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by fracus 248 days ago
This reminds me of the Mitch Hedberg joke..

"I bought a donut and they gave me a receipt for the donut; I don't need a receipt for the doughnut. I'll just give you the money, and you give me the doughnut, end of transaction. We don't need to bring ink and paper into this. I just can't imagine a scenario where I would have to prove that I bought a doughnut."

3 comments

You gotta expense that donut.
Yes for small purchase and "usual day to day" item maybe its worthless to keep track for that

but for big purchase like car payment,house mortgage etc. its good to have it immutable track record so if any problem occurs its easy to show why I own the thing

woosh. That has to be an AI bot.
And the thermal receipt paper is supposed to give you cancer too.