Most of that "take rate" goes to the issuing bank, which returns it to the customer in the form of rewards, which can often be redeemed for cash, and a number of issuers now offer generic 2% cashback cards. There's also the added benefit of fraud protection (and the ability to charge-back, as a last resort). Anyone using Cash App or similar in lieu of a credit card, I just assume is financially illiterate.

It doesn't. I don't trust OpenAI or Sama. Frankly, I'm even hesitant to use VSCode now, even with its customizable privacy/telemetry settings (though I can at least limit its network access).

Meanwhile, you now have censorship at the internet backbone level, with ISPs arbitrarily, unilaterally deciding to stop routing traffic to legal websites, and there's been little outcry: https://twitter.com/IncogNetLLC/status/1685359845505957888

Asking people to not use Chrome isn't asking much, and yet people here can't even manage that.

Well then why haven't they been prosecuted?

> The text content of the blog is all hand-written by me, not AI, although I do use AI (Stability) to create the header images.

Well, you can't really fault people for suspecting you're using AI for other things too, can you? It's almost a form of gaslighting. You also apparently did an AI-generated podcast? (According to your profile.)

However, I do find it strange that the site now only being available through Tor--and thus not showing up in Google search results or being easily browsable by "normies"--seems to have been enough to assuage the people spearheading its deplatforming, since Tor should pose little of an impediment to those capable and willing enough to IRL harass and SWAT people (the purported real reason KF exists). It's almost as if their real concern is people being able to google them and find a site that comprehensively documents their bad, and perhaps illegal, behavior.

I'm pretty sure every holder of US Treasuries (including me) is owed money by the US government.

it seems pretty well established that federally chartered corporations, like the USPS and Amtrak (e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebron_v._National_Railroad_Pa...), are bound by the first amendment, so theoretically the Fed should be as well.

That means the usual "it's a private corporation!" defense of corporate censorship is probably off the table.

It's easily and entirely explained by fiber. Fiber, through gastric distension, is, along with protein, the primary driver of satiation. There are other factors too, like the fact that they eat more whole, unprocessed foods, which are harder for the body to digest (i.e., require more energy.)