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i hope we keep wearing masks after all of this --> uh oh we really are going to have to keep wearing masks --> oh god i hope we keep wearing masks

Read receipts are dumb

It makes me incredibly mad that we live in an economic system where companies aren't successful by providing goods or services to lots of people and being good at it; they become successful by turning into police forces, lobbying agencies, subcontracting pyramid schemes or, as in this case, banks

The gist of the video is this: airlines don't make money by selling plane tickets and flying people around; they make money by getting people into their bonus programs and by hocking bonus points to adjacent industries such as car rental companies. They act as unchecked banks for those bonus points. Bonus points aren't taxed; all the "loopholes" where you could actually get more value out of the program than you put in have been closed; and points expire after a certain period of time or never get used, so it really is an ingenious grift

eugen added a feature that lets me delete your a count regardless of what instance you are on

Twix has announced that the two Twix bars that come in a package are gay for each other, but might potentially be into a polycule situation if you purchase more Twixes

a good metric is the more money a person has, the less their opinions matter

*reading political theory with my girlfriend* Whoa this is just like 1984