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They have to accept cash in the US as well. The post you're replying to is just saying that they can't ring anything up or accept any payment without power.

> They have to accept cash in the US as well.

Only in a handful of cities and states. There is no federal law requiring businesses to accept cash for goods and services.


Ah okay, that wasn't clear to me, I imagined only being able to use electronic payment types.

But in this case, an emergency, I would assume someone would still know how to take a manual payment receipt!


Thanks for your input "investguy1"


Don't need a super computer to do that hah


Yeah and it was probably equally craven and opportunistic to bring them in as well.


Imagine doing something with money that isn't investing in a for profit company.


That feels like a non-segueter given the comment I was responding to


Was it intentional that you used the phrase “rolling sentences around her mouth, like toffee” in a post about how it’s better to write plainly?


Yes. Well done!

Having said that, I don't think it's good policy to remove everything, down to the point where you have: Mary came in. She saw John. John saw her too. Mary said "Well, what now?". John replied "I don't know"

Sometimes it's hilarious to describe the body language and internal monologue of a particularly awful character, and sometimes it feels pushed.

Thank god I'm not a writer. It's hard enough writing something that passes a linters / CI tests and works in production without adding "how does it make you feel to read it?". Code is written to run on machines. That's is function. But it should be written to be understandable and maintainable to humans as a secondary goal. But taking a human, making them laugh, making them cry and changing their life? I wouldn't know where to start.

But oddly, I re-read my own post and now I have a strange desire to find out what happened between Mary and John.

2026: Ground breaking novel by raffraffraff, "The thing that occurred between John and Mary"


Care to share your examples?


A president who is willing to do those things, and has a military willing to carry those orders out, isn't likely to be stopped by the court telling them it's illegal.


Bad logic.

Is someone more or less likely to perform such an act if there's a possibility of legal consequences? If not, then we don't really need courts at all, do we?


The fact that the courts have explicitly legalized these blatantly criminal acts is what gives the military the cover and the imperative to dutifully carry them out.


Yeah GTA doesn't have much in terms of destructibility. Some of the battlefield games do this pretty well though, particularly Bad Company 2. It was very common in that game to use explosives to make different ways in and out of buildings.


Also Battlefield 1. With the wide range of tanks and explosives, the WWI-era buildings become quite destructible


I think for anyone not working in national security, any thug could just as easily get your password out of you.


Reminds me of this wondeful scene in Ronin:

Everybody has a limit. I spent some time in interrogation... once.

They make it hard on you ? - They don't make it easy.

Yeah, it was unpleasant. I held out as long as I could.

All the stuff they tried. You just can't hold out for ever.

How'd they finally get to you?

They gave me a grasshopper. - What's a grasshopper?

That's two part gin, two part brandy, one part crème de menthe...


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