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BNPL use in the US has grown to 91.5M users, with 25% financing groceries, as default rates accelerate and most loans aren't reported, creating "phantom debt" (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/16/bnpl-is-expanding…

BNPL is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone | TechCrunch
As Morris watches his BNPL investments from the other side of the table, he seems to understand the warning signs better than most.

Tracked down the programmer and the TL866 adapter that I'll need to program the 27C322 with. Even found a few 27C322 EPROMs on the soldering workbench which means everything should be good to go for getting this custom cart back in good working order.
#electronics #snes

Capitalism incentivizes those who are willing to sell out, those born with sociopathic tendencies. Those willing and eager to trample everyone around them and purge their own humanity, are rewarded. Endless greed, endless thirst for power, the total absence of values — the dominant world system rewards these traits and behaviors.

Epstein Implicates Everyone
The entire ruling class and the capitalist system are guilty

When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later
(if they bother at all)
everyone is at risk.
-- Citizen or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mckfsaf3xk2n

Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com)
ICE isn’t making rare mistakes. This is the point. When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later, if they bother at all, everyone is at risk. Citizen or not.

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Everyone Says Hi:
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#NowPlaying #EveryoneSaysHi
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It is probably hard to distinguish some of the images you’re seeing here from, say, a WTO protest that turned violent.
There is an overwhelming sense of “everyone” right now — everyone is in danger, everyone is helping.

And you don't need to accept the trap of authoritarian masculinity on logic alone, the proof is right there in male influencers like Andrew Tate and their followers. These dipshits get so obsessed with gatekeeping they don't realize that the gates they're tending keep them in, that the more walls they put up to protect their privilege, the smaller their identity can be. They huddle in tiny pens, terrified of crossing imaginary bounds that they imposed *on themselves.*
They have built their own torture chambers and locked themselves inside, and for what? They turn themselves into dragons, hoarding what they see as valuable while repressing every emotion including joy. And if they let themselves experience joy, they would, perhaps, realize that all these privileges are inconsistent with it. They might, perhaps, recognize that they have built up these privileges so they don't have to admit that their suffering and fear are not, in fact, admirable. They might have to face the fact that they have lived lives that are deeply pathetic, might have to face the fact that only empathy can give one access to deep satisfaction, might have to face the fact that they have lived their whole lives on a treadmill, going nowhere.
But I assume that they won't ever do that, because to do so would force them to face the enormity of the emotional debt, the pain and suffering they have inflicted on the world, and those are big feelings. It's far easier to hide in a hole, forever alone, making up silly rules to keep everyone inside scared and keep everyone outside from seeing in.

Everyone should have a particle accelerator at home that shoots electrons and x-rays at your face in a multi-kilovolt vacuum tube

Got some work to do this weekend, pretty sure the EPROM on the custom SNES cart I made is bad and I'm gonna have to replace the 27C322 with a "new" one. Even decided to buy a decent EPROM eraser, so once that comes in I'll get the old ROM desoldered, program the replacement, and get that installed into this cart.
#snes

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech”
in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his
“wishing each and everyone one of you a very merry Christmas,
happy New Year,
all of that stuff”
and boasting that now, under his presidency:
“Everybody’s saying ‘merry Christmas’ again.”
He then claimed
– contrary to the experience of nearly everyone in the crowd
– that he had gotten them
“lower prices” and “bigger paychecks…