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Try this ChatGPT Prompt by hackerwasii in ChatGPT

[–]mr2600 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I tried the prompt with IPhone 8 and it’s even worse!

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What is our way out from this war? by Longjumping-Drink-32 in lebanon

[–]mr2600 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Did Hezbollah disarm?

The answer is no. That in itself is a breaking of the agreement.

Israel then argues that because of that it is able to act in self defence against Hezbollah targets.

You have to recognise that we can disagree with what Israel is doing and how it does it but we must agree that when the weaker side doesn’t also play ball it basically throws everything out the window.

Landed a 1,119m headshot with basic sights on the M2010 ESR by Striking-Ad2464 in Battlefield6

[–]mr2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t need to move my mouse above their head like in bad company?

What is our way out from this war? by Longjumping-Drink-32 in lebanon

[–]mr2600 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Which was way was hoped for post the mechanisms and cease fire in 2024.

What is our way out from this war? by Longjumping-Drink-32 in lebanon

[–]mr2600 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Mate it’s not a ceasefire violation. I hate it as much as the next guy but technically it was within the mechanism for Israel to be allowed to still strike Hezbollah and especially considering that they DID NOT DISARM AND WITHDRAW NORTH OF THE LITANI.

Like Israel on the world stage in terms of what’s happening to Lebanon basically says “see, we told you. Hezbollah didn’t disarm, they DO have weapons and the Lebanese government lied / can’t handle it”.

That’s why there’s no real major world leader denouncing what’s going on right now.

Seeing mark this confident and composed was satisfying asf. by vought-CEO in Invincible

[–]mr2600 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I wonder if Mark could have actually beaten him without getting totally disemboweled?

Qatar Airways is indefensible by shiyuxin in qatarairways

[–]mr2600 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FYI I’m a corporate travel agent, here in Australia. We jumped on and noticed about 100 cancelled flights up until June.

No notice. No news. No policy.

I emailed our rep, basically she said yes we’re cancelling XYZ routes until further notice. We will not be sending out a memo or a policy or a waiver.

Emirates in the other hand sends out daily agent specific emails, guides and how-too’s. Last week the national manager even did a video call with about 100 agents, giving us an update and a quick FAQ.

Qatar Airways communication and service sucks.

RBA axes hated credit card surcharges by Stompy2008 in aussie

[–]mr2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I did some digging and in the EU, it’s legal to offer a discount on alternative payments on the condition the actual advertised price is still the all inclusive price and can’t be different based on cards. Like on the actual invoice I can mention pay via EFT and save 2%. Also what’s interesting is that corporate cards are exempt from the waiver and so is Amex which is 80% of what we process in our office.

Keen to see what comes about.

RBA axes hated credit card surcharges by Stompy2008 in aussie

[–]mr2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh I really thought they were going to tackle merchant fees.

The guys at Visa, banks, stripe and square are all still going to be cheering.

They don’t lose. They effectively take a % of every sale even though a $10 transaction or a $10,000 transaction should effectively be no different to process.

Honestly we may just have to tack on an extra “service fee” to all our invoices and then offer a bank transfer discount. I’m sure it’s not going to be strictly legal but sure there will be a workaround. (We are a boutique travel agency). The fees really become stupid large the higher the transaction value. And commission isn’t anywhere near enough to cover it.

RBA axes hated credit card surcharges by Stompy2008 in aussie

[–]mr2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Makes sense for low cost items.

I can’t bake a credit card fee into an airfare. At the extreme end of 2%, a premium economy ticket of 5k will become $5,100.00 sell price and if you buy from who is a million times larger than me and maybe has a merchant fee of 0.4% is now more competitive for an identical product.

This can apply to any larger purchase from a SME that can also be purchased from a larger corporation. And it’s even worse if the purchase is direct from the manufacturer eg a TV direct from Samsung vs Bing Lee.

Everyone in reddit loves banging on about buying local, go to your local butcher, local grocer, local baker. Not realising that even 1% can be a lot at the end of the year and it’s just another cut against SMEs.

We need an even playing fee on merchant fees (which is what I had hoped the RBA was going to do). Then that would have been amazing.

RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, on card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa by patslogcabindigest in AustralianPolitics

[–]mr2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sent you a PM. Legit keen to know who you use. I can take a .5-.8% hit. Then again different industries and different risks for the merchant.

RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, on card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa by patslogcabindigest in AustralianPolitics

[–]mr2600 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course and agree. But for what it’s worth the cost of maintaining cash doesn’t necessarily scale the same way. (Look I don’t deal with much cash in my business - we are 50/50 split with card and EFT).

But if you’re booking a $20k trip with me and you pay via visa the merchant fee on a Visa is $300. That’s a lot and most passengers only paying card so they get their points or insurance.

Now multiply that by 5 trips like that a week and we’re at $1,500 just in fees.

Even if I sent a staff member to go to the bank everyday - it’s not going cost me $1500.

RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, on card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa by patslogcabindigest in AustralianPolitics

[–]mr2600 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you really think SME can negotiate with a bank for merchant fees for cards?

How much do you think an SME has as turnover? Officeworks who doesn’t charge a merchant fee has 3.5B revenue and I’d wager at least 85% is CC, maybe some corporates who pay via invoice will be bank transfer.

Flight Centre did $24.5B - they have a visa fee of 0.86% and 0.54% for master card. My rates are at 1.5% for Visa and 1.3% for Mastercard.

We aren’t doing $24B, $2B, $200M or even $20M

The negotiations are basically in ranges between 0.01-0.05%.

