Aaaaand that's exactly why it's still usable and functional!

Not everyone cares about bleeding edge video technology for TV/movies and this fits my request. (Thanks!)

A "dumb" TV like these will be perfect for my parents and I'm sure it'll do a fantastic job playing over the air television (METV reruns) for them. Nice and simple. No bullshit menus or strings attached. I'm sure this will work for myself too because the +50 channels I get over the air TV give me plenty to watch when I'm idle on the couch. Streaming services? Not going to lose any sleep over not seeing a show/movie.

There are plenty of "smart TV's" which can be used offline but it's a pain in the ass trying to determine which ones can and can't be used without an internet connection. If anyone has a suggestion for a site to easily determine which ones can be offline vs need to be online, I'd appreciate the tip. I tried googling for that info and... well... google... yeeeeah...

Exactly. Cash in hand to the staff when you want to thank someone for good service. Handing it to them PERSONALLY is personalized SERVICE being reciprocated. The extra 2 min out of your life to show your gratitude to someone can mean more than the monetary gratitude. Try it sometime!

Exactly. They'll circle back to this in Q1 and make it more subtle like different prices from different physical store locations. Then they'll roll out "surge pricing" before a weather event or major event to help recoup their make believe losses from this "oops" moment.

Fuck yeah!

Based off the smell of Heathrow, this is likely.

States can block pornhub but they can't do anything about AI? Yep. That makes perfect sense to me.

When you give a chimp a gun and the chimp shoots someone, you don't blame the chimp!

When I read this and saw the link was for Top Gear, I immediately heard "in the wooooorld" in Clarkson's voice! This gave me a laugh which I needed today. Thanks!!!

I'd love to see what else is on the CC bills for people that are buying essentials on credit. I'm not trying to deflect from a very real issue but more information is needed to paint the true picture.

I know a number of people under water with CC debt and are charging their groceries. I want to feel bad for them but then they are also charging starbucks 6 days a week, gas for their trucks, 4-5 streaming services, and also door dash a couple of days a week. Toss in a new iPhone/airpods/tablet throughout the year. They blame their CC bills being high on car repairs and refuse to acknowledge that they're dieing the death by a thousand cuts.

It sucks that people like this are more common than not because they're eclipsing the faction of people that are legit screwed and are in an awful situation like this.

If a vendor starts picking and choosing the cards they accept (which is the natural direction this would go), then that will leave consumers dealing with a la carte acceptance of cards from merchants.

Am I the only one that sees the similarities of the streaming wars where everyone wanted to unbundle services like HBO and Disney from the cable providers?

We're talking about credit card companies here. Whatever is the most profitable for them is the direction they'll push merchants to which always results in the customers convenience being crushed (again). Case and point: the recent price hikes of streaming services which have uncoupled from the scary cable mafia.

If you have a good product, people will use it. If you have a shit product, then having a Matt Damon peddle it will only expose how shitty it is to even more people.

If you have a good product, organic growth will happen and you'll create brand loyalty.

Oh wait... This is Microsoft. Never mind.

What kind of world are we living in when we're rooting for the banks to win in this fight?

"Insert credit card here"
"Swipe your card here"
"Tap here to pay"

My tip of 20% must not be enough.