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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.

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.

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.

I do, my wife does, a couple Trekkie buddies at work do.

All you whining, terminally online dweebs need to learn to speak for yourselves.

I'm hoping it's a joke.

Maybe someone said "make a stupid generic teen drama poster and watch people lose their shit."

I like all Trek. (To preempt any whatabout responses, here) I consistently downvote and dismiss all "NuTrek" whiners. I don't even like the term. And don't even get me started on the "The Orville is the only good/real Trek in the last blah blah blah" MFers. But this has me a little worried. Is Tilly going to be the least annoying part of the show?

Please be a joke.

Post the same question in a comm that uses another language that you speak and see what answers you get there.