Smaller local convenience stores in Canada, often had a CC charge added probably 20 or more years ago.

I for one believe that everyone is an addict, or anyone can become addicted to whatever. There is no pathology or dna, that’s just the way the human brain works.

Not every brain works the same way. Not every brain responds to chemicals the same way. You can’t just ‘believe’ those realities away.

Alcohol for example. Everybody in the western world drink, it’s even part of our culture and education in some countries. Some might become alcoholic after 2 years of drinking, some after 69 years. This difference is just life.

There are so many factors involved. But washing them all away as ‘just life’ to justify your beliefs is lazy.

By making the American poor people pay them, they transfer more wealth to the captital class by contracting out jobs to their buddies. Also, it huts sales for the exporters, so its win win for him.

If you don’t know the answer to the question, than the first statement isn’t a fact.

I guess in the current wave of users abandoning windows, its a new feature that is unexpected, and could cause issues for them.

Maybe when I started playing in linux in the late 90s it was a wierd feature to me. Although, I’m not even sure I had a middle mouse wheel then. But it very quickly became second nature, once I discovered it and I hated when I had to use a windows machine and lost access to it.

Turning off every useful feature that linux has over windows, and making them all opt-in just to make it more windows like seems like a backwards step.

Isn’t it just a setting to disable it?

I really like it, and hate when I need ctrl c or right click for context menu. Especially when in some cases depending on where you right click the highlighting changes and you need to reselect the text.

Moving troops into a foreign country without invitation or UN support ? Yea. Thats exactly what that is. Regardless of who you’re removing or why.

It was never about Maduro. Retconning it to say it was doesn’t make it okay since there was never any courts to explicitly claim he was illegitimate.

Swim Shady is a leading manufacturer of high-quality beach shades, bags, towels, and swim shorts. Our products are designed to protect you from the sun’s harmful rays while providing comfort and style. Swim Shady products are perfect for sun-safe travellers seeking adventure.

That makes the name pretty clear and meaningful entirely outside of the existence of a Slim Shady.

To be fair, if a product isn’t properly regulated, there’s nothing to stop producers from printing good looking lab results on the labels and say good enough. Doesn’t mean its been tested, or the data on the labels and say matches the contents at all…

Seems like there has been report after report on this problem being prevalent in the supplement industry.

Its a viable strategy.

Get a career going in a blue state when you’ve got supports to help you make it.

Make a good amount of money, or get a decent wage/salary.

Then transfer that all to a lower cost area to rest on your laurels and skip out on having to pay into support for the next generation.

Its a perfectly conservative thing to do, pulling up the ladder after you’ve succeeded with it.

I’m going to take all the sacrifices my parents made to help ensure I have a successful life.

I’m going to have no problem getting a great job with, or without education.

I’m going to get into the housing market on a basic salary no problem.

I’m going to bring kids into this world, and make sure they earn their own way.

I’m going to shame them into leaving home as early as possible, make them rent for most of their life and wonder why they don’t buy a house so they can make money on their investments.

Oh, by the way, i’ll make a ton more money on other peoples kids paying my second, third investment properties mortgage off with their rent.

Then i’ll live a glorious retirement, fully aware that my kids retirement is probably not going to happen ever.

I think that is a tough one. As long as we accept the value of a thing is what people are willing to pay for it, the prices will always climb.

For essential products and services, the value should be based only on the effort required to provide or produce it.

The main reason we’re dealing with our current inflation has everything to do with the amount of cash flowing upwards from the working class to the boardroom and shareholders.

The prices are going up on essential items because people can’t afford to not buy gas, or not eat, or not rent. They need those to stay employable, and they slowly sacrificed everything else to keep those. So the price goes up, and people keep buying it, telling the heartless corporations that they can raise the prices more.

Now we have significant portions of the population using short term loans or payment plans to buy their next weeks groceries.

I think the idea is if you’re guaranteed a subsistence pay, then you are free to devote your time to creating something. Art, a business, a community, whatever that makes your life meaningful, rather than devoting 90% of your time working for someone elses profit, travelling to work, resting to be able to work, and eating to continue to work.

You want to talk about bare subsistence, that is what most people are doing now in terms of time as a resource.

The problem isn’t the student loans per se, its that the principle has been paid off many times over and somehow moat people own many times more in interest.

Forgiving imaginary debt is not the same as paying off someones bad debt.

Not a right wing nut.

I think some of his best work is in Arrested Development.

I think Steven Miller is pulling a lot of the strings.

Early on in the presidency he was reported as the guy basically first and last to be with trump each day.

But in your scenario, that was exactly where you needed a new cable, even though you had the right one before then.

So if your monitor came with 2 cables and your gpu came with 2 cables, thats 4 cables instead of 3.

That is such a huge waste of material.

When a monitor supports both display port and hdmi port, they need to supply 2 6 foot cables just in case? And what happens when 6ft isn’t enough for a specific situation. You need to then buy an extra one just in case?

Also, when buying replacements, the cables are totally unnecessary.

We have a bad enough problem with E waste. Making it worse for the sake of the tiniest convenience for the average consumer is ridiculous.

I think it has a lot more to do with the urban / rural political divide. And the fact that the cities are where political unrest will begin and take root.

They’re trying to stifle it before it gets bad, or use any violence as an excuse to increase the pressure.

Also, it helps normalize having soldiers in the streets , so citizens put up with it as a new way of living.

“People shouldn’t take medical advice from me”

• Rfk Jr.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/14/rfk-jr-kennedy-senate-house-hearings