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They genuinely didn’t know, they were just asking because they wanted an answer! /s

For anybody wondering what the cost is to using their service, this quote from their website about sums it up:

Credit Genie charges a recurring fee of $4.99 per month or $3.49 biweekly to maintain a user’s bank account connection. Paying the bank connection fee does not guarantee approval for a Cash Advance.

So essentially, if you’re borrowing from them, you’ll pay $60/yr in fees if you can afford $5 a month, or, more likely if you’re in the kind of financial situation where you’re having to take out $100 micro-loans because your bank balance is consistently hitting zero, you’ll get stuck with the $3.49 biweekly option that I’m sure they totally don’t heavily push you towards. That’s $90/yr.

You get charged the fee whether or not you borrow from them at all, and what do you want to bet they do nothing to notify inactive users of their recurring charges?

I’m not sure if this is entirely relevant, but depending on your local climate it could be related to the smell known as petrichor that you will often get when it rains/is about to rain on soil, which could be affected by the moisture in your local area that accumulated overnight then evaporating more quickly as the sun rises.

It’s “linked” in the sense that it licenses Alex Jones’ name, but with the intent to sell supplements. It would then be promoted on the show, paid for as if it were a sponsorship, but it wasn’t actually “his” company. It’s technically owned by a different person, and isn’t directly financially tied to Infowars, only paying for product placement.

If I recall correctly, it’s owned by a friend of Jones.

Most people going to concerts can’t exactly leave the building, find a different store selling water, buy it, then bring it back in through the concert venue. (Nor are they capable of magically knowing the prices inside beforehand) The reason the price was so high was likely because the venue knew they had a captive audience, and when people need water, they need water. If someone is just forced to pay $12 for water, asking them to subsidize your worker’s wages on top is a shitty move, and if nobody tips, then maybe that company will realize that they can’t subsidize the wages they pay with tips, and stop relying on them.

Then the attendant gets paid fairly from the get go, and they don’t need to be offended if someone doesn’t tip, because why the hell should anybody have to subsidize a corporation’s wages? If they want workers, charge what’s required in the price to pay those workers, no tip required.

I haven’t had a single issue with crashes, noise, heat, display, etc.

The positioning/gaps of the spacers are extremely tiny, and barely noticeable, and the only issue I’ve had so far has been my laptop not turning off fully when I shut it down, but that’s fixed by just holding down the power button.

Oh, and I’m running an unsupported linux distro, (NixOS) so it’s not like I’m starting from any advantaged position in terms of software integration.

Performance is great, cooling is great, games run well and it boots up quickly. Nothing much else to say other than it’s a good laptop.