Basically, the US banking system is made up of many smaller banks, unlike most other countries where there are fewer, larger banks.

This coupled with a large land mass with high population makes it more difficult to make the expensive infrastructure upgrades necessary for modern banking innovations like tap to pay and the loss of the need for physical signatures.

Many of these innovations are only making it to the US now because of larger foreign banks entering the US market, as well as the plummeting costs of technology.

There is still two weeks left of summer, you chill

…and compare it with now the difference is almost imperceptible.

Imperceptible to you.

Your argument that phones without zoom lenses had, ‘decent digital zoom and stability (for a phone)’ only serves to highlight your inability to perceive the difference having actual optical zoom makes when zooming.

Crazy how one would even make this argument without actual image examples, unless that kind of research only led to realizing one’s argument is wrong.

I’m so done with all these apps, I’m ready for the mains

The beginning of Link to the Past, with the rain, thunder and lightning. LttP took it to another level coming from NES games and even most PC games at the time, setting a mood and atmosphere I had never experienced in gaming before.

Definitely true, I suppose I meant it failed us.

I want all people to use Lemmy.

I want us to stop the tribalism. What made reddit fail was the management, not the users.

Yes some people suck, and if you ask me it’s most people, but diversity is powerful and without it we have no future.

I can’t wait for the killing blow of when Harris is accused of being weird, hopefully by Trump himself, and she responds by saying of course she’s weird, everyone is a bit weird.

That’s the normal response to being accused of being weird. The weird response is to get defensive and start slinging school yard comebacks, because in the back of your mind you know your weird is using furniture to masturbate or to have sexual thoughts about your own children.

Typically real estate listings only list the square footage of the foot print.

The fact no one has recreated this game mode in modern times boggles the mind.

I don’t use ad blockers and I have no idea what they’re talking about, either

NOFX Dropkick Murphy’s Specials Green Day (for nostalgia) Fucked up

I’m going to laugh my ass off when someone figures out how to track them all in real time, and shares it on a publicly accessible website.

His wife probably made a comment about how handsome the SI is, and he spiraled inside his tiny head.

doom scrolling past all the German and Linux posts

To generate revenue? No, but here we are.

Oh cool I didn’t know that existed, thanks Nintendo!

I miss bfh so much

Strategic military foothold in the Middle East.

I don’t understand anyone who would choose to watch this instead of playing borderlands, given they’re a fan of the game. Who is this for?