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emSparkly posted:Zoomer here. Are they like mail chutes or something? Payphone booths, without the payphones. Looks like a hotel or office building lobby. The only place around here I've seen payphones in the past five years has been in the airport terminal, after the security checkpoint.
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Kwyndig posted:Yeah all the banks around here had theirs torn out years ago. Now they just have ATMs that accept cash deposits. Meaning I have to go inside if I want a roll of quarters or something. I can't remember if you could get a roll of quarters through pneumatic tube. About 10 years ago I went into a bank with a $10 and asked for a roll of quarters. They asked me for ID and said they couldn't make change for me unless I had an account there. The guy at 7-11 had no such compunction.
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Sep 14, 2023 00:59
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Imagine if you had an account at 7-11 though, where you could just buy gum and monster energy drinks and get billed at the end of the month.
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Sep 14, 2023 01:22
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Kwyndig posted:Imagine if you had an account at 7-11 though, where you could just buy gum and monster energy drinks and get billed at the end of the month. Feels like they have something like that in Japan they do everything at 711
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Kwyndig posted:Imagine if you had an account at 7-11 though, where you could just buy gum and monster energy drinks and get billed at the end of the month. Wasabi the J posted:Feels like they have something like that in Japan they do everything at 711 
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Last Chance posted:"Crank yanking me" ?? That's a wicked old /r/relationships thread submission, like the Ketchup Theater one.
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Kazinsal posted:Payphone booths, without the payphones. Looks like a hotel or office building lobby. The "hastily made Cleveland tourism" video is almost 15 years old now, and contains the line "who the gently caress still uses a payphone?" Link for those who haven't seen it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY
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Sep 14, 2023 02:59
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The safehouse in Milwaukee has a pneumatic tube that starts and ends behind the bar. When you order a spytini they put the shaker into the tube and it shoots around the whole restaurant and comes back so it's shaken and not stirred. They also have a now very conspicuous secret exit that consists of you walking into a phone booth, dialing a number and a secret door at the back of the booth opens and let's you exit via a passage to the alley. There is a bunch of other neat stuff I won't give away and it was franchised to Chicago a few years back but I have never tried that one. It's worth a trip if you like weird cold war/James bond inspired bars.
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Sep 14, 2023 03:19
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Hot idea: Needle exchange via tube
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my turn in the barrel posted:The safehouse in Milwaukee has a pneumatic tube that starts and ends behind the bar. When you order a spytini they put the shaker into the tube and it shoots around the whole restaurant and comes back so it's shaken and not stirred. I looked this place up and they're so dedicated to the bit that their sign outside is just a plaque that says "International Exports Ltd." I think I need to visit Milwaukee.
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Yes the entry is a nondescript door leading to an office. The operative/hostess there will ensure you have proper security clearances and open a secret entrance to get into the bar.
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my turn in the barrel posted:The safehouse in Milwaukee has a pneumatic tube that starts and ends behind the bar. When you order a spytini they put the shaker into the tube and it shoots around the whole restaurant and comes back so it's shaken and not stirred. The Chicago one was apparently closed as of March this year  drat. I was going to propose going there with some friends when I visit them in a few months.
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Last Chance posted:Hot idea: Needle exchange via tube Whoops, lid wasn't on tight enough 
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ishikabibble posted:The Chicago one was apparently closed as of March this year I hope your SO doesn't read SA, otherwise you just pulled one of these: https://soundcloud.com/mark-music-payne/jv-and-the-accidental-proposal
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Kazinsal posted:Payphone booths, without the payphones. Looks like a hotel or office building lobby. There's still pay phones in public buildings in my city. There's a lot in the courthouse for reasons which are pretty easy to work out.
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emSparkly posted:Zoomer here. Are they like mail chutes or something? Urinals.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:There's still pay phones in public buildings in my city. There's a lot in the courthouse for reasons which are pretty easy to work out. People with quarters commit a lot of crimes?
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Sep 14, 2023 08:06
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A roll of quarters is a great legal alternative to a "paperweight" 
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Schir posted:I wouldn't decry the loss of landlines yet but I would absolutely say that it's a shame that pneumatic tube systems aren't as prevalent as they used to be. Multi-storey department stores sometimes have pneumatic tubes for receiving change. (As I learned when I bought a 55€ coffee maker with a 500€ bill.) 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 09:36 on Sep 14, 2023 |
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Sep 14, 2023 09:33
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Yeah I forgot the bank is straight up 7-11 there. My ATM card wouldn't work for withdrawal for some reason but it worked as a purchase card lol
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Desert Bus posted:My (25F) boyfriend (25M) keeps asking me to invest in his "soup tube" business idea, and I am not sure how to deal with it
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Desert Bus posted:
https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_tunnel.htm
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Wasabi the J posted:Yeah I forgot the bank is straight up 7-11 there. My ATM card wouldn't work for withdrawal for some reason but it worked as a purchase card lol The obsolete-tech angle is that even up through the '90s, ATM cards worked at your bank and nowhere else except maybe a region's credit unions would step in and spot each other or something, and then later started to form groups that cards would work across. They didn't become a payment card until banks went from being staid, solid places that keep money in a pile to financial speculators wanting to get a cut of MC/Visa's vig for transactions and late fees, a move which ultimately kinda failed in that it was Visa that built the overarching network PLUS that succeeded the most, though NYCE stays somewhat relevant--and ATM fees are a product of the transition where the network charged the bank and therefore the bank charged you. Japanese banks had their own network coordinated by the post office, and in any case were heavily invested into their own wire transfer system for mail-order and later online purchases and such, so most never bothered to hook up to the American systems and deal with all the fees you'd expect from being the small fish in a big pond. 7-Eleven in particular, which was already internationalized, did, to ensure heavy traffic from the tourist and expat markets who already did disproportionate spending at convenience stores.
