Yeah, the instructions from the website didn’t work. I had to hover over Account & Lists, then click on Shopping Preferences, then scroll down to click on Manage Your Information under About You.
Mine said they didn’t have any info on me, since I haven’t shopped there since 1998.
Yeah, I know. I wish Delta hadn’t partnered with them, but here we are.
To be clear, it can be used with traveling. Hotels and car rental places and subway systems and most clothing stores all take AMEX in Europe. Many established restaurants do, too. It is just easier to use Visa over there, though.
I’m not sure what point you think you are making here. I already agreed that their owners are bad. I already agreed that people who eat there don’t care about the other people who are hurt by the owners’ policies/practices. And racist fuckheads account for a minor percent of literally every business that has ever sold a product.
Also, I would be careful equating the owners of a large corporation donating money to anti-LGBTQ+ organizations with Jim Crow laws. There’s just a slight difference in level of impact, and it might be offensive to a large number of people.
Yeah, AMEX is hard to use in Europe or most places I’ve been outside of the US. AMEX is taken just about everywhere I go in the US, though. It’s my everyday card due to the travel benefits.
I got somewhat forced into one at a Rally’s the other day when I was in a rush and couldn’t be bothered to go somewhere else. It was a terrible experience, both because of the AI and because the food was just awful.
The burrito place near me tried doing an AI ordering thing for their phone service, but I never could get it to work. I told them that it didn’t work, and they gave me the magic words to skip to a human.
The Little Caesar’s near my house has not managed to cross that low bar yet.
Maybe they are just people who need a job??
As much as you think that matters to everyone else as much as it matters to you, you are wrong.
You aren’t wrong about what their owners do and what supporting them funds. But 99/100 people going to Chick Fil A just want a damn chicken sandwich. They don’t think about the owners or politics. They think about going somewhere that is fast, easy, and relatively tasty (compared to other fast food places).
Blind loyalty only accounts for a very minor percent of their business.
Back when credit cards had to take paper carbon copies from a subset of retailers that had been certified to take credit, try their damnedest to decipher the faint blue numbers and names, verify the account information by hand, take on significant risk for higher purchase prices due to lower computer capabilities, then process the billing… Yeah, I can see why they charged 3% to every transaction.
Nowadays, all of that is automated and digital and proliferated. There is no reason why AMEX should get $0.50 from every purchase of a Happy Meal. There is also no reason why Visa should get more money from a $20 purchase than it gets from a $100 purchase. It’s the same amount of work! Same argument about TicketMaster charging a $200 convenience fee on a $500 ticket but only $100 on a $250 ticket.
It’s only more efficient when I use it, which sounds like a joke about “it’s only wrong when someone else does it.” But if I am only buying a quart of ice cream and some toilet paper, I actually can scan those faster because I don’t have to pass them to a person to scan them for me. My typical use case is roughly the same speed as a cashier. I also know how to use the machines fairly well.
However, your last sentence is exactly right. Once one idiot gets to self-checkout, the whole thing goes to shit for everyone. Or if something doesn’t scan, or it is a bottle of Nyquil that some stores require ID to buy, then it is so much longer to get a person over to help you.
Now you’re speaking my language.
I also read some people putting some kind of blocking device on the cell antenna or something instead of pulling a fuse.
I 100% agree about the door handles, but not all EVs have non-physical door releases. There are at least 6 from various manufacturers that are fully physical.
The internet connected car is every single car made today, unless you pull out a fuse, regardless of EV or ICE.
The depreciation of a car is less than the fuel costs. If a car depreciates by $20,000 over 10 years, that is less than $38/week in fuel. If it depreciates by $30,000, that is still only $58/week.
At the same time, EVs tend to use harder tires (for better efficiency) that don’t wear out as often as softer tires that ICE cars use.
What dumb ICE cars are there?
Looks like you aren’t driving any car made after 2018, so why say you aren’t driving an EV?
It says “cheaper to drive” not “cheaper to own.”
Regardless, taxes and insurance are roughly the same. Maintenance on an EV is FAR less than an ICE car (no oil changes, fewer brake changes, fewer moving parts to replace over time). So if “fuel” is 1/9, and maintenance is just replacing the tires and putting in new wiper fluid, then driving is going to be much cheaper.
You think that if CEOs started getting arrested for blatantly illegal things that they wouldn’t reconsider their actions? Right now, they have absolutely no reason to NOT do illegal shit.
EDIT: unless you mean that international arrest warrants are meaningless.
“About you: We haven’t saved anything yet.”
As it should be.