Brutkey

Georgiana Brummell
@dandylover1@someplace.social

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Unnecessary vulgarity aside, it's not always easy to use cash. I, for example, am totally blind. I either have to have a money identifier with me or a phone with a specific app, and then, I have to hope that the cash isn't wrinkled or faded so much that it can't be recognised. This is why I usually go with someone sighted or simply shop online. Coins are a different matter and I can easily use those. But I have never heard of any coin with a denomination more than a dollar.

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

@dandylover1@someplace.social this is one of many many many things wrong with American money specifically that I've been intending to cover for so long that I started writing out the screed 500 chars at a time because I started two servers ago

Georgiana Brummell
@dandylover1@someplace.social

@ifixcoinops@retro.social Yes. Why they can't do something to make paper money easily identifiable I don't know.

Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social

@dandylover1@someplace.social the vending machine lobby is partially to blame here but there are SO MANY people to blame for the unique shittiness of American coins and banknotes it's hard to tell where to even start

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@scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

@ifixcoinops@retro.social @dandylover1@someplace.social Canadian bills have braille.

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@scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

@ifixcoinops@retro.social @dandylover1@someplace.social Sorry. Misspoke. Not exactly braille, but rather a tactile feature that serves the denomination at a touch function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_currency_tactile_feature