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Their credit card is already covered by the regular state and federal oversight institutions and rules. In fact, buy now pay later services are very loosely regulated hence why so many have popped up over the past couple years.

besides the service likely not being used much, their reason for discontinuing is because they’re allowing other financial institutions to offer BNPL services and things like pay over time credit card offers this fall.

That’s just an example of how far right the republican party has gone. Dewine used to be considered more right than the rest of his party. He had pushed for a heartbeat bill forever and was never considered a moderate. But because of how bat shit insane the Republican party in Ohio has gotten he seems moderate compared to the rest.

In reality though, it’s just that he’s one of the last Adults left in the room. So even small things like this, which have been done for democrats and republicans in past years, makes him seem moderate. trust me though, while he might respect the rule of law and believe in democracy a moderate it doesn’t make him.

The point everyone forgets—and was the whole point of the name of his documentary—was that he wasn’t just eating every meal at McDonalds but had to Super Size the meal if asked. At the time it was the policy of McD’s to try to get people to Super Size their meals. So he was regularly adding hundreds of extra calories to most meals.

He was trying to be provocative and sell his art. Someone else could have eaten at McDonalds every meal at the same time and stayed near a 2k calorie diet. Definitely not something i would want to do but it wouldn’t be worse than some peoples daily meals. That wasn’t the goal of the documentary though; the goal was to spur public discourse about the high calorie foods being served by places like McD’s and their policies of encouraging larger portion sizes.

The documentary was effective and definitely caused public discourse and fast food menus to change. Even though it was largely based on a very controlled and manipulative narrative that Spurlock spun.

Phones already include LiDAR. Apple has included it in every iPhone Pro/Pro Max since the 12.

The article was explicitly discussing US airspace, hence my comment about FAA regulations. No one is doubting that there are a significant number of planes elsewhere in the world, governed by other countries air authorities, that don’t need to deploy a fix to their altimeters to ensure no interference from outside radio sources. Also as we’re only ending the second month of the year I’d speculate that near 99% of the planes in operation are non 2024 models.

Also, it’s important to note that it’s not the phones on the planes as much as the 5G towers in range of airports that cause the issues. That’s why the rollout of 5G-C towers near airports were on hold for several years to allow airlines to retrofit/upgrade their radio altimeters.

As of Jan 31, 2024 any planes still not hardened their altimeters to meet group 4 performance are restricted from flying auto land, I/II ILS ; and for the most part the airlines still flying them aren’t using those planes in US airspace. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t any flying just that when they are they’re restricted by the FAA as to how they can operate.