Can you report their report of your downvote?

Don’t Germans have those?

Language policing of this sort is a red flag indicative of an ignorant, contentious trendhopper picking a fight over conventional English usage.

Those nouns are conventional usage:

or plainly observe unsolicited speech productions

• here on lemmy or in the news such as where a mother refers to her daughters as females

  “What if I would have been armed,” she said. “You’re breaking in. What am I supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed—that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. […]"

• in singles communities, personals, classifieds, marketplaces (abundant instances)
• in book titles & passages containing the word females or males, especially feminist or gender studies literature.

What good cause is advanced by treating nouns female & male as toxic, dirty words?

While OP doesn’t appear to be a native English user, this kind of language policing is misguided & exhausting, and we need to police that.

Or goodness is its own reward?

More like present day appreciator of dat ass.

Or hear the kid out: dat ass. 😎

Free trip to Sudan, here we come!

Or you can choose to not have them deduct anything, and then pay the IRS the total amount when you file.

There are dangers with that.

The federal income tax is a pay-as-you-go tax. You must pay the tax as you earn or receive income during the year.

If you didn’t pay enough tax during the year, either through withholding or by making estimated tax payments, you may have to pay a penalty.

image of text
image unnecessary & no link to sources
pointlessly breaking the web & accessibility

Does OP know there’s an alternative to an image of text called text?

Putting together an image like this seems like more effort, worse results.

still not citing a single law to prove porn is illegal

Im not engaging with you

Good thinking bailing now: looks like someone knows when they’re beat. It would be incredibly easy to prove me wrong if your claim were true, yet you don’t. Not hard to figure out why.

I know facts don’t support my argument, so I’ll evade by calling them a propagandist & hope no one notices

You basically: just because facts are inconvenient to your argument doesn’t mean it’s valid to ignore them, pretend they’re “propaganda”, or evade with irrelevant claims.

So, cool fallacies & evasion, bro. You’re 🤡ing yourself right here.

Next time, try logic.

Credit cards and debit cards can be disabled at a whim. Prone to being fucked up by computer error

That’s the beauty

• if my card goes missing, I can lock it
• unauthorized charges can be reversed
• I’m alerted of any charge immediately.

Plus, they extend warranties on purchases & provide purchase protections.

don’t work when the internet is down, or during a disaster with no power.

Unless you carry around a large supply of cash at all times, you’ll be in the same bind withdrawing cash: ATMs & account ledgers run on power & networks.

Cash always goes through, though.

That’s a problem: anyone can use my cash without authorization. If they steal it, I have no way to disable it, and it’s more difficult to recover. If I lose it, it’s most likely gone.

Cash will always remain king.

Not in terms of security or recovery.

I could withdraw cash & carry it around, but then it won’t earn high interest.

More than maybe one. Some also accept deposits through stores. I’ve never used them or needed to.

It was easy to adapt away from cash, and I prefer the safeguards of credit & mobile pay.

So if it’s prohibited by a law

Again, it’s not. Again, cite a law.

Is that not the purpose of their ATM networks? Though I never use them, I read some offer deposits that way.

I’ve always direct deposited or scanned checks. If someone needs to send me cash, it’s always through some service like Zelle, ACH, or online bill pay.

I don’t like to carry cash. Cards, digital wallets, & ACH meet all my needs. I can see how that’s a PITA for those who do, though.

My state literally made pornhub illegal today

They did not. Words mean things. Answered here. Cite the law: you can’t.

please stop doing apologia and/or propaganda

Right back at you: twisting the word illegal. I disapprove of the dumb online ID regulations, too: still not illegal. US isn’t throwing pornographers & erotica writers in jail.

China has always banned porn

You said it. Not banned in USA.

You’re welcome to sleepwalk into authoritarianism

Chinese government is already there.

US still has a long way to “catch up”. They’re not

• sending Ughyers to reeducation camps or forced sterilizations
• organ harvesting the Falun Gong
• suppressing discussion of the times they’ve sent tanks against civilians.

The Chinese government doesn’t care about individual rights & never has: it’s baked into the formula. They always put tankie ideology first, the individual later, sometimes far later.

That’s not illegalizing it & it’s not throwing erotica writers in jail. Don’t believe me? Cite the laws. It’s legal.

overdraft fee

Banks & brokers without those are common, especially online ones. I’ve switched to online ones & never had to think about them.

• They block overdrafts without charging a fee.
• Deposited cash often earns high interest rates.
• Large ATM networks or ATM fee refunds.
• Well documented policies.

They beat the credit union I had in every way, especially in the documentation (an unusual pain point with my credit union). Some guides

• online banks
• online brokers

Financial planning/advising services (perhaps through work) may offer good guidance, too.

just like in half the US

It isn’t.

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Threat From Hackers Who Stole His Aides’ Emails

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If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.

―Lindsey Graham