The median income in New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles is higher than $83K. At least I hope it is.

The crap must end. We need reins on AI proliferation.

>This is irritating AF even though I have the money in the bank because I get a percentage back.

The percentage you get back is a small part of what goes into the costs that the credit card industry charges consumers and merchants.

If no credit cards offered any kinds of rewards, the credit card companies could lower consumer and merchant fees and interest rates and still make the same amount of money.

Pretty much yes.

People buying essentials on credit has been around for a very long time.

It's never a place you want to be, but it beats starving or freezing to death.

Perhaps they should have a think about what they stand for.

>Leave them there permanently but give them a way to access TikTok so that they can live cover from the scene to other disbelievers.

Like Stanley Kubrick did in 1969, but without TikTok. Authenticity for the win.

is the heart of a planet-destroying weapon system.

Other countries aren't putting US-registered SIM cards on their daily missile attacks.

Because Virgo sounded too much like Virgin Galactic and Cancer sounded exactly like "DO NOT WANT."

A fully mechanized plant, using imported Chinese materials, dumping toxic waste everywhere. Will you sleep safer?

No one has scruples any more?

I remember when Firefox was a 5MB download--now, even the downloader is larger than that. Other than lapses of privacy, I am experimenting with Basilisk because is supports Scrapbook, the best internet research tool ever made.

At least in some places, phone numbers have to be re-used after only a few months of non-use because of demand.

"Short, easy to remember" email addresses are also scarce, but you don't need a "short, easy to remember" email address to function in society. Most people do need a phone number.

If Napster was illegal--so is AI's training.