49
Payment
(lemmy.world)
source: https://www.puddlemunch.com/
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
49 points (96.2% liked)
Comic Strips
23475 readers
210 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
Rules
-
π Be Nice!
- Treat others with respect and dignity. Friendly banter is okay, as long as it is mutual; keyword: friendly.
-
ποΈ Community Standards
- Comics should be a full story, from start to finish, in one post.
- Posts should be safe and enjoyable by the majority of community members, both here on lemmy.world and other instances.
- Any comic that would qualify as raunchy, lewd, or otherwise draw unwanted attention by nosy coworkers, spouses, or family members should be tagged as NSFW.
- Moderators have final say on what and what does not qualify as appropriate. Use common sense, and if need be, err on the side of caution.
-
𧬠Keep it Real
- Comics should be made and posted by real human beans, not by automated means like bots or AI. This is not the community for that sort of thing.
-
π½οΈ Credit Where Credit is Due
- Comics should include the original attribution to the artist(s) involved, and be unmodified. Bonus points if you include a link back to their website. When in doubt, use a reverse image search to try to find the original version. Repeat offenders will have their posts removed, be temporarily banned from posting, or if all else fails, be permanently banned from posting.
- Attributions include, but are not limited to, watermarks, links, or other text or imagery that artists add to their comics to use for identification purposes. If you find a comic without any such markings, it would be a good idea to see if you can find an original version. If one cannot be found, say so and ask the community for help!
-
π Post Formatting
- Post an image, gallery, or link to a specific comic hosted on another site; e.g., the author's website.
- Meta posts about the community should be tagged with [Meta] either at the beginning or the end of the post title.
- When linking to a comic hosted on another site, ensure the link is to the comic itself and not just to the website; e.g.,
β Correct: https://xkcd.com/386/
β Incorrect: https://xkcd.com/
-
π¬ Post Frequency/SPAM
- Each user (regardless of instance) may post up to five (5 π) comics a day. This can be any combination of personal comics you have written yourself, or other author's comics. Any comics exceeding five (5 π) will be removed.
-
π΄ββ οΈ Internationalization (i18n)
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
SΓ, por favor [Spanish/EspaΓ±ol]
- Non-English posts are welcome. Please tag the post title with the original language, and include an English translation in the body of the post; e.g.,
-
πΏ Moderation
- We are human, just like most everybody else on Lemmy. If you feel a moderation decision was made in error, you are welcome to reach out to anybody on the moderation team for clarification. Keep in mind that moderation decisions may be final.
- When reporting posts and/or comments, quote which rule is being broken, and why you feel it broke the rules.
Banned Artists
The following artists are banned from the community.
- Jago
- Stonetoss
It should be noted that when you make reports, it is your responsibility to provide rational reasoning why something should be removed. Saying it simply breaks community rules is not always good enough.
Web Accessibility
Note: This is not a rule, but a helpful suggestion.
When posting images, you should strive to add alt-text for screen readers to use to describe the image you're posting:
Another helpful thing to do is to provide a transcription of the text in your images, as well as brief descriptions of what's going on. (example)
Web of Links
- !linuxmemes@lemmy.world: "I use Arch btw"
- !memes@lemmy.world: memes (you don't say!)
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you have never been poor, have you?
Obglatory not OP, but... When I was younger and pretty broke I preferred paying cash. It was very easy to keep track of my spending rate and there was no risk of getting declined.
Interestingly I read somewhere (from a Behavioral Economics book, I think) that people who pay in cash in average spend less than people who pay by card.
Paying cash involves literally giving out something physical which you own, whilst paying by card is just a number in a screen that you say yes to, and it's theorized that the actually parting with something physical like cash makes people more wary of spending because of the higher unpleasent feeling of losing something.
Certainly looking at myself, actually counting and giving away β¬100 in notes does feel more unpleasant that merelly saying yes to a screen showing the number 100.
All this to say that for poor people it actually makes even more sense to pay in cash.
That's exactly why I preferred cash when I was in my 20s, but there's a catch. Completely avoiding the credit system isn't good for longer term finance either. In the US at least, no credit can be worse than bad credit. This makes it hard to escape the poverty trap even if you get finances are in order.
There's another catch if your not using a card with rewards. (As I understand it this is mostly a U.S. thing, other countries don't give this.)
Every year when I take my big vacation my wife and I get 1-1.5 of our international business class tickets paid for by rewards on one card and about half of our hotel suites (about 10-11 nights) paid for by rewards on another card. If you're paying cash or using a card without rewards, you're paying for my vacation.
Places with different prices for cash and cards are vanishingly rare. Mostly because card processing companies try to penalize places that do this. So everyone pays higher prices to pay for the higher processing fees for reward cards. If you aren't getting something back you're just paying for people that are.
Have been. Still not rich.
Money is very physical. When you give it away you can see that there is less remaining. Helps to keep track of your expenses.
I have to wonder what kind of child hears someone say that they pay in cash rather than use a card and assume that they're rich.
I have to imagine you are so fiscally deficient that the 2% or so card transaction fee doesn't even register to you. Did you know that especially some Mom and Pop shops will charge less when using cash for that very reason? Gas stations even advertise cash rates for gas.
Ignorance and arrogance are a horrible combo.
I've never seen a shop have different prices for different payment methods in my life.
Is that an America thing?
No, I live in New Zealand, and a 2% surcharge for credit cards is pretty common.
EFTPOS transactions are always free.
Not in my experience. There is a credit card fee, but the stores pay it. I've heard of places offering a cash discount for that reason, but haven't seen it in years. If you paid cash now, you'd just be paying the credit card price.
I only see this at gas stations and rural restaurants now in the US southwest.
Yeah I definitely have seen it as gas stations in the past, I can't recall seeing it lately.
If you remember computer shows, the vendors there would often show a cash price and then charge more for cards.
I thought doing that sort of thing was against their merchant agreement though. But maybe not.