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A fine is brushed off in a quarter. They should be forced to split into seperate companies.

It’s not 2007. Devices are everywhere now, smartphones, TV’s etc. The social dimension (social pressure) and implications are very different now. Their power increases, amount of people caught in the loop is immense now. 2007 was all still fun and games.

New records are ridiculously priced! There are jewels hidden in thrift store bins or in some of the more “messy” looking record stores for very reasonable prices. Digging through the pictures and the names you may or may not know, to select albums based on their title and cover: there’s an incredible charm to that. I visit a lot of record stores, the ones that look too neatly organised and every single record is in a sealed shrink wrap, are the ones I leave rather quickly. I want my record store to look and feel like an old attic :)

Because I fail to configure wake-on-lan and such and I sometimes want remote access to it. I do have cron put it to sleep in low-hours and wake up next day…

yeah, same :')

No idea unfortunately

I’m assuming labour cost is still pretty low in Southern Italy, because in North/Western Europe you can have a kitchen and a bathroom renovated for that money, but no way build an entire house.

It’s not only speculation, it’s also because some locations are a lot more wanted by many people to live there: right next to a big park, walkable neighbourhood, city amenities nearby but few city problems, no highway audible when sleeping with open window et cetera et cetera. More people want to live in prime locations than prime location housing is available.

The big scam are the insane prices for run down shoebox-apartments in shitty locations.

I disagree. For a very large volume of very small transactions the time it takes to process 1 digital payment is a fraction of the time it takes to process 1 cash payment (and giving back change). For very small transactions in digital payment there’s no entering PIN, no confirming, no thinking and change giving, no opening cash registry or even putting it in a pocket or pouch, it’s incredibly fast nowadays. I don’t even have to put my card in the machine, just hold it in front of it, seller doesn’t have to count or give back, it saves enormous amounts of time.

You can buy sex toys or mushrooms and pay by card, no issue.

I do try to avoid places where I’m obligated to pay cash. I don’t want to collect coins, nor do I want to round up or tip up to round numbers to avoid getting coins.

Oh they can more than be happy with dying on the street when they’re sick. What hospital? Waves hand. There was no hospital!

Large majority of collected taxes serve just purposes in many countries.

Less taxes are payed on cash because plenty of shops don’t register every cash sale, but a card payment you almost can’t not register correctly. That is the sad real reason many smallish shops don’t want to accept cards: it becomes a lot harder to illegally avoid paying taxes on a substantial part of your business turnover.

The part everyone ignores is that the cash also has a price for the stores or anyone with a lot of money. They have to spend a lot more time, effort and money on security for their cash. After a while putting it under your mattress just doesn’t work anymore. And it costs you 1 - 2 % per received payment, but you also “save” 1 - 2% by having your money on an account where you get intrest on it while your under the mattress stash just becomes worth less and less purchasing power a lot faster… It’s a slight win for banks (waaaay less employees and offices), but the entire gain of electronic payment is definitely not benefiting only the banks, that’s oversimplifing things a lot.

Isn’t that the case in most countries? I’ve never seen in European offline shops different prices advertised based on payment method. They’d put up the annoying “cards only above 10 €” and such, but never “cash 9€, card 10€”

But some wealthy pockets with strong political connections got filled along the way during privatization and that’s all they cared about.

Why not just eat some more fresh fruits and vegetables…?

Okay cool!

On mobile Voyager is quite nice imo