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Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by shawabawa3 »

Eavolution wrote: post #144
cmckn wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly, the Bank of England uses £100,000,000 notes internally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A3100,000,...

Somewhat vaguely related to this, not all bank notes in the UK are made equal. Good luck getting someone in England to accept an Ulster Bank, Danske bank, or Bank of Ireland note, despite them all being pound sterling notes issued in the UK worth the exact same amount.

That's not really them not being made equal, that's just people being ignorant of them

you have the same problem spending $2 bills in the US

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by HarHarVeryFunny »

jjwatt wrote: post #58

Is there anyway to order new bills like this but cut? It doesn’t seem like banks are offering anything uncirculated nowadays.

Banks certainly receive packs of new notes (from the Fed) all the time, so try asking nicely, or ask them to order it if its something like $2 bills that they don't normally have. I've read comments on collector forums of others getting new notes from the bank like this.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by gsck »

Eavolution wrote: post #144
cmckn wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly, the Bank of England uses £100,000,000 notes internally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A3100,000,...

Somewhat vaguely related to this, not all bank notes in the UK are made equal. Good luck getting someone in England to accept an Ulster Bank, Danske bank, or Bank of Ireland note, despite them all being pound sterling notes issued in the UK worth the exact same amount.

Ulster Bank notes are some of the few notes in the world that are portrait in orientation, probably doesnt help with the acceptance of them elsewhere in the UK

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by ternnoburn »

khazhoux wrote: post #50
ternnoburn wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Please cite some examples of how the U.S. treats disabilities as personal failings, compared to specific other countries.

I made no claims about other countries. I forwarded only the claim that the U.S. treats disability as a failing.

Let's start with various cognitive disabilities -- depression, for instance, is heavily stigmatized. Seeking medication and therapy, and especially talking about medication and therapy, is considered awkward and uncomfortable in most circles.

Or ADHD, which causes a whole range of executive functioning failures - inability to focus, manage schedules, etc. Yet we make access to diagnosis and medication very difficult, and workplaces often fail to accommodate people.

On the physical disability front, one of the easiest and fastest things we can do is add alt text to images, yet even "progressive" places struggle to do this. In fact, a coffee company just sued for the right to not have to provide an accessible website, trying to undermine the ADA's protections of digital spaces.

But don't take my words for it, there are many resources online that are worth reading:

Disability and access to health care: https://fisafoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Access...

People with disabilities experience higher rates of exclusion: https://www.urban.org/research/publication/four-ten-adults-d...

Countless examples of care being inadequate: https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2...

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by bitdivision »

Eavolution wrote: post #144
cmckn wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly, the Bank of England uses £100,000,000 notes internally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England_%C2%A3100,000,...

Somewhat vaguely related to this, not all bank notes in the UK are made equal. Good luck getting someone in England to accept an Ulster Bank, Danske bank, or Bank of Ireland note, despite them all being pound sterling notes issued in the UK worth the exact same amount.

Danske bank? Isn't that Danish?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banknotes_of_the_pound_sterlin...

Looks as though it's just Ulster, Scotland and the Crown Dependencies nowadays

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_Bank_(Northern_Ireland) Danske bank is a Northern Irish bank (I had never heard of this)

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by scarface_74 »

mindslight wrote: post #149
scarface_74 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s more of an issue with the US financial infrastructure. There are plenty of poorer countries where mobile payments are more the norm than in the US.

Great idea. We should endeavor to be a poorer country with even less ability to escape corporate surveillance.

Yes, I’m really worried about what exactly? The places where cash are feasible to be used - in person transactions - aren’t the places where I would worry about government funding out what I’m doing.

Yes I know about regressive states and tracking women who might be pregnant to “protect the unborn”.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by furyofantares »

scarface_74 wrote: post #141
Aeolun wrote: post #45

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The thing I cannot fathom is why quarters are so huge, considering they’re nearly valueless. Then you need whole stacks of $1 bills to pay anything relevant. I find both constantly cluttering up my wallet.

The question is why are you using cash? Even my 82 year old dad is now using Apple Pay and both of my parents mostly use credit cards/debit cards. The only time I keep cash is for tipping, my wife and I travel a lot.

Because you get to do promiscuous arithmetic with strangers.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by ternnoburn »

scarface_74 wrote: post #152
ternnoburn wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Absolutely no political party in the US is railing against the disabled. The ADA was championed by Bush - a Republican candidate. Especially seeing how many people in “rural America” are claiming disability benefits that could work. But don’t have the necessary skills to get the jobs available are a willingness to move to where the jobs are. Yes I realize that moving somewhere without the extended family support syst…

I'd argue neither political party is helping people with disabilities, and both are pretty strongly neglecting them. I don't think any of the current slate of politicians care at all. Bush I was a generation ago.

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by scarface_74 »

inetknght wrote: post #151
scarface_74 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The question is why are you using cash? Even my 82 year old dad is now using Apple Pay and both of my parents mostly use credit cards/debit cards. The only time I keep cash is for tipping, my wife and I travel a lot.

> The question is why are you using cash? I use cash because it contributes to the local neighborhood economy more than not using cash. I use cash because I do not want to risk a banking app being broken by a non-banking app. I use cash because I do not trust banking apps to keep to themselves instead of infecting the whole device with spyware to "verify who you are". I use cash because not using cash charges extra (…

> I use cash because it contributes to the local neighborhood economy more than not using cash.

The merchant gets all except for a 2% fee when you don’t use cash. Cash handling also has cost - theft both from employees and outside actors - too.

> I use cash because I do not want to risk a banking app being broken by a non-banking app.

When has Apple Pay or Google pay ever been “broken”? Do you not use a bank at all or not use any banking apps or websites?

> I use cash because not using cash charges extra (often-hidden) fees while using cash often comes with extra discounts.

There are very few places in the US that up charge for credit card transactions. Mostly gas stations and then mostly only for gas.

> I use cash because the modern economy is a give-business-money-for-nothing-because-fuck-you economy and I don't want to contribute to that.

You don’t think the merchant network does anything? Even if you are opposed to credit card transaction fees are you also opposed to debit transaction fees which are much lower and where there is a legsl cap?

Re: Uncut Currency

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Post by scarface_74 »

ternnoburn wrote: post #168
scarface_74 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Absolutely no political party in the US is railing against the disabled. The ADA was championed by Bush - a Republican candidate. Especially seeing how many people in “rural America” are claiming disability benefits that could work. But don’t have the necessary skills to get the jobs available are a willingness to move to where the jobs are. Yes I realize that moving somewhere without the extended family support syst…

I'd argue neither political party is helping people with disabilities, and both are pretty strongly neglecting them. I don't think any of the current slate of politicians care at all. Bush I was a generation ago.

What exactly should the government be doing that it isn’t doing? I’m speaking as someone with a slight disability

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42611326

More details, it’s more of an irritation for me than a life altering issue - my CP is such that I can only grab things with my left hand and I have a slight limp because of weakness in my left foot. But properly conditioned, I can run a 10 minute mile (not great. But not bad).

So this is an honest question, I (or my parents) really haven’t needed much government help even though I did go through various therapies until I was 12 when my “therapy” became lifting weights.

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