Traditional merchant accounts don’t expose the cost to the merchant until it settles. If you review the bill, it will list a few rates/amounts for different things that vary by card type. It can vary based on so many factors it’s practically impossible to estimate. The tiers don’t have tier level settings, each card product in that tier can have different amounts.

Stripe and the flat x% + $y are of course popular because of the simplicity and predictability of it.

Says it’s vacant. Says guy started in the 80s. Going to deduce he is/was older and moving on for any number of normal reasons. Why is the reason so important?

Have to ask, but what does race have to do with this? Are you saying that DV is deeply engrained in the culture? Black women just accept that their men choose violence?

I'm a bit older, white, and grew up in/around plenty of DV - I think it was just more common back then overall - and my understanding of the forgiveness is that it was almost always driven by economics. The man was the provider, the woman was economically trapped, so she forgave and withstood it. If the women had their own income, they'd have left. The other major factor I picked up on was the kids and withstanding it in order to keep the family unit together.

It was never a lack of intelligence or that they actually condoned it. They had to mentally justify it and rationalize it to others. They'd try to avoid it and 'not make him mad' but when it happened again, they rarely ever made the tough choice to leave.

Cops will charge them to let the courts decide

Remote only controls also a common dealbreaker for me that’s become the norm. We went with no light and switch plate controls (no remote but more difficult install) for the fans in our new build.

I laughed at one of the player comments paraphrased “we were trying to win superbowls and coach was playing Minecraft”

I think it’s a great example of how healthy it can be to have an outlet/hobby that is unrelated to your profession

As has been predicted for months, I don’t recall where i read it but November has been in my brain for when this crisis is going to start.

They'll push that date to November 4 any way they can.

Beyond the election, I personally think it’s more to do with trying to assert that we’re in control of the Iran situation when we’re not.

Recent grads at all levels always suffer from this problem. The issue is they’ve not needed to use it with enough frequency in their academic lives to build the knowledge or muscle memory. Things have improved a lot in past 10 years or so, but it’s even true with many Finance and Accounting grads (that’s who I hire). Many of them just have never seen real world business data and working with it so different than the contrived information they had seen in coursework. That said give them $15 to spend on Udemy. Then, give them a few assignments, with real world business data. And most people pick it up pretty quickly.

Even still, if we were able to continue on current aging trend, including food availability and whatnot, for another hundred thousand or million years; what evolutionary pressures exists that would make our biology able to live even longer than our current status quo?

Likewise, consumers will eventually reduce the amount they’re willing to pay for software so it will balance out. It will be a blip in time we look back on. Like, remember when elevators used to employ an operator. Now we just push a button and happily do it without another person’s labor.