the proposed settlement gave merchants the ability to impose surcharges on customers depending on what kind of Visa or Mastercard card they use.

Good that the settlement was rejected then. Passing card fees onto the end-customer doesn’t fix the problem.

I don’t think rural towns are depopulating due to hate or discrimination… it’s mostly because of job prospects, no?

Owning a horse is more expensive monthly than having a drug addiction tbh.

It’s unconstitutional to deny a US citizen entry to the US. It’s the same in most other countries. But it still happens in many countries; Sweden for example has had a lot of problems deporting convicted criminals to their homelands, because their homeland refuses to accept them back.

most secure

Yeah because it’s really secure anyone can take out your cash via ACH or whatever by your account numbers on that piece of paper.

your account is still protected by the bank for any fraud

Your bank is required to investigate and such, yeah? And you will most likely get your money back - after a while - if their investigation determines it was fraudulent. But a long process that’d be avoided by having a safer electronic transfer system. And what will you do if the bank thinks it’s some friendly fraud?

Not worth it. I don’t even like direct debit. No one should initiate taking money from my account other than myself.

This was from the 80s.

But yes, they do that nowadays… but viral loads can be so small that it won’t be detected on a test, but will likely infect the patient. So don’t give blood if you’re unsure.

Menthols maybe? And that it’s harder for people of a lower socioeconomic status to quit smoking? Otherwise, no idea.

Yep, the US went from a duopoly (if that), to a triopoly.

Workplace is basically just an internal/“private” Facebook for your company; you have groups, posts, chatting, voice/video calls, and that kind of stuff.

So it basically gave nothing other than “use a UI similar to Facebook’s, but on a platform that only your own employees can access”.

In Sweden, over 1000 packages are listed as a backlog risk-situation. But the numbers are a bit inflated, because each package counts as another item on the list (if Paracetamol 500mg with 30 tablets is marked, it’s probable that both Paracetamol 500mg with 100 tablets and Paracetamol 250mg with 30 tablets will also end up in that situation).

So yeah, there are shortages, especially for medicines that have become increasingly popular (Semaglutid for example)… but it is very likely Brexit has made it worse for the British, as otherwise many could be imported easier from the single market.

I think that most smokers don’t even like menthols. When I used to smoke, and someone would ask to bum a cigarette from me, I’d always say “sure, but they’re menthols” and the majority of the time they would decline.

it was only car insurance

Aha, I forgot the thread’s title and just assumed it was home insurance if it differs that much. The new neighborhood had higher incidence of vandalism maybe, or historically many bad drivers? But yeah, I’d probably risk that as well; a car is mobile, so no reason to have such a huge difference. Would never risk renters/home insurance though.

I would keep my address there on insurance forms

I’m not sure I’m understanding. You were living at place B, but your insurance was registered to place A? Wouldn’t the insurer then deny any claims if something were to happen at place B?

All those services block IPVanish and Proton. They want my data not my money.

How do you come to that conclusion from their blocking of commercial VPNs? Sure, of course they want your telemetry as well, but it’s mainly due to the copyright owners/distribution agreements.

And Russia was a signatory to the Budapest Memorandum. What’s your point?

Buying pirated DVDs is one example I assume?

It’ll apparently be in Malmö this year, so it’ll probably be the other way around now.

Why would you ever want to rename the file though? The extra tags are useful, eg for when searching matching subtitles or remembering quality without needing to check ffprobe.

Depending on how you’re counting your integers, Monday is 0, being the first day of the week.

It’s a public static IP, no one else is on it except for me :)