There's apparently only one large American supermarket chain that DOESN'T take credit cards, WinCo.

If the article is correct, the way to make money is to figure out when this is going to catch up with the BNPL companies and then short them. Good luck timing it.

That 42% late payment rate, though, is likely more a feature than a bug. Late payments mean more fees.

Allah hasn't ever said shit. Read the Koran, he's so fucking other than he can only send angels to deliver shit, sort of like Amazon but without the free shipping. And he cannot respond to prayers because that would be tipping his hand into saying something just by the effect. Basically he's a Eunuch but with a posse.

AI is some sort of technology, whoever develops this technology better wins something supposedly. Governments have nothing to do with this, technology doesn't belong to the governments.

we are talking about different things. You are talking about class division, all of this, I am talking about a person who does not have to work and yet he does it because he wants to, yes, but personally for him there is nothing to be gained except more headache, it is not about earning more, it is about doing something with yourself.

I am saying that doing something is an important part of living, doing something useful, where you feel useful, this is what this example shows.

Certainly, if you worked as an office cleaner most of your life, probably you will not be missing that work if you were able to get a pension and stop working, but I think you will still be missing the entire aspect of being useful in a wider sense of the word.

I think what makes us people is desire to be useful, doesn't matter how much money you make. I think people who do not have that desire are actually less than developed people.

Make the fine for paying ransomware 3x any ransom paid. If a company is really set one paying the ransom, it will come with a much higher price, and use that money to fight cybercrime and protect infrastructure.

You might want to consider how the incentives for the government work in that situation.

We were just talking about how one of the most useful, long term skills I picked up in school was my architectural drafting class in high school where they drilled us on perfect print.

Sure, but that's print. As other have pointed out, most of the advantages of cursive have gone away since the introduction of the ballpoint pen. Some of the simplified letterforms (e.g. the lowercase 'a') are useful, but looping and joining aren't. Cursive is long obsolete as a writing form. At best it's more aesthetically pleasing while being less readable; more commonly it's just ugly unreadable scrawl

18. Using the Fed. Gov. to grift for himself and his family.
19. Demonizing migrants whose only crime was to come here, work, pay taxes (including SS), and raising families, everything the White Nationalists want except their skin color, and not being able to collect any of the U.S. safety net including Medicaid, Medicare, and SS. Also migrants fight in America's wars for the boobie prize of being exported to a country in which they have never lived.
20. Creating concentration camps.
21. Sending migrants to foreign concentration camps and prisons.
22. Filling the White House with tawdry gold gewgaws.
23. Giving us an HHS moron who reads some blurb on-line and decides to make it health policy.
24. Floating a 50 year mortgage plan to fleece the gullible just a bit more.
25. Whacking science funding so that scientists decide that other countries would make better use of their skills rather than the U.S.

Damn, this could take the rest of my afternoon.

My point is that a guy with all the money still chooses to do it, shows that people lose themselves when they have nothing to do that involves more than just enjoyment.

Just shows that there is no amount of money that replaces some sort of meaning in one's life. Bezos will treat any business correctly, obviously he will be looking for maximum efficiency, which is not easy to do when you are a billionaire, after all, any issues that can be sold by throwing money at it he can really solve this way, which may be the wrong approach for a new business that needs to become useful by standing on its own 2 legs.

But it is just interesting to observe, a guy with all the money and access, he still wants to spend time working rather than enjoying yet another sunny day on one of his yachts.

el Bunko's achievements:

1. he or his companies being convicted of fraud.
2. bankrupting a handful of casinos (that took some doing but he found a way).
3. stiffing myriad small businesses out of bill payments after service had already been rendered.
4. stacking the Supreme Court with Nazis.
5. defiling Christianity by convincing the Evangelicals they really hate migrants, people whom them deem to use the wrong restroom, minorities, etc.
6. screwing up the U.S. and the World's economy.
7. handing Ukraine over to those nice Russians.
8. blowing up boats with people in the Caribbean because they MIGHT be carrying drugs, when in fact he simply hates non-whites.
9. making the former allies hate the U.S. to the point they are refusing to share intelligence information.
10. royally pissing off the mild-mannered Canadians to the point the only thing that would make them happy about the U.S. is his death.
11. destroying health care in rural counties by taking $1 billion out of Medicaid, and that doesn't even cover trying to take away ACA subsidies.
12. backing Israel for killing over 50,000 Palestinians.
13. being Putin's bitch.
14. saddling the American people with a value-added tax int the form of tariffs.
15. destroying health and food aid for foreign countries so that he could crow about how many billions he's saved (less than $30 billion) and thus causing the deaths of at least 200,000 of those non-whites he hates.

I could go on but it is too depressing.

They know how to put a stop to all this evolution nonsense. If they would just get on the ball.....maybe use a few prayer seances....they could prevent evolution from happening. And they'd be so happy they'd Rapture themselves and ascend to.....errrr.....well wherever it is they ascend to. And the rest of us could all be happy for them.

Haven't you done enough damage already? Stop, just stop.

Speaking of pollution, sending up zllions of satellites with maybe several missions for one is sure to pollute the Earth's atmosphere. The scurvy little bastards that will do it to us won't care as long as it turn them into billionaires.

Medical authorities like to talk about agricultural use and people taking them for colds, because that keeps people looking away from the actual main source of multi-drug-resistant bacteria: hospitals.