I'm in the United States. I still write a few paper checks a year, mostly to friends and neighbors. It makes it easy to pay my neighbor for some yardwork they do for me.

I think the killer app that would move me away from paper checks would be a "universal" (at least in the US, but for the entire US) app that would let me authorize transfers funds to other people and businesses. Something maybe like CashApp, but that every person and every business and utility uses. Right now, it feels like every person has a different cash transfer application, and the ones you can use for people are different than the ones you can use for businesses. It sounds like the Australian systems provide that capability.

Darkness blacker than black, and darker than dark...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I see where you are going, but unless you include the full quote, it just looks like you are being a lame Xtian nationalist.

Besides, I am more of an Ezekiel 23:20 guy myself... which is also relevant to the Xtian nationalists if they ever bothered to read their holy book.

Here is the link English Wikipedia article on the New Zealand toothbrush fence:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think the above poster is referencing the old Microsoft PC System Design Guides (PC-97, -98, -99 and PC 2001). See this Wikipedia link for more info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

One of the few enduring, useful, legacies of the Design Guides was a standard set of colors for the moldings for PC ports and cable connectors.

For reference, here is the direct link to the Washington Post article
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The above may be behind a paywall. The MSN link in the main story may be intended to help get around the paywall.

It should, the power cells have a half-life of five thousand years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I tried, but I just received a recorded message that the office was closed because of an air pollution emergency.

I think I've read that story...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

You should take better care of your teeth. You have a...quite a cavity here.

They need to do the thing where the parents are also charged for the crimes committed by their children. This case is less clear-cut than the previous ones, because it is far more likely that the parents did not know what their child was doing, but having a legal requirement, that is enforced with criminal consequences, that custodians of minors actually have to exercise custody of them is a good thing and a long time coming.

Now we just need to form some sort of rudimentary lathe.

Aside from the general practice of using broad language in the early stages of an investigation to avoid prematurely narrowing the scope of the investigation, another reason might be avoiding the use of pejorative language prior to any lawsuits. If I defame a party as an "attacker" or "(malicious) hacker" and they didn't do anything to me, they can try to sue me for defamation.

Thanks, now I'm flashing back to Kurzgesagt videos... 'cause I didn't have enough existential dread in my day already.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...