Remember that Discover is self-banked (unlike Visa/Mastercard that banks sign up with). This means that every credit line needs to be backed by… well … A bank.
Bigger banks mean more credit opportunities, better interest rates (etc. etc). Deeper credit lines.
What’s wrong with Capital One? I feel like Discover/Capital One / Diner’s Club network is a good thing for Discover customers.
Discover and Diners Club merged a few years ago btw. Discover also has an alliance with JCB.
So Discover network is actually really, really big.
Discover has an alliance with JCB. So that’s just Discover in the USA.
Ummmm.
ACH is how you get your paycheck, and it’s being updated to FedNow.
Zelle is an independent network as well.
And of course, there is Discover and AmEx.
There is also cash, check, money order. They still work today, just people largely forgot how to use them.
IIRC some Brazilian network was getting very popular off of this. If you want to look at non-US options.
There are plenty of competitors to Visa/Mastercard/Paypal.
Oh, .ml. Got it.
If you continue to empower the side making things worse, then things will get worse for you over time.
Harris wasn’t going to go around deporting students like Trump is preparing to do. So eat shit. Trump is about to do Trumpy things, and your “can’t see difference between Trump and Harris / Joe” is going to be lost to the winds of history.
Play politics better next time.
They aren’t the victims. They actively participated in hurting their greatest chance at avoiding Trump.
The actual victims I will try to support. But Free Palestine was actively fucking “Genocide Joe”, so they aren’t a victim at fucking all.
Enjoy trying to win an argument next election with your Free Palestine pals all deported.
If you can’t push for improvement you deserve it when culture shifts against you.
No. My action here is blaming Free Palestine movement for their short sighted protests and Genocide Joe memes.
My only hope is that people see that shit for what it is next time and can actually work for more unity in the next election. We have a two party system. Work with it.
Also… your comment is incredibly rude.
Good. I’d like to be rude to the Free Palestine bullshitters who couldn’t rally their cause for Harris. Your subgroup failed us and now we are trapped with Trump.
There are other failures to rally. But Free Palestine was actively protesting at Harris events and breaking unity. And calling Genocide Joe and pushing us to get rid of Joe.
It was incredibly shortsighted for the community to work like this. And now that Trump is fucking those policies up I’ll take my time to spike the football on this matter.
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If you optimize code, it will still run faster if the CPU or GPU is 30% faster.
If you make 50% speed improvements with code, you get 65% improvement with code+hardware upgrades. The hardware multiplies your software gains.
The Prius PHEV manual states that there is a battery conditioner: both battery-cooling when its hot and and battery-heating when its cold.
I assume that a significant amount of the electric charge from L1 charger is going towards battery-heating. Ex: I have a 1000W L1 charger (measured from the wall). If 100W is going to heating, then that’s a 10% loss before other voltage-conversion losses. (The Prius is a 400V battery, so 110V to 400V will incur additional losses).
The L2 charger likely has 100W of heating in these cold nights as well, but at 3,300W charging, that’s only a 3% loss. Far more efficient. Furthermore, 220V is closer to 400V, so there will be less voltage-conversion losses associated with L2 charging.
A lot of reasons to favor L2 charger installation. So that’s going to be my recommendation to anyone doing Electric.
Name a time in all of US History where the party in charge ditched the incumbent and still won the election.
Go on. History is on my side on this matter. The election was lost the moment y’all ditched Biden and gave up on your best chance.
It’s a two party system and the Democrats were somewhat in charge (Senate and Presidency).
Admitting to being the change strategy is the same as saying Democrats have failed.
The incumbent cannot run on change. The incumbent runs on status quo. You can run on change for 2026 and 2028.
Bwahahahaha.
So you expect two change candidates, one from the Republicans and one from the Democrats and you expect the mysterious Democrat to have run a better change campaign than Trump?
Trump is 100% about change and destroying norms. No one can out-change Trump. That’s a losing battle politically.
What. You seriously expect someone to pretend they are the change candidate vs Trump?
Itch.io is currently saying the problem is Stripe, and maybe Visa.
Historically (ex: https://otakuusamagazine.com/visa-and-mastercard-refuse-to-work-with-another-doujinshi-retailer/), I’d say Mastercard and Visa are both to blame. But the jury is still out on wtf is going on here.
I’m not sure who pressured Steam. But Itch.io (https://aftermath.site/steam-itch-porn-censorship-collective-shout-visa-mastercard-paypal) is claiming Stripe and Visa are pressuring them.