PlanetOfOrd

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, most online stores don't accept gift cards, unfortunately. ๐Ÿ™ Especially Amazon...tried to order some much needed products with Amazon cards, and they require a bank card.

IME, (on Amazon at least...and a few others I've tried) masked cards are usually accepted as bank cards. Gift cards are not.

I'd love to build myself a privacy-respecting online store that accepts everything from Monero to cash to Apple pay (for the general populous that doesn't care), but I sort of lack the capital. ๐Ÿ˜…

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I mean, yeah, it would be great if Amazon took Monero, but I don't see them ever even considering that.

 

From what I understand privacy.com does not have a method of ensuring your identity is separate from your card, but IronVest does. Been using IV for a while now, but earlier this year they put their masked cards under construction

Which is kind of a shame because I had online purchases in mind.

Is there any alternative people have found?

Thanks!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I always called it a sweat jacket.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yes! Thank you! That's what i was looking for.

Although, yeah, Ramsey definitely has had his share of controversy, so I listen to the episodes with a grain of salt.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I tried a few episodes. Couldn't really get into it for some reason. Maybe I'll try again.

 

My dream is to own my own business (just kidding--own several businesses), but I'm currently experiencing financial hardship. After frantically looking for work for over a year with a network that let me down, I finally managed to find part-time work at a local nonprofit.

But I want to keep the foot on the gas (quite literally). Looking for a good business podcast I can listen to on my drive. I've listen to some in the past, but the quality of them has gone down. Oftentimes the guests are showboating, with like 30 seconds of helpful nuggets in the middle. Or I'll roll my eyes when I see the guest is some Dr. Oz-like green juice prophet.

Yes, I realize podcasts need to make money. I fully accept that if a podcast is free, ads are unavoidable. I simply skip past them.

Previous podcasts that have fallen out of favor with me: University of Adversity, School of Greatness, Achieving your Goals with Hal Elrod, Mel Robbins, Entrepreneurs on Fire, and How I Built It (where each episode just sounded like a 50-minute commercial for WordPress).

Looking for ones that focus on becoming rich, but also ones that talk about how to bolster a network and overcome hardship. Somewhere along there.

Any ideas?

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Was it ever for jobs?

Been an active user for well over 5 years and not one interaction has resulted in a job.

A bunch of people acting like they were hiring, sure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's a blessing to be at a company where you can share that info. Looking for work now, but that's one thing I'm looking for...a company that's open enough to share how I've impacted the overall business.

 

As a Christian most of the circles I'm around are pretty chill...no stone-cold fundamentalists. But I have been around people (and even had family members) who are 100% convinced that rock music is evil and will lead people to engage in witchcraft and draw pentagrams all over their home.

The root of the belief is that rock music uses drums, which are used by voodoo tribes in Africa to entrance people.

Along a different track of thinking, from where did rock music originate? Slaves. They created the guitar because slave-owners didn't allow them to make music with drums.

So then is "rock music is evil" sort of an echo of that attitude?

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How has me working here financially impacted the company? What can I do to help the company become more profitable?

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

https://jmp.chat - cell phone number without the need for ID verification.

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They basically want more data points on people to sell to advertisers.

It's big tech. That's how big tech works.

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