Agreed on that, it's a weird dichotomy. I think in a way the internet as a whole has had that effect on people.
Connections in real life don't feel a deep as I remember them being in the past and its so often you see a group of people out to dinner or drinks together staring at their phones. Meanwhile I have a lot of pretty decent connections online with people I've never met in person or maybe only once or twice.
He's a former police officer, this was an attempted favor to NYPD
Aluminum is cool but they really should have considered plastic or something and also scrapped that outer screen. The tradeoffs in both weight, cost, and battery life make no sense at all.
Yes and no. I’ve used a Quest to watch movies in a theater with different people from around the world and it was a very social experience. I’ve also attended a few support group meetings for dealing with loss in VR and that was honestly a really positive experience.
God it would be great for a huge back catalog of tiktok videos to just be lame tweens dancing in silence.
In the middle of one of his concerts last summer he pulled out this gem:
“When God made you and me — before we came out of the womb, you know who you are and what you are. Later on, when you grow out of it, you see things, and you start believing that you could be something that sounds good, but you know it ain’t right. Because a woman is a woman and a man is a man. That’s it. Whatever you wanna do in the closet, that’s your business. I’m OK with that.”
The clip ends with Santana lining one hand behind the other, and adding that he was “Like this with my brother Dave Chappelle.”
Like, if you don't like trans people I guess you do you, I doubt anybody's gonna change your mind especially at his age. But, why exactly do you need to get on stage and disparage a group of people like that?
He's turned very much into one of those "Britain for the British" types and has supported people like Nigel Farage and the Brexit movement.
Real shame, I love the Smiths' music. Sucks Morrissey is such a douchebag.
Yeah also Johnny Rotten has gone a similar direction.
Sure, but that's just how it goes. Businesses take their transaction fees and roll that up into their overhead expenses and then factor out their retail pricing with that in mind.
Knowing that, you can try to claw some of that back by utilizing card benefits or not. It's basically the only thing you do have control of in this situation.
If you’re responsible with them you get a number of perks. Many cards have some mix of the following:
I’ve never paid interest on a single card in my life because I always pay my balance in full. Works out great for me. If you’re bad with money, I’d stay way.
Credit card transaction fee percentages have remained about the same for quite a while, so the overhead for businesses running cards has not really changed. And interest rates for carrying a balance change all the time, but I have never once in my life paid said interest because I pay my balance off every month. That's the only responsible way to use credit cards.
In any case, credit cards aren't going anywhere for the time being. So if you're in the US or some other country where they're prevalent, you can participate or not. That's your choice. But you're paying for it anyway, as you yourself pointed out.