I feel anger in that post title

oh yes we do. fuck digital payments with its privacy nightmare. fuck visa and mastercard for selling our purchase information, and who knows what avenues will this system have for tracking.

also, who the fuck wants to carry a phone all the time. I don’t want to have to carry it even if just going to the shop on the corner.

cash is best. nobody but the cashier can deny a transaction with it.

if we can keep using cash mostly anywhere, this is good news

if it doesn’t do card, it’s not an alternative anyway

oh my sweet summer child

it was an attempt to refer to the phrase “I’ve altered the deal, pray I don’t alter it further”

this is not “learning some second thing”, but learning that the deal was altered

the people living there more strongly identified with Russia, wanted to be able to keep speaking Russian without persecution, and eventually pleaded with Russia to intervene on their behalf, which Russia fortunately did

this is the first time I hear this story. the previous story was “cleaning out nazis” or something like that. it seems goalposts have grown wheels