There’s another catch if you’re not using a card with rewards. (As I understand it this is mostly a U.S. thing, other countries don’t do this.)

Every year when I take my big vacation my wife and I get 1-1.5 of our international business class tickets paid for by rewards on one card and about half of our hotel suites (about 10-11 nights) paid for by rewards on another card. If you’re paying cash or using a card without rewards, you’re paying for my vacation.

Places with different prices for cash and cards are vanishingly rare. Mostly because card processing companies try to penalize places that do this. So everyone pays higher prices to pay for the higher processing fees for reward cards. If you aren’t getting something back you’re just paying for people that are.

Time to up my donation to my local affiliate.

When you donate to your local station you get access to PBS Passport streaming. Lots of good stuff on there.

I assume gliding birds also experience ground effect like aircraft do.

It’s like a little cushion of air (not really, but that’s what it feels like when you’re trying to land with a little too much speed) right before you touch down making it easy to float close to the ground for a while.

I just scrolled past three depressing posts because I didn’t want to deal with it this early and clicked a comic instead, only to have it be this comic.

Everyone always focuses on the baby oil, but the question I have is: what was his furniture budget like?

Was he constantly throwing out furniture with ruined upholstery, rugs, bedding, and mattresses or did he have something like a rubber room that could be hosed down?

Who the fuck is saying they support anything America does? Shit, they’ve got Trump lined up with Hitler.

In episode 7 Will came out to his mom and friends. Aside from just him coming out, it was important because doing so was necessary for him to believe in himself so he could do his part or something. Apparently it’s getting review bombed for that, it’s currently at 5.something which is bullshit. I think the episode’s quality was in line with the rest of the season, which so far is coming in around 8, maybe a little over. I agree with that. Pretty good, but not spectacular.

Edit: it’s got a long as fuck epilogue if you’re into that sort of thing.

I used it for the first time in my life last night watching Culinary class wars.

Thanks for the clarification. They definitely shouldn’t be allowed to have an account on dbzer0 or anarchist.nexus.

But will I see their post/comment on .world and be able to respond to their bullshit or will it be invisible to me and everyone else on dbzer0?

Are we talking about banning them from posting/commenting on dbzer0 or banning them so no one on dbzer0 can see their posts/comments on any instances? If it’s the former I’m for it, if it’s the latter I’m against it.

I don’t like seeing fuckers like that go unchallenged. If everyone willing to debunk their bullshit is on an instance that bans them and can’t see what they write they’ll always get the last word, influencing people on other instances.

Sorry if I’m misunderstanding the proposal, I’m still not 100% sure exactly what an instance ban does.

That’s funny, I had the opposite experience.

I used to count on my front page of Lemmy to give me links to stories about Gaza that I wasn’t getting from the major news outlets. Every page had multiple posts about Gaza with stories and context I sure wasn’t getting from Reuters.

After the election they quickly became few and far in between. With most of them things I have heard about elsewhere, the Lemmy post only being good for discussion.

The problem with GMOs isn’t the GMOs themselves, it’s why they’ve been GM’d. If they’ve been modified to be “roundup resistant” so they can dump a truckload of glyphosate on them, or something similar to that, that might be a problem.

If I’m buying fresh produce it’s not a problem, I can can make double sure to wash it properly. But if it’s processed food, I definitely do not trust food manufacturers to get all that shit off the vegetables.

Looking for GMO free canned fruit/vegetables, frozen fruit/vegetables, or anything with fruit/vegetables in it is, in my opinion, a good idea. But a fresh cucumber? Just wash it.

I’m disappointed those links aren’t real.

And I think the gold and silver parts are usually just plastic.

Fucking paywall

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Is your definition of boomers “members of the baby boomer generation born between 1946 and 1964”, or is it “everyone more than 5 years older than me”?

Or do you not live somewhere in the anglosphere?

I’m not saying everyone born and raised in the anglosphere between '47 and '64 know who John Lennon and Yoko Ono are, but almost all of them do.

The Beatles and the events surrounding them are among the foremost cultural touchstones of that generation.

There was a period of time when MeToo was at it’s height that there was very little nuance in how people reacted to any abusive behavior. Probably related to a dam bursting releasing emotions that had been pent up with these things going unpunished, and mostly ignored, for so long. And you’re right, during this time people who should have apologized and shown some sort of behavior that made us believe it was sincere should have been able to return to public life after a period in the wilderness instead of being treated the same (socially, obviously they didn’t get the same legal treatment) as Weinstein and Cosby.

I don’t think your theory is tinfoil hat territory at all. I think a majority of people could go either way in life, on a wide range of things. Most people don’t really give anything a lot of thought, they just fall into patterns dictated by their environment. If someone in their formative years is exposed to something that tickles their sense of unfairness and that leads them into shittier areas of the Internet, a person that could have ended up a nice, normal, boring person can be turned into a piece of shit.

In case anyone else is curious: here

I see that as a bullshit copout for people that don’t want to care about people. Some of the nicest people I know are neuro-divergent, they just need to put a little more effort into figuring out what effects their actions have.

Just because you lack empathy doesn’t mean you don’t, or can’t, care about people. It just means you don’t have an automatic, involuntary response to other people’s emotions. You can still care about people and desire good outcomes for them and want your actions to be positive for other people.

Neuro-divergence that reduces, or eliminates the capacity for empathy makes that harder because you don’t get that immediate feedback, you have to figure out if what you’re doing has the desired effect in other ways. Which makes it harder, but not impossible. And definitely doesn’t prevent you from wanting to do it in the first place.

If you don’t care about other people, you’re just an asshole. Stop blaming it on neuro-divergence.