FYI - your Credit Union and your Credit Union’s Credit Card are likely two separate and unaffiliated companies. Most small to mid sized banks and credit unions don’t actually issue credit cards. They contact that out to the credit card arm (ex. FIA Card Services) of a national bank (ex. Bank of America) that offers white-label/rebranded cards.

Sometimes, yes, yes.

You won’t see $2k more in Federal Income Tax, you’ll pay higher prices on store shelves (because of the tariffs the Federal government collected from the importer of the goods, which ultimately get passed on to you the consumer)

It’s more than just what you do in the app though. Check out some of the data any random website can find out about you here: privacy.net/analyzer/
Expand that into an app, given lots of permissions, that is tied to your phone number and email account. Given enough time and logging, it knows where you live and work, when you commute and sleep, every WiFi or mobile network you connect to and where they are located. This metadata is linked to your account and in-app activity. They have this data for you, your friends, colleagues, that weird guy you see on the bus every day… Right now, the app just uses all this to influence “your algorithm” (side note: this is also why people think some apps are actively ‘listening’ to conversations). But imagine a case where the govt owner of the app wants to start pushing a specific narrative, gradually swaying opinions or sowing the seeds of discourse, reinforcing it with the artificial echo chamber that is your new algorithm. /TedTalk

The problem with the “crop it down” suggestions is that many native 4:3 releases were cropped to be re-released as 16:9… Cropping again to 4:3 would sacrifice even more of the original picture.

USA doesn’t have VAT

1880 to 1968, no official endorsements for or against any presidential candidate

1972 anti-Republican endorsement

1976, 80, 84 pro-Democrat endorsements

1988 no endorsement

1992, 96, 00, 04, 08, 12, 16, 20 pro-Democrat endorsements

2024 no endorsement

Maybe we’ll upgrade to lead soon.

This is the way

My town’s water system still has some “pipes” in use that are actually hollow logs.

For most news publications, the article and the headline are written by different people.