So are you a one (wo)man band filming/editing their content? I'm not necessarily opposed to doing this with a (good) youtuber if the content is high-brow/interesting/educational etc but the idea of doing it for a tik tok star sounds positively dreadful. In fact I refused such a proposal before because the "stars" were really not my vibe and also they gave some red flags, but at least they were still "musicians" not JUST ad-peddlers.
GPS seems like one of the rare technologies that is working just fine as it is and hasn't been fucked with yet, can we just keep it at that for once in our lives?
I don't think so, I can't find the author or the book except other memes. There's a James Michener author but he didn't write this book. Pretty sure it's just a funny cover.
I have a powerful computer for my work with a 3090, i9 etc. I still prefer gaming on the Xbox, it's in the living room, it doesn't bother me with driver issues, CPU overheating, and other random bugs I get on the big machine, and it's in the living room where I'm also spending the time with my family rather than stuck in my cave upstairs.
Interesting wiki, I had no idea you produced so many cars, since I don't know of any major Canadian car brands I just assumed you didn't build any either, never thought there could be plants from foreign brands.
Yeah I used one on rental while camping and I have to say it was great. I hear some European alternatives are coming, looking forward to them, hopefully they also work out ways to do it that doesn't involve as much space pollution.
Yes that's correct, I've worked in the field, when you place an order online there's a workflow triggered in the background between your bank, the vendor and visa/Mastercard in the case of credit cards. When you place the order, an authorization is placed on the card, at that stage it goes through a few checks (balance, fraud checks, creation of the transaction ID, etc). If it's successful, it'll move to a pending status, at this point it's just an authorization, during this time the company will prepare your order for shipping. Once it ships, the authorisation gets converted to a settlement, which is when money actually starts getting transferred. Even then it'll take a few more days for the banks to actually process the transaction before the vendor can refund it.
Of course, this is all just the way it's done, I'm not saying it's the right one. Companies use this process because it's nice and safe, guarantees you won't be losing money through the cracks, but nothing would stop them from just refunding before this whole transaction shenanigans is fine, they just take more risk.
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Got me in the first half.