This is where the companies lawyers should respond that if they want to perform an audit, and they are found to either a) be in compliance to the original terms of the license or b) to not be using the product anymore. All expenses incurred by the company being audited will be billed to Broadcom.

If you work for yourself and haven't found a way to leverage making your work easier with AI, then you're probably not that great at business. Likely why you run multiple, they're probably all scam businesses. Once one gets drug though the mud enough, end it and start another.

Who funded it should strongly affect your opinion of a study. They can say whatever they want about the methodology of the study but still pull "facts" out of their ass.

These bottles already have metal caps. The issue is that there's usually a disc of plastic inside the cap since exposure to something like acidic soda is going to cause corrosion of the metal. However I find it hard to believe that small disk of plastic is releasing more micro plastics into the product that a bottle made entirely of plastic.

I wouldn't even say it needs to be used to invest being that most BNPL plans are 4-6months. Assuming you actually have the cash to buy it in full in your account already and are just using it for the "Free Loan" then as long as you don't spend the cash in your account and keep it there for an emergency then the only way you can default on it is if you had an emergency that you had to spend the money.

It also existed up into the 90s at major retailers as "Layaway" Only difference is you didn't get the immediate satisfaction of having the item. The store held onto it in the back room till you paid off what you owe on it. Then store credit cards and general credit cards became ubiquitous and Layaway departments disappeared because people just put their wants on plastic for the immediate satisfaction. I really never understood the point of layaway since you couldn't have the item for immediate use. Wouldn't it just be more worthwhile to wait, save up and pay it in full? About the only reason I could see it being useful is if an item is on sale for a significant savings and that sale would be ended bu the time you had saved up.

If you're using BNPL on door dash, you really should probably be rethinking your priorities and instead going to the grocery store and cooking your own food at home.

Yes this can be a problem if you're doing BNPL for items under a couple hundred bucks or running multiple in parallel. In my case it was a one time thing for a purchase over $1k and essentially a no fee, 0% interest loan for 6 months keeping my cash liquid in my bank account for another purchase or emergency. In the end I could have just bought it outright. I wasn't using BNPL because I didn't have the cash to pay it in a lump sum.

Unfortunately I don't think Amazon directly offers the buy now pay later administered by Amazon itself anymore. I still occasionally see BNPL offered on pricier items provided by a 3rd party BNPL administrator like Klarna or Afirm, etc. I'm guessing Amazon didn't want to deal with the hassle of BNPL themselves any more, maybe too many people were defaulting?

Not all buy now pay later "loans" are predatory. It's about reading the fine print. I was on the market for an e-bike. Had the cash in the bank to pay for it outright but amazon offered buy now pay over 6 months 0% interest, no fees, Just total price divided by 6 and they auto debit your card every month till it's paid off. Why the hell wouldn't you take advantage of a 0% interest loan for 6 months and keep your liquid cash in the bank?

Not always. I bought a pricey e-bike on Amazon with their buy now pay later option. I had the cash in the bank to pay for it outright, but Amazon basically offered me a 0% interest loan for 6 months, why not take advantage of it?

If YouTube wants to do shorts so badly. Why don't they just make Trump happy and buy TicTok. Move all the YouTube shorts crap over there and keep the two formats separate.

Fuck off Youtube quit cramming shorts down everyone's throat. We all hate vertical video and have an attention span longer than that of a squirrel. Well maybe everyone except brain rotten gen z

Iran has the internet? I could only imagine how censored it is

That parade caused many "free" "parades" (cough riots) across the country. Money well spent lol.