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Comment Re:Good riddance. (Score 1) 135

Kids should have communities in real life

Real life communities are not always possible, or appropriate, for every child.

where people behave less like assholes

Eh...not really. The types of assholery just shift.

Under light supervision of adults

Can't supervise them 100% of the time, nor should they be.

And a little bit of supervised internet on a family PC in a common room

Overkill. And bypassable.

Comment Disgusting (Score 1) 144

Checks are a disgusting form of currency and should disappear from the face of the earth. That being said, the fees that are charged for replacements to checks is even more disgusting. I've worked with payment processors before, and sometimes the fees being passed on to the consumers are significantly higher than what the payment processor is charging the merchant for said payment - which should be illegal to do. There's a $70 flat fee to use my credit card to pay my rent and there is no way in hell that the payment processor is charging a 10% transaction fee, and if they *were*, then more than just me is getting ripped off.

Comment Re:Australia (Score 1) 144

If they have a bank account with any major US bank, and even most smaller ones, there is always Zelle, which only requires the correct phone number or email address. They'll get a message to setup Zelle to receive the money if they don't already have it setup. Otherwise it's basically only CashApp or Venmo. If anyone is using any other option, in the US, then they're either dumb or have some sort of vested interest (equally dumb).

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