went from about Β£45 to 16k in a day! when I asked for help I was told "dont worry well reset it as a one off, you'll need to put measures in place and ill guide you through those after you agree" So i did he then said "I will monitor it for a further 24 - 48 hours and then tell you how to put the measures in place. " Less than 24 hours later the bill was now 23k and I found out how to stop it myself. Then came the long back and forth to get it reset. Fast forward 5 months they have finally given me a 20k credit but with VAT the total bill at the time of the credit was 27k The 20k would have cleared the costs at the time of making them aware they claim its both our responsibilities to monitor costs I feel I did that by contacting them as soon as I saw the irregularity. I asked them to reconsider they said no the appeal has said that is their final offer so 1 now owe 7k. Is there anything I can do here from a legal standpoint. I don't have 7k I barely have Β£45. Thanks for reading I am in England if it helps.

Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output.
Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API.
Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days.

tom_watts β€’ 3d
According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code.
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Intentional or not, OP used either 36k (16 + 20) or 43k (16 + 27) of API credit. Obviously what API it is matters, but with google maps, 16k would equate to ten million pulls. Or two hundred thousand Gemini 2.5 calls with 1000 token input and 5k token output. Those aren't numbers that something running correctly should run up for any average person or company. So either google screwed up something (which is unlikely that it would only happen to one person in the entire network) or OP has some app or something which isn't running properly and is sending too much to the API. Edit: It was OP's app, polling google maps nearly 40 times a second for days. tom_watts β€’ 3d According to other posts he ended up polling Google maps direction API 2300 times per minute for a few days. Looks like a combination of OP not knowing coding and asking ChatGPT to do it for him, and potentially Google's backend doing something weird in interpreting the janky code. β€’β€’β€’ 146

ShavedAp3 OP β€’ 3d
Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to.
Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did.
If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much.
If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things.
Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours.
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ShavedAp3 OP β€’ 3d Even if that was the case and it wasn't the sign up process doesn't have the documentation I refer to. Funnily enough though asking an LLM to help me find it still took some digging after it did. If you work in the field im sure its easy but those just tinkering or learning not so much. If google didnt want people like me using it they could make it far harder to do so, they could have hard limits in place for sole users to prevent stuff like this and so many other things. Should they well clearly they don't think so and no doubt you agree that doesn't make it the right opinion it just makes it yours. β€’ β€’ β€’ 4

guy in a legal advice reddit wants to know how to get out of paying google the money he owes them after vibe coding one of his apps into running 40 times a second for several days straight, but says it's not his fault bc they should have stopped him by making it harder to use

10.10.2025 21:08 πŸ‘ 1517 πŸ” 183 πŸ’¬ 47 πŸ“Œ 41
jocky's ridge mini golf, nags head, north carolina, 1985

jocky's ridge mini golf, nags head, north carolina, 1985

jocky's ridge mini golf, nags head, north carolina, 1985

05.10.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
A guy wearing a clippy the paperclip mascot style costume looking dejected

A guy wearing a clippy the paperclip mascot style costume looking dejected

there's too much fucking shit on me

01.03.2025 18:38 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 38 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

It used to be your various flavors of Ignatius Reillys were harmless local cranks but they can all talk to each other and compete amongst themselves

05.10.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Xbox 360 Dollars Per Year

01.10.2025 14:51 πŸ‘ 3372 πŸ” 976 πŸ’¬ 38 πŸ“Œ 16
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Quick question man, what the fuck does this mean

01.10.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 5