I rented a car from Hertz this weekend and the desk person blatantly lied about the coverage provided by my credit card. Who knows if he’s instructed to say that or not, but it’s shady either way.

Oh man, I thought it was middle class to freeze bread!

We’d buy nice bread from the store, organic/no preservatives, so it starts to told mold in 3-5 days unless you freeze it.

You could really order just like 3 stalks of celery? They didn’t force you to buy the whole bunch?

I’ve tried this before in my shots of espresso, but I haven’t noticed a difference. Are you getting more of the chocolatey notes or the nutty or the fruity ones?

And Belgian!

Agree completely! I don’t know how people remember random Wednesday night plans without putting it on a calendar.

Plans just go in one ear and out the other unless I write them down immediately

She’s generally average from what I’ve heard amongst my friends. Not a slam dunk but not stumbling over herself. I think she’ll really have to prove herself and release a strong platform to sway any voters. The good news is that a decent number of people are going to vote for her just because she’s not Trump.

I suspect the real problem for some Americans will be a woman as president…which is just about how screwed America is right now.

Pretty notably she doesn’t have any big skeletons in her closet (that I know of at least) that Republicans can latch on to and create drama over.

WW3 material for New Yorkers, right there

deleted by creator

I’ve thought about this a bit (but by no means extensively) and I feel like the stakes are different for tech companies because growth doesn’t require as much capital as a non-tech business.

For a SaaS tech company to scale from 10 users to 1000 users doesn’t mean a bunch more sales people and a new factory, it means having a great product and turning on new servers, likely only incurring a higher hosting bill from AWS (or similar).

In that sense, I feel like it’s easier for the sentiment to be “we’ll be better off with 1000 more users” over and over again until people start to want to optimize the business. Which means doing more traditional “shareholder value creation” that big companies do today.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to see it happen, but i think tech just scales so differently and easier than other business types.

Not the person you asked, but in my experience: in the worst case you end up paying more for something that was rather simple, but in the best case they find some nice savings.

That being said, if you have the money and just don’t like doing taxes, it’s pretty fantastic to just send someone your papers and wait.

While very cool, I have to say I was not expecting the stripteases in all of his videos

Huh, I always assumed it was just because they target the exact same people. The only differentiator is pasta or seafood, in my mind.

They would rather spend a cool Mil or whatever the contractor over-charged for this instead of a few salaries on people who can argue with pharma over prices. It’s a sad state of affairs

At least the first half is uplifting…

I agree that it’s not a good thing, but the US gov isn’t going to use the data to blackmail a closeted gay senator/govt official against their own government, while China will absolutely do that.

Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-grindr-exclusive/exclusive-behind-grindrs-doomed-hookup-in-china-a-data-misstep-and-scramble-to-make-up-idUSKCN1SS10H/

And considering how good TikTok’s content algorithm is at picking up on subtle ques in browsing habits, I’m sure they know (or at least can venture a good guess at) a lot more than just the information users typed into the app, like in the case of Grindr.

I’m not saying data grabbing for the sake of data grabbing like is happening now is a good thing, but at least it’s controllable within the US for US companies holding data on US citizens. Lesser of 2 emails, I guess?

The ban is about national security and the fact that the TikTok app has been caught snooping on everything it can get its hands on and sends it directly back to Chinese servers.

I haven’t read anything that says this, but I suppose it’s possible that Meta/Google/Etc. have lobbied to play up that angle, but I would argue that’s the capitalism we live in: the biggest pockets win.

This one is on my list, too!

I would kill to be a fly on the wall for the meeting they had after they noticed and why it took them like 3 hours to send a corrected version

Or if you correct yourself in it!