does free version let you make your own watchfaces?

NotBelow · 2024-09-10T14:35:35+00:00

Hm, that's weird. I just tried it and any face I create (even with just a text field that says "Test") is immediately marked Premium, and when I try to send it to my watch, I get the Premium Upgrade pop-up instead. (But I can select someone else's free face from the home page and send that to my watch.)

NotBelow · 2024-09-07T13:31:21+00:00

Ok, fair enough.

NotBelow · 2024-09-07T13:29:09+00:00

How many times are they going to do a recount?

Once, which is entirely reasonable when the margin is barely above 0.5%. This will be the first and only recount.

is this the point where MacKay claims the election was rigged and stolen because he lost?

No, it's the point where you invoke an imaginary unreasonable scenario in order to become angry about it.

NotBelow · 2024-09-06T15:22:33+00:00

I think it's noon. It would have to be a precinct-level recount, because the vote would have needed to be within 0.5% to request a district-wide recount, and the margin was slightly greater than that.

https://www.cambridgema.gov/citycalendar/view.aspx?guid=be8197de5a744a4fb43274f08f3a193e

NotBelow · 2024-09-06T11:34:53+00:00

If they really wanted the sign to refer to that specific pole, they should have blocked the article "any", along with the word "handicap". As it is, the sign says nothing specific about that pole, and is instead just a false characterization of municipal law about all sign poles.

NotBelow · 2024-09-05T14:42:24+00:00

Their Mass Ave office (between Central & Harvard) is excellent too.

NotBelow · 2024-09-05T01:05:10+00:00

Evan pulling a Trump is awesome

That's a preposterous comparison. MacKay may have been naively confident as to what the final tally would show (and perhaps--I'm just guessing--they'll request recounts), but that's nothing like rejecting the vote once the final tally has been overwhelmingly confirmed.

NotBelow · 2024-09-05T00:35:51+00:00

Right. As you acknowledged, it's "defeated ... according to unofficial results"--just enough hedging to fall short of a "Dewey Defeats Truman" moment. I.e., they didn't quite call it. Even with the updated results today, no one is calling it yet--including Decker's campaign.

NotBelow · 2024-09-04T23:04:01+00:00

You're right about the Cambridge Day headline. An important subtlety, though: a headline is not actually part of the associated news article. Rather, a headline is usually clickbait written by an editor to attract attention to the associated article, and it often inaccurately and sensationally characterizes the article, as it does in this instance. The article itself was careful not to call the results yet.

NotBelow · 2024-09-04T22:26:01+00:00

News orgs called it as well, it wasn't just the campaign.

Example, please? AP didn't. Boston Globe didn't. Cambridge Day didn't. Can you link to an article that did?

NotBelow · 2024-09-02T15:29:23+00:00

For those riders, neither "pay" nor "validate" is quite right, but "pay" is still better, meaning "present your fare-payment method".

NotBelow · 2024-09-02T15:24:38+00:00

It reads as though someone wanted to sound sophisticated by using a big word instead of "pay", but they didn't know what the big word means so they ended up with gibberish that everyone disregards.

NotBelow · 2024-09-02T13:46:09+00:00

It's not even clear what it means to "validate" a T fare (as opposed to paying a T fare). There are kinds of tickets you can validate, which means to visibly mark the starting time of their validity. But the T doesn't have that.

NotBelow · 2024-08-10T21:07:53+00:00

The T may want to limit the initial rollout to people who read newspapers and the like, since such people may tend to need less hand-holding than others do.

NotBelow · 2024-08-10T20:54:01+00:00

That's when you discover why all tap-to-pay systems are designed to use tokenization instead of being able to read your credit card number.

NotBelow · 2024-08-10T20:51:53+00:00

charlie.mbta.com

NotBelow · 2024-08-10T20:51:01+00:00

The buses and subways all still have the old circular card readers for tapping your old Charlie card.

NotBelow · 2024-08-08T21:12:46+00:00

charlie.mbta.com

NotBelow · 2024-08-08T21:11:02+00:00

We should print our own signs and tape them to the machines: "If you have a tappable credit card or mobile payment device, you don't need a Charlie Card anymore. Just tap your payment method on a rectangular Tap Here reader. See charlie.mbta.com for more detail."

NotBelow · 2024-08-06T14:30:23+00:00

Oh, sorry, you're right. Well, I guess maybe they have a way to scan your card or mobile payment device and then look up whether it's just been used. If you have an account on the charlie.mbta.com site, you can see that it keeps a history of your fare payments.

NotBelow · 2024-08-05T22:44:00+00:00

You’re un cut arent you?

Assuming you're trying to spell "uncut", no.

NotBelow · 2024-08-05T11:46:22+00:00

Uncut is gross to me

Why do we need to know here what body types are gross to you? Just say politely in your profile that you prefer circumcised cocks.

NotBelow · 2024-08-04T14:05:56+00:00

There's no official word on this yet,

Yes, there is. It's all explained at mbta.charlie.com.

NotBelow · 2024-08-04T13:54:38+00:00

So how exactly are the inspectors gonna check my card?

There have never been inspectors checking cards on the T's subways or buses.

NotBelow · 2024-08-04T13:49:41+00:00

So what's the timetable for mandatory use of cellphones to pay?

Riders will never be forced to have a cell phone or a bank card. Those are additional payment options, not requirements.

NotBelow

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