https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

Available as a database, or a collection of individual pages. Mirrored and archived. There are torrents as well.

On the other hand, if your card got refused at that grocery line - would you go back? Likely not.

I doubt many such businesses would risk the customer ire by refusing some cards.

What I DO forsee as happening is some businesses that aren't time sensitive but routinely deal in high $$$ transactions not accepting some such cards. IE, (ironically) - airlines. If you're buying several thousand dollars worth of airline tickets the rewards (and in turn, the merchant fees) can add up quite a bit.

Maybe they're in another country? Here in the US a guy selling tomatoes beside the road is likely to whip out a Square reader attached to a phone and take credit cards.

I live in a small town and I can't think of a single business that DOESN'T accept cards. The last holdout (an old diner thats been there for decades) gave in about 7 or 8 years ago and got a reader.

As a direct result, no, but as a net result, yes, they will. Large companies like Walmart have razor thin profit margins. They just make insane profits because of the volume of product that they move. Those margins will always be just a small amount above whatever their net costs require, and credit card fees are part of those net costs.

You might not like them as companies, but there's a reason why Wal-mart and Amazon are almost always the cheapest place to buy something.

Most airlines aren't even setup to make a profit from ticket sales anymore. They at best break even there, and then make their profit off of agreements with credit card companies for CC miles/points.

Its a very weird system that we've gotten ourselves into.

So ... this will get people to write ... well? Can't complain about that ...

I bet he jacks off writing that.

"He does this, he says, because he wants to boost his influence over the world, because he wants to help teach the AIs about things he cares about"

It takes a real narcissist to think your writing is going to teach AI's anything. Apparently he doesn't realize there's a million SuperKendalls for every one of him and AI can't tell the difference. That or he's one of those SuperKendalls.

It's the data scientists who decide what AI's learn from, and they don't really give a shit.

"...neurodiverse workers were 25% more satisfied with AI assistants and were more likely to recommend the tool..."

You know who else would be more satisfied? Stupid people. Chimpanzees would find AI unimaginably great.

And that's not a knock on "neurodiverse workers", it's a knock on the "study". In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. What matters is what the "tool" can do, not what the deficiencies of some users are.

The kinds of foods that trash your LDL predate the FDA and the United States.

Groups are the only reason I use Facebook anymore.

No, I have no desire to see which hyperventilating cause my aunt is re-posting something about today. But all the groups that used to have their own discussion boards on their own blog sites have moved to Facebook.

Took this far to find a comment about the topic rather than a personal attack on the reporter.

MAGA life.

So very unlike human generated code, which by contrast is always free of bugs, always perfectly implementing the spec, right out of the box, and with no QA needed!

there are 5 billion Roblox accounts created

5 billion more accounts than you have brain cells, apparently