I always carry cash. Cash is privacy. Cash is freedom. Digital payments are techy serfdom.

In the USA is it common to have self service tills at supermarkets that accept coins?

If it accepts cash, it should accept both coins and bills. Any change I manage to accumulate usually gets fed into the coin slot at a self-checkout before I swipe a card to provide the rest of the payment. It's better than handing it off to a Coinstar machine, as those skim off a percentage of what you feed them.

No they're not. You're exaggerating. The majority of these developments are still empty. China's declining birth rates coupled with the increased mortality from COVID have thrown in a monkey wrench into their planning. Up to 80 million units are still empty, with slim prospects for ever being bought or even used as social housing. Most of them are just crumbling ruins at this point. Even where people have moved in (often with heavy government subsidies, essentially turning units into an eastern Section 8 housing project), occupancy is still under 10%. They simply built too many units, and there aren't enough people to live in them. Some developments are being reclaimed for agriculture, with farmers grazing livestock and plowing fields on the strips of land between crumbing concrete structures.

The left looooved Musk when they thought he was one of them. And the nerds were suckered in by all the green EV and mission to mars showmanship crap.

The turning point was freeing people to speak their minds without extreme one sided censorship on Twitter. I recall many people on the net including right here on slashdot prior to that who told conservatives to go build their own internet if they wanted free speech. Ok. We both bought and built those sites. And the left lost their shit. "We didn't mean you should actually build your own net! We weren't serious! We were just taunting you because we owned everything and t got away with treating you like shit!"

The pendulum swings -really- hard when it comes back. The left has had a good run since the late 60s. They had 60 years to fuck shit up. And boy did they fuck shit up. It's all over but the crying now. Musk isn't the leader of that. Trump isn't either. Nor Kirk. They didn't lead anything. They followed. In order to get political power they had to say the things conservatives said and believed and then -act- on those words or get pushed aside. The couple of times they go off message they get slammed from the right and get back on track. The right is in full ascendancy as a majority of normal people have finally had enough. In 2024, the so called blue wall went 100% red for the first time in since Reagan swept the country in 84. Turns bullshit has been defeated in the UK and most of Europe. It is dying here. DEI is dying. HR departments are getting gutted. DEI requirements from banks and investment houses are dead. It's over. The story has already been written. The left had their chance and blew it big time and got swept into history's dustbin.

On a good day the entirely leftist lineup combined gets close to Fox's every numbers. All the lefty newspapers are struggling. Blue states are choking on their own bad policies. California is back to scheduled power outages. Chicago pays their teachers 130k but has a sub 20% reading and math rate for high school graduates. NYC just elected a man who has less real world experience than my teen. She's at least run a lemonade stand. Seattle, wow, well it's Seattle. Portland continues their decline. Detroit has been struggling to crawl back for decades. And on n on n on as normal people flee these places taking their high income tax dollars with them leaving behind the takers not the makers.

Demographics is destiny. The left aborts their children by the millions.

This is not a debate or an argument or a fight. It is just how the world is, like it or not. The left has lost, we're merely living through that transitional process now. After Trump we'll have 8 years of Vance. Pelosi and Schumer made sure there was no Dem bench to replace them when they aged out. Pelosi in particular undercut and killed the future of the Dem party for her own personal gain. She doesn't care as she'll be dead soon anyway and despite destroying the party she'll be lionized by most of the left. Weird. Instead of an experienced and believable next gen we get AOC and that Texas fraud and omg Bernie is still alive somehow.

I came here when slashdot was a new site because it was packed full of brilliant, educated, and self aware people who really understood shit. Those days have been gone for a long time. Now I come here to see people squeal about maga and Trump and bark at the moon. The bat shit crazy self reinforcing ultra leftist thought bubble here is super entertaining. Never change, guys. Never change.

The Elon 180 from beloved assumed-lefty nerdy guy to super Nazi based on pretty much nothing was hilarious. He was a rich tech guy. Of course he was libertarian. How do we know? Because prior to buying Twitter he didn't talk about politics. All leftists can't help but talk politics. Someone silent is either conservative, independent, libertarian or apathetic. Never a leftist, you guys are loud af.

Right, because the way to deal with an adversary country is to become JUST AS BAD AS THEM. Better to die as free people than "win" by adopting all of the worst aspects of an adversary society. Also, we could crash China's economy tomorrow if we wanted to ... they're already teetering on the brink. A 20% reduction in demand from the US and Europe due to a recession will hurt them more than it hurts us.

... and use it WiFi only, basically only in situations where you need to download some stupid crapplet. Treat it like a mini laptop, not something you carry 25/8/366.

Right. Just what we fucking need in a country moving toward authoritarianism. A cashless society where bankstwhores get to approve every transaction and every transaction gets logged.

Yes. It's called The Atlantic which is well understood to be a left leaning news/opinion source e which backed both Joe and Kamala.

If you think TA is conservative you must be waaaaaaaay left.

Go do some research. It'll take you 30 seconds to see the rest of the world (everyone not to the left of Mao and Stalin) would say TA is definitely left leaning. Not super hard core left like the BBC or NYT but just normal not-psycho left.

I've noticed this kind of thing a LOT lately. Evidently this book is out called Nudge that tells its readers to annoy the shit out of their customers until they 'install the app". Because evidently running in the background and draining your battery constantly harvesting your data and monitoring your location is more profitable than actually selling the service.

