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Cake day: January 16th, 2024

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  • It’s a stupid thing that

    • exists only in English as far as I know, every other language puts it after the number,
    • is not used consistently (since you still write 25¢ and not ¢25),
    • doesn’t follow the way you read it (it’s “five dollars” not “dollar five”).

    It’s one of those places where yes, the spelling rules say otherwise, but the rule is fucking stupid so anarchy it is.

    I’m more irked by “less”, the noun there is dollars so it should be “fewer”…












  • This article is wild already, on the first page there’s this quote

    ‘Do not use the passive voice when such use makes a statement clumsy and wordy. . . Do not, by using the passive voice, leave the agent of the verb vaguely indicated, when the agent should be clearly identified.’ [Edwin Woolley, Handbook of Composition, 1907, p. 20]

    Emphasis mine on… a clear usage of the passive! In active this would have to be “when you should clearly identify the agent” or something of the like, the fuck, how hard is it to not expose your whole ass like this mate






  • Retail customers prefer payment processors for the ability to partially or totally reverse fraudulent transactions, though

    Wait, but again, isn’t this the main thing that banks provide? Like I can call my bank and tell them listen, this transaction was fraudulent, and that’s it, it’s gone. They sometimes even call me first to double-check that a large-sum wire was actually authorised by me.


  • Either that, or live in some futuristic utopia like the EU where banks consider “send money to people” to be core functionality. But here in the good ol’ U S of A, where material progress requires significant amounts of kicking and screaming, you had PayPal.

    Wait what? Can people in the USA not, em, transfer money? What do the banks do then?