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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 2h

Card only transactions are inherently less secure for patrons

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 4h

Cash does not have a $0 transaction fee.

Transporting, storing and counting cash is actually quite costly, and emplouee skimming rates are much higher than they are with cards.

𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 2h

Cash is legal tender for settling all debts both public and private. Electronic is not.
Counting cash does not require electricity or the internet.

Card only is inherently disenfranchising. Accepting only one payment is the worst of both worlds. Be for real.
Businesses arent card only cuz of cost.

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 4h

It's also more labour intensive on a per transaction business.

There's a reason more new businesses are card-only than cash-only. Cash has very high fixed costs and medium-low marginal costs while cards have a low fixed cost and medium-high marginal cost. Accepting both is worst of both worlds.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 2h

Cash doesn’t stop working when the internet is down.
Employee skimming rates is a laugh. Corporate executives skimming profit is what costs money.
Storing and counting cash is NOT costly- that’s the function of a BANK.

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 4h

Cash does not have a $0 transaction fee.

Transporting, storing and counting cash is actually quite costly, and emplouee skimming rates are much higher than they are with cards.

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Ashleigh ☕️ @ashleigh.me · 2h

I wish I could adopt every dog in the world

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 7h

Does Odo always have a combadge on him or can he turn into functional, complex machinery on command?
#DS9

𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 7h

Name ONE WAY ‘withholding my vote’ has helped ANYONE, including your dumbass self.

𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 7h

‘I withheld my vote allowing genocide for my fellow Americans’ isn’t the defense you think it is, you stupid fucking shill.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 7h

You chose genocide for all, including yourself and your fellow Americans due to this administration’s CLEAR AND UNRELENTING actions as such.
You’re LYING to yourself and everyone else. An inability to see that is cause for you to self reflect on that, being an idiot, and a liar.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 9h

This is the stupidest shit because. THE ORANGE MENACE DID NOT DESERVE TO WIN AND YOU ARE A FUCKING IDIOT IF YOU THINK HE IS DOING anything OTHER THAN SUPPORTING multiple GENOCIDES.

You don’t have a good conscience.

JikissGamer @jikissgamer.bsky.social · 2d

She deserved to lose and I don't regret withholding my vote in that election in the slightest. I could not in good conscience reward her for what the Biden Admin did in Gaza with her as VP.

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Anime Bullock @brosninja.bsky.social · 10h

Combining politics and celebrity has always been such a poor choice. These people work for us, and they need to be reminded of this.

Mike Honcho Himself 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @trailian.bsky.social · 10h

Y’all have lost the plot cheerleading for these fucking politicians

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 12h

These new vitamin water commercials are…odd
‘Vitamin Water is so New York’

Like…okay.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 23h

I’ve been wanting to go for a walk all day with someone but they are eternally unavailable.

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Luther Yungblood @wado1.bsky.social · 1d

I lean and get lit, lima bean 6.

ShordeeDoWhop @netta.bsky.social · 1d

This grand hustle team of kings is gettin rich!!

KD Drummond @kddrummondnfl.bsky.social · 1d

Nigga buck... carbon 15 in this bitch

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣 This is me & Charlize Theron, I pronounce it Charlizé like Lovita Alizé Jenkins.

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Cardamom Basil @linluv5.bsky.social · 1d

Your name is Jeremy?! YOU THINK YOU KNOW SOMEONE!

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MonsterKing @cerromerussell.blacksky.app · 1d

Razz my berries is hilarious

the lady from Bluesky @beigewunder.blacksky.app · 1d

I love a veiny or hairy ass hand. Man hands really razz my berries

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Robert Picardo @robertpicardo.bsky.social · 1d

My first professional acting job was in an off-Broadway play with Diane Keaton in 1976. I worked with her again when she directed an episode of China Beach. She was smart, kind, funny and very, very talented. What a loss.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 23h

Yeah $0.25 is relatively cheap when you’re spending $100.

But when you’re earning $100 over 20 transactions, that’s $5.

Cash has a $0.0000 transaction fee. That IS small. That IS cheap.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 23h

The USS Exeter doesn’t have a dedication plaque.
Scotty serves alcohol from a weird bottle.
Scotty’s kilt can be seen in his quarters.

Things I wouldn’t pay attention to if it were not for @gaghyogi49.bsky.social and his noticing of things!

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Nash @radiodeadair.com · 1d

If you squint at taillights and they get long streaky lines around them honey that's not normal you've got astigmatism.

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RedArmyFraction @nopassaran.bsky.social · 1d

This is correct. My take is you don’t have to be white to be a white supremacist.

You just have to accept white supremacy or the supremacy of white Christian men.

If you do you’ll get a place in the racial hierarchy w the promise of dominating those below you.

But you can never be on top.

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 1d

I think for Vivek the combination of skin color/ethnicity/religion *and* the fact that he wants to be in an executive leadership position rather than a content creator or even a legislator is a bridge too far for a lot of these bigots.

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𝗡𝗼 @concandycorn.bsky.social · 1d

‘Relatively cheap’ is always a scale related farce.

Ryan Hassett @ryanhassett.bsky.social · 1d

Hot take: The US actually has a relatively cheap PIN debit system and a major reason that many small retailers refuse to take cards (or charge a fee for them) is that they are engaged in sales tax evasion, evasion that itself wouldn't be possible if the US used VATs like a first-world country.

Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 1d

“Much of what we think of as innovation in the US is just private duct tape applied to the country’s uniquely bad payments system. Stablecoins, for example, offer a way to transfer something like a dollar from one place to another, without a bank.” Great stuff from @bhgreeley.bsky.social

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Dean Devlin @electricentertainment.com · 1d

This is beyond sad. I knew her because she was in a film my father produced. Over the years she was always so kind to me whenever I ran into her. We lost a giant today. Rest in peace, Ms Keaton.
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