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@ Dasus @lemmy.world

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  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • The law where I live pretty much says you have to accept all the most common forms of payment. Or used to, but after covid they've used hygiene as a reason to save on the costs of cash.

    Yeah electronic is usually much easier, but unfortunately I have quite a few things which I need and/or get cash from. Which isn't ideal, but since not doing it would mean worse things, I do do it, while waiting for my society to improve.

    But Visa Electron doesn't do all those things perfectly, btw. Better today, but I remember having overdrawn my account a bunch of times as a youth, because when I was broke I'd shop at small stores I knew that their machine didn't properly verify funds before placing a pending purchase, even when it was supposed to not be able to do that.

    Also I don't have to pay fees to my banks or ATM's here, not yet at least. Forex is pushing ATMs here though, with lots of ATM's for foreign currency. Who is enough of a dipshit to use an ATM for foreign currency in their home country before going on a trip? Scams, the lot of them.

    Here's more from Janek on Honest Guides

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • I never mentioned anything about a spice road, so either that's shitty sarcasm or shitty lying.

    Edit sorry just bad reading by me I read "I've never heard of.." instead of "I have heard of". Apologies.

    Yeah cash is different, but dirty money isn't always cash. If you believe that then you're probably not aware how larger scale crimes work.

    I am kinda annoyed with stores being allowed to not accept cash nowadays. When I was younger and drove a taxi I always had to have my own change on me, and sometimes I was broke when going to work and couldn't break a 50 or a hundred and I'd just have to lower the fare to a sum I was able to break. Luckily hundreds were pretty rare and not being able to break one wasn't a big deal. But breaking a 50 was assumed and once you were somewhere 20km from the nearest atm, the only choice for me was to just lower the price. Sometimes they'd tip the difference, but more often than not I had to round down like 5-10€.

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • Now it's so digital, and there is no concept of dirty money.

    Dude's never heard of crypto.

    Like 80% of what drove the rise of Bitcoins value was the drugmarket, ie dirty money. I myself had more than 120 Bitcoins for a few hours. I never invested in any crypto, just to make it clear. I just went to an anonymous automat in a mall, inserted cash, wrote in a crypto wallet address, went home and purchased drugs online.

    Had I been a bit smarter I prolly would've invested a few euros into bitcoin, but to be fair I've not been in a financial situation where I've would've justified waited for it to grow for 10 years. I would've def cashed out at a few k.

    Other than that yeah I feel your comment. I remember when all the adults had proper credit cards and kids had Visa Electrons, meaning it needed verification of funds before allowing a purchase, unlike a credit card you could just charge without verification. With one of these.. Dad had one, as he had a taxi. They don't call it a "click-clack" for nothing. Using it felt like being an actionhero and loading a shotgun.

    Are coin pockets even still a thing on jeans btw?

  • People born in the 1900s, what was life like back then?

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  • Shitting and pissing and crying because my favorite character is a hateable cop

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  • Order at any and all costs is pretty much authorianism.

    Ever heard of entropy?

    It affects sociology as well.

  • After Traffic Stop for Phone in Right Hand, She Called Out the Problem

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  • Yea I don't get it either. I don't use two arms to put on a seatbelt..

  • After Traffic Stop for Phone in Right Hand, She Called Out the Problem

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  • I saw the bodycam footage of this. The cop says "I saw you holding a phone in your right hand." She holds the arm up, showing the stump, smiles and says, "you wanna just call it?" And he just digs deeper; "no I don't want to call it, I saw you doing uhm..." blablabla excuses excuses citation.

    Fucking ego on cops. Could've just said, "hah, clearly my mistake" I stead of power tripping and ending up all over the internet. Although bet it won't affect his police career any.

  • Shitting and pissing and crying because my favorite character is a hateable cop

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  • "Odo has no authoritarian tendencies"

  • Shitting and pissing and crying because my favorite character is a hateable cop

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  • I don't think you need to be perfect not to be a fascist, but I guess that's a minority opinion nowadays.

  • Say it ain't so

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  • I don't see how one wouldn't naturally get that, no offense. I mean, if one didn't paticularly really ever use a keyboard and typed like gen-x or olders, with index fingers, sure.

    But surely if you're 30 and used a keyboard all your life you don't need to look at the keyboard while typing..?

    No offense. I may just be way overusing one since I was a teenager idk.

  • When other countries say Americans are loud, what does this mean?

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  • I wasn't even being judgmental. Just curious. I basically have a personality disorder because I have a loud voice and am kinda extroverted. But I think if I were to live in like L.A. I'd be considered introverted. Maybe average for like rural Minnesota.

  • When other countries say Americans are loud, what does this mean?

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  • We 6 American college students were louder than all the 1000 Swiss in the square, by volume.

    You noticed this and just kept going?

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    What happens if you have technology from 100 millennia in the future today?

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  • Try DMT, that should answer some questions.

  • Might have been useful on a number of occasions

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  • Oh that's what the "S" stands for.

  • Might have been useful on a number of occasions

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  • I just can't respect someone's opinions on writing when they don't know it's not "cannon".

  • Cardassian nonesense

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  • My grandparents on my mom's side became Jehovas at a later age.

    Grandma used to send longwinded letters about Satan and whatnot. When I grew up a bit I started to take enjoyment in just talking to her about Christianity, but just in a way that pointed out the irrationality, as she would always hang up, mad, because she didn't have the answers. Like just the problem of Evil, but framing it so that Satan might be evil, but God made him, so what does that make God? Things like that, can't recall, she passed away like 10 years ago.

  • Cardassian nonesense

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  • What about Trill nonsense?

  • Cardassian nonesense

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    What are your thoughts on people who are against pacifism?

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  • Conditional pacifism

    Tapping into just war theory conditional pacifism represents a spectrum of positions departing from positions of absolute pacifism. One such conditional pacifism is the common pacificism, which may allow defense but is not advocating a default defensivism[10] or even interventionism.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism#Types

    Well that was fucking easy. /thread