That being said, if you live outside of a maple tree

Unless you’re an elf baking cookies, we all live outside of maple trees :-D

As opposed to girl marathons?

Excuse me?? A reply by THE Alex Sadler about the TV show Chuck?? I think I can turn off the Internet for the day. I’m satisfied.

Easier to replace the light switch at that point

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Oh I don’t own the stock. But you can’t deny that it’s been a great asset for anyone that got in early. Saying it’s down 30% from 6 months ago without looking at the big picture is short sighted.

Also, fuck Elon

zooms out 5 years

Up nearly 800%

Yooo hooo

Are you making a suggestive cat call? Or do you just like the chocolate beverage 😊

I like my options 0dte

“niche” website in a crowded field…that is also the top 9th most visited website in the world, above tik tok.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites

Your one friend != all experiences.

The average age of a child in foster care is more than 8 years old, and there are slightly more boys than girls.

Source: https://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children/children-in-foster-care/about-the-children#:~:text=They range in age from,by their parents or guardians.

They got their source from: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statistics-research/afcars

The adblock changes is a shit stain, absolutely agree with you there.

For my household, personally, it won’t make a difference because I have a pihole blocking everything from all devices. So that change isn’t enough to persuade me to make a move.

But yes, anyone who doesn’t have pihole of and uses adblockers, it will be 100% understandable for them to jump ship.

For the overwhelming majority of users, they won’t know the difference between using the two. People here are on a high inhaling the air in this echo chamber.

I’ve used Chrome on every device imaginable since Chrome was a thing. I’ve had a negligible amount of problems, in all my years. I absolutely hate that Google shuts services down when they get bored. And I absolutely hate what they did with Google Music and Google Chats, and Domains.

I move off Google services when they shut down. Besides that, I’ve no problems with the ones I use (minus nitpicks and the above products).

So to anyone here feeling bad and are afraid to comment on here because they don’t want to lose Internet points, fret not. There are millions of us perfectly satisfied using Google, PAYING for their services where we see fit, and generally not worrying at all about any of this.

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I’m no law expert, but I have dealt with POS and retailers, and their tax people. My understanding is that you always report the loading of a gift card as a liability. It may be categorized as a different liability because you don’t necessarily owe that money back. As in, most gift cards are non refundable.

When the holder of the gift card redeems it for products, the balanced used gets deducted from your liability and is added to revenue.

If Starbucks were straight reporting it as revenue with no explanation, I can see that being scrutinized. But if they are reporting it as potential revenue, then that’s up to shareholders to weed through that and make investments based on that.

I’m not understanding the illegality here.

Thank you for the citation and explanation.

I know I’m coming off all boot-licky, but this all seems legal. If Starbucks is disclosing the gift card amount as a potential to be moved from a liability to revenue, and if this is legal in tax laws, then this lawsuit is overreach and makes it seem like they’re just looking for a payout.

It’s been pointed out already that you can use the remaining balance of a gift card to zero it out and pay whatever is left in the order with another means of payment.

This lawsuit is describing how gift cards work. Might as well sue all merchants.

They didn’t provide proof of that allegation. At least, not in this article. The consumer group alleges that Starbucks claims unused gift card balances as revenue. Are we sure they aren’t showing a liability for the respective amount? I didn’t look through their corporate filings, and the article doesn’t provide citations from public filings. Just accusations.

But not to his shareholders! Checkmate, atheists!

Apple has made record profits of $X billion dollars this quarter. However, that is only $3 billion more than last year same quarter.

You’re right, Greg. One has to wonder: will Apple be bankrupt next year?

Calm down, Thanos.

No but seriously, I know that for me, what gets me incredibly annoyed when this topic comes up, is the absolutists that rail on anyone wanting any children. Like, I get it man, you don’t want kids. But that doesn’t mean I’m wrong for wanting kids.

These people get very high and mighty on their claim that those of us that want children are selfish for “bringing them into a dying planet”.

You’re framing it in such a way to say “hey, maybe let’s slow down population growth”. They’re saying “we need to never have children again”.

One of those scenarios leads to the end of human civilization. If that’s your goal, you have bigger psychological issues than you realize. (Not you; the general you)