marderfarker2

How do you recover information that is not there? Best you can do is guess what’s supposed to be there.

That’s why I hate watching 4K AI “enhanced” historical films, it is akin to rewriting history.

> US government

Why should I trust what they have to say as opposed to, say, China’s government? Or any government at all that I did not vote for?

I’m not a U.S. citizen nor on the payroll of CCP or whatnot.

I’d probably vomit if I see another “web3” or “decentralization”

I don’t think inanimate objects can influence a person’s mind. However media can, especially when you see the same idea repeated everywhere.

I’ve always thought it to be the reverse, since the west has the whole world at their disposal (in terms of audience and technology penetration)

With debit card you hand the merchant your whole bank account and trust them to deduct an agreed amount. With credit card it becomes the bank’s problem.

Anyway it doesn’t have to be like this. In China you scan a merchant code and enter the amount you want to pay on your phone, much like a bank transfer, but it happens instantly.