oxjox @ oxjox @lemmy.ml

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When a business is busy, they don’t like having to stop what they’re doing to figure out the change. I’ve seen people stumble trying to figure out what bills and coins add up to what the POS is telling them. I feel like I should be apologizing for paying with tangible currency.

Right. Be it plastic or digital, it’s still credit. It still goes through a point of sale system. Visa or Mastercard still get a kickback.

I was in London last month and everything was Apple Pay / Google pay. You can of course use a card to tap but I rarely saw anyone use anything but their phone.

With so many places now taking credit over cash, I’m not sure how relevant this is anymore.

I actually tried doing the opposite for a while. I’d leave my phone home and just leave the house with cash, keys, and a notebook. Lots of places gave me the stinkeye paying with cash and some places refused to accept it. I wish this weren’t the case. The percentage every business pays per credit card transaction hasn’t helped with inflated prices.

I agree with you. This is where I just throw my hands up and concede that this is the will of the people. Our democratic form of government affords people the freedom to choose to be sheep. Isn't it beautiful?

It's just sad and frustrating that so many people / Americans / voters are so fraught with hate and pain and animosity that they've lost all sense of respect for themselves and their grasp on reality. I think this is why so many of us feel helpless and resort to name calling. Please, wake up and engage in genuine policy discussions. I'm sure we have more in common that we think and we could find compromises within our disagreements.

I mean, you have to be a braindead idiot or suffer from genuine mental instability (same thing?) to consider purchasing such memorabilia (never mind coming up with the idea to make it in the first place). I'm sure there's people who want others to suffer from their idiotic choices but I just want people to snap out of their obsessions for the greater benefit of us all. I'm tired of people willfully being gullible.

"For Trump's Ear" they wrote on their bombs this morning.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Google owner Alphabet is in advanced discussions to buy fast-growing cybersecurity startup Wiz for roughly $23 billion so they can kill off their largest hurdle to acquiring all of humanity's personal data.

You asked the question, "is a cake a sort of bread" and the dictionary is explicitly stating "cake is a breadlike food".

Are you instead asking if "lots of people" is a more reliable source than the dictionary?

Gotcha. I am not sharing the same reality or maybe not discussing the same story as you. Understood.

cake is: A: a breadlike food

Why are you questioning the definition you've provided?

He was simply introducing the next speaker. What "far-reaching consequences" might this have?

There are limits to what an individual can donate to a campaign and a PAC. There are no limits to donating to a Super PAC.

https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-pac/contribution-limits-nonconnected-pacs/
https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/taking-receipts-pac/contributions-to-super-pacs-and-hybrid-pacs/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee#Super_PACs

Super PACs are unlike traditional PACs in that they may raise unlimited amounts from individuals, corporations, unions, and other groups to spend on, for example, ads overtly advocating for or against political candidates. However, they are not allowed to either coordinate with or contribute directly to candidate campaigns or political parties.

I certainly don't care. What I do care about is the dimwits who think this means anything at all. You're so distressed over nothing that everything becomes headline news. This is what news organizations and social media outlets are using to manipulate the narrative and show you more ads. Because you're gullible.

I can not think of anything that means nothing more than this.

He's there to read some words, the words disappeared, he was unable to read them. How in the world are you imagining this to be anything at all?

It shouldn't be news if this happens to anyone, including the president. This is not news. This is a tech malfunction.

There are those who see through Trump’s bullshit and those who don’t.

What has baffled me for the past eight years is how many people, since day one, have not observed him for who he really is. I still can not comprehend how he was elected president and is again the nominee for the Republican Party.

He has zero redeeming qualities. By all measures, he has the record of being the worst president in modern times. But most people don't actually care about legislation or politics or this country - they only care about themselves and the "vibe" they get from someone.

We live in a world where verifiable lies are shaping our reality. The people who claim to be patriots are traitors to the intent of this nation. I just do not understand how the brains of some people veil them from what's being presented directly in front of them. Moreover, I have no idea how this doesn't keep getting worse.

The actual interesting bit in this story is all the mounting evidence that Carlson himself is very likely closeted.

It's incredible to me how journalists bloggers turn so much nothing into a news story and then people feel the need to share it.

Dow jumps 300 points to record as u/oxjox recovers from the trouncing the A's gave the Phillies last night.

OP deserves someone participating in the conversation who can honestly answer the question they've asked. Your speculation only adds to the ignorance others already have. You are enforcing an echo chamber and being disrespectful.