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3090 degrees is above its boiling point (which is 2950 degrees).

So it doesn’t become “clear”, it literally vaporises.

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And the bank sends you this “warning” because they’re just nice people and love you so, so much. Gee, I feel so warm and fuzzy inside.

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I’m more inclined to think that it’s a dark pattern to shame you into keeping the money in thei…erm your account. You know, where they can use it.

Because I don’t think there would be much room to complain, after the fact, about a price you already agreed to pay, and paid. But yeah, thanks for your answer. 🙂

Edit: that was wrong, apparently US banks get more from a customer’s funds when the customer spends more, than they do when said customer has money saved up.

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Tell me you don’t know how tips work without telling me.

Tell me you don’t know how tips are in the US without telling me. FTFY.

Yeah so I’m from good ol’ Europe, where we tip as a feedback for a stellar service, not as an attempt try and help service workers get food and shelter to survive another week. So yeah, no, I don’t know how “tips work”, because apparently that also implies giving your credit card to another person, letting them go out of your sight with it, and charge you whatever the hell they want. I would also never give my credit card to anyone else. Either you got a means of payment where my CC doesn’t leave my hand, or you will get cash. I’m not handing out my entire bank account to a rando.

Edit: s/it/my CC/ # for clarity

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how it works

hsph.harvard.edu/…/addressing-the-u-s-homelessnes…

fortune.com/…/how-to-end-homelessness-finland-sol…

If I were you, I’d be a tad more cautious with the use of that word, “works”. Seems a lil bit overblown for what you are talking about.

It’s surprisingly common for cashiers to re-enter your tip amount for you when they reset the machine if there was an issue with your transaction

If you don’t check the amount before entering the pin, it’s a you problem. If you give away your CC and assume the person has integrity, it’s a you problem. If the person is threatening you, it is a robbery. But then, you are legally allowed to literally kill them, right?

Unfortunately when people’s incomes rely on tips

I’ll refer you to the bit above about the word “works”. Not gonna repeat myself. Running a business isn’t simple, but fortunately, not everything is complicated: if you can’t afford having employees, then don’t. If you can’t afford running your business without employees, then don’t. There’s a reason it is called a “business plan” and not a “business guess”.

As terrible as Capital One is (extremely bad)

I have found literally one good bank so far. One. Among the 5 countries I lived in.

this isn’t a dark pattern to keep you from spending money, they get more out of you if you spend more on your Credit card because of the interest on repayments.

Fair, I’ll admit: this makes sense. I know (not from first hand experience, but there are enough accounts online to make this common knowledge) that the credits in the US are extremely predatory. Worse than that, the entire system is designed to make you fail. So yeah, OK, you are right, point taken, I’ll correct what I wrote on the prior comment.

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I don’t know how doing heroin works, but I still know it’s terrible idea.

Besides, North America doesn’t own the concept of “tipping”. You own the concept of perverting it into abuse, yes, but we do have (relatively sane) tipping over here. Which I do know about. But I guess you wouldn’t know that, buddy, because the world revolves around North America, eh?

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Credit card isn’t a bank account, it’s a line of credit. you can freeze credit and charge it back for fraudulent purchases.

Tell me you have never lived outside of North America without telling me you have never lived outside of North America.

I do have a credit card, but I do not have a “line of credit”. In fact, I didn’t fucking know what it was until today. I didn’t even know it existed.

See, the way it works for me, is: I have money, and the credit card lets me buy something without charging it immediately to my checking account. My balance still displays the sum of the positive amount of my checking account and the negative amount of my credit card. So, for example, let’s say I have 10k on my checking account, and use 2k off of my credit card, my balance will be 8k. It lets me go “in the virtual red” for 2k I think, and only until the day of the month where the money is transferred from my checking account to my credit card account. This allows for a certain flexibility with paying dues on time, even when you haven’t been paid yet. Even if I had 0 on my checking account, I could use my CC for paying various stuff, and THEN get paid for a job, without any fees of any kind. That’s the point. There’s no “score” or “line” or whatever scam designed to make people fail and then charge them insane fees and interests so they can’t get back on their feet, and end up being bled for the rest of their days.

