This headline is proof this newspaper convention is stupid. If they’re so keen on holding on to this weird tradition of “saving space” in headlines for a medium in decline (print), just use an “&” symbol. It’s much more recognisable, comma has a clearly defined function and they’re misusing it.
Their tradition be damned.
Just my 2¢
The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.
In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.
If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.
They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.
This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.
It’s a shame all the people most likely to go on about Nineteen Eighty-Four (the far right nut jobs), don’t recognise this as Newspeak. And actively support their own oppressors.
What the actual fuck, what state is this?
It’s SO funny how apparently for almost 20 years we (as in the west outside the USA) decided that using Chinese cloud platforms or networking hardware was dangerous and to be avoided, but private US companies? Nothing to see here!
Silver lining of the orange man is that maybe countries will wake up and smell the digital sovereignty that we sorely lack.
If they’re making profit, how in the world can they possibly think it’s charity?
Do leftists universally hate crypto?
While I personally think the current cryptocurrencies out there are a bit shit (transaction fees and times on Bitcoin make it pretty useless as a currency), and I do think there is value in governments having control over a currency, I don’t necessarily think currency itself is a left-right issue.
I guess unless you’re the type of communist who doesn’t want any currency at all (which personally, I’m not for, since I’d like people to be able to choose what they spend money on, to some degree, and work extra if they want to, to some degree, and currency fills that use case quite nicely)
Not sure why crypto-currency, as a concept, is necessarily conflicted with leftist ideals (as a nebulous group who don’t agree on many things).
Nah it’s most more of the world than just Americans this time
Until I used spell check I wasn’t even 100% sure this spelling was made up
There’s arguably much more support for that, than stopkillinggames.
But the political opposition to stopkillinggames is far less.
These two things overlap under capitalism, as doing right by your customers is only required if not doing right by your customers affects your profits.
We definitely want them to sweat.
I think the top comment is the real answer on this.
There is censorship in China, as well as in the west. They just operate very differently.
In the west, outside the US, I think it’d be fairly easy to argue there’s more censorship in China. (Even with the pretty depressing clamp down on right to protest, and suppressing of anti-israel speech in many forms happening at the moment)
Equally though, people massively overblow what censorship is actually like in China. I’m not gonna get disappeared next time I go to China just for this comment. Or even if I overtly criticised the government on real-name social media.
tl;dr “China bad!” and “China so good!” are both equally annoying positions to find on the internet.
Reality is nuanced, but that doesn’t seem to make people happy.
Cashback/rewards schemes on cards ought to be illegal anyway. The money ultimately comes from higher prices.
Cards like Amex are just not accepted in most small businesses in Australia already (but this is by choice, not law)
There’s no free lunch
Indeed, and I personally hate it. “&” Is right there if they want to save space.
I really dislike when the reason to continue doing something is tradition, and that’s what is going on here. It would be so easy to just start using “&” instead of commas, which outside this context are not used this way.
Get with the times, silly journalists.
(Just an extra gripe, that journalists are often really shitty at citing. “A report from XYZ organisation says” yes, which one? Y U DO DIS TO ME?)