5d ago

Devils Panties 09/05/2025

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I rarely see vending machines that have modern payment methods. It's like finding a unicorn when there's one that takes a card. Haven't seen one with tap to pay at all yet. It's weird how close I am to Silicon Valley, but in many ways feels like its still stuck in the 80s or 90s.
"You can pay with your watch".
Good grief, I hate living in the future.
- IMO, paying with your watch would be neat, if it wasn't linked to mass surveillance and fascism.
I don’t care how much my kids calls me an old fart, I don’t think I will ever attach a payment method to a watch.
This is the smallest bill I have, please break it for me.
- I refuse to even let my phone have my payment info.
  
  Yeah, it's crazy. Phones are just about the least secure payment platform imaginable (in the sense of regular criminal hackers, other people having physical access to the device and corporate spies), and banking apps are cementing the vendor lock-in.
You'd think someone with the author's politics would be more reserved about "smart" technology.
I haven't bought anything from a vending machine in years. They take tap to pay now?
- Hell the little kiddie rides and such do too. Making them non-negotiable if your kid is an emotional terrorist. Mine is too small luckily but I just know her mom is going to permit everything and forbid nothing.
  
  I rarely see the rides in use, but my guess is the permissive parent already gave the kid a tablet and tablets are way more addictive than mall rides
I used to have this. Then I realised how surveillancy it was and got a dumb watch. I now get my weekly spending budge out in cash and pay with that. Turns out u spend less when ur paying cash.

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