I booked air tickets on a website and it was deliberately irritating, pausing for a long time between screens, showing a QR code and saying, 'tired of waiting? our app is much faster!" Hell, even Youtube is unwatchable without a Google account and giving them your real name, address, phone number for 2FA, email, backup email to cross-check databases. And once you've done all that. the jack-in-the-box pops open and it's like, let's get your social, your tax return info for last year, last three places of employment, and then upload a photo of yourself holding your ID. And your selfie cam photo wasn't clear, our facial recognition can't read it. Nice try scammer, your application has been denied. We'll be keeping the info you already entered, though.

China is like this, an entirely real-name internet. You can't so much as order food delivery without all of this. Simply entering the country requires facial scan and fingerprints.

1984 was a warning, not a role model.

I'm on my second model 3. I got it just in time for the tax credit.

The first one was so good I didn't even look at or sit in the new model before buying. I picked colors and put my money down.

FSD? Who gives a shit about that? I never turned on any of the auto drive crap once in 6+ years with the first car. My new one has it free until month's end. No plan to even try it.

If I wanted someone else to drive I'd call an uber. What is your FSD use case?

Elon makes up shit all the time. He's never once got a future date correct. So what? That has nothing to do with how good today's buyable cars are right now. I bought based on past experience and current availability. I'd love to get a roadster but no way in Hell would I ever put a deposit down on anything that might never exist. My buddy did that with the ugly as fuck Cybertruck. After waiting half of eternity he canceled and bought a Toyota he's very happy with.

The blind Elon hate is just weird. You guys loved him when you thought he was a leftist. He sold you fake flame throwers and sent his car to Mars and promised you space flight and whatever other crap y'all believed. I didn't like him. He was clearly a show man. Then he bought Twitter and brought free speech back and you all head-exploded and he became a Nazi (because Hitler was known as a free speech guy, I guess?) and blah blah blah. He's exactly the same guy now he was then. And no my opinion of him hasn't changed a bit. He hasn't changed at all. He's still the same egotistical rich show man now that he was when you loved him. But he makes an awesome car at a fair price. This one cost me almost exactly the same as the first one but years later and after the Joeflation hit, too. In real world ppp dollars this one cost less and it's better than the first. More base mileage, lots quieter, front camera, etc,

Or wait, Elon is a jerk so I should buy some piece of shit Chinese wreck the Chinese won't even buy that doesn't meet US highway safety standards and has a dangerous battery design (go look up BYD vs Tesla and other western EV battery designs). No thanks. You usually get what you pay for in life and definitely so in this case. Good luck with a shitty Chinese EV. I'll keep buying Tesla as long as they're at least this good at equivalent price. If the Chinese cars are so great and so cheap why is there a glut of them sitting on lots rotting? Does every single adult in China have a Chinese EV? Have they conquered 100% of the Chinese car market? Do zero non-Chinese EV sell in China? The Chinese won't even buy them. Smh

Anyway, I did look at Lucid and a few others. The others weren't interesting to me. Mostly failed on base range. The Lucid was just too expensive for what you get. Nice big battery is great but for that money I'd rather get an EV Porsche or something else that has more going for it than a big battery.

Lmao, I love waking up to all you little anonymous and cowardly rat fuckers proving everything I said about you while you shed tears and spew your angry nonsense and hate in response.

The best thing about you AC clowns posting on everything I write is you make my posts more visible to people who filter out the -1 posts so you're actually help spread my message every time you follow up with your trolling. Thank you so much! Love yas!

Nice

Savages? What? Excuse me? Racist much? Hey, could you give us your opinion on people from India? Or tasmanian aboriginies? Or the Jews? Enlighten us! Once upon a time you'd be at -1 flamebait. But I guess it's true if you don't kick out the natzees your bar becomes a natzee bar, too. And while you're at it tell us about slt right hero and Googler James Damore, too. Go read his famous anti diversity screed again, you'd love it.

> i love that you rat fucks are too afraid to put your name on anything like this because you know it's bad faith and lies

Said the AC as he goes ad hominem on someone for posting AC. Holy shit, smh!

I love that you rat fucks ritually mod us down no matter what we say, and cry that we don't post under our names for you to mod us down. And then you post AC as a follow up because you're such an intellectual weakling who is terrified of standing by your own words. Afraid of being modded down for being so dumb? Lmao!

Your hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Your lack of self knowledge is epic.

I get such a kick out your criminally stupid behavior. I don't normally read or respond to AC but I stumbled into this post and it was so over the top idiotic I just had to.

I am so entertained by your inability to see your own failures in such a short post. You wrote 2 pseudo sentences and were wrong in both. I'm still waiting for the Trump frog march from the Mueller report I was promised 10 times a day for months. And the 34 felony loans frog march. And the 38 child rapes frog march. And the rest of your laughable dreams and wishes that never came true yet you still keep believing this stuff because you're so gullible. Hey you know your NYC DEI girl is being charged with loan fraud? The one who charged your President with fake loan fraud? Your other girl from Georgia ruined her career when her corruption was exposed while pursuing a corruption case? You guys are so hilariously stupid.

You watched BBC and believed what you were fed. You swallowed it like the sheep you are. Yum yum yum on the lies they stuff down your gullible throat. Baaa baaa!
https://apnews.com/article/bbc...

Adsense payments dropped off a cliff. This is why so many websites are laying off staff. Google wants all traffic to stay on its site. Gemini AI (yes, the one that, when asked to draw Scottish people, drew only Blacks and then asked to draw a group of diverse people also drew only Blacks.

What do you need to click through to a website for? Those can contain dangerous information like warning people not to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That disease is still out there and still dangerous. Get your boosters, everyone!