I refused to carry the plastic cards for years, but google wallet allows you to add the barcode/qr code from a friend/stranger/family’s card or phone screen, for any shop. You then get the instant discount at the checkout but won’t accumulate the later ‘points’- but your accomplice will! There are webpages online containing the barcodes if you are really privacy-conscious. I have b&q, sainsburys, morrisons, tesco and co-op stored this way. Some shops are introducing apps too - still a line i won’t cross yet.

I’m sure the headline should say “once sold out, they’ll only be available on the second-hand market”. Not gone forever though.

Me too. You gotta get a free VPN - windscribe and proton are candidates, no card details required.

In monopoly, each player is given 1,500 money units before the game starts. Imagine one player starts with everyone’s 1500 added together and given to them, and all the other players start which nothing. Now you have the real world!

If you get stuck, ask for help. Explain what your thinking is, and how you plan to tackle things, and explain what help you need to solve your issue. If you get the job, your employer can work with you if they know you’ll ask for assistance when you need it - they expect to provide training or helpful oversight to any new starter. In the interview test, they are checking your basic knowledge, and also whether you are teachable.

So if I want one lettuce which only has a short shelf life, but there is a buy one get one free deal, I’d be stupid not to pick up two. Because I can only eat one lettuce before it goes bad, the second lettuce will be binned before its even started. All buy one get one free deals should be banned - if you want us to buy more of a product, halve the price!

NATO probably does breach their airspace, we aren’t told about that on our news. Also when NATO ‘intercepts’ them, it means NATO flew nearby, nothing more. As a pilot, If you can be sure the enemy wreckage will land in your own territory, surely shooting the plane down should be considered?

This happened because your visa claim should have been ‘stolen card details/fraud’ but it was put through as ‘food not delivered’ instead. Either your card issuer didn’t understand what was needed, or else it was poorly described to them. And you can’t claim twice on the same transaction.

So is the moral of the story that we should buy the cheapest hub from aliexpress that doesn’t have a RTL8153B networking chip in it?

If Russia is successful in Ukraine, that makes it more likely that in future China will be able to carry out the same trick in Taiwan.

We do still have leaded petrol. All piston engined aircraft are still burning fuel with added lead.

In your car crash analogy, we are now past the point where hitting the brakes will help. The car will be irrepairably destroyed and all passengers will be killed.

An interesting read, but by gosh it’s a depressing one.

Banks are experts at providing loans. Car dealerships should be expert at selling cars. Asking the car dealer to be a bank is like trying to buy a telescope from a hat shop.

No, but thanks for the offer.

If it has to be shouted at you, its not news, its propaganda. But she was brave in a tight spot, for sure.

You’ve come here to ask for advice, then systematically argued with everyone who has given you good advice. Guys, stop feeding this troll.

Went to the link hoping to see octarine. Saw octarine. Left happy :-)

I’m in the UK and youtube blocked it for me too. I used windscribe a free VPN to pretend I was in the US and it showed fine.

Maybe you dont have too many extra fees, but when you use your visa card or MasterCard to buy from a merchant, 3% of the purchase price is paid by the merchant to visa/MasterCard. In the long run that puts prices up because the vendor is passing on those costs to you, the buyer. Its a tricky issue because if you pay cash, the shop has to store, transport securely, and pay to deposit the cash into a business bank account. That might cost around 3% of their takings too. The feeling here is that if you buy 100 pounds worth of shopping, it doesn’t cost visa/MasterCard anything like 3 pounds to process that payment, more like a few pence. So perhaps we are being taken advantage of?