I also prefer checks over credit cards because I don't want Visa getting any of my money.
Technically those fees are paid by the merchants, though a recent settlement with MasterCard and VISA may change things a bit.
Visa, MasterCard reach $38 billion swipe fee settlement, draw opposition
Yeah, Russia and Ukraine are at war, but was it a Russian drone that attacked the dome? Ukraine has more reason to attack it and blame Russia, so they hope Europe will poor more money into them (their leaders already shown nothing has changed over the decades in how corrupt they are) . Chernobyl is very close to russian border, so if the dome cracks and nuclear radiation escapes, it might hit russia. But of course it might be possible for a russian drone on its way to Kyiv to be misguided and hit the dome by accident. Yeah Russians are morons and not very nice, but in this war nothing is as it seems, and we in the west don't seem to get the real/full story.
Russia has more reason to attack it because in doing so, people like you will contemplate it being Ukraine blaming Russia to garner sympathy. Of course, Ukraine has more reason to attack is so people like me will think it's Russia hoping to blame Ukraine for it being Russia false-flagging Ukraine's implication of Russia being to blame while falsely accusing Ukraine.
We can play sixteen-dimensional chess. Or we can boil it all down to one country being instigators and nothing else mattering. The dome is damaged because Russia invaded another country. Period. In my books, even if the leader of Ukraine ordered Ukranian people to damage the dome, the Russians are to blame. There's the border. Get back on your side.
require location services to always be activated in smartphones with no option for users to disable them.
The battery will love this.
Two Virginia brothers Muneeb and Sohaib Akhter
I was going to snark about how Trump will just pardon them for this "white collar" crime, but then saw their names. Guess they'll either have to buy a *bunch* of his crypto or become presidents of another country, like former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez - convicted of conspiring in smuggling +400 tons of cocaine into the U.S., sentenced to 45 years in prison 1 year ago, and just pardoned (at the recommendation of Roger Stone and others).
ratgdo32 disco
We took everything that was great about our O.G. ratgdo, upgraded it to an ESP32, added a laser and a speaker to bring you ratgdo32 disco.
Am I the only person on the planet who still opens the garage door with, you know, my hands? Is that completely crazy? Am *I* crazy?
Around my neighborhood almost no one parks in the garage (they park in their driveway, or the street). The garage is where you store stuff (and you rarely open the garage door).
I park in the driveway because it's difficult to get into my garage. It's a 90 degree turn and there's fencing along the top and opposite sides of the driveway. Not impossible, but a PITA.
Also, insert joke/commentary about "parking on a driveway" and "driving on a parkway."
Trump backed federal measure that would block states from passing AI laws for a decade
Which rich, tech-bro, donors running AI companies whispered this idea into his ear?
Just cut them off for one day. I bet there would be a visible downtick in social media posts if the troll farms went away for just one day.
Social media posts? Screw that... how about ransomware attacks?
Unfortunately, no, we can't. Because "we" can't agree on simple stuff like... vaccines that have billions of doses injected, or decades of clinical results published are good. All it takes is one of Russia's peering links to a friendly nation to stay live.
As an aside, what even is "LGBT propaganda"? Is there somewhere that posts are going up saying things like "try being gay... being a target for homophobes while having a dating pool one tenth everyone else's is great!" Or "gender-affirming surgery is painless, cheap, safe, and required by Peter before you can cross the Pearly Gates." So much worrying about what's going on in someone else's pants.
There's pretty much zero probability Russia could use this to their advantage at this point - their space R&D engineering is pretty much gone. They don't even have a functioning launch platform for human flight at the moment.
The real risk is this being sold to China, or traded to China by Russia for hardware for their war machine against Ukraine.
I remember when cars were made from STEEL, had STEEL chrome bumpers. If you bumped into someone, you might
scratch the chrome. Now, bump into someone and it is a multi-thousand dollar repair! Plus, with all the electronic sensors
and what not, makes it even more expensive.
Rivian R1T Fender Bender Turns Into $42,000 Repair Bill
Here’s Why That Rivian R1T Repair Cost $42,000 After Just A Minor Fender-Bender
Trump is transactional. All he cares about is money and ego.
* glances over at the combined fiscal and narcissistic worth of the Pelosis, Clintons, and OBidens *
Maybe if it were only slightly less blatantly fucking obvious..
You can glance at them all you want, but they're not even close to Trump - by an order of magnitude, or two.
This discusses recent presidential net worth before and after and how they made their money: Chart Shows Net Worth of US Presidents Before and After Office (2024) with Obama and Clinton making most of it after leaving office, and Biden from real-estate . Trump lost money after his first term due to the economic downturn during the pandemic and $590M in loan repayments and is currently raking it in via various, putting it politely, avenues (link below).
The net worth as of 2025 (various Google results):
Bidens: $10M - mostly property
Obamas: $70M - mostly books
Clintons: $300M - books, speaking, investments, consulting
Trump: $6.2B (down from $7.3B) - most while *in* office: Presidency Boosts Trump’s Net Worth By $3 Billion In A Year
Pelosis: $280M - investments (big-cap tech stocks) and real estate (most probably during her 40 years in office) and her husband is a venture capitalist.
List of presidents of the United States by net worth: #1: Trump, #4 Clinton, #12: Obama, #25 Biden.
Ya, but once everything is available as cloud-only services, how much RAM and storage will us consumers really need?
This is the difference between a government that cares about consumer rights, and a government who gleefully applies the lube for corporations to fuck you with.
You get lube? Luxury!
I bought a pretty powerful gaming desktop 8 or 10 years ago. Now it still runs all of the games I play
I have a Dell XPS 420, that a friend gave me years ago, that is currently running Windows 10 just fine. Don't know when he got it, but the system came out in 2007. I'm sure it would run Linux (Mint) very well too, though I'll be switching to a system I built already running Mint 22.2 (ASRock Z77 Extreme3, Intel i7-3770, 32GB RAM). Neither system meets the (arbitrary) HW requirements for Windows 11, if I even wanted to use it. I also have several other very old Intel-based systems that run Linux fine as well as one Athlon 64 X2 system running OPNsense. Newer isn't always better - use and needs count for more.
Also users (both regular and corporate) are quite literally exhausted of getting fucked in the ass by Micro$haft repeatedly
Still better that what you'd get from MacroSoft
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
