then_three_more
@then_three_more@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Mobile Browsers That Stick Their Noses Into Your Business 16 hours ago:
On a side note, I’m pretty sure the way that this site does the accept cookies thing is how whoever in the EU came up with the idea imagined it would be implemented.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 2 days ago:
I am.
I just don’t understand how they can work.
If you don’t use them for every transaction how do they stay synchronised with the bank’s records of how much you have in your account?
When the power is out and the bank can’t check their computer, what’s to stop someone turning up with a bank book that says they have £1 in it and saying that there’s more because they transferred it online before the power went out? Or, of course, the book saying they have more than they do because they took some out before power went out?
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 2 days ago:
So you have to use them every time you use the bank, I’m assuming this also means that these accounts don’t allow you to do any kind of internet or telephone banking.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 3 days ago:
Presumably even there though they check the details from your book against the computer system, to not only check that the book is accurate and that the branch has enough cash on hand to fulfil your request? The computer system that has had no power for a week.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
If productivity is going up wages should go up. However what has been happening is that the extra money has been being funneled into the pockets of the rich. I’ll bet you the board and senior management ain’t giving themselves inflation based pay rises.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
That’s not how inflation works. Inflation going down means they just stay around 80 and in theory your wages gradually come up so 80 now feels like 40.
- Comment on When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world? 4 days ago:
In that scenario most of the food has gone bad anyway and is stuck in distribution centres as the shops can’t send orders up through the supply chain.
Also, without power most places couldn’t take cash. Tills are computers that do all the maths so the 16 year old serving you doesn’t have to they also track inventory going out.
The cash that there is is stuck in banks because the banks have no way of knowing what money is yours as we haven’t had bank books for like 20 years already.
- Comment on Half Life 3 5 days ago:
I would love it if they just called it Half Life 4
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 1 week ago:
- The handles on all the others except 5 are hideous but 5 has a really weird pointy bit
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 1 week ago:
Or “fucking freezing init”
- Comment on Kanyes new album 3 weeks ago:
That’s how it read in my head
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s the Anglo Saxon. Us Brits are the same.
- Comment on "Avengers: Doomsday" is officially in production 1 month ago:
And the crowd goes mild
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 month ago:
- By a country mile
- Comment on Sounds like a place I'd love to work for 1 month ago:
Just call them and have a telephone appointment. Job done.
- Comment on wrong again 1 month ago:
Are you sure? I thought a lot of what he listed was actually millions, not billions.
- Comment on Please answer. 2 months ago:
Not quiet
98.99% of mold gives humans something between mild discomfort and death, 1% tastes good with butter. The the remaining 0.01% is estimated to have saved over half a billion lives.
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
Over here cotton buds used to usually have plastic sticks. They’ve all changed to paper because of this EU thing though.
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
I think Americans call the q tips
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
If it’s on the beach it’s been washed up there. The stuff that’s washing up can be collected, sure, but that represents a small percentage of the overall amount that there is.
- Comment on nets 2 months ago:
Or organise a boycott on eating fish.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 2 months ago:
Same, the closest I’ve come is I’ve looked at the holiday rota and gone “wow it’s literally just me and the manager in that week, probably best to book the week before or after”
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 2 months ago:
UK here - it’s common not to. I think they technically will last longer in the fridge, but they’re absolutely fine kept out.
- Comment on Select a tip 2 months ago:
America seems to be a bit crazy.
Pretty sure 0%-10% is standard in the UK. Though a lot of those cheeky service charges are around 12.5
- Comment on I wish I could be unemployed 2 months ago:
Working in an “essential job” meant I really missed out on the furlough holiday that most of my friends had.
- Comment on Water bills in England and Wales to rise by £123 a year in April 3 months ago:
Joe Lycett did a thing on this. Most of the board of the regulator are ex high ups from the water companies.
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 3 months ago:
That kind of thing I get. It’s the corporate mass produced side where they literally just repackage the same product and mark up the price that’s objectionable.
- Comment on Would you like to finance your hot chocolate with a loan set at 69% apr? 3 months ago:
Switch Kids out for Wedding and triple the price.
- Comment on BDSM 3 months ago:
Windows Bob has entered the chat
- Comment on Time to chop wood 3 months ago:
I’m gonna guess this is an American thing