To buy drugs, duh

Yeah I had to think for a sec, why do I even have cash? Then I remember bars. Some bars are cash only even. And it’s just easier to pay and tip per round that way sometimes.

Edit: but that’s about it. For people who don’t go to bars, which is probably a good majority of people, I don’t know what they are using cash for. Possibly flea markets and garage sales. But that’s another niche group. Strip clubs, also niche. Drug deals, that’s probably not as niche as some might think. Though I’d guess about equal to the bar crowd in size? People with bad credit history and have problems getting bank accounts? Is cash only still a thing in order to accommodate these various niche use cases? I suppose so.

Yeah American ignorance is something else. Here in Canada, we often do take USD but at an equal exchange rate which means the Americans are just screwing themselves out of more money. I guess it could be considered a currency conversion fee ¯\(ツ)/¯

"Money trades hands all over the world"? I haven't handled a physical piece of American currency (apart from the occasional coin that gets mixed into my change) in years. Sure, go ahead and do this, but don't assume that anyone outside your borders give a shit what you write on your bills.

Please, everyone write R*pist on your money. I'm not brave enough to use the word, but still

They might not have a choice if that’s what tourists are paying in. Which is why I assume many countries that do use US dollars use it in the first place anyway because of tourism.

Nah, totally legal. As long as you make sure you don't draw over anything renders it unfit for reissue

“rendering unfit” is when you glue $20 corners to a $10 to pass it off as a 20.

I was at the Whitecaps game and an American in the crowd actually yelled "our dollar is worth more!" to chirp the Caps.

I yelled back "not for long!"

Shouldn't it say "I am a pedophile", with his signature marking it a signed confession?

Well, if you don't see it then the same has to be true for billions of other people.

Fun fact: US $100 bills are used in crime around the world because it's a strong currency and a million dollars fits in a backpack!

A lot of places around me have started passing on the fees for using a card to pay, so it costs less to pay with cash.

I strongly prefer that over cash subsidizing those card rewards programs, but it makes using the cards pretty pointless unless it’s for big purchases that tack on a flat fee rather than a percentage, since the rewards programs are usually so limited.

I can't afford to travel much but I thought it was pretty standard to have currency changing machines or stations in the airports?

Yes, but do you not always have some cash on hand, anyway? And btw, Marijuana dispensaries are pretty popular. Cash only, usually.

...does every US President issue a new, personalized dollar bill?

That'd be a No, dawg.

Look down again. It's gone.

if democrats regain power, it will just be the wheel turning in wait of republicans regaining power later. while that side of the wheel is better than current one, what america needs to do is break the fucking wheel.

The above comment definetly was a bit anectodal, but there really aren't that many countries that use the USD. Its pretty much only the US, its territories and a few smaller south american countries. Canada and mexico maybe accept payments in dollar but don't officially use it.

Apart from that the USD is sometimes used in international trade, but that's more for currency conversion and not as physical money.

The only people that use physical USD outside of the US are American tourists with their america first worldview and mexican cartels.

Nonono, it's "ra*ist". The * could be either a P or a C.

I mean this is a good reason to switch back to cash. I never carry cash but I think I'm going to start for this reason alone.

Yeah, the danger of a Democratic president is the left growing complacent again, allowing the right to fester and come up with another dictator.

Que? Que, amigo?

This is mostly the experience of Americans stepping off American cruise ships into American owned shops to buy Chinese goods in the Caribbean.

¡Que sera!

I guess the Swiss Franc is not common enough. Other than that it would give some nice density benefit. 800 pieces of 1000 CHF would make 1M USD.

but not censored

I do

here in Costa Rica people will usually accept USD as payment

the fact that there's a lot of tourism here contributes to the widespreadness of the US dollar

anybody still pays with cash regularly?

educate

and there's your problem. people don't even agree on on what to even teach, so there can be no education.

No. If you can't spell out "rapist" on facebook without being canceled. you sure as hell can bet your butt on a dollar note with that remark not staying in circulation. and you're supposed to know that. so if you write that on a dollar bill, i don't think it's "plausible deniability" to say "i considered this dollar bill fine for further circulation".

Two down, hundred ninety to go

What else is orange?

It's called USD for a reason

Let's optimize this regex: ra[p|c]ist

I do

I feel like thatcs even sketchier. Maybe I've spent too much time on 4chan, but that reads like "scan this for csam"

What are they gonna do? Take every note out of circulation?

People across the world already very well know that Trump is unpopular. That is not the problem. The problem is that you guys continue to just allow that guy to run your country.

As long as there isn't massive civil unrest in the country, it looks like from an outside perspective as if you're just letting him do whatever he wants without much resistance. Writing some insults isn't going to change that perspective.

You wouldn't need plausible deniability because the prosecution would have to prove that your intent was to make the bill unfit for circulation. Intent is already notoriously difficult to prove in a court of law, and it would be very difficult to prove someone wanted to take a bill out of circulation by writing a message on it that they hoped would be seen by people.

Even if the result is that the bill gets taken out of circulation, the court would have to prove that you knew that would happen and wanted it to.

4 years ago I would have a problem with it reading like that. Unfortunately, I've come to the conclusion that every single person that voted for him is ok with that if not actively involved in that. So the implication that they might see their god king dicking a child will probably get more of them to scan it.

The second reason is bogus, the euro is valued as high or higher and we have 500€ bills.

Bet you there's more countries using physical euros than American dollars. We've got a bunch in Europe :)

You don't need OR in a list.
ra[cp]ist

I haven't touched my own countries physical analogue money in years, 😂 not one here really uses it much anymore

It is but Americans are quite... insistent on using USD

Are you seriously implying billions of people are handling USD regularly? You realise other countries and currencies exist, right?

Source? That seems like it'd be more of a pain since you'd then have to convert it to your own currency which would be another chance at getting caught doing whatever you're doing