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Here in Norway we were earlier adopters of ATMs and debit cards and all that. A trend which has continued as we are now almost to a cashless society with mobile pay apps and such. I don't think I've actually used cash to pay for anything since before Covid. I suppose it's easier to get stuff implemented in a small country where the banking sector is dominated at most three significant actors (basically these days if DNB decides to do something one way, everyone else either uses their solution or has to implement their own right away that has to do all the same stuff at least as well). Like, by 1990 or so when I was in high school, it was normal for people in their late teens to have debit cards, which worked in all ATMs across all banks, and most grocery stores and gas stations and such had debit card terminals. (However back then the debit transactions weren't immediately reported to the main bank; if you had a couple of hundred in your account and no money coming in until next month, you could run around town and withdraw the same amount from every ATM belonging to a different bank, so you ended up with enough cash on hand to survive for a month -- when updates were transmitted during the next working day, your account would be horribly overdrawn and there would be overdraft fees to deal with, but that was a problem for future you.)
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Groke posted:(However back then the debit transactions weren't immediately reported to the main bank; if you had a couple of hundred in your account and no money coming in until next month, you could run around town and withdraw the same amount from every ATM belonging to a different bank, so you ended up with enough cash on hand to survive for a month)
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A mild to moderate dealer was busted in Sweden because they used mobile pay for coke and the public broadcaster here released the transactions, encouraging viewers to see if they know anyone on the list. This has caused some chaos in Sundsvall, as some were buying coke and some were like, Swishing for drinks or something genuinely innocuous. Some have lost their jobs over it, which I think is genuinely kind of hosed, independent of drugs. I also find it super irresponsible of SVT to release that information, even if it is legal to do so, but this is in a long line of “is there a gas leak at SVT? This is hosed up” maneuvers the past year. Keep in mind Sweden is one of the countries where you can get in legal trouble for having drugs in your system. While coke typically leaves you fairly quickly, sure, something like this may potentially still screw people over. Sweden is cashless except for drugs (due to the above) and in my personal case, tattoos (gently caress da Nonetheless, while I like having a cashless economy for the most part, I feel super uneasy having cash now!
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teen witch posted:even if it is legal to do so Well it goes directly against the EU GDPR, of course.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Well it goes directly against the EU GDPR, of course. between this and the absolute  that is Transkriget, I’ve never lost my faintest threads of confidence in a media entity this rapidly. But I mean if the government openly and loudly plan to go against the UNs Convention on the Rights of the Child in the most inhumane way possible, it’s fine if the taxpayer funded media entity to also break a few laws!
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Wasabi the J posted:Feels like they have something like that in Japan they do everything at 711 711’s parent company is actually a bank and operates as such in Japan but not here for whatever reason. If i pull cash in jp I always go to the i7 holdings ATMs and they never surprise me with BS. Also their 711s are way nicer.
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I've only ever been in a 7-11 in China. Thanks for reading.
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I thought that Europe and the Scandinavian countries in particular were paradises where everything runs properly and there is no evil capitalism, or corporations or whatever the gently caress.
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Ambassadorofsodomy posted:I thought that Europe and the Scandinavian countries in particular were paradises where everything runs properly and there is no evil capitalism, or corporations or whatever the gently caress. I'm posting from a short break from the debate circle on the communal vegan farm; fortunately this wooden passive house has the spare power to charge a phone today. No idea what those other people are talking about.
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hyperventilating every time I think about the $50 in my wallet, jeez, what if somebody thought I was a drug dealer or something flashing around a wad of CRIME TICKETS that way edit: i mean if i pissed off the government, i'd still be able to just, like, spend that money... pretty hosed up imo
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I am 100% a weirdo paranoid about being tracked for anything and I will happily grab a giant wad of cash to pay for anything I can.
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teen witch posted:
American newspapers used to print the home address of anyone they quoted in an article. Journalists don't give a poo poo what happens to anyone as long as they get a story to put out.
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In Canada we got a national interbank network in the mid 80s. Debit cards for point of sale doing transactions over dial-up became common by 1990 and overtook cash transactions about 15 years later, at which time chip+PIN was pretty thoroughly rolled out. I remember being told when I was a kid that buying things with your debit card wasn't something people really did in the States and it seemed baffling. Then I learned about how absolutely hyperfucked banking is there.
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People do use debit cards to buy things in the US, but it's a bad idea unless you can use it as a credit card. Otherwise you get no protections. We didn't get chips until a few years ago, so if someone swiped your debit info with a skimmer, you were screwed.
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Kazinsal posted:Then I learned about how absolutely hyperfucked banking is there. Everything is hyperfucked in the US 
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Wibla posted:Everything is hyperfucked in the US We have a thriving incel community actually but otherwise yeah
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