Apple Pay to Be Treated Like a Bank With Federal Scrutiny in the U.S. - MacRumors
Apple Pay to Be Treated Like a Bank With Federal Scrutiny in the U.S.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a new rule that will bring Apple Pay and other major digital wallet services under the...Hartley Charlton (MacRumors.com)
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Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
β’ Having money
β’ Making close friends as an adult
β’ Travelling the world without crippling debt
β’ Being able to change the world
β’ Getting better at something with practice
β’ Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
Indigenous mound in St Louis is transferred to the Osage Nation
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Indigenous mound in St Louis is transferred to the Osage Nation
Along with the land transfer, the city of St Louis acknowledged the Osage Nationβs tribal sovereignty and their ancestral rights to the siteAngella d'Avignon (The Art Newspaper - International art news and events)
Discover the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with "Purposeful Stupidity" (1944) | Open Culture
Discover the CIA's Simple Sabotage Field Manual: A Timeless Guide to Subverting Any Organization with "Purposeful Stupidity" (1944)
Iβve always admired people who can successfully navigate what I refer to as βKafkaβs Castle,β a term of dread for the many government and corporate agencies that have an inordinate amount of power over our permanent records, and that seem as inscrutaβ¦OC (Openculture.com)
Full statement from Rep.-elect Sarah McBride:
βI'm not here to fight about bathrooms. I'm here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families. Like all members, I will follow the rules as outlined by Speaker Johnson, even if I disagree with them.
"This effort to distract from the real issues facing this country hasn't distracted me over the last several days, as I've remained hard at work preparing to represent the greatest state in the union come January.
"Serving in the 119th Congress will be the honor of a lifetime - and I continue to look forward to getting to know my future colleagues on both sides of the aisle. Each of us were sent here because voters saw something in us that they value. I have loved getting to see those qualities in the future colleagues that I've met and I look forward to seeing those qualities in every member come January. I hope all of my colleagues will seek to do the same with me."
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International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Hamas Officials | HuffPost Latest News
International Criminal Court Issues Arrest Warrants For Netanyahu And Hamas Officials
The practical implications could be limited though since Israel and the United States are not members of the court and several of the Hamas officials have been killed.AP (HuffPost)
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Tech furries:
Does anyone know of a way to speak with an actual human who wants to actually assist with fixing a phone problem over at Google?
I have been in the chat-email-phone support hell zone since 11/9 trying to get my swollen battery replaced via a device protection plan. No one is willing to assist me or honor my protection plan. I have been passed to six different representatives over the course of 12 days.
They have lied about filing an RMA, filed an RMA, cancelled the RMA, opened a new RMA on a replacement device instructing me to send it back upon arrive, and asked me to fill out my address seven times for some godforsaken reason, often times as a reply to where I just gave them my address.
I'm ripping my hair out and don't have access to any of my 2FA or anything.
The people in 2024 screaming at trans people to use separate bathrooms are the same people in 1954 who were screaming at black people to sit at separate counters, or use separate drinking fountains.
They're not terfs. They're not feminists.
They're segregationists. They're bigots.
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Private Prison Groups Delight In Trumpβs Deportation Plans | HuffPost UK Politics
Private Prison Companies Call Trumpβs Deportation Plans βUnprecedented Opportunityβ
Private prison executives imagined tracking βmillionsβ of people electronically, transporting hundreds of thousands by plane, and expanding detention centers.Matt Shuham (HuffPost UK)
Furry photographers, what is your opinion on posting street photography that includes a person's appearance publicly? Is consent a worry for you or does that not matter for your case? I would love to know.
Evasions-Project Releases English Translation of βHow to defend yourself during a police interrogationβ
"The book was written with the intention of serving as a tool of self-defense against the manipulative interrogation strategies employed by the police. As stated in the introduction, βIt addresses readers in various countries in which legislation may differβ. And indeed, we soon received feedback that the content conveyed by the book is equally applicable to countries such as Turkey, Morocco, Serbia, Italy, Denmark, and many more. And soon a number of supportive people were offering to translate the book into other languages. This is what happened with the English version, and weβd like to take this opportunity to warmly thank our translator and proofreader for their fine work."
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#AntiRepression #Anarchism #Distro
I just want all Cathode Church users to know that due to the Australian government rushing through ridiculous legislation to try to ban social media for teens, we will forthwith be classified as a Web Site Promoting Health And Education Of Teens as an excepted category to the limitations.
