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I assume th cashback bonus thing is because of refunds/chargebacks?
If you were given cashback in December, then refunded the charge in January it'd be logical to assume you'd need to repay the cashback too for everything to balance out(otherwise it'd be free money to just constantly refund things after getting the cashback).
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The negative cash back would make sense if a refund occurred. Most (all) credit cards "revoke" your points when transactions are reversed or refunded.
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The sorting one is pretty easy - it's a locale issue. More likely, the values are returned with comma as the thousands separator, but the sort is using comma as the decimal separator. Less likely (though it would be a much bigger WTF) is that somehow the value being returned really is approximately 1 and a half.
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Ugh, that apostrophe in "client's" triggers me more than the Latin!
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Ditto. I can deal with Lorem, but just deliberately doing the wrong thing is annoying.
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I thought the same first, but that document is brand new, from January 22nd. It must be a super exciting read to get one and half a thousand views within a day or so when the other documents are viewed only few times within several months.
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"What our client's {blanks} are saying"
Fill in the blank
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It's a quite common thing in Germany called Deppenapostroph, where an apostrophe, or a single quoatation mark or an accent, is used to (a) indicate that a 's' will follow, (b) a 't' will follow, (c) the word ends here, or (d) the word is interrupted. So wha't client`s say iss very imp‘rtand to our maneger's and our Lartin customer’s !!
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What are fractional views?
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Last week my Xfinity service was down until midnight, at which point they sent me a text saying “Congratulations, your Xfinity service was restored at 4:30 PM.”
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A search turns up multiple instances of that specific chunk of boilerplate, including Mary Beth and her two friends. One of them talks about "Member's".
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'Sfunny, but the photo of Mary Beth doesn't look anything like the Mary Beth I knew at college. It's possible that there are multiple Mary Beth's (<<== did you see what I did there?) in the world, I suppose, or even that this one in the screen shot is completely fictional, but ...
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"foward"??
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ASCIIrtment.
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Stringsort. Or Maybe Strnumsort...
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Maybe the connection was interrupted before the article finished loading?
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That's what I would assume, also. More sensible than what happened to me: Got the points (and in a 3% category!), Covid hit, the plane didn't fly, I got rewards again on the refund.
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As I said, a much bigger WTF.
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Multiple of what owned by Mary Beth? (English uses
'sfor possessives, not plurals, despite the best effort's of greengrocer's.)Admin
The apostrophes are bad, but I think the Latin is worse. I expect a company to post their best-ever customer remarks. If your company's last satisfied customer was in the Roman Empire, I don't think you'll be getting my business.
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Fractional views are when you open it up, but can't be bothered reading the whole thing. Seems fairly obvious.
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ASCIIbetical . (Seriously, not a new term.)