The regressive asked the payment processors to do this. The payment processors themselves are the ones that actually did it. The regressive barely had any actual leverage. The payment processors chose to cave.

We can blame the religious organisation as much as we want, but the fundamental problem here is payment processors. They should be common carriers. Content-neutral middlemen who facilitate payment to anything that isn’t literally unlawful. This is no different to an ISP throttling access to Netflix because they operate their own streaming platform. If the storefront, the developer, and the buyer are all ok with a transaction, there’s no good reason for a fourth party to stand in the way of that.

That’s fine. I didn’t dislike yours either. I just don’t know what point you were trying to make. Because my point was essentially “a certain kind of (predominantly conservative) man is very sexist and they only learn that sexism is Bad Actually after they have a daughter”. Which is a far cry from what you suggested.

Wait I’m ootl, what does the Washington gridiron team have to do with anything?

Technically the Trinity was already established and was even the majority view. It just wasn’t the universal view. The Council of Nicaea was about enshrining it as the official doctrine.

Should I? I don’t think that’s what I said.

Well, that’s certainly better than remaining homophobic and disowning his daughter, which is the story we most often hear, sadly…

It’s like the man who only starts caring about women’s rights after he has a daughter. Like, ok, I guess it’s nice that you’ve come around, but you couldn’t have exhibited basic humanity earlier? ffs you presumably had a mother, a wife/girlfriend, sister, female cousin, female friends, female coworkers so even if you require a personal connection, couldn’t you have gotten there earlier?

Two wrongs, as they say, don’t make a right. Or in this case, I guess, they do make a Right.

Happy cake day!

Does this mean Busan gets upgraded to capital city status? I think I could get behind that.

I’ve only ever seen a couple of episodes and I was shocked at how well this script fit what I’ve seen.

Separatist scum!

I like how you capitalised CIS, implying not that you’re talking about the opposite of trans, but that you’re a member of the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Yeah. Like “Leslie”, without the “lie”. Or like the French plural definite article (when the final consonant is pronounced due to a liaison) “les”.

has that but with a device of their own

Yeah I first learnt about this type of thing with this video about a similar thing in the Netherlands, which they got 3 or 4 years before we got the app version here in Australia.

And apparently part of the reason they’re deprecating it is that they’re switching from an app version to a “device of their own” version…except unlike the handheld device shown in that video, it’s a big tablet that they’ll have built into some shopping trolleys. So no luck if you’re doing a quick small shop with a handheld basket, or even just carrying it in your arms.

Oh! I pronounced Les with a voiced final consonant, so it never even occurred to me to pronounce it that way. That’s clever.

I got an Octopus card when I went to Hong Kong. I got an Oyster card in London. I got an Opal card in Sydney. It’s really not hard to get the appropriate public transport card for the place that you’re at.

Plus, as I mentioned, many places are now moving towards being able to just use your normal debit card, phone, or smartwatch to tap on and off.

Isn’t this really more of an inaptonym than an antonym?

Does your area still use cash for bus fares? In 2025? Where I am it feels like we’re behind because only this year did they start letting you tap on with your debit card or phone. We’ve had transit cards since like 2007.

Honestly self checkout is the bare minimum for me these days. One of the two duopoly supermarkets in Australia rolled out “scan and go” where you can scan it with an app on your phone and pay on your phone and just walk out (with the occasional random inspection to deter theft) and it was such a huge improvement over even regular self checkout. I was gutted when they announced that option was being deprecated due to low uptake.