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Those are usually interest free services.

Until you forget a single payment... then you'll get retroactive interest (back to the day of your purchase) at a very high percent, as well as other fees.

ATP is actually an insurance company masquerading as a pension fund: focus more on their guarantees, instead of getting optimal returns.

Innocent until convinced guilty. Do the few guys who get trialed for economic crimes stand there in an orange jumpsuit with cuffs on?

Even if it's free, they don't have to serve you I assume? Like "we don't serve tap water to anyone, not even if you offer to pay"? But that California law is a myth as far as I'm aware. It's also a common myth that there's some federal law banning pay-restrooms, but it's mostly just many different states that have laws against it.

It's messed up that business feel the need to paywall such basic stuff... But in the case of OP's story, it's not actually that uncommon; for some weird reason, the typical clientele at a 5-star hotel wants such an experience. They like thinking they're so much better than anyone else when they pay 7€ for their bottle of municipal tap water.

When I'm traveling, even for work (I don't need to pay anything), I always take a maximum of 3-stars just to avoid such awful places and behavior.

And I fully believe it'd be some kind of justified retribution. The silence from Microslop's side is deafening.

He could host a Tor Hidden Service or an I2P eepsite. Still possible to DDoS, but a bit harder. But then you're missing out on 99% of spreading possibilities.

Why not mention that "Secret Chats" aren't that safe either?

You have higher taxes for electric cars? It's the other way around here.

Wasn't this already well-known? An internal combustion engine is less effective already from the start compared to "modern" fossil energy power production. Even if the energy came 100% from coal, there wouldn't be too much difference anyways.

The only thing electric cars are worse for, environmentally, is increased tyre wear due to weight. And then the battery production/disposal of course...

He joins them — with his laptop ajar, so that the AI agent can keep running.

Imagine if vibe coders were smart enough to change their settings so everything stays active when the lid is closed. But then they probably wouldn't be vibe coding from the start.

And a wakeup call that if your information is there, that you make sure you get it wiped ASAP. Because obviously the people running the company see no moral problems with handing over your data to someone else.

It uses resources on their end, so they need to bill for it to make it make sense

Doesn't AMD sell the hardware? Isn't it end-users (or companies or whatever) that are running the hardware? So I'm a bit confused, what do you mean by AI dipshits "using" AMD's resources -- especially when it's still available for free on Windows?