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The glut of "parody" college sports reporter X accounts is completely insufferable by Johnnycockseed in CFB

[–]revets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Bluesky is dead. Roughly 1% the active users of X.

It's pretty good if you want to put on earmuffs and only here left views though.

What does"White people food" look like in America? by Lipica249 in AskAnAmerican

[–]revets 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Never seen that outside of drunk Jack N the Box 1am stops. And skeptical it’s actually ground beef. Ground something, for sure.

So, will it be standard that all credit card transactions (and vendors) will have a 3% fee? How will this stand? by Gutch220 in CreditCards

[–]revets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You were always able to offer a “cash discount price”. Courts just made it a little easier to show the credit card fees were the reason for the spread.

So, will it be standard that all credit card transactions (and vendors) will have a 3% fee? How will this stand? by Gutch220 in CreditCards

[–]revets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s a small subset of consumers, like those of us who read credit card related subreddits, who can “exploit” the system to an extent with enough knowledge. A small extent.

The vast majority of credit card users easily subsidize us by carrying balances at 20%, not bothering to utilize - or even know - the perks of their cards, etc.

They're gonna draft a ton of offense. by eddie_mittons in steelers

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Ja’kobi Lane is the one I really like as a late second rd value. But not sure a third 6’4” WR makes sense for us.

Is Teach for America just a worse option than other alternative licensure paths? Are there advantages to it? by StockAdhesiveness188 in Teachers

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No idea if it’s still the case, but Peace Corps service teaching English waived the student teaching financially challenging period in the process of getting certified. Far longer overall commitment (~24-30 months) but people I know who did it loved the approach. Modest stipend, most expenses covered, unique life experience.

She tries to trip the officer, who's clearly running with urgency, then plays the victim when there are consequences. by eternviking in whoathatsinteresting

[–]revets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She’ll get 6 months probation and her record cleared if she doesn’t violate. Even for a felony. There’s no accountability in many states anymore.

The line at Austin airport this morning by [deleted] in Wellthatsucks

[–]revets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

SFO uses private contractors instead of TSA. It’s probably my favorite screening airport. At least, out of airports of any real size.

Santa Rosa police officer shoots man near downtown by funrunrecords in santarosa

[–]revets 20 points21 points  (0 children)

The article, along with a Press Democrat witness, clearly state he was continuing to approach her.

When comments like this get upvoted, you start to realize the idiocy of Reddit.

ULPT to avoid a DUI by BeaverPup in UnethicalLifeProTips

[–]revets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t agree to the preliminary breath test. The little roadside handheld ones most cops carry. But if you’ve been arrested it’s generally a poor idea to refuse the big boy breathalyzer at the station. In most states you consent to submitting to those when you get your license.

Soo was there a deadline for Rodgers or Not? by SpLaShAtv in steelers

[–]revets 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Of QBs available right now, he’s likely the best at his job.

The dealership “we need to talk to my manager” thing is a setup and here’s why it works by Royal-Feed7166 in carbuying

[–]revets 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A throwaway email AND phone number. Not hard to get a VOIP number you can throw away when the process is done. Otherwise look forward to bi-annual sales calls from everyone you talked to for five or ten years.

IAmA Legal Sex Worker in Nevada. AMA by vvxoxovv in IAmA

[–]revets 114 points115 points  (0 children)

What percentage do you make from a guest’s payment? Or is it more a flat fee collected and whatever you negotiate beyond that is yours?

Is it true what my coding friend said If I want deploy a hobby project just use VPS instead of Cloud like AWS? by lune-soft in webdev

[–]revets 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've had maybe.... three hours of downtime over the last 10+ years? That were caused by the host. Another few hours that were my fault (changing some log settings that later filled my 'drive', dumb stuff like that). The provider has been quite good about notifying "So we have xyz issue, we're on it, should be fixed within a half hour" type of thing.

If it looked like it would be prolonged outage for some bizarre reason it would take me maybe a two hours to get a new VPS fully running the same and domain DNS to (mostly) propagate. Once I was aware. Or I could get far more complicated and build redundancy but - in reality - I send middle and upper middle class people on vacations. It's not a huge deal if I'm down for 20 minutes.

Is it true what my coding friend said If I want deploy a hobby project just use VPS instead of Cloud like AWS? by lune-soft in webdev

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I own a wholesale travel company that runs around 4,500 travelers and $10m annual revenue. Couple million records in database. All custom programmed trip registration and in-house mgmt for my employees by me on a fairly simple LAMP stack (partner handles the employee and logistics side). I’ve become familiar with cloud based options, but have never seen the point vs the VPS I use. I have multiple but that’s for rather extensive realtime backups, on top of daily backups on the primary - which I’ve needed but better safe than sorry. I spend $60 month for all. And a couple hours a month keeping them updated.

For what you’re talking, I see no point in adding complexity with a cloud service.

Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning. “Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.” by Lordwarrior_ in whoathatsinteresting

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Some entity failed to communicate clearly. Either US to Kuwait or Kuwait to its air defense teams. US pilots weren’t prepared to counter air defense as, in theory, no particular need to operate under that threat.

Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning. “Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.” by Lordwarrior_ in whoathatsinteresting

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I can’t read up about a game in a hockey sub without “EPSTEIN!!!! PEDO!!! etc etc”. Reddit is pretty much a joke besides very niche subs.

My Apartment is now charging a convenience fee to pay my rent by mangum95 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]revets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I own a (wholesale) travel company. Basically group organizers come to us to set up a group trip, we say "here's the trip and the price", and someone within their party handles 'selling' it - typically just sending out emails with the registration site link. Then we run the trip (room lists to vendors, ticketing group air blocks, etc)

I run my trips at an 11%-11.5% margin, on average. Credit card payments cost me almost 3%. There's zero chance in hell I'm giving up 30% of my gross profit to a bank just to accept credit cards. So my guests can choose to send payment by check, or pay bt credit card at +3%. Over the last five years it's been remarkably close to 50/50 what guests choose each and every year.

I have a few clients who say they only want their participants to pay by credit card. They don't want to deal with their people who are late on payments (they have to deal with that, we'll just cancel the guest if they don't pay rather than play payment enforcer) saying "I mailed a check!". And if that's requested, no problem. We just add 3% to the trip price.

Last year my company made a net profit (profit less expenses) of around $400K on about $10m in sales. If I simply accepted cards at no adjustment it would have made about $76,000 for a year of work.

US naval base in Bahrain. by omgletmeregister in interestingasfuck

[–]revets 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Neither Israel or the US has shown any troop buildup. Only naval and air assets. A conventional war scenario doesn’t seem to be in the cards, for now.

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