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They leave the door open for future, maybe novel, uses of your data... horrors beyond their (current) comprehension, I always assume.

This is spiking my cortisol


90% of cash I give to restaurants goes in the pocket, not the register.

Bad service = card always.


Are you saying servers keep 90% of what you pay? Tip and otherwise? What country? How do you know? How could a business possibly operate in this reality?


Not necessarily servers, just not into the register as a tracked transaction.

Tax fraud, essentially.

E.g. you go to the Minnesota State Fair, merchants may offer to not charge sales tax if you pay cash. It is shockingly brazen sometimes.

> How could a business possibly operate in this reality?

Extremely lax enforcement on the part of the specific US state's department of revenue


The country of Europe. /s

I hand the cash to the cashier and they respond with "thank you, have a nice evening", while eventually handing me a printout of my order from their tables organiser software, instead of the legally required fiscal receipt.


> 01 No US kill-switch. Just European law

Not very reassuring as of late


> 403 Browser Update Required Your browser is outdated. CodeFloe requires a modern browser for the best experience and security.

Site is broken on Brave.


Try Brave.


Why?


Actual title is "Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin"


+40 I hate websites that do stupid stuff. My latest pet peeve is Qwen's blog, when I pinch to zoom, to be able to read their tiny graphs, there is a black bar that progressively covers the entire page.


Why is resisting peer pressure during childhood bad?


Social isolation is bad for kids. We learned this during COVID lockdowns.


Social media is anything but social and promotes bad brain development for children.

Change my mind.


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