isVeryLoud

@isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely, they get shafted the most.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes precisely, and merchants increase their prices to account for those unknown processing fees since it varies wildly from card to card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those benefits are usually your own money + the money of those who fail to make payments since merchants have to increase their prices to compensate for credit card fees.

  They indirectly steal from you, launder the funds and present it back to you as a “benefit”, but only if you’ve been a good boy.

  This is a similar principle as modern loyalty programs. In exchange for your personal information and your eyes (advertising), you get to pay slightly above the regular price and accumulate ✨points✨ while other schmos get a jacked up price that pays for your points (or the value of your points is built into the price of the items you purchase).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Teams has even spam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah apologies for the attack, I just felt the 8 hour delay was unfair, I was intending to do research and get back to you, which I can’t really do during my workday.

  Here’s another example:

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  This one’s from SharePoint, my previous picture was from Planner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Teams has even spam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, it has AI artifacting all over it. The UI designers would have had to be deliberate about it, this is just Microsoft eating their own dog food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Teams has even spam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s called having a life, you should get one.

  Microsoft hasn’t said anything one way or another, but AI generated icons are pretty easy to spot by their artifacts. The shadows are messed up and the gradients are wonky, I use Microsoft products every day and they changed the splash icons in a bunch of their products to this mess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Teams has even spam?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Off-topic, I really hate the new AI generated icons Microsoft is using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s been saying this for months at this point, and it was part of Project 2025, which he seems to be following like a computer runs code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FL wants more child labor⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Since the death of God, there’s been a vacancy open!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Help the homeless, go to jail: Fremont passes hard-line law criminalizing encampments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not even an anecdote, and not likely to be anywhere near accurate.

  You’re talking to an RNG.