In the US, checks are much worse than paying with a credit or debit card. It is much cheaper for a merchant to take checks than either type of card, so that is why they’re usually used.

Also, the person in question might be very poor / bad with money and unable to get a credit or debit card.

There are many valid criticisms and potential criticisms of Linux, both as a desktop OS and in general.

Stability is absolutely not one of them.

Because it’s pending exposure.

Now if you found a way to turn around and earn interest or earn extra with that money…now you’re cooking with gas. Just make sure the earnings are worth the relative risk, and that you hedge against that risk.

Yeah, my boss expects that. He’s been at the same company for almost 20 years, since the department was created.

He also gave me a 3% raise this year. It’s nice to get cost of living, but why would I try to invest in a workplace where I know I’ll be able to make more and more elsewhere every year.

Hey, I’d just use VPN anyways. I sure as shit didn’t trust spectrum not to sell my data.

Iirc about 3/4 of couples meet on apps these days, for exactly that reason. Pretty much the only place it’s still socially acceptable to flirt is the bar, which most people do not frequent.

Why don’t you just use a credit card? You can keep one in your phone case if you’re worried about forgetting your wallet that often.

Everyone should have Firefox focus. It is amazing.

Impact. Passing a law that you can’t sell porn to kids means you can’t sell porn to kids. Passing this law means you have to create a database of people with their government ID and porn preferences.

The potential for abuse is absolutely staggering, and this just isn’t that big of a problem right now.

Most of the difference is in the construction, service, and repairability.

If you buy a vitamix, your kids or the company will die before that blender.

You can do several things, because prices are rising for several reasons. The most important are to vote, be frugal, and engage politically.

Rents are rising due to over investment, bad zoning policies, and price fixing. Ultimately, if the government doesn’t address these, the inevitable crash will. Voting can help, and not buying into the bubble definitely will.

Consumer prices are rising generally due to a bad economy with growing inequality. Again, vote, but also take care of yourself. For our middle class, the simple act of defiance helps maintain the circulation of wealth. If you can’t buy a home, rent from an individual instead of a property company. That sort of thing helps.

Ultimately, government and community action are needed. You can do both, and fortunately most of this helps you as an individual as well.

It looks like we’re headed towards guillotines and car bombs eventually, but that is not necessary or inevitable yet. There is still plenty of time for civic responsibility, communal action, and political conscience to make things better and get us back on track.

I don’t mean to invalidate your concerns, but those are all risks with any child. Plenty of genetically predisposed people turn out entirely fine because they learn proper coping strategies and develop good mental health.

Texas CPS had been in contempt of federal court for years due to the needless cruelty of the system.

You’re probably dealing with an offshoot of that system.

I live in Texas. I really, really don’t recommend it.

• While the cost of living is better than NY, it is rising fast enough that won’t be true much longer, and wages aren’t rising much. I’m looking at moving to Chicago, wages are higher and cost of living is lower there. I’m getting priced out.

• Our state government is unironically bad enough to effect your life on a regular-ish basis.

• We made abortion illegal before Roe was overturned. We were the only state that did this.

• The people will be more conservative than even upstate NY, and our state government is goddamn nuts. You will see the governor in the news saying that contraceptives, interracial marriage, and/or butt stuff should be illegal on a regular basis.

• Despite popular discourse, we pay significantly more in tax than other states like California. People say taxes are lower because we don’t have income tax, but it’s just paid in other ways.

• The traffic is really bad, and if you live in some parts of some cities, you will have to take a toll road to work every day. I know people who spend hundreds just on tolls.

• State services are absolute garbage.

I agree. I want a mickey mouse horror movie where mickey is a weird old timely racist hell bent on growing his business in order to swallow the popular conscience whole.

The man deserves the same living wage as anyone else in that role, but a living wage doesn’t necessarily mean you can afford to buy a house. Houses are luxury products in many areas.

It was a great success. A stacked court with well known integrity issues scored a political win that has been coming for 40 years.

They did exactly what they intended and wanted to.

I’m sure they’ll try at some point, if they haven’t already.

I’m not super worried about it actually happening, assuming people bother to show up and vote.

We have substantial social divisions based on race and color, but the whole black/white people twitter thing seemed kinda racist to me.

Especially since BPT on reddit made people start providing evidence of their skin color at one point.

Kind of? Overpopulation shouldn’t be a problem anytime soon (although we’ve been worried about it for over a century).

We do have some regions dealing with overpopulation, but that, like the regions dealing with underpopulation, could be dealt with if we let people emigrate.