Now do January 2025.
The IRL version of the used car salesman meme: “(Slaps roof) We can fit so many months inside this bad boy…”
Brewchin
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Cake day: February 19th, 2024
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Can’t escape Cory Doctorow’s observation that the internet is “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four”.
We may be away from those 5 sites, but the behaviours and content from them is very much here.
Fintechs are trying to get their grubby little claws into everyone who’s desperate or stupid enough, so wouldn’t surprise me at all if BNPL* companies are doing deals with takeaway places.
I genuinely pity anyone using this because they need to. 😬
*Not sure about elsewhere, but in the UK this legal predatory practice is called Buy Now Pay Later. Online loan sharking without the broken kneecaps.
The most American post I’ve seen on Lemmy to date. 😬