The eSafety commissioner is welcome to personally dispute this if they enjoy being laughed at
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Thoughts about the future
Frankly, I'm just moving ahead as planned, and waiting to see whether things'll get derailed, there are just too many variables.
I've already said that the pride, humanity and pagan flags out front aren't going anywhere, or at least not unless they get replaced with something better, metal signs I can attach to the house would be good, something that can't be torn or burnt. While I don't have the skills to do it, I've suggested starting a liberal party to do what the Democrats won't, and while I can neither start it nor manage it, I'll be happy to loan my help whether an unskilled person can. Oh, and did I forget to mention that I bought an electric car to replace the SUV I was using for delivery?
What else is on the agenda? Well, assuming things don't get real bad, in the next few years, solar panels, wind power maybe, some work on the house... win the lottery and I'll expand it. Maybe get more property, dunno. Ideally I'd retire to rural southern IL, get a few acres, put an off-grid or mostly off-grid shed home together, and start selling plots to others that want a safe place to go, heck, maybe even create a tiny town to go with the tiny home, who knows. Prolly a pipe dream, but I'm certainly not giving up dreaming.
But what about Trump and the Repuglicans?
What about them? Trump's a loud mouth idiot who's nothing without his supporters and yes men. Sure, some of the Reps will definitely kiss his ring, Johnson was no surprise, if he didn't he likely wouldn't be speaker much more, he only got the job as he was the least bad choice. And Cruz will of course, he's a squealer, I can always recognize the squealers... I mean, he's a sell out. I'm wondering all of those that don't have an election coming up any time are going to do, the threat of a challenger, the threat of losing their job I think is what keeps most Repugs in line, but when that threat is gone? It's not going to be good, that's for sure, but it might wind up not being that bad, if'n Trump meets any resistance. And then there's all the faithful who are going to find out just how bad they screwed up voting for him, they're going to be out for blood, so a lot of politicians are going to have to decide who's scarier, the voters or Trump.
In the eighties we all were scared that they were going to drop the bomb, but after a while, we just got on with life, if it happened, we'd deal with it then, best we could do was just go on living until we knew what was coming.
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Named our new fish Pentatonic, Chromatic and Whole Tone.
I can tell them apart by their scales.
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βRosie the Riveterβ Lucille MacDonald dies at age 98 in Hawaii
Lucille βCilleβ MacDonald, who this spring was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for her βRosie the Riveterβ work as a ship welder during World War II, died last week in Hawaii at the age of 98.Stars and Stripes
Driving gig work options
So, been chatting with @Range Bear π MFF about gig work, and figured it was a good time to put up a few details about what the options are out there, and there are a fair number.
When you say gig work, most people think DoorDash, which isn't surprising considering the amount of marketing they do, however there's a lot more, basically you can deliver people, packages or food.
People
Uber and Lyft are the best known, though if'n you look around you might find something local or regional in your area. I believer there's also companies dipping their toe into child transport and/or non-emergency medical transport as well.
Food
Like I noted, we all know DoorDash, UberEats is about as well known, and then there's GrubHub, but once again, look around for regionals which is often easier with food as companies put up signs, stickers and other marketing at restaurants they serve. There's also GoPuff which is sort of a virtual convenience store
Packages
Now here's my niche, and the biggest problem here is that nationwide companies are rare, I primarily work for Better Trucks, but they're based in Chicago and have about two dozen warehouses, so less than half the country covered. Like them, Jitsu and Veho do package routes, and nationwide there's of course Amazon Flex. And that's assuming you want route work, if'n you want packages on demand, there's more, DropOff, Roadie, Dispatch, GoShare, Senpex, Frayt and Courial off the top of my head. They all work much DoorDash, offering the order to the nearest driver, but they also list the unclaimed orders on the app.
How does package route stuff work? Well, it varies from company to company, but except for Flex, typically you pick your work days ahead of time, go to the warehouse, and pick up your load. In the case of BT and my warehouse, as I'm not sure all warehouses do things the same, I show up, tell them where I'd like to work, how long, and what I'm driving, and they try to accommodate as many of those as they can. I'm only familiar with BT and Flex, and with Flex, you show up, check in, and it gives you a route. No offer, take it or leave it, and the only things you know ahead of time is how long it should take, and what it'll pay, where is random and can be far if you're working out of a Flex aka Same Day warehouse as opposed to a standard delivery warehouse, which is where you'll usually be working. And that's about it, the software will guide you stop by stop, and you go home when done. Pay is usually lower than the on demand work, but you're trading pay for guaranteed income, so you have to decide which is better for you.
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