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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 1h

Oh hell yeah baby

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 11h

lmao called it

National Guard deployed to the Bass Pro pyramid

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 1h

UT Go Vols Football game on the same day as a Milwaukee Brewers Baseball playoff game

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AmeriKraut @inchargeofthegirls.bsky.social · 1d

sherman, for the love of god!

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Azure Emerald Empire @azureemeraldempire.bsky.social · 8h

Referring to myself in the third person as “the kid” in the job interview

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 2h

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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 8h

crystal lake sheriff: well, we encased jason voorhees in about 10 bags of Quickcrete. he's basically never going to hurt anyone ever again, and it cost $400.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 2h

Well deserved once again

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 13h

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

r/LegalAdviceUK u/ShavedAp3 • 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 £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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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 3h

Woke up and checked the score GOMS to @sillydingdong.bsky.social

Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 3h

goms

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 10h

goms

Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 12h

Glad I got to see the video “Sherman the dog falling in holes”

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 13h

Jesus Christ

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 14h

"He might invoke the Insurrection Act." Of course he will! They're going to keep pushing people until someone hurts an officer and then pretend they have no choice, and our media will largely play along because they dont wanna be seen as anti-cop, even though this was obviously the plan all along.

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 14h

They might actually get people to vote for them but then they’d have to govern

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 16h

peter thiel (clutching chrome plated human skull) tell me oracle... does the world end in fire, or ice? the passionate flames of the activist thunberg, or the frozen doom yudkowski demands?

chatGPT: ✨ What a great question, Peter! ✨

Let's break that tough Q down 🕺, in your favorite epic style:

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 14h

They’re perfectly fine with being controlled opposition as long as the forces of capital continue to pay them

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 15h

The most galling fact about obsolete Democratic spending is that instead of helping build up a center-to-left ecosystem, 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐟𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭-𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚.

Most Dem ads go to local TV news. They are putting billions of dollars in the pockets of Fox, Sinclair, Nexstar, etc!

WTAF

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 15h

lmao

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 16h

I hate him because he doesn’t get to work on time

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Mr Halloween @jarjarfan69.bsky.social · 16h

I think it should be a bigger story that the administration is very publicly expressing their desire for officers to shoot Americans in the streets

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao

Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 17h

Was reading about her this morning and came to the same conclusion

Ghoulian @wagyuhotdog.bsky.social · 17h

So basically they gave the Nobel prize to the Venezuelan Ahmed Chalabi

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