It's amusing to me that Japan is somewhat of a forecast to economic crises and social obstacles for much of the world. They were grappling with sub-prime lending fiascos before it was generalized to the rest of the world too
Good on your parents. Credit Unions can't do everything for you that a bank can, but that's why you just get an account with them for a specific purpose, and use the credit union for everything else.
I was the one to liberate my parents from the fee-laden Bank of America experience.
I'm also trying to find the angle on it. Like with my ISP I guess someone could have my password but not necessarily my address? So from the ISP site they could peek at my address??? I'm not even sure it has my address unobfuscated but I figure it must somewhere, like "view this bill".
My credit union isn't great, but one time I was $600 short on my tuition payment and they let the transaction through and gave me a call later that day and asked when I expected to pay it back. I told them two weeks and they said "okay". I'm not even sure I was charged anything.
It's not about putting people out of work, it's about making the people you're selling to work for free. Bananas aren't any cheaper so I see no reason to use self-checkout
You're obligated to do it too. They used to pay baggers and it was a separate job from cashiers. Now you play at both, super part time, and with all the money they're saving they graciously raise the price on everything.
Yeah there's a bit of similarity to pursuing a "romance route" in a video game. Funny to think that it's more acceptable to fuck a fake bear in Baldur's Gate 3 than to have weekly conversations with a bot that pretends to understand your written words.
I suppose the key difference being that my wife in Skyrim is more akin to a one-night stand since she can't reciprocate my notes of affection.
Intentional, the game is made by Battlefield alums. This also means that playing the objective influences your score more directly than kill count does.
Very true, in my experience lots of women like the idea of strength from big muscles but don't really care to see the striated muscle fibers in a cut look. Hell some are turned off by the vasculature of my hands.
EDIT: Guys in comic books are ripped for the dudes reading them. I imagine the same is true for movie stars.
It's amazing how much dubs can help hold a player's attention. My mate loves 40k way more than DND 5E but he can't play Rogue Trader with me for hours on end because it was strategically dubbed while BG3 was comprehensively dubbed.
Not only that but by necessity the money/credits in nearly all games (EVE Online a possible exception) is closer to a labor voucher of sorts than a commodity. And labor vouchers are a potential avenue for transitioning a society away from currency.
My friends who play PDX games with me and know my politics sometimes tease me about the game using currency or referencing profitability. And then I remind them that we're all meticulously planning our economies with virtually nothing left for a privileged class to decide. And our decisions, though made in a context of imperialism, aren't being made for personal wealth but state power.
The fact that UBI is attractive to any degree at all means the whole economy is worth throwing away. Why are people producing and not receiving an adequate portion of what the economy produces? Nixon's dream is only going to put snags and clogs in the economy, the only question is where. The purpose of the global economy is to siphon wealth from the poor to enrich dynasties, a UBI will either wither it's own funding or get rolled back as this purpose is obstructed.
It's amusing to me that Japan is somewhat of a forecast to economic crises and social obstacles for much of the world. They were grappling with sub-prime lending fiascos before it was generalized to the rest of the world too