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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1h

everyone reading this reddit post has won however

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Google want to charge me 7 k for API access what can I do as they are denying appeals
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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 £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 £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 • 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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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1h

it's because of nostalgia but not direct nostalgia. It's been parodied so many times that people hallucinate nostalgia for the original

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the will smith eating pasta video was the best AI generated clip I've seen

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 10h

She's gonna have to change her name to Losesome Elect-Shuns lmfao

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VA Gov debate:

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 23h

uh excuse me I think this should be posted by the "De-Baller Alert" account instead

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

I don't see Billy Corgan in the replies, so that is my answer

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

oh yeah it was racist as hell, but it was disseminated through the mainstream as something.... not that. Not an excuse ofc

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

"the population bomb" was commonly accepted as what would happen so the ecofascism-tinged response is at least somewhat understandable I guess.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

I think it's fair to say her thinking was rooted in a certain place and time, and that her world view was shaped by her privilege. She was open to change however and did seem to view the world thru primarily the lens of kindness and curiosity.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

it has android which is both good and bad as you can side load a ton of stuff. The boox OS wrapper is a bit of a mess but the writing performance of the Boox tablets is really good

If you want just writing+reading there are better options but the boox is quite good

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Stand up for the rights of trans folks because everyone should have human rights and freedom to live their lives, it's really not complicated.

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I like to believe that Joe DiMaggio watched The Matrix in the movie theatews

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you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

used "for shame?" wtf!

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

it's also somewhat normal for 80 year olds to have to wear diapers so imma have my fun either way

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 1d

it's the only thing keeping me hanging on

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I'm gonna be posting "he's dead lol" for 5 days straight again after he disappears for another round of adrenochrome infusions or whatever (on account of him being close to death)

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He had his “yearly physical” on April 11th. They’re not even trying.

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Memento (Spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 2d

Losing the war on woke

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Trump is fighting sleep during this antifa roundtable and sleep is gaining the upper hand

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What ICE and the National Guard don't realize is that tear gas is basically vaporized Malört. Won't work in Chicago. They love it

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The liberal media wants you to believe that I hate tall people. But I have tall people in my family. I donate to tall causes. I helped an elderly tall woman cross the street once.

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

looking at you in particular, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

lol

seriously though the ipod and those God awful white buds ruined a ton of music mixing and mastering for almost a decade, as producers tried to blow out lows and highs to sound passable, which is why albums made between 1995-2002 or so are the best

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

any reasonably priced headphones were absolute dogshit back then during the heyday of the Discman

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 2d

yeah, Molly, come on now: share links, especially when it's a local publication

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 2d

Man, if you're going to share a screenshot of the story and a screenshot of an X post of someone else sharing the story, just share the fucking link! wacobridge.org/2025/10/06/d...

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