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Cake day: July 7th, 2023

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  • My wife’s engagement ring was custom made! It is a key blade with the kingdom hearts logo on the front, with tiny tiny diamonds on the hearts and 3 small sapphires in the little crown on the heart. I tried to get moissanite, but because the diamonds are so small, they said they don’t make moissanite that small, and it would save fractions of a dollar.

    It cost me less than half a semester’s tuition in college, so not super expensive like the “3 months salary” bullcrap.

    In fact, I had to go through two jewelers for this because when I was pitching the concept to the first one, they saw the Disney logo on the key blade and refused to do it. I just clipped that out when I went to another shop.

    Pics: https://imgur.com/gallery/SlD4b










  • flames5123@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonegenerulesity
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    7 months ago

    Huh? There so so many protections with cards. All of my cards can very easily do a charge back and they’ll fight the charge with the retailer, not you. You only use a PIN for debit cards using a debit transaction because it’s a direct transfer, resulting in no card fees, very much the same as cash. No real credit cards have a PIN.

    Edit: ah, I see they weren’t talking about American credit cards. My mistake! Interesting to learn that other countries do though.


  • flames5123@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    7 months ago

    And RCV (ranked choice voting) isn’t really that much better. It has potential to be better if everyone voted honestly, but voting is a game.

    STAR (score then automatic runoff) is the best we can feasibly achieve. It’s easy to teach and our current voting systems can account for this with little to no update (unlike RCV). Please look into star and push for this locally, then we can get this on a state by state basis.

    https://www.starvoting.org





  • I was about to say. Imagine driving to work.

    My wife takes the car, and I transit because she works closer but in a corner of the city, while I work in a highly transit centric part of the city. It only takes me like 35-40 mins to walk, bus, and walk. Plus my dog can come with and we get a nice little walk in for the morning!