• He/Him/His • Bi

ugh, mastodon, i guess
l.ecn.io/mastodon

Honestly most of the dystopian shit I've seen here hasn't been from the government or the police or anything, it's been from greedy exploitative corporations.

I needed water and found a vending machine. To buy water you have to scan this QR-but-not-actually-QR code with either and only AliPay or WePay and it opens up an "app" for the vending company within the We/AliPay app.

It then, of course, has to verify your fucking phone number. To buy water from a vending machine.

And, of course, it didn't fucking work.

Here I am, dehydrated and staring at water that I am ready and willing to get ripped off for, and I can't. Because this stupid fucking app isn't working and there's simply no other way to pay.

It must be hell if you don't have a smartphone, or don't know how to use it, or just get unlucky and the servers go down.


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