Something I spent way too much time typing up on a Facebook group:
Oh that’s a big misconception. The MasterCard Black is a problematic credit card product.
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Korean church is having problems with their livestream again. After they purchased a new camcorder and a new mixer, there’s a pickup of a very noticeable noise in the livestream (which can be replicated at all times in video files recorded with OBS as well).
The current setup is:
Microphone -> wireless receiver -(XLR to XLR)-> Mixer -(1/4″ to RCA)-> Camcorder -(HDMI to HDMI)-> HDMI Capture Card -(USB 3)-> Laptop
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So in February I booked a one-way ticket from LAX to OGG for two at $400 on Hawaiian Airlines main cabin, through their website, in preparation for our honeymoon trip in September. I bought them in advance thinking that fares may go up later, and Hawaiian promised that main cabin tickets were fully refundable. I also moved 18,000 points to the Hawaiian account from Bilt, in anticipation for a return one-way ticket.
Their website flaunts this fact (that main cabin tickets are refundable) a lot.
“No change fees – Book now, change if you need to without a fee.”, the website says.
So it came time to cancel these flights. Our honenymoon plans changed.
I cannot cancel them online – I have to call.
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i saw some guy in the facebook points group asking a question
and a lot of people misunderstood the question
so i typed up the following most useless lengthy respoinse:
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at HMart I saw this 80 year old dad talk with his 50 year old son
(In front of HMart’s customer service desk)
Dad: ask them if they have chopsticks
Son: I don’t think they have it
Dad: Look! there’s a korean woman sitting there. Ask her. They gotta have chopsticks
Son: Uh dad I don’t think they give out free chopsticks.. this is not KoreaI think they were looking for free chopsticks to eat their instant pot ramyeon (the kind that you microwave)
Son talked to the latino customer rep guy, who told him “You can get it at the cashier’s”
Son couldn’t understand what he meant. “Cash…?” he asked
I told him “They said that you can get it at the cashier’s”
Son: for free?
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I’ve been hearing about ChatGPT for a few weeks now, and the tone on it has been so bizarre.
First it was the programmers/adjacent and tech youtubers
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We went to Bon Shabu restaurant on Monday, January 2, 2022 – day after New Years. Overall the place doesn’t seem to be staffed properly and your dining experience may be a draw of luck. It’s a fancy looking place that charges $60 per person during dinner for AYCE shabu shabu (when other places charge $30) and their menu boasts expensive sounding 4 types of wagyu, 5 types of prime beef and other unusual meats like lamb.
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You know tech reviews keep saying that consumers like big screen phones and they sell well and that’s why there’s no small phones but I wonder if the real issue is that when you have a big screen you can fit a bigger battery underneath.. and if you have a small screen and you end up with a small battery, that would be the kiss of death that would tank sales. Are we completely oblivious to that fact, I wonder
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last year in September i opened an IRA and investment account (Ameriprise) and bought index funds (CSIEX) with the money
then a month later, after I knew I had enough money, I doubled the amount – I put more money in
the index fund grew pretty well for a few months and then lost quite a lot of value with the Ukraine war (20%)
throughout the whole time I was looking at Mint and going: “huh I only see the amount I put in in September. Why is the October amount not shown?”now I know why
I only transferred money to the financial institution, but I also had to buy more index fund with that money. It was just sitting there as “Cash/Sweep”
I thought the money I transfer from my bank would automatically buy more index funds smh
it was sitting there in my account for an entire year, not being invested :facepalm:on the upshot though, if I had figured out to properly invested that cash last year, I would have lost twice the value I lost over the course of 2022
the cash stash didn’t lose value. it just got charged some small FTC fees each quarter
:yonghuh:apparently I have to “place a trade” but the web interface is not showing CSIEX as a valid symbol :yonghuh:
i’m gonna ask the agent who opened the account last year how to do this thing :yonghuh:
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so a long time acquaitance on facebook posted…
so a long time acquaitance on facebook posted on his wall that “i’m super into jordan peterson and the incel movement. they pose deep questions about society”
I had to do multiple double takes.. is he saying they are worth examining to see how they arose and how to correct/eradicate it, or is he saying they are valid?
he oipened the post by a supposed quote to jordan peterson: “why not?” – he claims it’s “so deep”
so instead of reading the infuriating set of 5 links he posted along with it, I just googled “jordan peteron why not”, and didn’t find the source but found this curious article:
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/putting-monsterpaint-onjordan-peterson/550859/
i’m surprised, because it’s the progressive zine the atlantic
but the writer, who is not a guest columnist – apparently he writes for the atlantic – argues that
1 jordan peterson is misunderstood
2 in this particular interview, he was not trying to insinuate anything problematic
3 we have lost our etiquette of a good debate and by being so aggressive with jordan peterson, the host has lost credibilityat first i was like “huh”
then i read a bit the quoted lines
yeah, not really
the host asked jordan peterson
“is the state of things fine as they are?”
peterson says “no”, followed by “but men do more engineering, and women do more nursing”.
yeah bro that’s not an example on the topic of the question. peterson is steernig the topic to neutralize the attack
the writer is displaying classic behavior of the alt-right playbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xGawJIseNY&list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQi don’t want to watch the interview, because i think i already know peterson is gonna be slimy to the point of driving me angry, but i’m sure the host (Newman) did a fine job.
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