In the nations that have them. Which is just a few of them. And you generally can’t use them abroad I believe?

For a functional card you still only have Visa and MasterCard as options. That’s something the EU needs to work on.

Yeah, some people have zero self awareness and are also so full of hate.

Don’t get me wrong, I can be full of hate too. But it’s usually only against the kind of people described above lol

Wero doesn’t really have offline processing either yet. And when it will, it will be dependent on your phone, so good luck if it’s out of battery or doesn’t pass Google Play Integrity on an unlocked device.

This is why I keep saying we need actual European payment cards, not just a PayPal replacement.

But the 14-day return (and other consumer protections) hinge on the vendor playing along

Your bank tells you to sue the recipient in court, they won’t do a thing for you.

That’s what consumer protection agencies and small claims courts are for. In my country, any time a vendor has a case with those it’ll be shown forever publicly too, so it’s a very quick way to lose reputation. Of course you can still get scammed by ordering from a company that was only made to scam people, but with reputable vendors it’s almost impossible because they have too much to lose.

Also for Wero, right now the consumer protections are “planned” so I’m not 100% sure they exist already.

When Wero is actually ready, it looks like it’ll cover 90% of use cases. I’m happy it’s being done. But till we have an EU based payment card that’s useable across the entire union (and preferably worldwide), I’ll still have to have visa or mastercard or cash as an emergency backup and I don’t like carrying too much cash with me (particularly when traveling), even if my physical size and shape is in the “eh easier to mug someone else” territory. And if I want to switch away from American smartphone operating systems and get a Linux phone, Wero won’t even be an option for me, since it needs an app. My bank cards don’t need an app (though it’s convenient obviously).

Huh? I get 2 years of warranty and 14 days right to return no questions asked on anything I order online.

Money transfers are instant. Like less than a second usually for me.

And Wero doesn’t have a good solution for POS yet, might never have a truly good one.

You can easily do that already? Just transfer the money as usual?

It still doesn’t replace cards so it’s really mostly replacing PayPal (a thing we already didn’t need to function here) and eventually it’ll apparently offer QR based payments on POS if you have the app - so it replaces cards IF you have Google or Apple approved phone.

I’m still seeing it as too little, too late.

My fervent hope is that, someday in the future, people can build a gaming PC and just forego Windows to save $100.

Who’s building a gaming PC and paying retail price (or any price) for the Windows license anyway? I think anyone who knows anything about technology knows how easy Windows has always been to pirate, and that keys are readily available for cheap

To be clear, she was praising Trump long before the events of this month. She never wanted the country or her people to be left alone, she wanted all this to happen so she could suck up to him and be installed. Did she have a hand in actually making it (the war and the Maduro kidnapping) happen? Probably not, but she was dealt the exact hand she wanted so now she can enjoy it.

Some times, on a small scale, karma really does seem to exist. I’m watching it happen in real life with two of the worst people I know. My incredibly abusive ex, who can no longer afford to pay her rent because she’s too lazy to go back to work and instead has been on sick leave for a bone fracture in her hand for 4 months because her doctor is willing to extend sick leaves indefinitely (government in my country will pay for sick leave up to 6 months per year), and her abusive new boyfriend, who can’t hold down a job and doesn’t pay his debts so now it’s entirely likely that his car, literally the only thing either of them owns that’s worth anything (and the reason she got together with him in the first place - she only looks at guys cars), will be taken away by the bailiff to help cover said debts.

Both people who have so far survived off lying, stealing and abusing. Now together, and neither can get the other to support them. Neither has anywhere else to go either, it seems. Poetic justice.

At this rate that wouldn’t even shock me. The president bit I mean.

With the Trump admin flat out saying that they’re entitled to any piece of land and any resources they want because of military strength, you can kinda see how “we were here long before you” is once again not enough to justify your existence to the fascists.

I hope it doesn’t come to that and that you’re safe. Can’t imagine what it must feel like to be seen as an outsider in the land your ancestors have been living on since time immemorial.

Some days eugenics seems sensible. Your coworker and his wife should not be allowed to raise children.

Well, whatever floats your goat lol

Gratz, what you doing with your 200 GB VRAM and absolute lack of gaming performance?

Well if the US full-on turns on its NATO allies, it’s no longer out of the question.

Will be the end of the EU auto industry for sure, I think some other industries can cope better.

Out of curiosity, if you’re visibly non-white:

Have you ever been told to “get out of our country” or anything like that? Think I’ve seen articles about racist people telling Native Americans to gtfo a long time ago, but no idea how prevalent this kind of idiocy is or if it was just ragebait, as I’m not American myself.

Blackstone* They’re the ones doing this to the single family home market. They get far less attention than BlackRock, but pull far shadier shit.

Tech Force? Not necessarily a bad idea

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Oh, it’s AI again.

Yeah I get hating rich people, because fuck inequality, that’s true, but the Clooneys seem like pretty decent people to me as far as rich celebrities are concerned.

ITT: people not realizing his wife was born in Lebanon. Are they safer than your average non-pure-white family? Absolutely. But they have legitimate reasons to be scared.

Also apparently she’s a human rights lawyer so she’s bound to have pissed off republicans one way or another already.