While it might technically be true that old people are more likely to use cash out of habit, leading with that as the reason to keep using cash is a bit of a psyop. It's basically saying, "We'll keep this around a little while longer for grandma" and patting you on the head.

The real lead needs to be the robustness of cash in emergency situations, or even ordinary outages that happen all the time. That doesn't go away when the old people die. Accepting cash needs to be a legal requirement, at the very least for essential services such as groceries, gas, etc.

Aah yes, the side effects of Bulgarian Airbags are well documented.

If it is better than SSH, then it could be very useful.

A public execution sure would work to wind up Uncle Sam and get lots of bombs coming in.

The Voyager probes have been flying with RTGs since god knows when.

I only use FB to get my municipal garbage pickup schedule. If that is any indication of how useful FB is to most people, then maybe it is time to sell their stock.

The Metaverse idea looked like MS Bob reincarnated. I cannot fathom how anyone could think that it would work.

It is just a (bad) mirror in space.

In the short term it would most certainly hit profits, not merely because of lower revenues from interest, but because credit card is unsecured, bad debts taking a bigger bite out of profits. The ultimate result would be that it would become much harder to get a credit card. In the end consumers would effectively have their short-term lending capacity reduced.

That sounds like a scam to me. I have a beachfront apartment on the moon for half that.

Meanwhile, Poland is growing and buying German firms. https://tvpworld.com/90993258/...

The chief of the EPA said it is nonsense.

Comparable to the population of Miami.

Hmm, using single cellular organisms to stabilize sand is hardly new. Saudi Arabia uses Archaea residue to stabilize their dunes - otherwise known as petroleum oil.

You just need to find a gym with better looking girls.