lmmarsano
@lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 days ago:
Yep, like this one, though it could earn more in bonds or investments.
Low-interest loans are great, too: if they don’t need to be repaid right away, they can be leveraged to earn back more than their cost.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 days ago:
Direct link: Mastercard rule 5.12.7
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 days ago:
I thought credit was the main selling point.
- Ability to dispute & reverse charges.
- Flexibility to keep cash in a higher interest account until payment is due.
- Not having to constantly check enough cash in is your low interest checking account (which you’ll keep low so your cash earns more interest elsewhere & to minimize losses in case of unauthorized debits).
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 days ago:
Mastercard: “Sex with children is illegal. Get rid of those games.”
Games depicting it aren’t. Cool mental theater, though.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 days ago:
Gee, I wonder who people are going to believe.
Other payment processors? Why is this hard for you?
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 days ago:
From the article
So this seems like Mastercard are basically saying “it’s not us”.
- Comment on This is a real machine in Romania. Do 20 squats in front of it, and it prints you a free bus ticket. 4 days ago:
Albert Einstein
Misread that as Albert Epstein, got me thinking.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Anyone who claims to be?
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Comments are deleted if you don’t reveal your gender.
How would you do that? Isn’t gender a social construct based on self-identification rather than your physical body that can be fluid & vary from day to day? Isn’t a woman anyone who claims to be?
Some activists even say there is no such thing as a “male body”
A penis is not a male body part. It’s just an unusual body part for a woman.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
And here I thought you were going to counter with ahimsa or non-violence by urging violence is wrong. Nope, lemmy is still lemmy.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
However, they’re not anticipating the next part
I think we can easily retort “All pedophile killers are pedophiles!”.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 1 week ago:
What about pedophile nazis?
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
They did.
- Epstein black book & story on it.
- From USA v. Maxwell, Epstein flight logs & story on it.
- From Giuffre v. Dershowitz, case documents & story on unsealing those.
- The DOJ website lists some of those & others.
Not long ago, everyone was calling claims of secret, unreleased documents a right-wing conspiracy theory. Why popular opinion on that has turned from fringe to accepted is a mystery.
- Comment on egg 3 weeks ago:
So, mildly infuriating? Cool.
- Comment on European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers 3 weeks ago:
- healthcare: lives & health at stake
- agriculture: environment & health at stake
- video games: ?
one of these is not like the others
sorry, bruh: on a scale from critically important to idgaf, this ain’t ranking
- Comment on European Commission preparing token gesture for angry gamers and game developers 3 weeks ago:
Nope, and the suckers who did can suck big, fat ones.
- Comment on call of the void 3 weeks ago:
Not in favor of helping dumbass humans no matter who they are. They’re not endangered. They’re ruining the planet. And we have all these other species on the planet that need saving, so why are we saving them?
If someone wants to kill themselves, some empty, token gesture won’t stop them. It does, however, give everyone else a smug sense of satisfaction that they’re “doing something”, and plenty of people who’ve attempted suicide seem to think it’s hollow virtue signaling. Systematic reviews bear out the ineffectiveness crisis hotlines, so they’re not popularly touted for effectiveness.
If someone really wants to kill themselves, I think that’s ultimately their choice, and we should respect it.
- Comment on call of the void 3 weeks ago:
Seems more like a dumbass people problem.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 4 weeks ago:
- image of text: there’s this cool alternative called text that doesn’t break the web or accessibility. linking to source & quoting text makes an altogether better web for everyone.
- dictionary definition: not an official, legal definition.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 weeks ago:
Bans are rarely justified. Strong emotions aren’t a good reason to ban much. If there are minimally invasive alternatives, and we can let others be, that’s typically better.
Emotions aren’t a good reason for anything, really. I prefer to understand & make sense of feelings before I allow myself to indulge them in myself or others.
