[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago

then paying off said pornstar to interfere with the election outcomes?

You forgot the most important part: Feloniously classifying those payments as "legal expenses."

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 27 points 5 months ago

I've been spending all my money on being fabulous instead of bribing old white men. I knew I was doing the adult thing wrong.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 28 points 6 months ago

I've been using it a lot lately in the day job.

My experience has been it's close but wrong often.

It shines when I am doing the same thing for 20 variables, but then I should be using a loop instead and copilot won't go there.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 29 points 8 months ago

Every president save Trump in modern times has had various assets and investments, and they have all put them in blind trusts during their terms.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago

As if I needed another reason to not buy a GM.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 27 points 11 months ago

You'd never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!

/s

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago

Auto manufacturers are all in board with direct sales to customers

States have passed laws prohibiting (or making it difficult) direct sales at the lobbying of auto dealership groups.

This will be very limited, and expect to see more laws that stop it appear soon.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

All cool, but not what the FCC can do.

To pass laws, look to Congress. Remember to vote for the candidates you think will help accomplish those sorts of things.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

Nerds suddenly start to care about labor relations!

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago

It's an intentional thing, pushed by propagandists. Thinking in absolutes reduces the need for critical thinking skills as whole. When you can make people boil everything in the world down to a binary, its very easy to tell them how to think, and equally easy to define the "out" group you all hate.

To wit, when masks "work or don't work", you can look at the people telling you to wear masks, and because masks "don't work" they're wrong, and if they're wrong, then the people we aren't telling you to wear a mask are right. You should always follow people who are right... right?

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 29 points 1 year ago

Visa does not care about interest. The issues bank does.

Visa makes its money on transaction fees. Every time you use your card, the merchant is charged an additional fee, usually a percentage of the amount this of the sale.

In these agreements, T-Mobile is buying transaction info from visa. The level of detail varies, as you say, but it's just more ways for companies to track consumer habits and later sell you something.

[-] evatronic@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

This has similar vibes to that scene from 30 Rock when Tracy was making a movie starring Harriet Tubman, starring Octavia Spencer. They meet on set and Tracy says, "Octavia, good, you're black."

(Octavia later announces she doesn't like "Tubman", and demands they change the name to "Tubgirl"; 30 Rock was fucking inspired.)

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