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[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 hours ago

You would hope that federal agencies would be the last to abandon using actual currency.

[-] saigot@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago

I checked their site, you can't buy parking using just the website, even a monthly one. But you sure can pay your parking tickets! (although even that requires a credit card it seems)

[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

That man is beyond the hands-on-hips pose that other Ottawa based articles all use.

[-] villasv@lemmy.ca -1 points 3 hours ago

One of the modern mysteries I can't quite get is people caring so much about paying stuff with cash. Are people out there paying for gas using cash as well? How many people have a car and don't have a credit card or smartphone? So many questions...

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 points 28 minutes ago

I happen to prefer not to always have my location tracked by a cell phone company or my transactions recorded by a credit card issuer. The ability to be anonymous is a vital component of freedom. Plus, you can still pay for things in cash if something has wiped out all local network connectivity. And yes, I have been known to pay for gas in cash—not always, but now and again (and an EV doesn't need gas, anyway, so that question is increasingly irrelevant).

I do not require or expect other people to have the same priorities that I do.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 1 points 20 minutes ago

An EV... So a car that's tracking you? 😂

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 1 points 47 minutes ago

When I decide to visit a park and arrive to find that I can't pay cash, it's a problem. Visiting a park is a transient event, there does not need to be ANY permanent relation between myself and the park operator. There is no reason to require trusting some random site with payment details, generating another set of account credentials, and installing some mystery app that wants way too many permissions just to visit a park.

[-] Corngood@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 hours ago

Do you like the idea of all our payments for everything going through a private duopoly who takes a cut of every transaction?

We don't have a digital option that's open or private.

[-] villasv@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 hour ago

Do you like the idea of all our payments for everything going through a private duopoly who takes a cut of every transaction?

I don't, so sign me up for the fight for better digital options. In fact I frequently advocate for a BoC-managed alternative to Interac. Even the US with its ridiculously contrived banking system is already working on it (FedNow).

But I don't see the need to wait for that, we can go cashless AND work on better digital options simultaneously.

[-] independantiste@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The closest thing we have to a private digital cash that is not crypto is GNU Taler.

https://taler.net/

[-] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 hours ago

All good, I'm ditching going downtown because it's pointless to go there. Everything closes at like 3, or it's some shitty bar. Why bother with a downtown anymore. Literally everything I want or need is walking distance

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