WolvenSpectre

Well except that if you are doing it with cards you have to worry about being skimmed. Here in Canada they have chip and pin but guess who gets stung with purchases 4 out of 5 times when it happens because it doesn't ask for the pin all the time.

Now if you do it through a smartwatch, phone, or some other device that can't be skimmed when it isn't being used, then that is the way to do it.

There are loose plans to do that here in Canada long before that, but nothing solid right now. My guess is they are going to have to move from rounding to the nickel to rounding to the dime and pricing and taxes will have to follow. From when I was a kid a penny and a nickel are worth 1/5th of what they were in purchasing power.

Thanks for this great article. For those who are paywalled you can read it using Archive.IS https://archive.is/20240901230552/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html#selection-1851.0-1885.810

Saw the same thing at a shop I worked at(not as tech support though) except it was the wife who was fit to be tied and couldn't figure it out despite all the help and it was the video cable came loose and the switch on the PSU was switched off. The video cable was bent but luckily they could replace it on the monitor. She just went off in a blue screed talking about how he" $)% cleaned this, and ^%((#@ %_+&%^% vacuumed that and it didn't work" along with some complaints about him in general to the girl up front, not realizing the back was full of male technicians and me.
I was trained to be a technician so I went to do what in my course they exaggeratingly called "Troubleshoot the Idiot" or see how technical the person with the issue is and then run through the problem with them. I realized that they thought the Front Panel was the on/off for the PSU and that they weren't getting most of the dust out of the case because they were using a vacuum on suck. I turned on the case and got a new cable for her, and offered to clean the PC which technically was part of my job description.
They let me keep everything except the cable charge which I didn't expect. I guess it made up for when they stiffed me on some payments. And when I was finished you have never seen such a prim and proper and demure woman. 😆

For which politician. The ones that AIPAC has either bought off or scared that they will spend endless money against any position you run for on your competitor at the slightest move that they do not approve of. The Scary Orange Man who will make things worse or the party of the Scary White Man who is literally funding the genocide of your people, the third party candidates which will get you attacked from both sides, or choose not to vote at all for a protest.

And if you look they say "They won't vote for Genocide" not "They won't vote for Kamala if she changes her position on Israel and its lunatic right wing government". But they won't vote for someone who is killing their families.

I haven't looked it up but the Artwork was recently put out by the official artist that did the Obama Hope Poster so I gather it was from the official campaign but did not verify.

Many were Palestinians who had lost swaths of their family to Genocide, but you don't care about that... oh I though we were both making assumptions based on personal opinion.

This post was made by King right after Kamala did a rally in Michigan and used that phrase to trash some Anti-Genocide Pro-Palistine protesters who she first said that "OK I'm Speaking" and then told them to keep it up if they wanted Trump to win. This is after she had had met with muslim leaders and protest leaders and was giving them the run around.

Caitlin Johnstone who is famous for hosting Democracy Now and has been covering the genocide in depth, saw Steven King post this and thought, as many other people did, that it was referring to what she did to the protesters . Then people in the know started to inform us that it was in reference to something she said during the Presidential Debate 4 years ago. Something that her team should take into account and do away with that merch for a while.

yes. Link posted in the comments. https://www.denverpost.com/2024/08/27/chaffee-county-search-rescue-hiker-coworkers-retreat-injured-mount-shavano/

From another news story covering this: "The man reached the peak of Mount Shavano around 11:30 a.m. but, when he turned to descend the mountain, became disoriented when he found that the group had picked up the belongings being used as trail markers as they hiked down before him, according to search and rescue officials."

I couldn't watch past the Federation/Fediverse discussion. You can have several words for the same thing. There is no such thing as a "real word" so long as it fits the language. Language is a living evolving thing. And I watched and by that point they didn't even get into how it works and explained everything but.