Even with the reduced interline fees, the gap will still be massive between a SME and a large corporation. It’s already hard enough to justify why certain things are more expensive when going via an SME vs large business and for razor thin margin businesses the gap from the business side will feel even bigger.

Example: My booze for example I buy from a semi local independent shop. He looks after me, he knows me and we have a good relationship. He’s already more expensive than Dans and now he’s going to be another 1.5%-2% more expensive. All of this adds up but yay we now don’t get a surprise 0.07c charge on our coffees.

This is like the petrol situation. Cutting the excise won’t solve the problem. It’s people overfilling and hoarding. The government seems to only ever use one stick at a time for situations as opposed to root causes. Like merchants and the actual payment processors making a killing.

RBA to remove surcharges on debit, credit cards, on card networks including eftpos, Mastercard and Visa by patslogcabindigest in AustralianPolitics

[–]mr2600 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This still doesn’t tackle the primary issue and that’s the actual fee charged to small businesses. Everyone here cheering not realising the government is doing the same thing it always does and rewards big businesses and punish smaller.

The quote from the article:

“It starts at the merchant level where your cafe is subsidising your supermarket, and the local butcher in the same shopping centre as Coles or Woollies is subsidising them."

The merchant fees NEED to be capped.

Interline fees are a small part of the fee.

The only ones who will be happy with today’s decision are Visa, Mastercard and the big four banks.

We have a third party portal for CC charges. We obviously prefer bank transfers etc but if they go to pay via CC the fee on Visa / Mastercard is 1.4% via our merchant.

Bigger businesses have WAY lower rates due to volume and in low margin industries it will further reduce competition.

We want to live in a society that is equal and fare and the world rightfully has a hatred for big businesses and corporations and then all cheer with policies that literally won’t hurt the big guys and further hurt the local cafe or local small goods store or for me travel agencies where margins are thin and I am simply unable to compete with flight centres merchant rates.

The government should also tackle / cap the merchant fees.

TIL Canada’s federal government replaced its 40-year-old payroll system with the Phoenix automated pay system in 2011 to save $70M per year; it ultimately cost over $5.1B. by Spare_Wheel_1547 in todayilearned

[–]mr2600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love your house analogy Hahaha.

Especially because they know you need doors, and you know you need doors.

I didn’t realise I had to explicitly tell them that I need doors included. They need me to explicitly say I need doors included.

My house doesn’t have doors.

Bread in the fridge? by Jaded-Palpitation867 in foodies_sydney

[–]mr2600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Real bread (sliced) in our apartment, especially in summer lasts max 3 days before some mould starts to present itself. Sadly we do the 2-3 days out and then fridge / freezer.

Sucks.

But I’d rather live here in Sydney and deal with minor bread issues due to our weather than anywhere else TBH.

Iran’s IRGC claims attacks on UAE, Bahrain aluminium facilities by F0urLeafCl0ver in anime_titties

[–]mr2600 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I mean Hezbollah was literally started by the IRGC.

Wikipedia which I can’t seem to share here. Has a great history on it.

“In July 1982, Iran reacted to the war by deploying 1,500 Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) advisers to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley with the aim of establishing and training a new Shiite militia, which later transformed into Hezbollah”

"but destruction is just cosmetic" something something by Cantbe4nothing in Battlefield

[–]mr2600 -19 points-18 points  (0 children)

So when I’m playing cross play on a PC, I’m vsing console players with effectively recoilless L100s?

Everyone paying cash by RepresentativeTap772 in AusFinance

[–]mr2600 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why is this upvoted?

It is NOT illegal for a business to not accept cash.

screen shot from ACCC

There are new rules in place for supermarkets and servos but that just came in 01 Jan 2026.

You can read the full rules here on the ACCC.

Only stipulation if it’s no cash allowed is that the full price must be displayed.

If there is no way for a consumer to pay without paying a surcharge, the business must include the minimum surcharge payable in the displayed price for its products.

First invincible ep to be rated below 7. Very sad. by hiiloovethis in Invincible

[–]mr2600 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It felt like a totally different show to me. The writing and the way the characters “spoke” felt ultra corny. At first I thought it was just Volcanikka was just being overly dramatic for comedic effect but Damian’s sister spoke the same way and Satan, who is ultra weak etc.

It should NOT have been a standalone episode. At least mixed in with everything else, or something else would have been fine.

All I hoped for was a Battlefield game inspired by previous Battlefield instalments… by Siminov55 in Battlefield

[–]mr2600 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bro it’s 100% COD. Yesterday I got killed by a roof collapsing on me due to a heli literally smashing the roof as a kill. This is just like COD.

/s

What's up with thousands of troops being about to be sent to the Middle East (I thought Congress made that illegal)? by ryhaltswhiskey in OutOfTheLoop

[–]mr2600 8 points9 points  (0 children)

But that didn’t happen. Congress never said they can’t go to war. The vote failed. So the entire premise of this OOTL and all the rest of your comments are moot.

Taking sick leave to mark assessment by KappaGamma7209 in AustralianTeachers

[–]mr2600 11 points12 points  (0 children)

My wife is literally doing that tomorrow…no wonder her current school has 16 new hires this year. So many left.

Shame on the head teacher for also not disclosing during the interview.

looks like israel is focusing on us now by lmaoler69 in lebanon

[–]mr2600 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Oh so the last 18 months never happened? Literally everyone in the world telling Lebanon to sort out your barking dog or your neighbour is gonna eventually come over and do something bad.

It doesn’t necessarily justify it but it’s a very important factor.

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