> If you're just a person, or maybe even a small business, the big commercial banks offer you no value.

Big bank offers me 2% back for everything plus extra on travel/dining. Local credit union - 1.5% at the best, usually 1% on everything and some extra categories.

Right wing activists will have X, left wing activists will have BlueSky, and their flame wars hopefully wouldn't spill over the all other people.

Internet should be more fragmented and harder to use.

English is a notoriously bad language to describe software design. Just look at any existing specification: it is either impossibly huge, or horribly incomplete, or both.

And now you're trying to use this barely working approach to manage a helpful idiot who never asks questions and just tries to guess what it needs to do. Good luck.

Bad news: finding a reason to live is your own problem. Unless you going to be a rat in some scientist's project, but I guess you will be vocally against experiments of this kind.

I saw stores with a sign "cards only". I know ski resorts that don't take cash. This law was proposed not just for fun: https://stateline.org/2021/05/...

Yes, it is absolutely legal. There is very much literally no law forbidding blocking any browser from a website.

You have quite a weird ideas about what other people owe you.

$60000 is almost exactly average wage today. ~150% of average wage 18 years ago.

The comparable hardware for essay writing is called "pen and paper". Absolutely no internet access required or possible, very low cost.

It's 2025 but some people didn't get the memo yet and still use 2020 dictionary.

> No.. It's in fact the customer's job. Sure is inconvenient, but there is notice of the tax by reading your state and city laws.

And yet, any gas station provides the final price for the gallon of gas, all taxes and fees included.

Could you please elaborate on what's your problem with people asking for assisted suicide for "almost any reason"? Someone prefers to die than to live with paraplegia or whatever else; it's their choice; why do you even have an opinion?

You can't complain that greedy for-profit medicine tries to squeeze every single cent out of you, and that for-profit medicine will persuade you to take cheap suicide pill, at the same time. Please choose one.

Try saying publicly that you are going to exercise your legal right to suicide and see how fast you will end up in the mental ward under 24-hour surveillance.

One can argue that in last year's Middle East conflict, 9 dead are not significant by any measure, even if they were all civilians. And say, 3 civilians versus 4 actual targets are quite a good ratio by Hezbollah's own metrics.