It's also a way to get around the prohibition on setting different prices for SNAP recipients. For example you can buy over the net from Costco with SNAP on Instacart but not directly. And the prices are higher there than on their site.

I despise McDonald's, I despise advertisers, and I'm very wary and mistrustful of so-called AI. That said, when I watched the commercial I laughed. I thought there were some clever bits, and I'd watch it again.

I wonder if the negative response is akin to that of an otherwise-healthy immune system that has been faced with too many dire challenges in a short period of time and is over-reacting a bit. In this case that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's worth keeping an eye on.

No. This is nonsense. Nuclear fuel production has a massive ecological impact. Nuclear only looks good when compared to coal. Stop doing that.

The office I work in has a bunch of people with more money than sense. The guy sitting next to me hung up a GoFundMe QR code for veterinary bills at his cubicle and got 2 grand dropped in it before I quit counting.

I was able to confirm he really does have a dog, but I think the extent of the injuries and ongoing nature of the surgeries was getting puffed up.

Gyre is a more official name for the Pacific Garbage patch, as there are presumably few kids in it

Not really IMO, moderation is broken by design at best

I don't see a rash of bans, but I do see the same abusers of moderation given all the mod points they can use every day.

You can thank student loans for that. Earlier generations got their schooling subsidized, but now people have to get loans to pay for it themselves instead. Colleges therefore could raise tuition. Then a bipartisan effort in Congress was launched to make sure we couldn't discharge those loans through bankruptcy like you can gambling or other personal debts, which was led by Joseph R Biden. I think we know how that turned out, forgiveness for a few of the worst abused players, and blaming inability to keep his campaign promises related to partial forgiveness for all buyers blamed on Congress while he went around them to fund genocide in Gaza.

Because having all that day-to-day military data in the cloud, managed by a private-sector company whose primary business is data-rape, is a sterling choice for managing national security. Srsly, WTF?

Perhaps they could establish a payment network for them or otherwise make them actually useful. File and pay your taxes for you.

I had a problem of the screen configuration resetting about a quarter of the time the system went to sleep mode or rebooted. Since upgrading to a newer version of Kubuntu that uses Wayland, I haven't had the issue.

I have a 1440p monitor paired with a weird resolution ultrawide, on a nVidia card. A few months ago I started running 2 GPUs. One monitor I have plugged into the integrated AMD GPU and the other monitor is the the nVidia card.

Wayland handled the weird configuration seamlessly. No problems with drivers. Steam games ran out of the box. I didn't have to even set the resolution if I recall. Maybe it's not fair to attribute this to Wayland, but I've used X11 on and off for 20 years, and had a lot more problems with it.

What happens with people like me who only have Bluetooth, WiFi, and Data enabled when we're actively using them?

I suppose it's the same thing as with "loyalty" cards - privacy is screwed if you do use them, wallet gets screwed if you don't.

That's because they're so used to their own shit-eating grins that they think people having feces on their faces is normal.

The USPS is also pretty crap about it. They regularly just don't bother to add new addresses to their databases for months or sometimes even years. At work we're having to use an alternate address for a multi story residence with dozens of units because of this. It's really quite irritating. Their address validation system is also shit. They will tell you for example that an address has an invalid secondary (unit number type, e.g. suite/apartment/whatever) but then won't tell you what the correct one is even though they have to know in order to tell you that the one you used is invalid. And this is when you PAY for validation! I don't know how much of this is due to DeJoy but it's shit.

We don't need more military. In fact we need less.

The reason for the existence of the second amendment was to not need a standing militia. We DEFINITELY don't need both things.