Their alternative is to not advertise a plan as “ad free” if that is a lie.

People always bring this up but I don’t get the issue. How often are you using your bank’s app? Banking apps are probably the least essential apps on my phone.

some people use banking apps multiple times per day to pay for coffee, food and so on. And once the app breaks it's really nice to live in a society where cash is not outlawed yet.

Time Machine on my Mac

>People that accidentality cut their fingers in lawnmowers due to lack of safety features are allowed to sue the lawnmower company.

Anyone is allowed to sue the lawnmower company. Did they win?

The amount of "Do not put hands here" labels I've seen on lawnmowers would suggest that, yes, someone did sue and win (or at the least got a settlement) and thus the lawyers forced the companies to put disclaimers and warnings on the lawnmower, directly on the top of the deck in plain sight.

This is the kind of thing that someone knowing they are doing bad things at their job says to justify it to themselves.

It’s not true. You can go find something worthwhile to do instead.

Your advice is along the lines of “if you’re homeless, buy a home”. Very useful.

Sounds like a great incentive to make sure you don’t lose your driving privileges.

Or maybe - build a world where you don't need driving privileges just to exist

That is certainly something we have done horribly wrong in most of the US.

Or to lobby to make sure driving is an inalienable right. Which path are you seeing being realized in the US?

I had the plastic trigger fail on mine. Took the whole thing apart and replaced it with a metal trigger from AliExpress. It’s been going strong since.

I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but if I was a product engineer looking for a way to make my well-engineered product fail just after the warranty period was up, that trigger failure looked like a pretty good candidate. There was a specific piece of the plastic that looked like it was ostensibly there as a structural reinforcement, but it was clearly too short, and the trigger had cracked just past it.

ifixit guide for the curious: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Dyson+V11+Trigger+Replacement/1...

If your "farmer's market" is not selling things from a named farm or local producer, it's not a farmer's market, it's just a market.

There are maybe 2 months out of the year that you can't grow lettuce in NYC in a greenhouse. It's not that cold.

Tomatoes prove your point better, but I still would never eat any of the tomatoes in an NYC supermarket in the winter, as they don't taste much better than soggy cardboard.

Well, one reason is the one described in TFA —- credit card rewards amount to a regressive wealth transfer, and if you think that is bad, you may not want to participate in it.

Another reason is that credit card companies sell your purchase data to aggregators and advertisers, and cash affords more privacy.