especially if you just buy a single pro license and keep it across all your pc upgrades. i havent paid for a new windows license in years and all my copies are legal, dont keep nuking and buying new keys and its not expensive

if i want to play a map of alkatraz, which is a song i own, i cannot do so without modding because beatsaber will never release demondice tracks

i mean, its an android fork and some ios derivative so thats exactly what it is :D

schools should not cost $100k/y, that is a fundamental problem

The price is determined by what people will pay. The fundamental problem is:

student loans + poor decision making = willing and able to pay too much

And now: + govt debt relief

when your mum's angry at you and needs to make it known

are cards that dont have paywave or whatever really that common in the US? my bank cards have both had it

I think most banks, but some banks are still slow to roll out. Also, having a contactless card right now wouldn't help my problem at the local Walmart. They have a bunch of old Ingenico devices that don't support tap to pay anyways. So even if my currently troublesome card had tap to pay, it wouldn't do me any good at my local Walmart. Otherwise, I'd just use Apple pay. Most card readers that support tap on a card also support Apple pay and Google Pay and all the other NFC pays (I think Samsung has their own?).

Also at my current job, I am the WorldPay guy. I work at a point of sale company and my area of ownership is integration into World Pay for payment processing at brick and mortar stores. None of our clients have tap to pay devices. They are all running 15 year old Ingenicos and plan to run them till they stop working. So as of right now, that is at least 2,500 stores in the US that I know of that don't support any kind of contactless payments.

Most of my cards don't have it currently. Some do. I saw the new version of one bank's cards with it so I think when those expires or gets replaced it'll have contactless. Then it'll be about half of my cards without it.

I'm in the US and I'm pretty sure all 5 (6? IDR) of my credit cards have supported tap-to-pay for a couple years now.

I have over 10 cards, debit and credit, and I think only one or two don't support it.

because the reason beef chicken and pork are popular is because they are high volume and therefore cheaper than other meats, we have an ample supply of chickens/cows/pig/other livestock. it makes more sense to go after segments where they can get higher margins until they can optimise processes and get more volume to keep up with the livestock industry

bimetallic strip doesnt necessarily mean magnetism, i believe in this case it simply deforms to flip a switch

discord has forum channels too so ephemeral chat isnt just what it is anyway

they introduced that last year? if you are looking for something older and you have to use the search function, things get pretty noisy... also most of big commuties despite having a forum, they still have a chat channel for help where people use; a lot

> There outta be a law against registering people to vote if they want nanny-states.

hard pass. what nations need is more participation in democracy, not less. i agree that a law that makes the bar culpable for patrons actions is probably incredibly stupid, but a law that makes it illegal for people to vote because their opinions are different from yours? what?

>> There outta be a law against registering people to vote if they want nanny-states.

> hard pass

I apologize that my sarcasm did not come through.