Flight Rising has chosen to stress-test their servers.

Their servers have failed the test.

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Ally Bank is very confused.

Getting ready to close my checking account because their databases are a scary mess - the dates and balance numbers that show up when customer service looks up my account do not match up to my transaction record on the website, and neither matches up to the notices in the emails they send me.

They did say they were going to refund me the nonsense overdraft fee they charged me, which was what I originally called about, but the deeply unhappy person I spoke to's manager apparently instructed them to scold me for "misreading" the website. Yeah, I don't trust you people.

Stand mixers are for losers.

Winners are the ones whose fucking arms have fallen off by the time the cookies are done.

I just spent an hour and a half preparing the dough for these chocolate chip cookies, deviating from the recipe only in that 1) I obviously do not have a stand mixer, because I am an armless winner, and 2) I used chocolate chips instead of chopped baking chocolate. The recipe dirties three bowls, two whisks, and a saucepan, and the dough needs to spend the night in the fridge.

There's a lengthy article explaining the chemical rationale behind all these steps. I shall learn tomorrow whether to take chemistry seriously.