snooggums

A lot of ‘word of mouth’ fads are initiated by clever marketing pretending to be word of mouth.

Oh yeah, your comment was a great addition!

The central phone office frequently has its own backup generators or independent power supplies which is what I was referring to.

The odds of the power being out are more likely than a lack of network connection in the US, we tend to have generators or other power backups for cell towers and landlines even when the power goes out.

These are funny! Its right in the title!

People type their credit cards into online stores all the time. In the US, most restaurants still take your card out of eyesight to be processed, although processing devices at the table is becoming more popular.

I don’t think most people even think about it most of the time in the US because the credit card companies take care of disputes. Europe is definitely way ahead of us on secure payments!

Anywhere that there is a massive power/internet outage for whatever reason (natural disaster, trunk cut by some idiot, technical failure) most businesses will put sales on hold or switch over to cash only and maybe take checks or write down credit card manual receipts to take care of later. Nobody is going to be prosecuted for the power going out during a meal and a restaurant and being unable to use their card for example. A grocery store will most likely take down information from anyone who was in the middle of shopping and square it up later, but keep new people from coming in to keep from being overwhelmed with too much manual tracking.

For restaurants, they will most likely choose not to charge anyone who had not paid yet for consistency so people with cash don’t feel like they were punished for having cash on hand. If the business knows the outage will last very long, they might offer free food if it is going to spoil anyway as a gesture of goodwill, especially for any regulars that were just hanging around to wait for the power to come back before they headed out.

Some tech based stuff that relies on processing payments might choose different approaches depending on the circumstances. Riders with cards that can’t be processed will most likely be allowed to just ride for free if the buses continue to run.

Yeah, credit cards were originally similar to checks in how they were handled by stores and restaurants. I loved those old clunky sliding machines that you put the cards into and KACHUNKed it onto a carbon copy receipt!

If I don’t follow through, nobody holds me accountable for what I promised!

“I’ll take schwards for 100 Alex.”

practical

If the car is tied to a location that is already safe and secure in a post apocalyptic setting, then sure. But a post apocalyptic car is really only needed to haul stuff around or as protection against things outside the vehicle, and depending on the apocalypse you likely need to stay mobile, reinforce a secure location, or relocate to somewhere remote away from urban areas. Transporting the panels to a remote location will take time and effort, and if you need to be mobile you won’t have time to charge.

Now if you had a rural home with solar panels on the roof and the location was secure an electric car would serve you well until something mechanical or the batteries failed and if you didn’t need to travel far you could use it regularly too.

god damn it

Then just go. You aren’t contributing to an increase or continuation of private flights by riding along in this case.

Once you settle down it isn’t important, but unless you happen to be lucky enough that an urban setting is a good location for a post apocalyptic residence then moving a sizeable distance is a likely need. Any rural area will require moving a few hundred miles at least, and if you can’t take the vehicle with you then it doesn’t serve much of a purpose.

Depends on why things are post apocalyptic of course.

You would need a lot of panels and days of time to charge to any significant amount of distance. If you set up a solar farm in one location you could use the car for short, regular trips.

You wouldn’t be able to take the panels with you on trips without stopping for several days at a time before traveling another dozen miles or so. Electric vehicles really do pull a massive amount of energy compared to solar cells that the vehicle could haul around.

To be fair, the current events in Palestine are a continuation of decades of the same events. Compulsory service is a good point though.

Not even close to enough energy to be practical in the real world, but close enough for movie logic.

We tried being reasonable for decades and that didn’t work

Now it fills vertical screens completely!