They will do nothing about this until crypto transfers are banned…

Yes, the system works, but it kinds sucks that it’s based on getting the biggest gorilla on your side, rather than which side is actually in the right.

Maybe I would take a closer look as to where, exactly, Google puts the pin when you tell it to go to a town. If I tell Google Maps I want to walk to the village I am currently living in, it puts the pin in a random spot sort of in the middle of the village. (It happens to be in a parking lot by a bakery, so now I am hungry).

So, you may be measuring it with regard to when you reach the town limits on that road, but Google may be putting the pin in some oddball place, off the road you are biking down.

Your answer might be all those blue squiggly bits in the first picture on the left. That part of Scotland seems to have a lot of hills. I bet the 18.7 miles doesn’t take elevation into account at all, while the 21.1 miles does

(Oh, never mind, that’s the whole route, while the shorter route in the second picture is “mostly flat”. So maybe not.)

Only a matter of time before Trump renames them the Indians by Executive Order

Unless God exercises His Ultimate Veto and cuts his term short.

It’s been a common trick for a long time on the right to equate simple disagreement with censorship, and use that as an excuse to practice actual censorship when they take over.

They do it because it works. Not only does it lead to more direct sales, but the app is scraping data that can be further used to generate sales, either to the user directly or sale of their data to third parties. And people who don’t like their habits being gamified will simply not install the app.

How many people are going to say “I refuse to go to Dunkin because they went too far gamifying their rewards program in their shitty app I never use”? Probably close to zero. So, the cost of doing it is whatever they pay their offshore contractors, who probably can’t afford to come visit the US, much less go to Dunkin for awful coffee every day.

Yeah, that is more incompetence than I am used to. When we get driving bans and other emergency declarations, the local news will put that crawly thing on the bottom of the screen letting us know what’s up. I bet they get complaints when it covers up the score of the game.

I live in an area that gets snow regularly. When we get a storm, there are precisely three things the news can report on:

• When they think it will stop
• Are the roads driveable
• Are there school or business closings

If there is nothing to report in those three topics, then it’s just another slow news day. Just be glad they’re not making TV news reports about trending Social Media topics, that’s what our local news gets into when they run out of Sinclair propaganda (or Bills highlights) to run.

where air should be monetized

This is because you are not the customer. Your employer is the customer, they are the ones who get to choose the HSA provider for their employees. You are the goods to be sold. The HSA provider is simply harvesting profits.

I bet there is a hidden lower bound to the size of packages their Economy rate, so you are essentially paying the same rate for this Economy letter as you would for a small box. While the First Class rates have separate rates for letters vs. small boxes.

I get lots of emails from both sides, I’ve trained Google to send them all to spam. If I donate to a candidate, it won’t be because of an email.

I sent an email to my (Republican) congressman at his official Congress email address about an issue, and he must have used that as an excuse to add me to his solicitation list, and now my spam is filled with all the emails. I can only imagine how much worse it would be if I lived in a competitive state.

I find LinkedIn useful, but absolutely refuse to install the app on my phone. I figure it’s enough to give them access to my contacts and resume to monetize, they don’t need my location also.

Whenever I get an email notification that I have a LinkedIn message, I check it the next time I am at my desktop. Then, without fail, after I check it they send me a follow-up email reminding me that “LinkedIn is better on the app!”

That just reinforces the idea that I will never, ever install their app.

UPS doesn’t go to every address every day (‘Cept Sundays,) the same way the mailman does.

US Postal Service has some sort of deal with Amazon now, I have gotten Amazon packages delivered by my regular mailman on Sundays. I hope he’s getting paid well for that.

… Is it possible the office is in Southeast London but the actual work is North and West?

“Five Nines” typically refers to something that works 99.999% of the time, which still allows for 1 screw-up out of 100,000.

My password is hunter2

Same here! The totality was still cool to experience, though. This might be the only time in my life I can say that I would have rather been in Cleveland.