It depends on the role of the church in the context of that revolution. The church sided against the people in the 1915, and many were burned. They generally supported the people in Latin American revolutions, so they were burned when the US supported counter revolutionary terrorists like the contras.

A kitchen towel?

I am responsible for at least a few thousand of that.

What is a tea towel?

Yeah those are all pretty valid. Going cashless requires a lot more from society than just giving everyone an app.

Or like the one bar I go to is still kinda lawless haha, a PBR is $2.

lmao you should see how cheap liquor is in asia.

Regarding 2 and 3, theres a qualitative difference between the chinese government mandating corporations respect privacy and not retain or use biometric data and the US doing so (with the EU somewhere in the middle, usually), and what they have historically used that data for.

Regarding 1, in the event of a total societal collapse where not even phone towers are running, I’m not sure how much utility money would have.

Crazy that this technology still exists. Half my credit cards don’t even have raised numbers.

I’ve never even seen a manual card reader machine. How does it know if a card is declined?

Sure, nothing is lower tech than locked box with a slot in it, except maybe accepting IOUs, but most businesses that handle cash today still go down if power goes out, cell service is a little more reliable though.

Oh yeah, no in America or Europe, if everyone used an app to do basic functions like buying food, it would be exploited to make everything worse, no shot that it would be regulated in a way that favors the people rather than the banks.

Wechat and Alipay do all that except the not keeping a record of transactions. There’s tons of food places where the entire payment system is just a printed QR code and they just tell you how much to pay so there’s nothing that can go down except the phone network and wifi.

You can also just give people money, which seems like it shouldn’t work with a credit card because it’s technically a cash advance. There’s been a dozen times where a store that requires everything go through an app so they can make you click through 3 menus advertising discounts if you buy more items wouldn’t work because I didn’t have a Chinese number or something, and the employee would put in the order, then I’d give their personal account the money.

A majority of Chinas EVs outside of Shenzhen are hybrids. Unless youre counting vespas, there’s way more electrics.

Why would it be a failure? I loved never having to carry anything but a phone in China.

🇮🇳 obviously.

We retreated after taking massive losses and accomplishing none of our strategic objectives, unless you consider sending a generation of youth, poisoning the land for generations, and committing countless atrocities to be the real objectives, rather than the stated goal of preventing Vietnam, a country that is still communist to this day, from becoming communist?

But the actual price is cheaper too, do you suppose the 650USD samsung costs 200 USD to build and ship? A 250 dollar machine with a 6 year warranty would be impressive, and triple their profit margin.

Hell with the former Al Nusra in power, he can put that on his CV and get a job with the police, handling domestic abuse.

Dark Souls 4 DLC was p great.

Samsung is willing to bet they can make a profit while covering 20 years of repairs, whereas Speedqueen is only willing to bet 3. That says to me the speedqueen is less repairable or Samsung and others expect to weasel out of their warranty.

I keep seeing people say this, but they only have a 3 year warranty. Samsung, siemens, and random chinese companies I’ve never seen in the US offer 20 year, on much cheaper machines.