Adult man children run this country while many people struggling day to day or living paycheck to paycheck. Food and water supply poisoned with “forever chemicals”. Plus a myriad of other issues that remain unaddressed (climate change).

Their bickering is news worthy because it’s “entertaining”. We prefer to be medicated with entertainment rather than deal with real issues. The billionaires have us fighting a culture war with ourselves rather than having a class war against the billionaire class that run this country.

This president and administration is a hot mess.

TACO

I say this as an American.

I hope tourism to USA plummets to nil or near 0 while orange man is in office. Have already seen a vast majority of conferences move their venues away from US. The few that have stayed in US had low participation/attendance.

This country only understands $$$, unfortunately. The people that voted for this idiocracy are very much likely the same people impacted negatively by orangutan administration policies.

It’s a bit of extra work but worth it to setup in my opinion. Especially when dealing with multiple creditors.

I don’t see any issue with this - using Wallet to manually initiate payment. It’s not wrong or right. More of a matter of preference.

I prefer to limit access/storage of routing numbers/account numbers to very few people and entities as possible. And prefer to avoid risk of mistake on creditor end withdrawing more than agreed.

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I don’t know about you. But I have many other lines of credit (mortgage, multiple CCs, auto) and deal with many services (utilities) besides AC. Have even used bill pay to issue checks to apartment complexes and landlords.

Using my banks bill pay feature gives me a single view into outgoing debits to creditors/services.

apple these days is acting more and more like Microsoft with these shitty updates

There’s artificial intelligence, then there’s apple intelligence. Going to start calling dolt responses like this as “Apple Intelligence”

Maybe I can gaslight ChatGPT algos: “That’s such an apple intelligence response. Re-do X”

I like basic CarPlay and the ability to unlock the vehicle with just NFC (apple car key?).

This extra junk is more for the car manufacturers.

My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on “deep integrations” like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.

• “Sorry, you have not paid for Apple CarPlay Ultra Plus Max, we are reducing your max speed to 50 mph (~80 km/h)”
• “To enable, AM radio for 12 hrs please authenticate on iPhone or use fingerpick on start button for iDNA authentication and 10% off!”
• “Sorry, to unlock back doors you must add Aston Martin Ultra Premium Accessibility. Alternatively, just shove passengers through front doors”
• “You are currently on the freemium plan with advertisements enabled. Prior to vehicle starting, you will be subjected to 30 minutes of tailored advertisements”
• “Credit card on file has expired. Car is disabled. Please contact Aston Martin + Apple support for further assistance.”
• “Oopsie woopsie, car cannot connect to telemetry system. Cannot operate vehicle while system is unable to connect to internet.”

I am not optimistic. Elon and his brother own majority in the board.

This is all smoke and mirrors. Board opens search for a replacement. Go through the motions of finding a replacement. Delay. Delay. Delay.

Then on a particularly active news cycle, report search has failed, and it gets buried beneath the bullshit that Orangatuan administration did that week.

Amazon really going hard on the bribes to get government cases dropped.

The next 4 years are going to be the Wild West in terms of big business regulation. If country survives the next 4 years, the next administration is going to be fighting an uphill battle to clean up this gigantic mess.

If we somehow have any allies at the end of this, I would be very surprised.

Hypocrisy is the platform of the modern GOP.

No logic. Using this as distraction as rest of administration does atrocious things. Flood media with enough bullshit and the most egregious shit gets unnoticed.

No due process for deported migrants.

People getting picked up off the streets to never be seen again.

Orange man floating the idea of US citizens getting sent to foreign prison.

Oh, and the genocide going on with Israeli govt hardly getting any notice. Have to follow UN directly and parse through their reports.

We are only 3-4 months into this shit stains presidency/“leadership”.

0xcafebabe% tariffs, wen?

Which government? USA or El Salvador? I couldn’t find anything, just Trump admin saying they will not comply with SCOTUS ruling.

Russia at the very least provides “proof of life” videos of prisoners (ie, WNBA player, Brittney Griner, in 2022)

Do we even know if the man is still alive? Is there at least representation on his behalf to do wellness check?

His family and friends must be stressed the fuck out.

RFK Jr even getting considered for a cabinet position in this country’s health is wild to me. Another pandemic under this administration would be devastating.

I’m honestly burnt after tonight. I’m stun locked at the number of fellow Americans that voted for this shit stain. I’m turning off politics, dc’ing from socials, and restricting txts.

Need to sleep, then regather what to do tomorrow and for the future. Maybe use all of my banked time off.

The interview was interesting and glad candidates are willing to go into these hostile territories even if the conversation falls on deaf ears. For me, I was never undecided. I am voting Democrat.

What I want to know: will a Kamala-Walz adminstration have a unified house and senate to push this country forward (getting Roe v Wade codified to start)? All of this focus/media attention on the presidential elections but we need to flip seats.

What’s the temperature across the country right now?

Diversion tactic. Promote political discourse discord in US so Russia can continue their atrocities in Ukraine