They also push their credit card with Chase. It has a $99 yearly fee, but gives you a free checked bag and lets you into Boarding Group 2 without needing extra status, which has an okay chance of having enough overhead for a carry-on. If you intend to fly United more than once in a year with a checked bag, but not enough to get status, it can make more sense to get the card.

It kind of sucks to have to play those games, but that’s Capitalism.

Basic economy simply isn’t worth it. They nickel and dime you with all the BS fees. And the credit card thing is total bullshit, too. They do it because they want to make sure they have your card on file in order to sell you overpriced snack boxes and charge them to your seat.

Once I had to buy a poor lady some crackers because she was on the last leg of a flight from Asia and hasn’t eaten anything, but the stewardess couldn’t take her money unless she had set up her CC ahead of time.

I fly United often enough for work that I have some status, so I’m one of the entitied snobs who board first and hog all the overhead space.

There are 3 major credit reporting bureaus in the US which take reports on every American’s credit worthiness. Every time an American makes a payment, that information makes it to the bureaus. And before a new account is opened, a lender will ask the bureaus for a copy of that person’s report.

When someone locks their credit file, they instruct the credit bureaus to not send those credit reports to lenders, which will prevent the lender from issuing the loan. They do it when they know that they will not apply for a loan, be cause it prevents fraudulent loans from being opened in their name.

A common practice of identity thieves here is to open up a bunch of new credit cards or other loans in other people’s names, and run up the charges before that person finds out about the account and has it closed.

Chexsystems is a special case, I know them as a clearinghouse to report people who write bad checks. But people are using checks less and less these days.

Unless you’re Harriet Jones, Prime Minister

https://youtu.be/qOrbrjBQf7Y

It just means you need to figure out how to route between them, that’s all.

Surely you can’t be serious!

Good Bot.

How many are bots

It’s always been a weapon of mass distraction, though, and Redditors are poor spellers.

It may not just be your local library, either. In some states, the larger city libraries get enough State funding that e-book borrowing privileges are available to anyone in the state. You might even be able to apply online, and start borrowing e-books without ever having to go to a branch in that city.

I know that in NY State, access to the NY, Brooklyn, and Queens libraries are available to anyone in the State.

I am looking for the humans, not many are here yet.

Reddit may be bots talking to bots, but a lot of Lemmy is bots shouting to no one in particular.

The only thing I really miss are the Sports subreddits. I didn’t realize how much news I got from them. People are trying to recreate them here, but there simply aren’t as many people here.

Oh, I also miss the guy who posts pictures of his cows.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/citogenesis.png

I got excited, but then realized this probably wasn’t a community about how awesome Weird Al is.

Let’s not overdo it, it’s not like Reddit was a pinnacle of moral virtue before the Mod changes.

My wife mocked me for leaving Reddit in a huff for nerd reasons. A month later she started asking me what I used instead, since she could see that Reddit declined just in that amount of time.

That logo is trippy

It’s because when you first buy the thing, you don’t want to get rid of the box right away, in case you need to RMA it. So it gets put in the pile along with the rest of the boxes. Then you’re in the same place for years and the pile gets bigger.

I do a decent job with culling the boxes, and even toss obsolete tech now and then, but I have been hoarding hard drives for 30 years. It seems more trouble to securely dispose of them than to just let them pile up. I even still have IDE drives and am not quite sure whether I have an adaptor that can read them. But I can’t throw them out, because I don’t know if I have sensitive info on them.

Can you rent a degausser?

This is one of my least favorite Rush songs…

Keep pushing with the relevant authorities. There is a difference between “We are not intentionally restoring comments” and “We certify that we have forgotten all of your info”, and that’s what these authorities enforce.

It doesn’t matter if Reddit’s inscrutable back end makes it difficult. That’s Reddit’s problem, not yours. If they want to do business in the EU, they either have to comply or pull a Meta and stop serving EU residents entirely.

They had a third option, to treat their users as human beings and not dumb fucks to exploit until they want to leave (and forget they ever went there), but they declined to use it.