Me too. I use cash as much as I can. It helps me stay on a budget.
I really want use Apple Pay, but Apple knows enough about my life already.
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During peacetime, in a relatively non-volatile economy, with reliable electricity and Internet at all points of sale, in a case where all transactions will be reported on taxes anyhowā¦ sure, right with her. The moment any of those things changes, not so much.
@dfaris, your barber may be fudging a bit on his taxes, not that I entirely blame him.
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Well, that and credit card processing slices a couple of points off of every transaction. I can understand not wanting to lose 3 to 5 percent every time.
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The one thing with cremation my sister has brought up, is that thereās no grave to go and yell at.
Iāve been to one funeral (maybe two) where the body was embalmed and open casket. Neither of these folks were close friends so I wasnāt particularly moved one way or another.
Cost wise, I honestly canāt be down with anything other than cremation, much less embalming.
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You canāt bury a body on private property, but you can bury ashes, which means you can put up a grave marker and a bench, to make yourself comfortable when you go to cry/laugh/yell.
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Thatās not necessarily true. My father was cremated, and thereās a little nook in a wall where his remains were laid to rest. If I wanted to go yell, I could easily do so. Well, less easily since I moved away from that area.
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Homeless people, undocumented people, fugitives.
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During my recent visit back to the states, I was hoping for a certain specific place to piss, but alas it was not to beā¦
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Book that is one step away from the Necronomicon
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I feel like I need to make a public statement that I use cash and understand its worth (certainly from the time in my life when thatās all I could hope to have), but itās true that in many cultures now, young people are not using their phones to call people or using cash for anything. Basic stuff that we all take for granted, is not passing down to the younger generations.
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For Godās sake, donāt lick your fingers as you turn the pages.
Iāll let someone else find the applicable Name of the Rose clip.
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Drat, I wonāt be able to find it now, but on Twitter last weekends this woman posted a thread about how she attended a childrenās birthday party, and a ten year old girl who was a guest invented a paper currency and was using it to trade toys (not her toys either!).
Other kids started making ācounterfeitā currency and the whole thing fell apart in minutes.
The kids are all right.
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There is always the green option, advocated by Caitlin Doughtyā¦ especially since cremation has itās own environmental consequences (less so than the now ātraditionalā embalming/body in a metal casket/casket in a concrete box, but still).
http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/resources/green-death-tech
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Yes, cremation is traditional in Japan and people still bury the remains.
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Sheās one of my fave keyboardists. I follow her on Instagram and have seen her once in concert. She is still doing pretty good.
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https://www.chronicle.com/article/The-Rise-of-the-Pedantic/245808/
get out your pitchforks, history adjuncts!
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Iām not sure what message Iām meant to take away here? Considering Iām very likely to join the ranks of history adjuncts rather soon.
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Well, do you feel compelled to evangelize your field on twitter? Is that sort of engagement with the public helpful or hurtful?
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Solution: become Jewish
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