Judgement of right & wrong can operate on reason, and it’s better that it does.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 weeks ago:
Bans are rarely justified. Strong emotions aren’t a good reason to ban much. If there are minimally invasive alternatives, and we can let others be, that’s typically better.
Emotions aren’t a good reason for anything, really. I prefer to understand & make sense of feelings before I allow myself to indulge them in myself or others.
Judgement of right & wrong can operate on reason, and it’s better that it does.
- Comment on Does people doing things that upset others also upset you? 4 weeks ago:
No, not in general: too much unjustified outrage & idiocy in the world over unreasonable shit. Karens, bigots, culture warriors, pearl clutchers.
There are also legitimate differences in the world, and we need to respect rights to dissent & differ.
They need to be justifiably upset. Only then is it understandable. However, getting upset over it is not generally a good move: it may lead to poor decisions. Better to stay collected, acknowledge the problem, apply fair judgement to correct the matter.
- Comment on THIS describes too many people today 4 weeks ago:
lemmy?
- Comment on I am looking to broaden my youtube channels that I follow. What female channel are you following? 4 weeks ago:
Language policing of this sort is a red flag indicative of an ignorant, contentious trendhopper picking a fight over conventional English usage.
It’s conventional usage:
we can check the dictionary
> # female > noun > > 1. > 1. a female person : a woman or a girl > 2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of bearing young or producing eggs > 2. a pistillate plant > # male > noun > > 1. > 1. a male person : a man or a boy > 2. an individual of the sex that is typically capable of producing small, usually motile gametes (such as sperm or spermatozoa) which fertilize the eggs of a female > 2. a plant having stamens but no pistils
or plainly observe unsolicited speech productions
- here on lemmy or in the news such as where a mother refers to her daughters as females
“What if I would have been armed,” she said. “You’re breaking in. What am I supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed—that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. […]"
- in singles communities, personals, classifieds, marketplaces offer abundant instances
- in book titles & passages containing the word females or males, especially feminist or gender studies literature.
What good cause is advanced by treating nouns female & male as toxic, dirty words?
This kind of language policing is misguided & exhausting, and we need to police that.
- here on lemmy or in the news such as where a mother refers to her daughters as females
- Comment on School legend 4 weeks ago:
More like present day recognizer of dat ass.
- Comment on School legend 4 weeks ago:
This is what happens when you let children watch the Tate brothers.
Or hear the kid out: dat ass. 😎
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 4 weeks ago:
Credit cards and debit cards can be disabled at a whim. Prone to being fucked up by computer error
That’s the beauty: my card goes missing, I can lock it. Unauthorized charges can be reversed. I’m alerted of any charge immediately. Cards extend warranties on purchases & provide purchase protections.
don’t work when the internet is down, or during a disaster with no power.
Unless you carry around a huge supply of cash at all times, you’ll be in the same bind withdrawing cash: ATMs & account ledgers run on power & networks.
Cash always goes through, though.
That’s also a problem: anyone can use my cash. If they steal it, I have no way to disable it, and it’s more difficult to recover. If I lose it, it’s most likely gone.
Cash will always remain king.
Not in terms of security or recovery.
I could withdraw cash, and carry it around, but then it won’t earn high interest.
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 4 weeks ago:
More than maybe one. Some also accept deposits through stores. I’ve never used them or needed to.
It was easy to adapt away from cash, and I prefer the safeguards of credit & mobile pay.
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 5 weeks ago:
Is that not the purpose of their ATM networks? Though I never use them, I read some offer deposits that way.
I’ve always direct deposited or scanned checks. If someone needs to send me cash, it’s always through some service like Zelle, ACH, or online bill pay. I don’t like to carry cash.
- Comment on Venmo overdrafted my bank rather than use the balance in my account 5 weeks ago:
overdraft fee
I’ve switched to online banking & brokerage accounts and never had to think about those again.
- They block overdrafts without charging a fee.
- Deposited cash often earns high interest rates.
- Large ATM networks or ATM fee refunds.
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