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It takes work by the citizenry to keep the political class in check, regardless of the configuration. Kings don’t rule in isolation, nor do elected governments. In a lot of countries we’ve abdicated that responsibility, likewise the political class has abdicated its responsibility to its citizens.

Read any government document from almost any department and the language for citizen has become customer. Language matters, I’m not a customer, but no one cares.

Heaps of normies use either Chat, Grok or now Muse to replace their Google Search of everything.

>Find me restaurants in Queenstown

>Is it more expensive to renovate or rebuild in XYZ location

>Is so & so being narcissistic with this message copy paste

People basically outsource their thinking and think it’s the best thing since sliced bread.

I hate the concrete/modern aesthetic, but live and let live I say and you should build your dream one day.

I read something interesting recently that some huge percentage of society, all genders, all classes etc etc hate modern architectural compared to classic architectural style. The only people that like are architects and/or architecture students. Amusing tid bit. Could also be complete junk when I drive all over Australia and see white/grey render & black trim absolutely everywhere. Yuck.

I had trouble reading it because they kept drawing my eyes to them, so I stopped.

Yeah, I think a lot of people regular people when dealing other regular people they trust, the principle of it comes out in the wash somewhere applies a lot.

It was inconceivable to crypto bro’s that kidnapping people for their keys was a possibility…

If banks make it a requirement you use certain pre approved devices, you better believe badusb/physical theft will take place more commonly and it will definitely not be someone as polite as James.

I sold a property earlier in August, my solicitor had to “verify my identity” this time even though she acted as my solicitor when purchasing said product.

Now tell me how intelligent the system is in that scenario.

Any sane country has a sticker/menu price that is the price you pay when you settle up.

The first scenario is done on account & settled later, an established customer/supplier relationship would easily handle a power outage.

That's a fair point to make that for 90% of us we get cash from a machine that requires electricity.

It's not a fair characterisation that cash is useless without electricity because once you have it(presumably before the electricity stops) then you can still transact with it.

The rules for laundering - know your customer - are ridiculous, governments don't need to turn banks in quasi-state actors to squash laundering if they really wanted to stop it.

Good on Sweden for going against the trend of ever increasing digitisation which is only going to be used against their citizens in bad ways.

I don’t know about a III but Flash was good in the early/mid 2000’s while I was attending university.

Certainly was 10x better than what HTML was providing at the time, HTML really only jumped forward in this department when Steve banned it on iOS.

I don’t miss it, however my friend at uni made some wicked animations in the adobe Flash editor, whatever it was called. He should’ve went onto animation etc but stuck to programming.

From the creators of: it’s quicker to do this online to it’s quicker to do this in person.

It’s a supermarket, staff will be stocktaking, restocking, walking past A LOT.