https://twitter.com/ASlavitt/status/1245211899865817089?s=20
Strongish no cash, contactless whenever possible. But that was my preference before.
It is absurd for members of congress to ever own individual stocks, it is a blatant conflict of interest. Lol this country.
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Yeah, who needs privacy? I have total confidence that private companies with unrestricted access to the details of every purchase I make will never, ever mishandle or misuse that information.
FWIW usa#1 is about 10 years behind UK and euros with this. Chip&pin is barely even a thing. Regularly have to sign when using cards at some places, only contactless the local grocery chain takes is Samsung pay, (wtf even is that?) f’ign dark ages over here.
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And what consequences do you forsee of this mishandling of your grocery list?
LOOOOL
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I cannot take anybody seriously on twitter who uses this weird clickbait self promotional way of tweeting. Like, everything I’ve seen from this dude just screams that he’s a grifter.
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Yeah it just happened to be on the day after a confidential meeting when 4 other senators did the exact same thing
Come on man
As a poker player, I’ve always used cash wherever possible (used literal cash to buy my current used car) because I’ve always had a ton of cash on hand and it’s annoying to deposit cash, but I wanted to get a sense of how cashiers might feel about it so I can be sensitive to their desires. I don’t consider that concern to be minutiae.
Maybe it matters less if they get to wear gloves or if they have to clean everything between customers anyways. I also make an attempt to carry enough coins so they don’t have to make change, decreasing the amount of contact. I’ve never set up anything contactless like Apple/Google Pay. (I’ve also never used PayPal or Venmo.)
The bank definitely knows what shop I was in and how much I spent. Not clear to me they know exactly what I bought. Can see issues around purchases made in off-licences (liquor stores) and maybe pharmacies. If they get an itemised breakdown of my whole shopping list then, well, they shouldn’t, there’s all kinds of ways that could be bad.
I know it won’t happen especially under Biden but the next administration needs to break Google into a thousand fucking pieces
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No, you’re right. I’m having trouble imagining how this info is going to be turned against me is my point. I don’t know if that’s healthy skepticism or a lack of imagination on my part.
Hey at least I haven’t seen anyone pull out the old ka-chunk ka-chunk manual card imprinter in a few years.
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Walked by Lily just now. They had a line of about 40 for drive through testing. Previous days only had about 7. Not sure what that means, but it was eerie.
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We got one back in January. The normal card reader wasn’t working.