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Subscriptions? You idiots are paying for this shit?

https://www.walletgear.com/leather-wallets/wallet-with-coin-pocket.html

Wiggling another jenga block out of the tower.

If only there was some way to watch classic movies without using a corporate streaming service.

Federation is easy. BlueSky is federated, ffs. You think Jack Dorsey would be shy about selling his Twitter knock-off a second time?

As opposed to a private for-profit company run by friends of the people in government?

Musk was upset that his control over the company would be ceded to a broader pool of public investors. He’s got no problem with privatization and securitization when it fattens his wallet.

He’s appointing the next Fed chair as we speak. We’re a bit past feeling squeamish about what Trump controls.

The longest portion of the offering, a 40-year bond, is expected to yield 0.95 percentage points over US Treasuries, down from 1.2 percentage points during initial talks, the people said.

Gotta be really bearish on treasuries to consider this a good idea.

Traditionally, you need to find someone to loan you money with the bond as collateral. Then you promise that person the bond as repayment of the debt + interest, with the expectation that you can re-buy the bond at a future date for much less than you could today.

Interac is non-profit.

OpenAI started out as non-profit. Quite a few health insurance companies (Blue Cross Blue Shield, for instance) are organized as non-profits.

shrug

Still, talking to vendors, it sounds like the fees are quite low, and I try to pay debit when it’s a small business.

Sure. All good when it works for you. But this isn’t some kind of wholesale replacement for Visa that doesn’t run the obvious risk of becoming Visa 2.0 (or whatever X.0 iteration of credit card companies we’re currently on).

It’s transactions at the scale of a continent rather than a household or a business. Hardly unfathomable. Just bigger.

Great if you don’t mind a wallet overflowing with loose change.

Crazy that we don’t have a public sector payment processor, though. You’d think we could have a Generic Card tied to a public bank that handles electronic payments efficiently. But it’s been over 40 years since we began consumer grade electronic transactions and its still entirely within the scope of the private sector.

I have those random realisations

I definitely have moments when I wonder if I could have played my cards better. But I’ve also catastrophically misread interactions and embarrassed myself to the point where we just stopped talking to each other entirely.

Also been friends with someone who doggedly insisted “We’re just friends”, then decided she wanted me one night, then insisted it meant nothing and she just wanted to be friends again. shrug

Romance just be like that sometimes.

All Men: “I wonder if that woman wants to sleep with me.”

All Women: “I’m gay”

Better include a steel roof, because the structural integrity of the ceiling ain’t looking great once the dust clears.

What is teenager lock?

Discord locks your account to the security level considered appropriate for a teenager.

Or just get bought out. Discord was supposed to be the answer to Twitch getting gobbled up. Then Microsoft gobbled Discord.

Does anyone seriously believe there’s an indie third party social media site immune to a multi-million (possibly even billion) dollar buyout offer? One that won’t go the way of TikTok and be legislatively forced into sale?

I mean, let me know when it does. I’ll hang out with the Teenager Lock enabled and keep my biometrics to myself.

But there’s no point changing social media ecosystems if nobody I know is in the new site.