I hope tourism to USA plummets to nil or near 0 while orange man is in office. Have already seen a vast majority of conferences move their venues away from US. The few that have stayed in US had low participation/attendance.
This country only understands $$$, unfortunately. The people that voted for this idiocracy are very much likely the same people impacted negatively by orangutan administration policies.
I don’t see any issue with this - using Wallet to manually initiate payment. It’s not wrong or right. More of a matter of preference.
I prefer to limit access/storage of routing numbers/account numbers to very few people and entities as possible. And prefer to avoid risk of mistake on creditor end withdrawing more than agreed.
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I don’t know about you. But I have many other lines of credit (mortgage, multiple CCs, auto) and deal with many services (utilities) besides AC. Have even used bill pay to issue checks to apartment complexes and landlords.
Using my banks bill pay feature gives me a single view into outgoing debits to creditors/services.
My increasing distrust for big tech has soured me on "deep integrations" like this. I feel this is just laying the foundation for subscription based cars.
"Sorry, you have not paid for Apple CarPlay Ultra Plus Max, we are reducing your max speed to 50 mph (~80 km/h)"
"To enable, AM radio for 12 hrs please authenticate on iPhone or use fingerpick on start button for iDNA authentication and 10% off!"
"Sorry, to unlock back doors you must add Aston Martin Ultra Premium Accessibility. Alternatively, just shove passengers through front doors"
"You are currently on the freemium plan with advertisements enabled. Prior to vehicle starting, you will be subjected to 30 minutes of tailored advertisements"
"Credit card on file has expired. Car is disabled. Please contact Aston Martin + Apple support for further assistance."
"Oopsie woopsie, car cannot connect to telemetry system. Cannot operate vehicle while system is unable to connect to internet."
In a few years, this guy will probably get picked up for human trafficking, CSAM, soliciting sex from minors or some other degenerate activity.
Anybody remember that shit stain from FL, Matt Gaetz?
In 2020, Gaetz was accused of child sex trafficking[a] and statutory rape. After an investigation, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) decided not to charge him. In December 2024, the House Ethics Committee released a report which found evidence that Gaetz paid for sex—including with a 17-year-old—and abused illegal drugs during his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee report did not find sufficient evidence that he had not engaged in sex trafficking as defined in federal law.[2]
I am not optimistic. Elon and his brother own majority in the board.
This is all smoke and mirrors. Board opens search for a replacement. Go through the motions of finding a replacement. Delay. Delay. Delay.
Then on a particularly active news cycle, report search has failed, and it gets buried beneath the bullshit that Orangatuan administration did that week.
Bro got replaced by some ex-Activision-Blizzard MBA zombie. Humam got 86’d/golden parachuted from Blizzard after only <2 years as “Vice Chairman”. Then a 1-2 yr gap.
Humam about to get another massive bag once labor force is cut, platform further enshittified, and corp books are sufficiently cooked/prepped for IPO.
Amazon really going hard on the bribes to get government cases dropped.
The next 4 years are going to be the Wild West in terms of
big business regulation. If country survives the next 4 years, the next administration is going to be fighting an uphill battle to clean up this gigantic mess.
If we somehow have any allies at the end of this, I would be very surprised.
No logic. Using this as distraction as rest of administration does atrocious things. Flood media with enough bullshit and the most egregious shit gets unnoticed.
No due process for deported migrants.
People getting picked up off the streets to never be seen again.
Orange man floating the idea of US citizens getting sent to foreign prison.
Oh, and the genocide going on with Israeli govt hardly getting any notice. Have to follow UN directly and parse through their reports.
We are only 3-4 months into this shit stains presidency/"leadership".
This president and administration is a hot mess.
TACO