X-Men: Emo fictional characters driven by the need for episodic sales with scientifically impossible abilities. Sure!

Sorry. Traumatized by my childhood best friend’s Marvel obsession.

I like this take. Payment processors provide a service to both customers and businesses and should get paid, but, the MBA crowd never stops short of anything they COULD get, so they gamify consumers (rewards) and threaten business (nice revenue stream, would be shame if anything happened to it). As a layman l, that’s how I see it. Someone in biz can probably give better detail.

The parties I went to in the 70’s had a dirty pool table and a large confederate flag pasted over dark fake paneling. A tub would be for bodily fluids.

You are not a customer. The second you try to fix or diagnose or fix anything, you are a thieving competitor. So sayeth MBA school.

You had me at “Internet Explorer”

I thought most people do this. I do. When I was a young’un, I couldn’t have any food touching any other food and ate them one by one. I get called a freak less often with the latter habit.

This is awesome.

And I’m sorry autocorrect did that to you.

I think you have a good point. I’m not gonna generally lambaste a business/ad in the comments, but I’d like for the option to be there as a possible feedback mechanism. Bans aren’t the only tool.

For me, it’s about context and scope. The wide open wonder of my youth has been replaced by little epiphanies of experience. A bite of really good food, or music, or a great joke can bring me a startling amount of joy. A lot of my awe has also been replaced by satisfaction and appreciation. Getting old sucks undeniably, but there are compensations.