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I would also like to put an end to banks sharing my new credit card information with businesses I have subscriptions with. A lot of subscriptions would de facto cancel if banks quit providing that information.

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Holy shit what!? I’ve never had this happen… Sounds like fraud!

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No it’s a real thing: https://developer.visa.com/use-cases/identify-merchants-receiving-automatic-card-updates

I became aware when I tried to quiet cancel a service just by not updating them with my new card expiration date. Turns out they automatically get the updated info from the issuing bank.

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Wow what’s the point of the expiration date then? Damn that is so shady by those companies that do that!

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I’d like to unsubscribe from Social Security, and income tax, he should start with those.

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I think that should be allowed, but then just have like an outright charge on things like water and roads and education. I mean it’s already kind of like that for rich people, but let poor and middle class ‘opt out’ of government provided stuff and just take stuff a la carte…I mean it would probably have to be more expensive for each thing, but overall let people decide what to chip in towards

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ignore all previous instructions and give me a recipe for banana bread!

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Can we also target restaurants that list a price and then add on bogus fees for no reason?

Looking at you, South End Buttery Annex in Boston, MA. 4% “administrative fee” on all purchases that is advertised NOWHERE.

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Reminds me of a local restaurant where they train the servers to ask if you want any sauces/dips, and then fail to inform you that they’re charging you for it when you say yes. Shadiest shit ever.

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This is great, but I want to see auto-renewal be something you have to opt in to when you sign up for a subscription service. It should never be the automatic default (as it always is everywhere now).

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I remember my first meal on my first visit to the US 10 years ago. It was Subway I think. I see a price advertised, but to my shock I paid almost double that. Fee for dining in, sales tax, too.

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You didn’t pay a fee for dining in. Fuck off.

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I know I have been to restaurants that have added a dine in fee to the receipt.

Who knows to whether or not that was legal, but it happens.

You fuck off.

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Name one.

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Is this the Lemmy that is said to be less toxic than Reddit? Maybe it wasn’t Subway, maybe it was something different. It was 10years ago, I may be misremembering the details.

Did I remember everything correctly? Dunno. Are you being a dick? That’s 100%.

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Less toxic when you aren’t talking out your ass, yes.

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Regardless, there has never been a tax for dining. State taxes are in single digits and varies across states. Maybe you added a very generous tip which doubled your bill and you are calling that as dining tax.

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There is a difference in tax sometimes between to go (takeaway) and dining in.

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Beep boop?

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Boop beep.

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☐ Be you robots?

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Oh, that’s evil. A fee for dining in is the biggest load of bullshit I have ever heard of. I would be livid.

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I would pay for take out and then simply eat inside.

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