Where I’m from (France) this is how you pay deposits for rentals.
We also have “bank cheques” for big expenses like houses.
Paying with cheques in regular shops is getting rarer, often requires providing two ID, and gets you weird looks. Debit cards have mostly replaced that usage.
We don’t really have credit cards afaik.
It’s a very late reply but here I am.
Your comment is very interesting and thanks for typing it. After a bit of reflection I think you’re right.
I learnt a bit recently about the Bush/Al Gore election in the US and how Florida votes were handled. Thanks Climate Town for throwing me down that rabbit hole.
It shook my confidence quite a bit especially about how automated systems often fail to handle edge cases and how it can create problems down the line.
Yeah this one is pretty niche nowadays.
I did it for my nephews because I found it funny to give them time capsules of what kind of music was broadcasted when they were born. And cassettes are a good medium for long time storage :p
Yeah I was thinking about renting physical copies not streaming.
I’d count digital ones as well.
That’s how I didn’t get the point since none of my leatherback encyclopedias is a complete set (yay backyard sales).
Like a getting movies in a public library can count as renting at Blockbusters imho?
0 points if you count public libraries as “blockbuster adjacent” and I’m only a year older than you.
I’d assume it’s the floppy one but same lol
Same and I’m not even 30 ^^`
What’s the thing you’ve never done?
Americans don’t know any eastern European pies? They’re not even familiar with Deutsch/Polski strudels?
If not I understand that they might be surprised.
I’m not into guys but I’ve got pan/bi/het friends who are great! 😃
The second stomach ig? 👍
People barf from binge eating stuff? :o
I tried explaining to a SO why stappling bread to trees was funny or why “Cat.” was peak humor.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen someone questioning my sanity and theirs by association this clearly in any other conversation.
dies from cringe
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Oh no there’s a bear in my bed!
“The young ones are lacking conservative quality that we had” - Every old cohort going back through time
Ah the duality of humans :p
It was a joke but thanks for the very detailed answer which I wholeheartedly agree with.
Closed source systems suck, they just allow for vulnerabilities to go unchecked. I’m a big proponent for open source solutions.
Otoh physical items with loads of people involved are indeed harder to tamper with. A viable electronic solution should imho still include those people and physical trails as a backup.
Never fully trust a treacherous computer :p
This is important activism. Thank you for doing it and sharing some insights.
afaik here in France we use paper ballots and physical collection. Which is quite nice after thinking about it a bit.
What is your opinion on automated solutions being used as an aid for human workers iff it doesn’t replace them?
Same if they’re used only as a secondary check not a primary counting method?
PS: I’ll try to raise awareness around me.