I'll find out in mid January, lol - it's en route on the Ever Acme, with a transfer at Rotterdam.
That said, I have no reason to think that it won't be. Yasin isn't a well known brand, but a lot of other brands (for example Hatchbox) often use white-label Yasin as their own. And everything I've seen about their op looks quite professional.
Credit card processing fees are high in the US, typically 2.5% . Merchants prefer to use less costly payment methods. Unfortunately, for instant payments, there is no standard for electronic payments, just a patchwork of various systems or businesses like Zelle, FedNow, Venmo PayPal. You just never know which merchant or customer has which. Whereas almost everyone has a debit or credit card. I still write a ton of checks for this reason. Not because I like them, but because of the fragmentation of electronic payment methods, and because many businesses prefer them. Obviously, not at checkout lines.
If credit card fees were lower, as they are in the EU, I think checks would likely disappear.
Even in the UK/EU where merchant service fees are capped, once you start ordering in the 10's of thousands of Euro/Pounds... merchants start insisting on non-card payments because that 1% starts hurting at that volume.
Back in the day (early 00's) I ran a shop in Australia and I had to maintain accounts with my suppliers that needed to be paid off monthly. I did this via bank transfer (including a line of credit I could use for bank transfers). My card fees for sales would sometimes dwarf my staffing costs and this was 20+ years ago when a lot of people still used cash exclusively even when paying a few hundred bucks.
>Why wouldn't they just outsource payroll to someone who can do direct deposits?
What the summary left out is that 6% of the US is "unbanked" and has nowhere to direct a deposit. And "That unbanked percentage rises to 22% for those with an income below $25,000." - CNN So it may not have much impact on your world, but this would seriously impact those who can least afford it.
In addition, Cashier's Checks are arguably the best/easiest way to physically transfer large amounts of money safely between individuals. They're free at many banks, and if not are still lower in transaction costs then most electronic transfer methods.
Most countries got rid of both problems years ago.
In the UK and many other developed countries a basic, fee free, bank account with a debit card is almost a human right. There is no law stopping you, in fact in the UK it's law that any resident has the right to open a basic bank account that must be free at the point of use (very few accounts have a monthly fee in the UK and those that do typically come with benefits that pay for it). No one here is unbanked except through choice. This is because a lot of transactions occur using interbank transfer (called "faster payments" in the UK) that again, is government mandated that everyone has access, free at the point of use. Your pay goes into your account using this system, bills, rents and repayments leave your account using this system.
Visa/MC hate it as they don't see a penny from this system.
The US is the only developed country I know of that does not have an inter-bank payment system that is free at the point of use. Although it seem the US is doing all it can to rid itself of its "developed" status.
Interbank transfer systems have all but eliminated cheques, I've never in 30+ years been paid for work with a cheque. The last time I received a cheque it was a refund from the DVLA after I sold a car (for the unused portion of road tax) and the last time I used a cheque was to buy a car in Australia in 2013 (Australia's interbank transfer system used to take 24 hours, it's now instant) and that was a banker's cheque, I've never used a personal cheque, given or received, in my 40+ years of existence and suffering upon the surface of this planet.
Unbanked is what we expect from developing countries... and cheques are an anachronism from the 50s.
privilege knows no bounds, greed is insatiable, these upper class people will destroy this civilization just like they have so many others
Maybe it's proof of the existence of Afluenza and it's debilitating side effects. Doctor Payola recommends seeing two of daddy's contacts.
Aside from that, kids find way to game system. Not really anything new, I've seen this in the workplace for a few years. Some people use a marginal disability to openly skyve off work or shut down any criticism against them, it's a new move in a very old game though... People game systems, even when it harms a system that is meant to help people who genuinely need it. If you know a way to fix it without harming people who genuinely need help, I'm all ears.
Half the work of managers is of low quality or low value. Who saw that coming?
It could be worse, a lot worse.
Imagine if those useless middle managers were tasked with doing something important rather than merely wasting the time of people capable of doing something important.
I wonder how many of those Porches (and Mercedes and others) were stolen from Ukrainian dealerships in the first place.
Personally knowing medics in Ukraine that have to use modified secondhand family vans because the Russians looted all the ambulances and cleaned out the car dealerships, I have to say "So what?"
Brick them all.
Probably stolen from the UK or Western Europe. Maybe even as far away as the US.
A lot of the UK's stolen cars end up in Eastern Europe, some even keep the UK number plates for that authentic feel.
I can't bring a ton of shampoo, nor a pair of scissors. Certain laptops or batteries. Now, it's looking like my homemade cosmic ray simulator won't be making it onboard with me...
LAG restrictions have been lessened or even gotten rid of in Australia and the UK. Air travel is not as bad outside the US.
Batteries are becoming a problem for airlines because people are entitled fuckwits and won't follow basic instructions (I MUST charge my phone no matter what people tell me) as they keep bringing damaged batteries on board which conflagrate. So they're getting banned at the insistence of airlines rather than governments.
Put your car in a garage for a year because you will be traveling, and then having that brick the car really isn't good. But I don't feel bad when bad things happen in Russia these days, in the same way I wish that Trump and his administration would lose access to everything, along with ICE, then the government in Israel. This list goes on.
The DCL isn't mandatory though. Home Assistant only needs it for device firmware updates, but it's always going to be the case that those come from the internet.
Also busses, tractors and combines and all sorts of farm equipment, everything that could be looted from businesses and homes was looted. Hundreds of thousands of children were kidnapped.
ruzzia is a scourge, always was always will be, unfit to exist on this planet.
Every time I say it here, I am moded down as a troll, doesn't change the reality.
Their battery tech is a years ahead of everyone else, from the basic chemistry to the manufacturing process.
Some are, others are adopting Matter which is local only and an open protocol. Vote with your wallet.
Some car manufacturers want to wring more out of their investments in hybrid drivetrains. They are also hoping to delay long enough to catch up to the Chinese on battery tech.
Toyota is a great example. Their solid state battery tech is always a few years away from revolutionising the industry. They tried and abandoned hydrogen.
I'm not even a manager and there are, at present count, 30 hours of meetings on my calendar. I go to less than half, I just let the meetings sandbag my calendar so that new meetings are difficult to schedule. Either you know me and we have a reason to meet, or fuck you.
The actual managers are much worse off. Corporate life is stupid.
We have a similar problem in the UK. Courts and juries tend to believe the police, even though they have a reputation for lying.
There is no distinction between any AI program and some existent game.
