ThePyroPython

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[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

First a $40 fee just to swipe plastic is stupid, even VISA don't charge anywhere near that much for the card machine operator. Sorry you have to deal with that.

Also does the US not have smartphone banking apps? Do you have to pay fees for a bank transfer? Is it the landlord setting those fees? I'm confused how a free at point of use system is getting slapped with a fee.

Why does everyone in the US have to write cheques to eachother, wasting everyone's time going in person to the bank to cash them in? Even my employer just does a bank transfer to pay me my income.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

That's fucking ridiculous, sorry to hear that.

But why can't your landlord just accept a bank transfer every month you can set up on your banking app? Is this not a thing in the US?

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 10 points 23 hours ago (7 children)

Who the hell is still writing cheques? Does this landlord also contact the tenant by carrier pigeon?

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Doesn't have to be 100% and definitely doesn't have to completely change overnight. Even a 1% improvement is a victory.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Again I agree, and I don't think NATO should withhold or restrict aid and training if Ukraine don't issue a statement.

And I agree that looking back over targets hit between Ukraine and Russia it is clear as day that Ukraine IS holding to the high standard in place by NATO members and is targeting only military targets.

The issue is that in the political sphere Russia and their useful idiots and apologists only need one example to try and smear the story into false "well both sides did it" narrative which you then have to pull out the long list and start going through it i.e. it takes more time to disprove a lie than to say it.

If, as it is most likely the case, Ukraine accidentally hit a random tower block then said "whoops, missed the target there, but shit happens in war, it was a guidance failure / got shot down by air defence and crashed / whatever" it provides a quick response to the story the Kremlin will try and spin out of it add to the list of examples you gave how Ukraine treats civilians vastly better than Russia.

I don't see the downside of doing this. The Kremlin wouldn't know how to respond.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I did mean that.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Snape, Snape, Severus Snape.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to pointers to a null.

Fig. 1 - Meanwhile your C programming lecturer.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

As an Englishman who has been loosely following the French elections since 2022, I think your theory is sound.

[–] ThePyroPython@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I can't believe Garth Marenghi's Darkplace didn't make the list.

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