I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.

#WhenTaken #544 (24.08.2025)

I scored 795/1000🏅

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2️⃣📍4.4 km - 🗓️0 yrs - 🥇200/200
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This post has less upvotes in the politics community, where it belongs, than here. Why?

What I really don’t get is people delivering with someone else (also an adult) in the vehicle

If you could spend the boring part of your job chatting with friends, would you decline?

A favor is just a form of debt, and debt is money. It does not matter whether it’s written down on paper, or just remembered.

Wait. Bitpay is still around? That was the company Valve has used before. It was the de-facto standard for every eshop accepting bitcoin. Until they decided to implement identity checks, and only support payment from wallets implementing certain protobuf-based payment protocol. Which made them slide into obscurity pretty fast.

It was the support cost as far as I remember. Way too many people were too confused about how Bitcoin works.

Volatility was not the concern, at least for Valve. They’ve utilized a payment gateway that just swapped the BTC to USD right away. Which was still a single point of failure, but in case of bitcoin, the company switching a payment gateway does not affect the UX for the customer as much.

Next up: Un-inventing fire!

It is a buerocratic nightmare, but filthy bolsheviks has zero rights to criticize it.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Capitalism, is in fact, Fascism, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Government with Benefits.

People don’t browse the PSN store, because it’s crap. I mean, the steam store is pretty bad, but I still manage to just browse and bookmark some games there to get back to later.

When I hear people talking about books, they often speak of them as if it was a comodity. Do some people just read a random book every once in a while?

What am I missing?

Yes. The most clever gangs even incorporate and offer legit security services for the government.

Although, it took them a while to realize that this is the best exit strategy, so the '90s were a bit crazy in the eastern europe.

Do we want mandatory ID checks? Because this right here is the way to get them.

There was no $70 alternative back then. There is now. Hell, my first smart watch was 30€.

https://en.nothing.tech/products/cmf-watch-pro-2?Colour=Dark+Grey