thelastknowngod

It’s fucking stupid to do it all at once but I think this should have happened ~5 years ago. Raising interest rates are how you fight inflation… We wouldn’t be in a situation where it costs 500 TL for one sucuk if they started doing this well before covid.

Higher’d’n AC.

I only access banks electronically if they accommodate Tor.

So they know when you logged in and what you did when you got there. So you can’t escape it there.

The bank only gets to know my physical location when I do a transaction where that’s unavoidable.

So you can’t escape this either.

Even if I were to carry a mobile phone on standby wherever I go, the bank would get nothing from it if I don’t run their app.

They would get nothing except the time, location, amount, business, and how that relates to the other purchases you make and all the data those transactions generate as well. That data is shared with the bank, Visa or MasterCard, and all credit reporting agencies. This is unavoidable too.

You are not getting out of this unless you allow it to seriously affect your life.

My man… You are not getting around the tracking. It’s never going to happen. Unless you literally toss everything with a network connection and disconnect from the electric, gas, and water grids, you are going to be tracked.

I use Resilio Sync. It uses a modified bittorrent protocol. You don’t need to open any firewall ports or anything like that… Really simple to get going.

This is a sync took though. Replication is not the same as backups. This may or may not be for you depending on the goals.

Enjoy it. A night out is now cheaper.

My partner is Turkish. She said that this is how America looks in her brain.

Why don’t you find something that fits well, from a large, established company, and just buy the same thing again when it wears out?

Literally everything I own comes from American Eagle (jeans only), Uniqlo, or Muji. When I need something new, I just buy it online because I know neither their sizes nor my ass has changed significantly enough that I would be required to try something on.

If you are being a minimalist about things, you could break down your entire wardrobe to 2-3 pants, 10 shirts, 2-3 shorts, socks and underwear. If you can replace them all at the same time, all of the shopping you would do in 12-18 months can be finished in 10 minutes.

I’ve been doing this personally for something like 15 years.

Ignoring the war, bombing, murder, politics, etc… Who the fuck is Blinken to tell the news how to report the news?

I don’t drink coffee at all but I do live outside of the US. I have noticed that in MANY places in the world, instant coffee is the norm. It’s not normal to see coffee beans in the grocery store at all really where I am now. I would have to go to a more upscale place or to a specialty spot to find whole or ground coffee.

I’ve been using Fleksy for years but there are some apps that don’t work well with it. Notably, Connect for Lemmy. Backward swiping for deletes only does one word at a time and up/down swiping for managing autocorrect doesn’t work either.

There are a few other apps with their own quirks as well. 90% of the time it’s great though.

Phoebe Reads A Mystery

“Let’s say a product today is sold for $10 on Amazon with ‘free shipping’. If Amazon is forced to unbundle the FBA fee from the product price then it would cost $6 + $4 shipping.

In the short term, this is going to bring Amazon even more money. They’ll just accept both until a competitor comes along.

I’d argue it would help a lot if there was a similar apology for the 1953 Iranian coup. Good luck getting that through congress though… If the vote failed it would probably do more harm than good.

I think I returned mine and stuck with the HTC Dash for a year or two more until the software was better.

To be fair, it’s not a lot for an American salary but you can live comfortably in large parts of the world on $2400 per month.

I still can’t believe voters didn’t give him the boot.

That was the Trump-era midterms IIRC… He’s there now because he has a D next to his name. That’s about it.

Is there anything he can’t do? What an inspiration!

Gimme dat poo poo

But you would have known that! So clearly I cannot choose the senator in front of me!