Ever since they went full digital with CT money, you barely earn anything.

Back in the day you could actually buy stuff with only CT money, and you didn't have to spend crazy amounts to get it.

In the past 4 years I've earned about $4 worth, and I shop there all the time. It's a joke.

But it's still Windows.

Doesn't matter how much hot sauce and cinnamon you dunno on to a turd, it's still a turd.

What I do is just take out the card a plug it into a little USB dongle thing which I can plug into either my phone or laptop.

What's wild to me is that anyone would do it any other way. I'm astounded that this is somehow a "tip".

Not even 10 years ago it was simply the way to do it.

I've had someone tell me with a straight face that I'm "basically taking meth".

This is the same kind of person that says "American cheese slices are one molecule away from being plastic!"

It's not gamification that's the issue. That aspect really held my attention and gave me consistency.

It's the push to a pay-to-win model that made me quit. They made the challenges harder and harder to complete without using boosts, and to use the boosts you had to use gems. And gems were really hard to get unless you bought them with real money. It doesn't matter if you have a super subscription (or whatever it's called), you still had to pay to get the gems.

And the prices for the gems were just as predatory and the disgusting mobile gaming industry. Never should there be an option to spend over $20 for in-game consumables, nevermind over $100. It's sick.

It's actually astonishing how fast Tesla went from the most sought-after brand to becoming the most hated brand.

There are going to be case studies on this for centuries in all kinds of sciences.

The conundrum here is that admitting his stance was wind would take a level of intelligence that would have had him vaccinate his child in the first place.

I know that's oversimplifying it, but the point still stands.

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

Can't have LLMs learning about manifestos against the rich, eh?

Thank goodness they cleared out all that snow and ice so that we can finally see the pretty mountains.

What the user was doing is that they don't trust that the system truly deleted the account, and they worry it was just deactivated (while claiming it was "deleted"). So they tried to do a password recovery which often reactivates a falsely "deleted" account.

I've done this before and had to message the company and have them confirm the account is entirely deleted.

JSON data within a database is perfectly fine and has completely justified use cases. JSON is just a way to structure data. If it's bespoke data or something that doesn't need to be structured in a table, a JSON string can keep all that organized.

We use it for intake questionnaire data. It's something that needs to be on file for record purposes, but it doesn't need to be queried aside from simply being loaded with the rest of the record.

Edit: and just to add, even MS SQL/Azure SQL has the ability to both query and even index within a JSON object. Of course Postgres' JSONB data type is far better suited for that.