Since it ‘figerprints’ you, changing your fingerprint by blocking parts of the signal with pieces of foil doesn’t seem like a terrible idea.

Now, the question is: is such a tactic like wearing gloves, or like using super glue?

“Opt out of” or disable/block?

To me, “block” or “disable” seems like it blocks/disables the feature machine-wide, when it just says “pretty please, make me black after you take that screenshot”.

I’d advise against it.

Even though sardines may have a lower amount of mercury than most other fish, they still contain it, and mercury is very hard for the body to get rid of. It accumulates and doesn’t cause problems… Until it suddenly does. And it’s not fun.

A friend of mine ate fish 4-5x weekly (not just sardines tho) for about 6 months, and he ended up in the ER and on a very restricted detox diet and meds for almost a year.

So, even though sardines are low on mercury as it gets, I’d limit myself to at most every other day.

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Greedy retailer.

Any retailer worth their salt would include them in their profit margins.

When you run a retail store (or online store) selling physical goods, you are bound by the rules of matter (as oppoes to digital stuff). Stuff breaks. Food spoils. Old car models lose value. PC parts even quicker. Stuff gets lost. Stuff gets broken. An error occurs during manufacturing. These are all sources of loss which you have to take into account, predict and mitigate.

Adding returns to that already large (and by no means exhaustive) list isn’t an unreasonable ask.

You just estimate the number and projected cost of returns and adjust your prices and profit margins accordingly.

A “restock fee” is definitely uncalled for. The store made the decision to order X amount of the product, with a Y margin of loss (lost, broken in transport, stolen,…). These present a loss of item. An item they could’ve sold. However, a return isn’t a loss of item. They get the item back. And charging customers for the priviledge of buying something, getting dissappointed and making a big deal out of it with “restock fees” is a stupid business move - you risk losing the customer. Especially when you consider the fact that a return is the smallest cost out of all the issues mentioned here.

And if your competition doesn’t treat their customers as bad as you do - the risk isn’t small. And even if not, a boycott out of spite, even just one customer, is a much larger loss than the net gain of one “restock” fee.

So, it’s just greedy. And a bad business move if you care about customer retention. Not doing it while others do is a smart move, since these things are bound to happen. And when they do at a competitor, who knows? Maybe the customer tries you next and just… Remains loyal. Although when you say “customer loyalty” today, people think of gimmicks like loyalty cards.

You’re not paying a “fee”. Sure, someone is paying for it, but it isn’t a fee.

Returns are a right and a necessity. Just as you take broken, spoiled, lost (and as you said, stolen) goods into account and “mark up” others to make up those losses, you do the same thing for returns.

It’s a business expense that has to be covered by some means (larger margins). But that’s not a “fee”.

For online shopping you can annul your order and they have to comply for pretty much everything, with a few exceptions and under a few caveats (such as unopened/original packaging, depending on the item in question)

Buying in-store you can likewise reurn most things, although you have to provide a reason (which the store may or may not accept), and is again subject to some caveats.

For example, for unperishable items you just have to provide the packaging. Foodstuffs must be unopened or have an obvious factory fault that wasn’t detectable without opening. Underwear is generally not accepted back due to sanitary reasons, but other garmets are, including shoes. Medicine from pharmacies isn’t accepted even sealed and unopened.

Of course, you must provide the original receipt, although scans/photos are accepted and some stores go so far as to look up the receipt by CC number.

“World” (sans America)

So, Americans?

What a title. Made me think installing the browser blocked the feature machine-wide.

When a 3rd party actually wins, and the Democrats vecome the 3rd option, i wonder - where will the donors go?

Why would anyone care about it being uglier?

It’s WhatsApp. Ugly is their visual identity.

If they changed their app to resemble a neon citylight barely anyone would even notice, let alone complain.

They were conditioned to growing up. Their parents taught them to, they saw how the ingroup and the outgroups work and settled on the ingroup. Not much more to it than that i’m afraid.

Didn’t they ban NSFW a year ago?

Which will all get fed into a misquoting, fallacy-inducing, lying, hallucinating, LLM.

Don’t burn candles with a sad face. Nothing about people or candles without faces, though.

Wrong.

It calmed at most -500 people just today.

Under what logic does immigration enforcement deal with domestic production of cannabis.

(I know, 100 miles from any border, port of entry, federal land, Indian reservation, etc but still)

Exclusive BREAKING NEWS: After careful consideration by the World’s top scientists from 1000+ top Universities, it turns out that WATER, H2O, the Wet Wet is, in fact, wet.

The US is a bit special. It is the only state to require its citizens pay taxes to it on (regular) earnings abroad. Other places only tax earnings made inside their own borders.

So to truly be off the hook for American taxes as a non-elite, you’ll have to renounce your citizenship.