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[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago (4 children)

From your bank in person, no. From your bank's own ATM, no. From an ATM run by another bank out of network, yes, there are often fees and your bank will waive them under certain circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (21 children)

Yep Chase for instance: over 75k on deposit, no ATM withdrawal fees anywhere! You know, helping the people who need it the least.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

They have a billion of loan payments due each year. In order to pay that, someone has to come up with cash. Having a business that actually generates a profit would be the ideal way to do that.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No kidding. But it’s specifically capitalist garbage and it’s the for- profit companies involved in it top to bottom who strongly resist reforms. They invest millions and millions in lobbying and with propagandizing the populace anytime Congress starts seriously looking at changing anything. And I mean hell, we even have TV commercials for prescription drugs.

I’m sure it would be possible to make a capitalist, private, for profit healthcare system that isn’t abusive. For a while, maybe, since the nature of capitalism is to grow to extract as much from consumers as possible. In any event, that’s not what we have in the United States, and it does cause people to die.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Kitchen could use some more charm but I like the patio umbrella.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

People who have died trying to ration insulin, due to how in the US it’s made by for-profit corporations, diabetes care requires many other ridiculously expensive supplies, and the system is set up to require expensive doctor office visits and insurance to maintain a prescription, though type 1 diabetes is life-long. Plenty of other medical examples also.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

That doesn't make it a sane choice for day-to-day transportation. If you can afford to have a regular car and a truck on the side for utility, great. Otherwise, why drive this giant polluting POS, which are usually rather expensive to purchase as well as to operate? Trucks aren't that comfortable to drive imo... hard to see in front of you, stop poorly, turn poorly, difficult to park. When you need to move furniture or whatever you can rent one for a day for $40.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Seems like there a couple of tech support communities already like that. Endless posts all made by different accounts from the same instance, constantly asking for help with Apple products or wifi 24/7.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can make a comment on posts from federated communities, from the instance on which you have an account. If you view that instance directly, you won't be signed in, though, as it's a separate website.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That doesn’t say they take 70% of our money. It means that Google spends only 30% of what they take in on the store on operating it, which is very different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Crack? Portland? I’m guessing you have pretty much never been to Portland, if even once.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They already put it into Edge.

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