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Why do all cash-fixated people say stuff like this:

Ty says: “Unlike card, cash is private and doesn’t leave data about the purchase, it doesn’t cost the merchant transaction fees, […]

There are ABSOLUTELY processing fees associated with cash! When I was running my own business I hated having to deal with cash and customers always acted as if they were doing me a favour by using it. A card payment would drop into my account, job done. A cash payment had to be kept secure and then I’d have to find time to take a trip to the bank to pay it in, whereupon my bank would take a cut to handle the cash.

Overall it was about as expensive for me regardless, except cash also added hassle and security concerns for me. It also invariably ended up with me having to deal with tax-dodging weirdos who wanted to be pally about it.

No, mate, I don’t cheat on my income tax like some sponging arsehole, and being proud of that sort of selfish behaviour is gross.

But who will advise them as to whether something is sufficiently unethical?

1 - Datacards are great in theory. In practice they’re instantly outdated and overpriced. The codices get outdated as they’re patched too. Generally I use one of the online rule sources provided by third parties unless I’m planning to play at Warhammer World or something.

3 - Every iteration of the official app I’ve used has been trash.

I’m efficient in expressing my flabbergasted disgust!

JFC, US, WTAF.

Eww, no, the flappy entangling menace does not work for me!

Same reason I find the notion of traditional sheet + blanket to be anathema.

The 4A was about the upper limit of what I like - switching to the 6A has been a royal pain in the arse!

A small phone I can get a good grip on - bigger phones feel like a balancing act during use.

You want one even smaller than that?!

Yes…?

I want to be able to hold it in one hand and use it properly, like I could with my iPhone 3GS. If I need a bigger device, which I often do, I grab a laptop. If I want a big screen I use my home theatre. If I want handheld gaming I grab my Steam Deck. My point is, I’m not a luddite who feels that smartphones aren’t useful - I was an early adopter (Shout outs to Symbian Series 60!) but I’m finding the recent generations of devices to be cumbersome. They’re massive in my pocket, I need two hands to use them, they’re much easier for me to fumble and drop, and using them strains the tendons in my little finger as I try to stabilise an ungainly lump.

It frustrates me no end that phones just get bigger and bigger. Having the option is great, no complaints there, but could there be something that suits me too?

You may want to specifically look at phones marketed as being small.

The issue I’ve had there is that their cameras are generally rubbish, unfortunately.

I’ve not checked the sizing but I thought the whole point was that the A variants were smaller? My 6A is already much larger than I’d like. I’m not trying to watch movies on these damn things! 😂

Could the same not be said for the 6A?

Right, so which phone should I buy second hand that has a great camera and doesn’t cost the earth?

I had a 4A, currently I have a 6A, and I was going to get a 7A but apparently that’s a bad idea too. Fuck’s sake.

I’m not really sure how to put this but… duh?

Media portrays a place in a way that isn’t true to the reality of it, amazingly a subset of people are taken in by this trope as old as time. It’s “The Big Rotton Apple”, Paris Syndrome, and stuff like that and I’d assume has been around as long as we’ve had cities.

Why not just make the article “watch the show ‘Too Much’, please”?

Belkin are awful.

Only two out so far. The third is arriving in December.

I felt it was significantly worse than Crystal Skull.

Did we watch the same movie? I marathoned all the films and Dial of Destiny is dire. To be honest, only the first film is truly great. I’d probably rank them 1, 3, 4, 2, 5.

Unless I’ve misunderstood, which is entirely possible, HOA people aren’t anonymous remote bureaucrats - they live there, don’t they?

Antagonising someone with batshit stuff like this seems like a good way to cause significant problems. Such as being forced, through the threat of mortal violence, into a situation involving arson. It feels like a plausible level of rage in response to this kind of unreasonable arseholery.

As in:

Being an absolute piece of human garbage and treating someone the wrong way + recipient of shoddy treatment has easy access to the threat of mortal violence = bad news bears

In a nation of so many firearms how are these people ballsy enough to pull this nonsense. It seems like a great way to end up trapped in a burning house.

As in pissing off someone that lives in your neighbourhood by being this level of awful seems like a supremely bad idea.

I’m curious what the numbers look like for commercial properties standing empty because they’re investment vehicles for legal financial shenanigans. I’m talking about how many offices we’ve built over the last twenty years when anyone with a lick of sense could see this was a waste of time.

I don’t mean “why aren’t we doing that instead” - the article just gets me wondering about how much space we’ve wasted on worthless concrete garbage that stands perpetually empty.

Advertisers don’t even like the word “sex” now? But it sells!