It costs more for the merchant and cardholder. That’s why rich people flex with it. Because they can afford to pay more and cost others more for no reason.

Amex is such a douchebag rich person flex. The credit card equivalent of a Laboubou collection.

If you’re serious, I know a place

They didn’t say it did

🤨 can’t tell if serious

Most everyone has an innate urge to live forever somehow. It’s an expression of our fear of death. They make children, or inventions, or buildings, or artworks, or whatever “legacy” they can think will persist after their death.

It’s natural to feel this way. We’re wired for it.

The cruel trick is that nothing lasts forever. We yearn for things we can’t have.

He really doesn’t want us paying attention to something else

If only they had asked ChatGPT to make them a foolproof security system. Human error, obviously

Besides you guys, nobody even knows what that means. When you drag “liberals” on Lemmy and Reddit, most people just think you’re a trump supporter.

Does he have to? In every single thread?

I honestly don’t get the widespread hate on bats. Like maybe vampire bats, sure; they’re ugly and suck blood. But tons of bats are freaking adorable.

“I don’t call it a crisis anymore. This is a state of failure. That’s why for years I’ve referred to it as water bankruptcy,” said Kaveh Madani, the director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health.

“A crisis is a state that you can mitigate, you can go back to normal at some point if you put forces together. But the damages we are seeing to the ecosystem, to the nature and even to many parts of the economy and infrastructure are irreversible.”

The US Southwest and Southern CA will be at this point by 2027, according to projections based on current consumption levels. Lake Mead will be dry, and everyone who depends on it to live will be fucked. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/06102025/colorado-river-water-supply-report/

I’m not even entertaining the idea that we’ll take emergency action to avoid it. That seems too unrealistic that our governments would be that responsible.

The consequences aren’t a secret. Look up the Planetary Solvency actuarial report from earlier this year, for starters.

🤷🏻 We’re still fundamentally irrational animals. Our powers of reason are limited, and our quirks are easily manipulated.

I think this has a LOT to do with how susceptible a person is to reason that goes against their existing beliefs. I also turned away from the conservative rhetoric in my early twenties. I wasn’t really invested in any group, just talking with a few dudes on a gun forum. I didn’t have a lot to lose in terms of social investment. But for rural people, going against the right wing narrative could mean being isolated from their whole physical community.

“hey old frat buddy, wanna buy my thing?”

“Sure” (golf swing)

The art of the con!

Christians are decrying Jesus Christ as “too woke” now. All bets are off

He led an insurrection on live TV, got away with it, and got reelected. Nothing is going to happen until the propaganda machine is torn down; or, more likely, the whole system just caves in on itself under the weight of its own greed and mismanagement.

One of them was “how’s life in the fast lane?” Colloquial and open ended, so the other person can go whatever direction they feel like with it.

Yeah. I got over my hangups about small talk when I started working for a well-known people person with a big, room-filling personality. Watching him “work” several people a day, I realized he was just on autopilot, repeating the same lines over and over like an NPC. I realized, “shit, I can do that.”