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How about a “convenience fee” for making an online payment. Why should I pay a fee to make the transaction more convenient for the company who no longer has to pay an employee to take the payment in person?

I wish.

I have hypertrophy of the turbinate in the right nostril. It’s blocked basically all the time. I was prescribed fluticasone and what’s basically a salt water rinse. Neither really does much. I also have GERD, so I ordered an under-mattress bed wedge to see if the elevation can solve both problems at the same time.

Thanks!

Thank you for the explanation.

No. What I meant to say is that native English speakers in the Bronx have poor literacy rates.

https://www.norwoodnews.org/bronx-barriers-literacy-challenge/

Telegram chats aren’t e2ee by default. You’re essentially putting your chats on a server owned by a rich Russian person as a hobby.

If you think the problem is in the countryside, you’ve never been to New York City, and particularly the Bronx.

Probably a combination of flat out retards and recent immigrants for whom English is a second language.

What happened with exploding heads?

Good point.

But just as a side note, a user can block an entire instance as well, at least on Mastodon. I haven’t checked for that functionality on Lemmy. That’s not defederation, but it prevents you from seeing things you don’t want to at the user level.

You can’t keep them out, but you can choose not to Federate with them. They can’t take over. That’s the point of having independent federated servers.

This sets out my own thoughts on the situation as well. Thanks for posting.

There’s a contradiction here. The Supreme Court ruled that Speech can’t be compelled, not that you could bar certain people from a business. You could decline to decorate a cake with “MAGA”, but not decline to sell a cake to a Republican, for example. What those signs are promoting is still illegal.

I wonder if that was intentional on the instance owner’s part?

Good. Serves 'em right.

It’s because the 2024 election is coming up.

I had that exact conversation at work a few days ago. Someone was insisting that Spaniards are Latino, so I asked them if Spain is in Latin America or Europe. That was the key to them eventually figuring it out.

Your job might have keyed it that way to meet diversity quotas. Don’t rock the boat unless someone else brings it up first.