So is other people's racism like an infinite money glitch?
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Why do they apparently still use cheques in 2026?
Checks are nice when you don't want acquiesce to the anti-privacy account making nonsense or pay the "convenience" fee some companies pull on their websites. With the added bonus of in order to get their money they need to take extra steps and have a real person process the payment because the company dicked around. Checks are awesome.
They may not be the most common method of payment, but they are regularly used.
This story is ancient. I remember seeing it circulate in the early 2010s.
They also still use cheques in 2026 though
Because metal briefcases stuffed with unmarked bills is too cliche.
They are also very heavy.
$1000000 in $100 is 22 lbs.
The logistics alone make most heist movies improbable.
That's why they upgrade the shocks on their mini coopers...
That's it? 10kg? And clankers seem to think that's about 11-12L. So I can load a heavy duty duffel with about 4mil and its only about 40kg. Easy peasy.
1,000,000
My mom still writes checks for all her bills, then the shut-off notices and the checks cross in the mail, and she ends up getting her electricity cut off. I'm trying to get her to use the Internet to pay her bills, but she acts like I'm stupid for suggesting any other way than mailing a check.
its old, not 2026, it's American they have a zillion banks and they're stuck in the 1990s with banking. I have an old cheque book as an antique from yesteryear here in Australia where cheques are no longer used. (EFT everywhere)
I mean in fairness most people in America use credit/debit cards or echecks for day-to-day transactions. Paper checks are mostly for when corporations or slow-moving bureaucratic arms of the government want to sit on your money for as long as possible.
Some offices (not necessarily just banks) still want people to send documents by fax.
I've often found it's sometimes cheaper to pay some bills by check. The cost of a postage stamp can be lower than the "convenience fee" of paying online.
So you pay to use online banking? European banks started charging for everything else to force people online. They save a lot of money now that there are basically no more bank offices left. And cheques haven't been in use since the 90s
because a card bas a spending limite, while the checks dont
ThErE iS nO rAcIsM iN aMeRiCa
nOonE sAyS ThAt
Let me introduce you to the majority of my conservative coworkers.
I thought the conservative stance was that there's no systemic racism. Your co-workers actually think all racism is solved, in the US of all places?? Sheesh
Dawg, I think you may be overestimating many conservatives. Most of them don't draw a line between personal racism and systemic racism, and many of them think racism was "solved" when Obama was elected president.
So much so that I have one white coworker who openly uses the n-word because it's "not racist anymore".
What the actual fuck‽
I thought the conservative stance was that there’s no systemic racism.
I mean, there's no limit to how stupid people can be. But I think a lot of conservatives like to say that the racism of the past doesn't matter anymore. That a family that was enslaved 160 years ago (just beyond living memory now, but potentially someone's great-great-grandparent), and then subject to Jim Crow and other cruelties through... generously the 1960s but realistically the 1980s, that family has no long lasting effects.
But really it's important to remember that conservatives just say things. They don't care about facts or truth. They care about power, and their emotions. So even if you proved that racism was systemic and had measurable effects (eg: The Color of Law), it won't matter. They don't care about facts. They care about feelings.
This is funny because many conservatives say things like "facts don't care about your feelings", but it's well known that conservatives project more than movie theaters.
Jinkies!
....a lot of people say that.
lucky you for not being surrounded by fucking idiots, i guess tho?
A lot of *racists" say that. Or at least racist apologists.
Unfortunately, I had a middle aged white dude make that argument to me while I was a bartender. This was a little before the pandemic, in one of the least diverse states in the U.S. (population is ~90% white people). He said that in his entire life, he had never witnessed or experienced anyone be racist to anyone else, ever, and the only reason why people think it's an issue is because the news is overly sensational and tries to divide us. I tried to tell him his experiences are not universal and cannot be taken as representative of the experiences of a person of color, but he was not having it. Since I was about half his age at the time, he said I didn't have enough life experience to know that. This is despite the fact that I have several friends with first hand experience with racism in the same state he lived. They've been called slurs, followed around in stores, harassed by police and school administrations in public school, been told to go back to their own country (even though this is their own country, and the person telling them this is not indigenous), and numerous other examples.
It was a frustrating conversation that didn't go anywhere. It's especially disheartening that he at least recognized that the news tries to divide us, but then started repeating Fox News taking points when I tried sharing some of the things my friends have been through.
I remember once on a forum a big cis het guy was saying that he's never seen cat calling on the street. Never him, and never at any of his friends. Someone pointed out that since he's a big dude, he's probably not going to be catcalled, and other shitty dudes are likely not going to bother people near him because of patriarchy.
To everyone's surprise, he came back and was like "ok that makes sense. And I asked my women friends and they told me a lot of stories"
Rare to see someone change their mind like that.
Good on him for actually listening and checking with people who would know more
America without the racism would be like ice cream with no vanilla flavoring. Not even the racists would be trying to tell you its not there.
Nah they think it’s in the past and black people are holding themselves back at this point.
Seriously.
One of the privileges if being a white guy is that other white guys wont even try hiding their racism from you if all you do is keep your mouth shut. Then you can let them run it all out before letting it slip that you aren't one of their friends.
Chat, is this shitpost real?
Apparently it is: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51234141
The bank clerk herself was a black woman, and the man is an Air Force veteran… The onion couldn’t make this shit up
A small tidbit :
Police began an investigation into Mr Thomas for fraud during the incident, but have since closed the case.
So non only the police didn't need to be involved but they also tried to find fraud charges instead of helping the victim of racism...
From the article:
But when he tried to open a savings account for the money at the Livonia branch, staff said they would need to verify the cheques. The assistant bank manager - herself a black woman - went to a backroom, before returning and telling Mr Thomas their team member who verifies cheques was not there. She allegedly asked him how he got the money.
Ten minutes later - after Mr Thomas said he would wait in the lobby for the staff member to return - four police officers arrived.
I'm taking bets the asst. bank manager was told she had to ask by someone else behind the scenes. Then that someone called the cops.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though? How would they know if the check is legit or not? They should have deposited it and waited to see if the funds came in.
Call the person who wrote the cheque to confirm.
WTH is a beat cop going to do though?
Enforce hierarchy
Sauntore Thomas when the bank called the cops:
Reality is often loonier than fiction.
Republicans hate this infinite money glitch.
For recurring charges like phone bills or water bills, they'll often let you do a bank transfer/eCheck for free. But then debit cards are like $2.99 or so. Probably because the debit card is going through Visa or Mastercard or something. It's even more common to charge for things like parking tickets or things that you aren't paying all the time.
Man finds infinite money cheat.