I haven't made mech MOCs, but I got some joint pieces off of BrickLink for a spaceship ride MOC. (The joint allows the ship to be repositioned.)
TechyDad
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I was assuming that the reason was that Twitter fired all their system administrators so the services are basically held together with bubble gum and string. If too many people use the services, it'll crash so they need to limit usage.
They can't admit that the rate limits are due to unmaintained servers, though, so they trotted out the "people are scraping Twitter" excuse.
Come to think of it, didn't Reddit use something like that as an excuse for the huge API pricing? Are they coordinating on how to ruin their services? If so, they're doing a great job!
Been going pretty bad, actually.
Two days ago I was moving my car and I saw a rabbit laying on my lawn. Then I noticed that it was badly injured. I tried to get help for it, but it slowly died in front of me. Then, I had to scoop the dead body into a bag and put it in my garage can.
And just to add to my stress, yesterday, my son had to call the IRS to verify his identity. We'd been trying for over a week, but the number kept telling us "we're too busy to take your call" before hanging up. We finally got through and my son verified his information.
Only the IRS agent said that it didn't match what they have on file. Someone submitted a fake return in his name last year so now I'm worried about what other stuff was done under his name and how hard it'll be to fix it all.
We're going in Monday morning to confirm his identity in person, but I might not be allowed to go in with my 19 year old autistic son.
I'm stressed at the moment and my brain keeps coming up with worst case scenarios.
I've seen restaurants ask me to tip when I order food and pick it up myself to take home to eat. What point in that transaction requires tipping? I get if your food is brought to your table or if it's delivered. (I'll argue that tipping culture should go away and the people should be paid a fair wage, but I'll also recognize that tips should be given until that happens.)
But if you order your food over the phone and pick it up yourself? What's next? Adding a tip in the grocery store when you use the self checkout lane? Oh, wait...
I've seen restaurants ask me to tip when I order food and pick it up myself to take home to eat. What point in that transaction requires tipping? I get if your food is brought to your table or if it's delivered. (I'll argue that tipping culture should go away and the people should be paid a fair wage, but I'll also recognize that tips should be given until that happens.)
But if you order your food over the phone and pick it up yourself? What's next? Adding a tip in the grocery store when you use the self checkout lane? Oh, wait...
I've seen restaurants ask me to tip when I order food and pick it up myself to take home to eat. What point in that transaction requires tipping? I get if your food is brought to your table or if it's delivered. (I'll argue that tipping culture should go away and the people should be paid a fair wage, but I'll also recognize that tips should be given until that happens.)
But if you order your food over the phone and pick it up yourself? What's next? Adding a tip in the grocery store when you use the self checkout lane? Oh, wait...
Then SCOTUS will just decide that the law is so convoluted that you can't discriminate against a Christian or a right winger, but discrimination against a liberal, non-Christian, LGBTQ person, etc is just fine.
They don't care about looking like they're setting double standards. They'll claim it's a perfectly straightforward rule that respects everyone's rights even as it creates second class citizens out of entire groups of people.
The same way that the Texas court found standing to ban the abortion drug because "the doctors suing might someday have a patient who took the drug and had a negative reaction requiring them to treat her."
They invent standing wherever it's required to get their agenda passed.
Including sites that are hosted outside of the US. Does Virginia think that a site hosted in the Germany and run by people in the Netherlands will care that Virginia says they need to verify the age of their visitors? (I picked those countries at random. If I somehow picked countries that wouldn't work due to local laws, just substitute different countries.)
The level of fabrication would be impressive if it wasn't so maddeningly illegal.
The guy didn't contract for a website for his gay marriage.
He didn't know that guy he was supposedly marrying.
And he's straight.
And he's been married to a woman for 15 years.
How did nobody check this out and what penalties can the website designer and lawyers face for lying in court?
And there's the problem that falsehoods are quick and easy to produce but can take time and effort to debunk.
In the time it takes you to debunk one claim, the anti-vaxxer can spew a dozen more. For you to win, you need to debunk everything they say. For them to win, they just need to keep spewing garbage with no evidence until you run out of time to debunk.
The only reason that he seemed like a "Genius CEO" with SpaceX and Tesla was because those companies had layers of management dedicated to protecting the company from Musk.
If Musk marched into Tesla and decided that all Tesla cars should have eyeball shaped headlights, managers would tell him what a genius idea that was and that they'd get right on it. Then, they'd distract him with something else while the idea went in the trash can.
Twitter has no such management layer so every Elon Epiphany becomes Twitter policy no matter how bad or destructive it is. SpaceX and Tesla were successes despite Musk and Musk gained his "genius" reputation because those companies were able to filter out his idiocy.