so you take your hand, place it on the card reader and give it a shake. If the card reader is loose and can pull off its a skimmer.

I’ve used vintage gas pumps, and they work the same. It is cooler to see the mechanical counter turn over though than a digital display

There’s no demand for it, why offer something the majority of people do not want or care for?

Yeah, i’ve never been confused by that either.

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Gas pumps are pretty standardized, I’ve traveled all over the country and not once have I looked at a gas pump and been like “how the fuck do I use this?”, that sounds like a personal problem.

Yeah you are gonna need to cite some type of credible information for this.

Or, hear me out, having someone else pump your gas for you in the modern age is fucking wild

It would be cool if these YouTubers could wait til the paper was peer reviewed and its results replicated before shooting their mouth off

That’s fine, just know that this has already been looked in to and reported on with rough numbers on what artists earn and artists themselves talking about it, and you have extremely rose tinted glasses on how all of that actually plays out and the amount of money musicians earn from streaming.

If you primarily consume content through Spotify or streaming you are supporting office with fractions of a penny per stream.

If you aren’t going to shows and buying from the merch table, or buying directly from bancamp etc you aren’t supporting artists.That’s where the majority of their money comes from.

Sure, not because of Chernobyl, the national embarrassment of the failed soviet afghan war, the coup attempt on Gorbachov and the following turmoil causing Moscow to lose influence, followed by many republics declaring independence. but sure, just the profit/market economy

Could easily argue that the winner of the Cold War was the US, considering the USSR collapsed through internal strife and balkanization.