Can confirm. I struggled to remember the name of the ancient website vampirefreaks after the concept came up in conversation and out of the big search engines only Bing’s flavor of chatGPT could tell me what I was looking for.

Probably because America bad, eat the rich.

It’s amusing to me that Japan is somewhat of a forecast to economic crises and social obstacles for much of the world. They were grappling with sub-prime lending fiascos before it was generalized to the rest of the world too

Good on your parents. Credit Unions can’t do everything for you that a bank can, but that’s why you just get an account with them for a specific purpose, and use the credit union for everything else.

I was the one to liberate my parents from the fee-laden Bank of America experience.

I’m also trying to find the angle on it. Like with my ISP I guess someone could have my password but not necessarily my address? So from the ISP site they could peek at my address??? I’m not even sure it has my address unobfuscated but I figure it must somewhere, like “view this bill”.

My credit union isn’t great, but one time I was $600 short on my tuition payment and they let the transaction through and gave me a call later that day and asked when I expected to pay it back. I told them two weeks and they said “okay”. I’m not even sure I was charged anything.

It’s not about putting people out of work, it’s about making the people you’re selling to work for free. Bananas aren’t any cheaper so I see no reason to use self-checkout

You’re obligated to do it too. They used to pay baggers and it was a separate job from cashiers. Now you play at both, super part time, and with all the money they’re saving they graciously raise the price on everything.

Yeah there’s a bit of similarity to pursuing a “romance route” in a video game. Funny to think that it’s more acceptable to fuck a fake bear in Baldur’s Gate 3 than to have weekly conversations with a bot that pretends to understand your written words.

I suppose the key difference being that my wife in Skyrim is more akin to a one-night stand since she can’t reciprocate my notes of affection.

Usually percussion is where it’s easiest to notice the difference. But typically people prefer the relatively more compressed sound!

It really will do just about anything well. I used to prep stews in a bonafide slow cooker, but I find I get a better result from my enameled pot, slow cooker probably wins out on the energy bill though.

If they acknowledge the depth of his depravity then they go too far in tarnishing the office. They desperately want to maintain prestige so they’ll never go as far as they ought to.

Adguard’s pseudo VPN will achieve a similar effect

PBS is actually better than ever and I prefer it over most of what gets shoved in my face on my PC.

Hell even my micro SD card in a USB adapter seems to outpace a flash drive

You could say liberal gun laws but that would have confused them so I thank you for your word choice

Every company feels like they’re now openly, rather than implicitly, competing to be the only one. There’s no regard for being part of a budget, they insist they are the budget.

Similarly my parents acquiesced to my begging for a Barbie doll. My dad was worried it would be a gateway to his son pursuing unmanly things. But even at that early age what I was fascinated by wasn’t the fashion or playhouses but the idea of having dominance over a femme entity.

I still resent myself for it because I haven’t grown past that behavior, in video games I choose femme avatars to literally control them. Back when I still made excuses to permit myself to date, I would abuse my girlfriend by flipping the dresser around to face the wall while she was showering so I could control her access to clothing

I guess my point is that there’s a lot children can explore at an early age.

They’re an anarchist, not worth asking.

Almost poetic that Google’s default settings campaign lost them a case against a store that pays for exclusivity.