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Carry cash you idiots.

(Context: there's a massive blackout in Spain and Portugal that has taken down card networks, among many other things)
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Ville Kiiski · 44w
What can you buy when there are no power in cashiers
Benking · 44w
😳😳
Peter Todd · 44w
The claimed cause is interesting: Induced Atmospheric Vibration. Basically, if the conditions are just right, at the corona discharge threshold, the force of corona discharge leads to an oscillation with the corona discharge turning on and off. This in turn causes oscillations on overall power disc...
Jeroen Ubbink · 44w
Fast forward 2 days and nobody learned anything.
Râu Cao ⚡ · 44w
I'll never understand how someone can walk around without cash and trust their card, or even worse their phone, to always work. But the same goes for businesses not accepting cash, of course.
Empka · 44w
Some card terminals (here they are often battery powered and connected to mobile network - towers have battery/generator backup) have the option of using chip+pin offline, works great. Even with that, carry a bit of cash for emergencies, takes up little space and can save you a lot of trouble.
47 · 44w
didn’t the simpsons “predict” something like this?
ImNull · 44w
Merchants insist using payment cards and there is already a push for "qr code payments like China", allegedly to reduce transaction cost.
Bitcoin Wizard 🧙🏻‍♂️ · 44w
cash means freedom
PePe RGB · 42w
Go live in country side you idiots 😏🔥
Rand · 42w
build/\/ my 'O'z*****