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Cake day: March 14th, 2023

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  • How big the front side screen was and if it was a colour display? Unless you liked the look of phone that only had LEDs showing the time on the front.

    What ringtones it had (remember this was the age of $1.99 ringtones).

    Speed/specs wasn’t too much of a factor as much as looks. As long as it made calls, did texts, play Snake and if you could afford cellular data then receive emails and do light websurfing then it was good enough.

    Oh, and in this age the smaller and more compact the phones were the better. Only with smartphones did the trend go into reverse.






  • I carry cash and I give it to people in need, I don’t mind cashless payment being the default but at least some of the following things need to happen before we can fully move to that:

    • Canada Post needs to open a savings account/credit card so that it is not profit motivated and accessible to disadvantaged people. Most poor people can’t afford the annual fee for cards with decent benefits, and to get it waived you need to have significant deposits with your bank/credit union.
    • We need a public option compared to Visa/MC/Amex, even if it’s only usable domestically. Letting a handful of non-Canadian companies make a percentage of all Canadians’ transactions is ridiculous and if there was no cash then they would look to jack up rates to whatever they wanted.
    • We need regulations in how credit card companies can charge merchants and customers.