Yeah I definitely have seen it as gas stations in the past, I can’t recall seeing it lately.

If you remember computer shows, the vendors there would often show a cash price and then charge more for cards.

I thought doing that sort of thing was against their merchant agreement though. But maybe not.

It can happen even then. A few years ago, my wife and I had lunch at a burrito place, then walked across the shopping center and did our grocery shopping. Same card was declined the second time, no issue on our end, plenty of credit limit available, just some fraud trigger went off at the bank (I don’t remember details).

Not in my experience. There is a credit card fee, but the stores pay it. I’ve heard of places offering a cash discount for that reason, but haven’t seen it in years. If you paid cash now, you’d just be paying the credit card price.

Can’t do anything about actual crimes, so they go after this sort of crap instead.

I had a Core2Quad with 4GB of RAM as my home server until about 2 years ago. Home Assistant is what finally overloaded it. (I have a fairly large setup with a ton of integrations.)

Upgraded the desktop, now the old desktop is the server. I think it’s already 10 years old.

Back in the old days the cashier would have a booklet with valid credit card numbers. Sometimes they’d have to call the bank, and occasionally, the bank would tell them to confiscate the card.

Yeah, they’ll start fighting each other for control of the party.

Meanwhile the true believers will continue to vote for Trump, because there will be some idiotic conspiracy theory that he’s still alive and running again.

But, while I agree MAGA will die, as AOC said a while back, the conditions that set him up for this continue to exist.

I can’t believe you have a heart of stone.

I saw yesterday that Rubio warned Iran against killing any protestors.

I just… How does the irony not kill them? How do these people remember to keep breathing?

My mother suggested getting frozen spaghetti meals. I was like, “Why? Spaghetti is already the easiest dish to make…”

We do break our spaghetti. We don’t have a pot large enough for the whole ones, and our stove is so hot it burns the parts of the noodles that are sticking out of the smaller pot. (Viking Range with 1,000,000 btu burners.)

We don’t make spaghetti very often anyway. Usually we make ravioli when it’s pasta night.

Everyone but Tuvix, that is.

The one thing is that none of the rest of his administration generates the kind of support he does. Remember, Trump’s numbers went down when he put JD Vance on the ticket.

I think now Republicans in congress wouldn’t have an issue with fighting Vance.

I’m kind of curious how high he’ll go with that count. He randomly increases it, so now I have this morbid fascination with seeing where it ends.

I love the background details in Futurama, like here, the ski lift is just chairs that float up the hill under their own power, no cables needed.

I once read Shelby Foote’s The Civil War, all three volumes. It took me years, longer than the actual war. It’s very good, but it’s densely written, and of course the subject matter doesn’t really make for “light reading”. There were times I had to put it down for a while.

She did say “actual brain functions”…

My only question is why she sits at the desk backwards.