usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agoThe FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership / The FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule will stop companies from making you take unnecessary steps to cancel a subscription.www.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down11cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
arrow-up1393arrow-down1external-linkThe FTC is finally making it easier to cancel your gym membership / The FTC’s ‘click-to-cancel’ rule will stop companies from making you take unnecessary steps to cancel a subscription.www.theverge.comusernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to politics @lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square38fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.zip
minus-squareThe Octonaut@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·2 months agoWhat the fuck is a checking account
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoA bank account that you use to pay for stuff, the one that your card is linked to, as opposed to a savings or an investment account.
minus-squareCoreidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWhat third world country do you live in where yall don’t have banks?
minus-squareThe Octonaut@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoI live in a country that hasn’t used cheques in a couple of decades. Being reminded of their existence and spelling it “check” was beyond my aging 40 year old brain.
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·2 months agoDo you not have bank accounts in your country?
minus-squareThe Octonaut@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoWe call them current accounts, apparently.
minus-squareTachyonTele@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-22 months agoThat’s interesting. Never heard of that term. Guess we both learned something today! It’s pretty cool how there’s so many people from around the world here, you can learn a lot that you’d never come across otherwise.
What the fuck is a checking account
A bank account that you use to pay for stuff, the one that your card is linked to, as opposed to a savings or an investment account.
What third world country do you live in where yall don’t have banks?
I live in a country that hasn’t used cheques in a couple of decades. Being reminded of their existence and spelling it “check” was beyond my aging 40 year old brain.
Do you not have bank accounts in your country?
We call them current accounts, apparently.
That’s interesting. Never heard of that term. Guess we both learned something today!
It’s pretty cool how there’s so many people from around the world here, you can learn a lot that you’d never come across otherwise.