I guess you never buy anything off the internet then either.

Wire transfers are instant. And if not that, then there are cryptocurrencies. Slightly slower, but still very usable.

And no, I do not buy stuff online very often. I pay mostly on invoice.

And if you do buy off the internet, you should use credit, as it’s much safer to freeze a credit card than your entire bank account if your card gets leaked.

Yeah so, I don’t wanna use a CC online. Other means of payment are just so much better.

Also don’t get why you’re being so hostile to a comment that’s simply explaining how a different works. Must be a European thing.

Because the concept of “tips” in the US isn’t a thing that “works”. And just like with “union busting”, we’re not too found of toxic “customs” being sold as “normal”, and eventually ending up creeping over. Some of the stuff is better in the US, some of the stuff is better in Europe. But for the stuff that is undeniably better in Europe, please don’t try and fuck it up?

7heo,
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I reckon, I am not “that clever friend” that you clearly miss dearly. Don’t worry, you will eventually find them.

7heo,
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Ill make it extra clear then. I said that your grammar sucks. Sorry you weren’t able to parse that.

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Next up: “we’ve made enhancements to 3 areas of the key pressing ExPeRiEnCe.”

How about making sure that moving a picture 1 pixel will not fuck up the entire document…

Microsoft word meme

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Love how nuanced this is 🙃

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So, lemme get this straight. We fucked up the climate with industrialisation and uncontrolled capitalism, through energy consumption. Now, the #1 industrial company (that’s two for two, if you’re counting) in chip making is using one of the most energy (and there we go, 100% 🥳) intensive technology at our disposal to try and eventually have a shot at maybe keeping the climate in somewhat of a check… Am I the only one seeing this? 😶

That’s the energy equivalent of giving every kid and teacher guns to “stop school shootings”. 🙃

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This is the rule 34 outcome of “Plants vs Zombies”.

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This image is wrong. 2016 was only 8 years ago. Yet our current temperature is well over +1C.

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Oh yeah. But what can you do? People prefer their comfort to the survival of their own children. Which is doubly worse because the boomer and X generation literally enslaved their own children, so, not only the newer generations will likely die out of famine, overheating, or violence from their own peers, but in the meanwhile they also have a terrible time.

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It’s convenient to blame the people at large for what’s happening, and of course to some degree we all have a responsibility to do what we can, but it’s also important to look at where the CO2 is coming from, who is making efforts to reduce it, and who is making efforts to prevent any limitations from being crafted.

Yeah, absolutely, but just like with major tragedies can be traced back to only a few meaningful people (holocaust, Cambodian genocide, Bangladesh genocide, Circassian genocide, Armenian genocide, Greek genocide, Rwandan genocide, Assyrian genocide, Chechen genocide, Hutus genocide, Isaaq genocide, Guatemalan genocide, Libyan genocide, the NKVD “Polish operation”, the great Chinese famine, Soviet famine of the 1930s, …; to only mention some from the past century), the participation of enough people is necessary to enact anything. And the inaction of most of the remainder.

As the famous unattributed adage says:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Point is: mass consumption is necessary to enable the abusers to such degree.

This is obviously something that ties heavily into capitalism, big business, and corrupt governments.

This ties into enabling any government to mindlessly mass-produce CO2. As it turns out, the current capitalist degeneration we call “the economeh” puts megacorporations in charge, and lets them “trade” their “pollution allowance”. Such practice exacerbate the problem, and are completely insane.

But unfortunately the mass production of CO2 is not limited to capitalism and western societies. Any human development needs energy, that is how we transform what is around us. Using “fossil fuels” is several orders of magnitude more potent than not. Lemme rephrase that: generating this amount of CO2 is what enables our lifestyle.

The only viable alternative is using nuclear energy, and the vast majority of the population is terrified of it, so it realistically is not going to happen anytime soon.

