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16·14 days agoA “quick haircut” sort of place (kind of a barber, sort of , but super-high-volume and just one worker, the owner) that I’ve been using for a while now has a super-annoying dark-pattern in their payment flow. They book appointments, and take in-person payments using Square. After your cut, when you’re paying via their hand-held kiosk with a card, the screen shows you a bunch of huge “tip amount” buttons, and it’s implied that the customer has to choose one of them, while the provider looks on, in order to finish the transaction and leave (probably not true - they’ve already got your CC info by that point). Guess which button is highlighted/pre-selected and front-and-center! That’s right, 20%. If you want to select another tip, or no tip, you have to select another button while she watches you do so. The owner lists all prices on her square website, and it’s those prices you think you’ll be paying when you book an appointment online, but she still feels the need to be tipped. You KNOW that the provider/barber has configured Square to present that UI to the customer. Not quite the same as the restaurant fees scam, but it’s actually more manipulative though, in my view.
I think that’s overly optimistic.
The US is very fond of prison forced-labor (slavery) as well, and the general population doesn’t really care. In fact the general population most likely thinks the slaves (prisoners) suffering slavery is just a case of them getting what they deserve.
Yep, same.
The redundancies follow declining revenues and shrinking profits.
“Redundancies” is apparently now a noun that refers to employees being laid off.
Intel announced it was eliminating 16,000 people – to curb capital expenses.
Headcount is now a physical asset I guess. Corps must be taking depreciation expenses on employees now in addition to salary expenses. Ka-ching!
After my first browse of the article I was wondering if it had been spewed out by some of the crappy AI that Cisco is so keen on.
Davidson will move to a role advising the CEO during the borg
What does the borg have to do with this?
Yeah, I guess they forgot to appoint a Christian King.
Those accounts provide about $6,600 per student to attend any school, including private or home schools
This “act” is all about funneling public tax money into the pockets of religious grifters, and hell, it sounds like you don’t even need to be an organized business grifter any more. You can just open your house/trailer/shack for a few hours a day as a “home school”, do a little praying at minimum, and collect $6600/head/yr. Sweet deal. But it’s not welfare. Nope, not at all, not if you’re a Christian taking the grift.
Whatever the case, when a church closes as a religious institution, I hope that it can be repurposed to some other activity that is still community-building?
There’s one church a few blocks away from here that went out of business a few years ago and is now being used as a homeless shelter by an area non-profit. I walk by it all the time and have seen the before/after. The property is finally being put to a use that helps humanity and the the neighborhood is much better off for it.
The AF also contaminated the groundwater in a large residential area just west of Spokane, WA adjacent to the Fairchild AF base. Until recently they seemed to be accepting at least partial responsibility but I wonder if that’s now going to come to an end. It’s not generally a wealthy area, lots of apartments and discount stores and has what I think of as a “military town” vibe. Apparently residents are largely dependent on PFAS-loaded well water and if the AF tells them to FO and be happy they’ve got anything to drink, they’re screwed unless some other entity with deep pockets will come in and clean up. https://ecology.wa.gov/about-us/who-we-are/news/2024-news-stories/feb-21-west-plains-sampling-for-pfas
It’s difficult for Vetrini to see the rhetoric espoused by right-wing media and not feel hurt. Since going viral, Vetrini has been subject to vulgar and offensive comments from people who disagree with her perspective.
“Those comments are really hard to deal with, mentally. The hardest part is my dad feels the same way as these vitriolic commenters,” she said.
But she still recognizes the qualities in her father that remind her of Walz. Those are what keep her maintaining a “complicated” relationship with him.
After her TikTok went viral, Vetrini called her dad to tell him about it – hoping to hear it from her first rather than a news show.
“He responded exactly the way I would predict he would respond. Which was to remind me that socialism will ruin America,” she said.
Oh no, the Elites are succeeding with their Great Replacement project!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Replacement_conspiracy_theory_in_the_United_States
I don’t understand: how would prohibiting LE from “administering” a rape kit to a raped minor “deny the state evidence” of who did the raping. Wouldn’t LE still know who the rapist was, independently of whatever medical care the victim received?
I don’t know what’s in a rape kit but I’m guessing that there might be something that could (with luck) prevent conception in a female child who’s raped. Idaho Christofascist Republicans WANT rape victims who get pregnant as a result of the rape to be forced to carry the fetus to term. That’s how they exercise power and control over women, and that’s one of the main things that they get off on in life. This news post is absolutely repulsive but nothing surprises me about that Christofascist hellscape called Idaho anymore.
Didn’t know that. Glad to hear it. Let’s hope the Dorito gets some.
Say it ain’t so! I know DD formally changed its business name and nobody cared much (most probably ignored it and kept calling them DD) but damn if they cut off the New England donut supply the pitchforks would have come out!
Another f-ing right-wing weirdo, lovely. I haven’t been in a DD since I was 10 and we don’t have them here on the left coast AFAIK but if there was any kind of boycott by these freaks, hell I’d mail order a half dozen boxes (if they do MO) and share at the local food pantry. DD donuts are awesome, loved them as a New England kid.
TF. This scum should be rotting in some damp airless dark cell for at least 2x that term. Please tell me he won’t be eligible for parole, or have access to the internet while on the inside.
Wow, the thing just falls out of the sky.
If he wasn’t senile, I might think that he’s assuming that his pronunciation “sounds Indian”, and is thus just a continuation of his fuckwitted assertion that she “turned Black” (from Indian). But he IS senile, and I can’t credit him with being able to string together an insult (that she’s lied about her racial heritage) even as simple-minded as that.
What’s this about John Cleese? Nevermind, I wish to register a complaint. I wish to complain about this presidential campaign that my techbros purchased not six months ago. It’s stone dead.