This is why users don’t invest in the google ecosystem. No consistency or follow through.

Kinda an incendiary headline when it’s just Mastercard complying with the law. From the article: "The federal government considers cannabis sales illegal, so these purchases are not allowed on our systems," Really the issue is that Marijuana should be legal at the federal level.

Needs to fit in Handmaids Tale here somewhere too.

Who asked for this? So much for user led design.

Not even going to read the article but I’m going to go with “no, no they didn’t earn the price hike.” To me, to “earn” a price hike means new features or better functionality with the current platform, not just spamming me with mediocre content. Give me higher bitrate streaming, lossless audio, better ways to organize my watchlist, better desktop/laptop experience, etc, then MAYBE it’ll be worth paying a bit more to me.

This is an EMVCo chip card, and not an American one so it’s chip and pin most likely. Without getting too detailed, the chip generates a one time use code for each transaction, so just having the number wouldn’t help with cloning the card plus you also would need to know the PIN. Although skimmers still exist and physical card theft is a thing, it’s less common especially in markets that use chip and pin.

Check out FedNow. Basically a domestic government run payment system. Still pretty new and growing.

Well it’s the New York post which is basically a tabloid.

The New York State Department of Transportation wrote in 2021 that adding a lane to New York State Route 17 “would improve the flow of traffic and reduce delays, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions as a result of traffic congestion.”

If only there was some other, better way better way to reduce traffic.

This is basically the plot to Alien Earth.

On one hand, sure just a meme. On the other, it may not be ADHD that’s causing these symptoms and getting a professional diagnosis will help with treatment regardless of what’s going on.

For me, it's really two things. The first, the app is a bloated mess. Between videos, podcasts, and just tons of promotions, it's become a chore to just open up the app and start playing music. Secondly, it's just been getting expensive honestly. Annual price increases are crazy to me when the service is getting worse. Their lossless roleout was also a let down between delays and lower quality than competing services.

Appears to be some kind of Leica M, so could easily could be over $10k of kit.

..so far..

This has been one of the better F1 seasons in recent memory, and also really drives home that the constructors championship is a true team sport. Without a good second driver (cough: Perez) there’s only so much a single great driver can do.

Crypto gambling, ftfy :)

Knowing Google, they will be fixed when the phone is released then broken after the first software update and never addressed again.

Curious what the European Union guidance says.

Forgot the #opentowork badge

I originally read this as Haribo and got excited about the rich candy gaming universe we’ll never now know.