Anyhow, such lifestyle (cars, new clothes twice a year, meat at every other meal, 20C in the house at all times, a constant internet connection on the go, comfort services, etc) is what the overwhelming majority of humans want, and that is the actual problem.

TL;DR: capitalism, or at least our inbred redneck version of it, makes matters a lot worse. But the problem is with uncontrolled human “development”, and letting people consume mindlessly.

To put it another way, you can’t recycle your way out of global warming. Systemic problems require systemic solutions.

You vote with your wallet, and humanity has voted for climate change.

This isn’t about recycling. Recycling at the scale we are envisioning it is utter gaslighting. It barely works, and when it does, it produces CO2 as well. If we wanted to have an impact, we should only accept products that last several decades, reuse and repair.

No, the mass-pollution that is causing the 6th extinction event has been entirely, totally, completely, unequivocally, and unreservedly enabled by us.

Let’s stop hiding behind those “big bad capitalist baddies”. They are absolutely despicable assholes, but we enabled them.

And by “we” and “us” I mean “those of us, relatively to their buying power”. Which brings me to the point I was making above: the older generations, that accumulated riches, and monopolized ownership, funneled all the money, and decided to invest (the part of this money that they didn’t greedily accumulate or reuse to further their monopoly) into comfort and status consumption, which, in turn, are responsible for enabling the industrial actors to pollute as much.

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Better lzma performance with xz. 🤪

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I found it here.

Here is the (IMHO) relevant part (emphasis mine):

If you use the App with an account hosted on a third-party server, then there are only a few cases where FUTO may learn any information at all about your use of the App.

  • If you have the App configured to use Google push notifications, then FUTO’s push notification gateway will be involved in delivering push notifications from Google to your device. Push notifications include information on the Matrix event that generated the push, including: the human-readable name and Matrix user identifier for the user who sent the event and the Matrix room identifier for the room containing the event. Users who desire a greater level of privacy can configure the App to use UnifiedPush instead of Google Cloud Messaging. When a user on a third-party server receives a UnifiedPush notification through their third-party push server, FUTO does not see the notification or learn anything about it.
  • If you obtained the App from the Google Play Store, and the App crashes, then we will receive a Firebase crash report.
  • If you sign up for our mailing list in the app, then we learn your email address.

The notification should be UnifiedPush by default, and crash debug reports should be opt-in, not automatically sent out to the dev via Google… (I don’t think it is even possible to opt out)

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Denuvo is an excuse for mediocre devs. And an attack vector.

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And then the next days, news were all about teens who committed suicide (or failed to, ending up as vegetables) in a similar fashion.

That was weird.

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on their conscience

🤣

Thanks for the laugh, I needed that. 🙂

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There’s a wonderfully complex system of deferred responsibilities making sure that the people who actually caused this can have all the plausible deniability in the world, see themselves as having nothing to do with it, and enjoy a very relaxed life with riches we can only imagine.

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That’s the point of the plausible deniability. You can go after them with a personal conviction, but you can’t go after them with proof. There’s nothing left to “logically connect”.

Because they controlled the mechanisms that were designed to hold them accountable, and made sure not to be accounted for.

Kinda like how attackers who intrude on a system delete the logs and other traces of their presence.

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I mean his email is “Dirt nap Brian (37@gmail.com)” after all. I wouldn’t know about the fart noises tho, it doesn’t say.

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In that case, your second and subsequent points should have no text, since the source material has no text for them. And the last point can’t arguably have text at all either way. 😉

More seriously, the source material has both texts and images, and it was your choice to only represent half of that. You could have easily written:

meme explanationNote: Descriptive information is in italics. | text | image | | :— | :— | | understanding a meme with text | Small brain | | understanding a meme without text | Normal brain | | understanding a meme without text | Nor image | | understanding a meme without meme | ❌ | Or: This meme is taking the classical “expanding brain” meme, and removing increasingly more content with each panel, implicitly prompting the reader to interpolate more information at each step, to practically illustrate the concept of the meme itself. The last panel has nothing at all.

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