My understanding about this and if I remember correctly they charged the maximum amount that the pump will let you pump so if the pump will let you pump 50 gallons they authorize the dollar amount for that amount of gas.

After that they charge the amount of gas that you actually get and delete the first charge. Normally this happens fast enough that you don’t ever see it on your account. If you were in the middle of nowhere though, they might have been using tile up for their credit card system and that could delay things.

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Interesting. Thanks, and I definitely take your point, though I don’t know much about Russia or Russians aside from a “history of Russia and China” class in college.

Also TIL prosody 😁.

We’re talking about different things.

You’re talking about social dynamics, and what I’m talking about is more general than that.

There’s a certain range of emotions and certain root emotions that are common to everyone but there’s also a great deal of variation between people that speak different languages.

The language you grow up with shapes how you think at a very low level. How you process information, how you see the world.

For example, I read about a study, presumably about Mandarin, that explained an interesting difference between how Chinese people and English speaking people themselves in the future.

In Mandarin, the language sort of forces you to see your future self as self-same to your current self and this causes Chinese people to be much much better about saving money for the future. On the other hand the English language causes one to think of the future self as a different person and it makes it more difficult to identify that future self as truly you.

I tried to find the article for you but couldn’t. The concept is called self-continuity.

Another place I’ve seen this present is in software design, oddly. I used a tool at a previous job that was largely developed by people that didn’t have English as a first language. It had a very clear logic to it and made sense, but everything was put together in ways that were initially counterintuitive.

This also applies to how foreign speakers emote. Like I said, all the root emotions are pretty much identical, but there’s a lot of nuance and a good number of emotions that are not universally represented and not experienced as often (sometimes not at all) in due to lack of language for it. Saudade is an example of it. Not only does it not translate, but it’s not universally experienced.

Anyway, I was more or less “squirreling”.

I actually didn’t get very far at all into it. It made me too anxious and depressed. What you’re saying is totally valid though. People that speak different languages literally have different sets of emotions and different emotional expressions for emotions of the same name.

Eg., I’ve never experienced saudade (Portuguese, I think), It doesn’t really exist in English speaking countries.

Nice reference.

The purpose of life is to gather data and reflect the universe around it through adaptation.

It is without intrinsic meaning but the meaning that I give to it is to try to end all suffering.

I dunno, ii figured it’s mass produced due to the celery juice flavor (nitrite preservative) and is therefore benefiting from an economy of scale.

The way the economy is going, you’re probably right.

Total recall gives me instant flashbacks to the mutant scene, the cool part and the creepy part.

Yes. Let’s make the planet even hotter… Fucking morons.

Then I’m f’d because it’s really hard to enter tabs in most password text fields.

Yup. Tis a joke.

I noticed that and also noticed how they swapped out the assistant for for Gemini AI bullshit that doesn’t work right so you can’t tell it to turn on a light or generally to do anything and have it actually do it correctly.

Every time my phone gets an update I have to go and switch that shit back. I honestly believe they’re trying to get me to buy a Linux phone.

Yeah. It’s hard. It’s been hard for me too.

I’m teaching my kids as I learn for myself; it’s critically important that you not dehumanize people and seek understanding and strive to be compassionate.

I’ve also known people that have voted for trump 1st term to be good people for long enough that I see it as valuable to deeply interrogate the process by which they came to be such as they are now. For me, at least, it feels lazy and dishonest to flatly dismiss them as bad. Even trump 2 voters, I can see that they, nearly all, were submerged in a propaganda machine designed to break people.

Are some of them sociopathic monsters? You bet! Society needs protected from them.

I see the groupthink on both sides as the most dangerous thing though. The manipulation (of all sides) as the enemy. The dismissal of human life as the root problem. Most especially when profit is placed over people, but also when it’s done by either side.

My concern is that dehumanization plays into their hands and I see the dehumanization as a direct path to violent conflict. They want violence because it would free them to use the insurrection act as a means to their ends.

So, to bring it full circle, seeing them as bad and evil and unworthy of compassion or even dialogue plays directly into their hands.

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Fuck that csv All the way up.

Yeah you’re right. I shouldn’t have used the word evil.

I would urge you to examine how propaganda has affected everyone.

Like other posters have said, probably the best choice OP can make is to actually talk to them and maybe not use lemmy for answers.

I feel ya with this, but to paint this as black and white is to miss important nuance.

They’re deluded. As such, it’s an error to see them as evil in the same way that it is to see a person that’s high on meth and dangerous or schizophrenic and hostile as being evil.

They’re no less dangerous, don’t get me wrong, but to see them as bad is, I think, a critical misunderstanding of what’s going on here that leads people to think like this.

A spectrometer uses light defraction (like a prism does, spreading white ont rainbow) ro determine characteristics of the thing emitting the light. Dark bars in the rainbow produced indicate information about composition.

I too read ramen. Lol.