mateomaui

See my edit, and you are very far behind. Years ago VISA and MC (at least) specifically made it legal to pass along fees. A short internet search should confirm this for you.

As a business owner, who accepts checks and charges fees for credit cards, I’ll take a check from a trusted party any day over credit cards when they want to avoid the processing fee, but I still have their credit card on file in case the check bounces.

edit: Further, it is a royal pain in the ass to accept a credit card payment, then have someone dispute the charge as if their card was stolen. The amount of energy spent taking checks to the bank is nothing compared to the energy, effort, and documentation needed to prove to a credit card company that the charge was legitimate, so you actually get paid and not take a total loss.

Merchants don’t have to pay processing fees for checks, which is why they may not accept credit cards, or require a minimum for a card, and/or may pass along the processing fee to the customer.

It’s hard to believe that we have people on this island, including at least one lemmy user, that bemoan that we no longer have cane and cane burning. Apparently they’d prefer that residents suffer from asthma, emphysema, etc.

They eventually figured out the issue and just lowered the pressure being used, if I recall correctly.

edit: Otherwise I don’t understand what you’re arguing about here. It was asked why using ventilators could made things worse and I cited the reason that was the basis for the concern in some cases. I wasn’t arguing for or against them, but if you asked that, I’m for them.

It’s possible you’d risk an aneurysm in our Walmart parking lot.

ok, and?

My understanding is that it was a case-by-case situation that occurred when a ventilator was too forceful for the damage already inflicted, resulting in “ventilator-induced lung injury and barotrauma”, such as when a patient had covid-related pneumonia.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8450704/

But my understanding could be incorrect.

edit: to be clear, I feel like the person you responded to isn’t being reasonable, but there is some basis for at least part of it.

Use a vpn and you’ll be fine, otherwise if someone savvy is in charge, they may have blocked torrent protocols, or may block your device if they notice. Ditto on Pon’s comments about possible usage caps. Or time caps before having to log in again. Either of which could be worked around if you’re able to spoof your device MAC address to connect again.

Probably tweet some condolences to Hunter, then wait for Trump to buried, to finally go pee on him.

Someone needs to tell these geniuses that 0.2% THC won’t help some medical users at all. The varieties that affect my symptoms start around 14%.

Just put this quote from the movie Crazy People on a shirt and you’re golden