TDS is so tedious and cringe. Trump went to Wharton, an Ivy League university.

You're right that he couldn't be admitted there, with his skin color. This is a violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Harvard is blatantly nullifying federal law, i.e.neo-confederate ideology. They won't get away with it.

And the "meritocracy" people claim this is in pursuit of more educational opportunities for American students without a molecule of irony.

That's what I assumed as well. Buy Now Pay Later loans like this have a long history of being predatory. So I took a look at what it would cost to accept Klarna (as an example) as a merchant. The reality is that they have transaction fees that are very similar to credit cards. In other words, these companies do not need to rely on missed payments to make a profit.

These companies are apparently setting themselves up to replace traditional credit card payment systems, which suits me right down to the ground.

The difference is that it is much easier to get a Klarna account, and it isn't (yet) as widely available.

I felt the same way at first. Traditional BNPL schemes were very predatory. However, Klarna (and others) appear to be playing approximately the same game as the traditional credit card processors. They charge transaction fees that are roughly the same as credit card processors, and like credit cards their customers don't pay extra if they pay their bill on time. Klarna, in particular actually appears to give customers interest free time.

The difference, for consumers, is primarily that a Klarna account is much easier to get, and it isn't universally accepted. From a merchant perspective, depending on your payment provider, you might already be able to accept Klarna, and it appears that it mostly works like a credit card. It's even possible that charge backs are less of an issue, although it does appear that transaction fees are not given back in the case of a refund.

Personally, I am all for competition when it comes to payment networks. Visa and Mastercard are both devils. More competition for them is good for all of us.

You Democrats decided it had to be this way.

Nobody, and I mean nobody, ever mentioned "trans" since under Obama when gay marriage passed and the Democrats immediately moved the goalposts. Before that, I never heard of "trans". Except in the Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which Dr. Frank N. Furter is a mere cross-dresser, not trans. In fact, the movie is now banned for transphobia because Frank is a terrifying stereotype who kidnaps and "turns" innocent straight white AmeriKKKans, and he's a murderer who eats his victims.

But congratulations: you won! Trans ideology is codified into law, baked into our our institutions and there are entire branches of medical science dedicated to its continuance. Boys in girls' sports is here to stay, because anyone who says otherwise is a transphobe.

You can tell Democrats aren't used to winning because they can't even tell when they've won. Trans is a huge win. Our entire culture is different than when Obama was in office. I watched a video the other day of Obama calling for tariffs on Chinese solar panels because they were unfairly competing with made-in-USA and he was saying it would benefit AmeriKKKan workers. This despite climate change being the most pressing issue our world faces and solar being the solution. All of this to benefit future Trump voters. Another Democrat win, if you think Obama's policies were Democrat.

"Four of these spacecraft will haul 400 metric tons (440 U.S. tons) of cargo while two will transport 200 passengers."
Who's going to voluntarily ride in ark b?

Everything is dangerous to some degree. Water can kill you. Should it have a warning label as well?

You disregard the practical fact that warning labels on everything mean nobody reads them and they're *functionally* useless.

Do you want to make things actually safer for people, or just cater to an ocd-like inability to recognize meaningful scales of risk?

They got to collect 30% of developers money for 20 years and will likely only be required to refund a tiny fraction. This isn't a mistake its weaponized disregard for what's right. Apple is only starting to follow the rules now after they were threatened with criminal contempt, that's how little their cost is of flaunting the law.

AmeriKKKan science isn't being killed, it committed suicide. They don't know what a woman is and lied, lied, lied to us about Covid.

From covid.gov: "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2" publication - which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak theory - was prompted by Dr. Fauci to push the preferred narrative that COVID-19 originated naturally. The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature. Data shows that all COVID-19 cases stem from a single introduction into humans. This runs contrary to previous pandemics where there were multiple spillover events.

By nearly all measures of science, if there was evidence of a natural origin it would have already surfaced. But it hasnâ(TM)t.

American science willingly and deliberately killed itself. Take heart, Europe will be making hay with all these refugees from fascism that will be arriving any day now. Maybe they'll invent nuclear weapons like how Jewish refugees from fascism did when they went the other way across the ocean. What a gift to humanity that was.

While Moustache Man killed six million Jews, Dr. Fauci killed seven million non-Jews. One is regarded as the most evil human to ever have lived, the other received a presidential pardon.

Tell us you're a Jew-hater without telling us. Critical Theory was created by Jews as a potent weapon against white supremacists. Like yourself, you filthy anti-semite.

I love how you did not even reply to any of the well-thought-out criticisms of todays' Democrats. You went straight into what he identified as the problem, vicious attacks on men, specifically white men.

If only we couldn't vote - you would turn our society into such a paradise. Just like San Francisco, which has been run by Democrats only for a half century. Once a golden AmeriKKKan city so nice that Gene Roddenberry made it the capital of his United Federation of Planets. Today, its major problems include human feces on the streets and discarded needles from drug addicts. Absolutely NONE, and I mean NONE of this can be laid at the feet of your favorite victims, white men.

You are the problem you are trying to solve.

In fact, the best thing to do is to use the gaps between cars to absorb speed differences so as to allow ALL traffic to flow more smoothly

I agree with you, and I find that this is easier to do in a manual because the acceleration is instantaneous. I have found that I don't have to accelerate as hard if the response is immediate, versus delayed. I don't have to brake as hard because I start slowing as soon as I back off the gas.

With most automatics, the off-pedal cruising speed is 20 to 25 mph, which means that driving any slower than that requires riding the brake. From behind, a slow, steadily moving automatic appears the same as one which is stopping, or stopped. So they create a situation in which drivers behind a steady 15mph automatic vehicle have a harder time estimating traffic speed - which leads to the inevitable traffic accordion.

Many years ago, when Motorola was in buyout talks with Google, they used Google docs extensively. One can only wonder if Google got a better deal because they were able to read Motorola's internal discussions. I don't know if they used Google docs for the discussions, but I do know there were quite a few people at the company who expressed no concern for the possibility that Google docs could leak proprietary information.

Because everyone knows it's a race to get home and if other cars get in front of you, you lose.

In fact, the best thing to do is to use the gaps between cars to absorb speed differences so as to allow ALL traffic to flow more smoothly.

People who drive like you are why we have bumper-to-bumper traffic during rush hour.

It's called "accelerationism" and everyone on the hard left knows it.

Since the only way to get rid of the racist, fascist USA is through the people's revolution, and happy people don't make a revolution, the quickest and easiest path is to accelerate the decline as much as possible. This was behind the" mostly peaceful" George Floyd riots. Make people angry, angry, angry and get them to start setting things on fire. The CIA(yes, them) literally wrote a manual about how to do this, Mike Benz explains at this link. This is what the "blob" did in the 1980s to El Salvador. A few years ago the same tactics were used here. They still work.

Accelerationism, because you cannot build a just society while the old, rotten society still exists. Only on a clean slate can a new society be built. This is standard leftism and I am astonished that any Leftist is pretending to be unaware of it. The Right needs to be aware of what accelerationism is, too. The hard Right say things like "we will never rid ourselves of Zionist control, only a total reset can save us" instead, but same-same.

Color revolutions use polling to force the elected government out of office. That's why you keep hearing about Trump's numbers and how wildly unpopular he is and what an extremist he is. This is true, if you're in the DC blob. He's putting their entire globalist project at risk all for the sake of 300 million ordinary Americans. It makes sense why they want him gone yesterday. The DC blob isn't the Left, but politics make strange bedfellows.