So, as long as the people *inside* the vehicle are okay, you don't consider the safety of the people *outside* the car to be something worth considering? I know which place I'd rather live in

(It's spelled utes)

So.... by buying one of these you are helping to defund the Chinese Government?

Yes, which is why the British government set up Australia in a radically different way to how they set up the American colonies - namely not expecting the colony to pay for itself. In Australia we are used to the government being useful, not some tyrannical force that must be resisted at every step. There's also a lot more interaction with the government in day to day life than in the US.

Yep, I did it last week. Left me totally boggled (the last time I deposited a cheque was probably in the 90s, and it involved going into a bank and filling out a bit of paper)

Mine

Wouldn't the card record just show $X spent at Y merchant? They don't show details - at least, mine don't

It's been 20s and 50s for the whole time

Yeah I was asked recently to pay in cash and was amazed to find I actually had some on me.

> has laws on the book saying parents can be arrested if their 11 year old walks to school by themselves

This is a thing?

I stopped using cash during the pandemic, and the habit just stuck

I still use the cheque account I was issued upon enrolment at uni in 1991. No fees, so I've just kept it. I actually deposited a cheque into it last week, certainly the first time this century I've deposited a cheque. It was surreal. I used the bank app on my phone to take a photo of it, the app OCR'd the cheque, and it was deposited. Waaay simpler than the last time I deposited a cheque. I had to retain the actual paper cheque for 10 days, just in case, but the actual depositing was incredibly easy.