I’ve not heard of places requiring you to download an app to complete a payment, or do you mean ones where you’re ordering on your phone (potentially off-site)? Though I will counter, the most obnoxious places add fees for using plastic, driving you to have to either carry cash or pay an added fee.

Beats the hell out my image that I took in 2008.

So much lovingly touching grain.

I think the “gotcha” there is that you don’t have a debt yet. If I go into a cashless restaurant and they take my money before they start making my food (like Taco Bell), they can refuse to take my order (and therefore refuse to give me a debt) if I don’t have the payment they prefer to start with. This isn’t, like,…

TIL that I make decisions on what movies to see in the theater based on who shows up on the red carpet at the premiere in some far away city.

Ahsoka is not a prequel character.

I feel bad criticizing mushroom photography as it’s a hobby of mine, but the overall winning image is just....bad. Poor focus (pick one and focus on it!), bad lighting (black background? reduce aperture, increase shutter time, receive properly lit background and better dof), and way, way over saturated (maybe I’ve…

If these are the best of the contest, I'm glad I wasn't one of the judges. Having to wade through hundreds (thousands?) of mediocre images. I wouldn't call any of these outstanding.

To make sure I understand this, the Paleoecology runner-up is an actual photograph that came in second to a digitally created picture?

Intellectual Poverty, like copyright, is a cancer. It rots and decays culture and technology. “Planned obsolesence” and so many other problems are rooted in this broken and utterly unnatural concept. Copyright was created for the express purpose of censorship and control by authorities

I'm fairly certain that began when humans learned to speak.

Amazon vs. “Influencers”

Well thousands of people who’ve been driving cabs and rideshares will lose their job and wind up homeless, so if you can find a way to spin “bigger homeless population” as a good thing...

Interestingly, you might think Christianity would be a force for peace in post-Roman Britain, but it’s cynically used as a decoy by faithless power mongers.

I think the legislators in the state capital need to eat their own dog food.

The book is set in the late 5th or early 6th century, since St. Samson is a character (and not much of a saint). The familiar Arthurian characters and their Norman names are a visible anachronism which Cornwell freely admits, but overall the book tried to portray the post-Roman Britain accurately at least in the first…

It says named after “Indiana Jone’s least favorite animal”, not “snake”. Indiana Jone’s least favorite animal is obviously Harrison Ford.

Yeah, major fail for this article. Guessing they either didn’t get permission to use the photo, or couldn’t be bothered to ask.

Yes, I was expecting the scientific name to be “Snakes whydidithavetobesnakes” or something like that.

Where’s the picture of the snake?