I am not in the US. But the purpose is gaining credit score and rewards, at no cost.

Agree 100%

To make it more specific I guess, what’s the problem with that? It’s like having a “people living on boats” and “people with no long term address”. You could include the former in the latter, but then you are just conveying less information.

I use my credit card all the time, and it’s set to auto pay off all of it every month, so there is never any interest charged. It basically delays the time my money leaves my bank account from the time of purchase to up to a month later, with no downside, while building credit history. The interest may be 300%, I don’t care because I’m never charged it.

He can’t pretend to save the world if the world isn’t ending.

None, because it’s not a real department, and has as much legal meaning as any made up department you and me can think of. But if course if Trump acts as if it’s real and listens to it’s opinions (which have the same legal weight as any private person’s opinions), then it doesn’t matter it’s not real.

I never said it was a joke. He fully intended to buy Twitter, then decided he doesn’t want to buy it, but was forced to do it.

You can make the argument that something was the reason he originally made the offer to buy Twitter, but that seems separate to me.

If I talk to friends about wanting to dye my hair pink as a joke, then they propose a bet making me do it if I lose, I lose and do it, then the reason my hair is pink is that I lost a bet, not whatever I originally suggested.

If I eat something I don’t like because there is nothing else in the fridge, the reason I’m eating it is that there is nothing else in the fridge, not whatever reason is there for it to be in the fridge in the first place (a visiting friend left it behind).

In all cases, the situation was created by some other event, and in Twitter’s case, there was an original reason he made the offer, but it did not end up being the reason he bought it, because he wouldn’t have bought it otherwise.

That’s how I see it.

Reminder: He was forced to buy Twitter by a judge and was doing everything he could to avoid buying Twitter.

He is using it to control the headlines, but that’s not the reason he bought it. The reason he bought it is that he was forced to. He wanted to back out of the deal.

A drone is an unmanned vehicle, e.g. SpaceX drone boats serving as mobile landing pads, Ukrainian drone boats carrying explosives, drone research submarines, ground drones for mine defusal, etc.

This is definitely not a drone. It’s a quadcopter.

Same deal on Android. OEM launcher apps override the app icons for the OEM’s calendar and clock apps, and there is no way for a different app to achieve the same effect.

Glad I’m not alone

It’s just a phone number on the website. It’s macOS/iOS that decides that clicking a phone number should open FaceTime, and the restaurant has nothing to do with this - they just put their phone number on their website.

Believe it or not, most of them don’t live in the US.

Apparently I was the only one to read the title that way, but I thought your brothers died (late) in their 40s.

I imagine because it’s supposed to encompass blog writers, comic authors, and other creators of, well, content, that isn’t necessarily a video.

The food how to basic uses in his videos is all expired food. He is not wasting good food.

Why is it insane? Is it surprising that people make joke offers? Joke offers exist on any online auction site.

The sellers are players. Of course people are going to troll by creating such offers. Doesn’t mean anything.

I imagine if such a candidate won, the would forfeit their win by not attending the inauguration and not getting sworn in.