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New comment by mtnGoat in "The AWS Service Quotas That Will Take Down Your Production at 3 Am"

mtnGoat — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:27:40 +0000

It increases based on your spend and account history. Unfortunately to get it to increase, you gotta basically just blow money on other services before they trust you enough to let you use certain expensive services. I would venture to guess people were using temporary credit cards to sign up, then not paying the bill.

New comment by mtnGoat in "Claude for Legal"

mtnGoat — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:22:05 +0000

I’d guess they have some kind of analytics telling them what kind of questions are being asked.

It seems to me that heavily gate kept professions/knowledge will go first. As those tend to be extensive opinions to get.

New comment by mtnGoat in "From Nevada to Kansas by Glider"

mtnGoat — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:23:02 +0000

Yup! A lot of folks forget about mechanical lift and only think of thermic lift.

New comment by mtnGoat in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

mtnGoat — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:46:18 +0000

Enforcement, one countries laws don’t apply in another. Which is kind of why the age verification thing won’t work… There will always be some jurisdiction that’ll ignore things for profit.

New comment by mtnGoat in "How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer"

mtnGoat — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:37:41 +0000

The road was technically public and crossed his land, but was a dead end.

New comment by mtnGoat in "How to Catch a Wily Poacher in a Sting: A Thermal Robotic Deer"

mtnGoat — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 02:06:38 +0000

There was an old farmer in my town that had a steel deer decoy on a hill up the road from his house, poachers would shoot it, not knowing he would hear the sound, shut his gate then call law enforcement on them as there was no other way out.

I always appreciated the cleverness of this.

New comment by mtnGoat in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

mtnGoat — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 01:49:18 +0000

Actually they don’t, visa heavily restricts those business and the amount of chargebacks they are allowed to have, other industries have much higher rates of chargeback.

New comment by mtnGoat in "Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening"

mtnGoat — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 05:42:12 +0000

That’s not the point and I agree with you. The point was that no where near the majority voted for him since so many didn’t vote at all.

New comment by mtnGoat in "Korean students seek 'digital undertakers' amid US visa social media screening"

mtnGoat — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:12:34 +0000

51% of the voting population. Not the majority of the population. Big difference in numbers there, only 65.3% participated. So, less than a third of Americans voted for the current president… why people don’t vote, I’ll never understand.

New comment by mtnGoat in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

mtnGoat — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:02:51 +0000

I think this is way over priced, could they not build their own with significantly less resource outlay?

But I guess I’m not really the guy that buys billion dollar things, so I probably don’t know how to evaluate them.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:27:11 +0000

I am the OP that used that word. I was unaware of this connection, my apologies. I will consider this if using the word in the future.

I was aiming for the “not having basic human morals” usage of the word, nothing more.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:00:46 +0000

It sticks with you for a while and creates interesting views on things throughout life.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:57:32 +0000

You are entitled to your opinion, despite throwing an insult in to point out an insult. lol, nice hypocrisy. ;)

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:52:23 +0000

Yes, he was an interesting guy. Not a good dad, which is why I can’t help but feel the way I do about others that would do the same to a child.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:45:15 +0000

Except this isn’t a political issue, it’s humanitarian and basic empathy. Never said anyone should be removed from earth, that’s quite the projection, but go on.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 06:36:14 +0000

I could have, and did on occasion, but that would have required my dad to go buy lunch food and keep it on hand. But he didn’t need to do that… the school needed to feed us!

I did learn around 7th grade that I could steal his cigarettes and sell them. I guess he did pay for more lunches than I realized, now that I wrote this.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 06:32:20 +0000

Absolutely, and more states are starting to realize this. Covering basic needs for the most vulnerable is a cornerstone of community and a sign of success.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 06:30:04 +0000

Just roll it into property taxes and call it a day. This is not a political issue in my mind, but a basic humanity issue. A child with hunger pangs isn’t focused on learning, if you can’t cover the basic need, the rest is a waste. The haves, selfishly don’t want to help subsidize the have nots. Which I get, BUT these are kids, we as adults should leave them out of it, sack up, and deal with it.

You are correct, my dad was a civil engineer, he very much could afford it. I guess he thought high end alcohol and golf were better expenditures. I found it interesting that the article mentions a lot of the debt isn’t from the lowest income brackets.

New comment by mtnGoat in "I decided to pay off a school’s lunch debt"

mtnGoat — Tue, 06 May 2025 05:57:06 +0000

As someone who experienced this first hand growing up. I consider how someone feels about free school lunch, a basic test of their humanity.

If you think kids should go hungry or be embarrassed at school because of their parents finances… we can’t be friends, nor acquaintances. IMHO, you are subhuman at that point and not worth my time.

My dad believed that because he paid taxes he shouldn’t have to pay the school to feed me. I begged, borrowed, and stole spare change to pay. He’d chip in once in a while, but once you are so far in debt they won’t feed you anymore (at least they didn’t at the time). I remember going to the lost and found every day to check the pockets of the clothes in there. I learned how to pick the locks on the gym lockers and would steal money from other kids pockets. I sometimes left school so I could go steal lunch from a grocery store near by. I got caught once, but after the lady knew what was up, she conveniently was always looking away from me during mid day of I came in. From the bottom of my heart I hope she receives every possible blessing in this life.

No child should have to do that. Ever! Happy to pay taxes to and live in a state that has solved this problem!

New comment by mtnGoat in "Driverless semis have started running regular longhaul routes"

mtnGoat — Sat, 03 May 2025 06:04:57 +0000

Most of those have their own specialized transport systems that work well already though.