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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
  • Otherbarry@lemmy.ziptoPersonal Finance@lemmy.ml•Which credit cards do you use for maximum rewards?English
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    2 years ago

    Citi Double Cash 2% for most purchases

    Citi Custom Cash for specific 5% categories I can target, though in practice I usually use it for groceries

    Discover Cash Back / Chase Freedom Flex for the rotating 5% categories

    Personally I don’t travel enough to bother with travel rewards cards but maybe that’s an option for other people.

    PS - I’ve found that Discover usually has higher discounted gift cards if you wind up using your cash back towards that, sometimes it works out better than just doing cash back against your balance.

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.ziptoStar Trek@lemmy.ml•'Star Trek: Discovery' Is About To Embark on Its Final VoyageEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Same here, I always liked Star Trek but kind of figured it was mainly for nostalgia nowadays until Discovery came along & all this new Trek related stuff started appearing.

    With Discovery the time jump stuff was a bit of a stretch but I got used to it so it wasn’t a big deal. Plus the individual episodes were done well IMO. My only gripe with the show is that it felt like they took the storyline maybe too seriously at times.

    I wouldn’t mind that it kept going a few more seasons but I’m happy that they’re getting one last season & can use that to wrap things up hopefully.

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.ziptoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•How many of you honestly still use Facebook?English
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    2 years ago

    I still use it mainly to keep track of local events e.g. bands I follow that go on tour & play a show near me or local venues announcing new shows. Or local city events, the local government/business districts still post things. And the kind of pointless meme/shitposts though a lot of that happens on Lemmy itself nowadays. Rarely ever post anything myself, maybe once every 1-2 years haha. But I can tell some friends still lurk FB since I’ll still end up with a few likes on there.

    Could probably do the same with Insta just never got around to actually creating an account there, though now there’s even less point with Meta owning that too.

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.ziptoHome@lemmy.zip•Why are downvotes enabled?English
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    2 years ago

    I avoid registering at instances that have downvotes disabled. In fact I specifically joined lemmy.zip based on it having downvotes enabled. My question to you is why did you join lemmy.zip knowing that downvotes are enabled? You can see that downvotes are enabled before you make an account here :P

    Can’t speak for everyone but for me I rarely actually downvote unless it’s someone doing obvious trolling/baiting. And usually when I see posts in the negative it’s basically a warning not to bother clicking the post.

  • Otherbarry@lemmy.ziptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why do some independent creators/small projects still have crypto donation links?
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    2 years ago

    Since you don’t want to use cryptocurrencies no one else should /s

    I’ve donated plenty via crypto so haven’t seen it as an issue, if the receiver is cool with it then why not? Also for me it’s better than anything PayPal related, I’ve been banned on their platform so whenever I see any PayPal/Venmo links I just don’t donate since it’s impossible for me.

    And of course if the receiver doesn’t want crypto that’s fine too, but hopefully they are accepting donations via some method I can donate with. The whole point is to be able to accept donations via some method both sender & receiver can work with.