“At least that I know of, because it complicates things. And refunding a purchase is absolutely, unequivocally NOT the same thing as letting you remove your unspent balance from a financial point of view.”

“If I load my Starbucks account with 20 bucks, that’s theirs, even if I haven’t spent it. No way to take it out. Why? Because if they did, allowing you to put money in and take it out as you please essentially makes them a bank.”

“I’m a bit perplexed how being able to transact for that “card” worldwide, with nearly unlimited liquidity, and in any marketplace is no added value.”

Because you can do all this already without NFTs. You’re adding complexity for zero added value, something that in any other industry would result in you getting your walking papers.

Oh, one motivational poster. You’ve convinced me!

Gotta love some of the grays.

“This is so wrong.”

You mean rich people are helping other rich people launder and stash their ill-gotten money? Say it ain’t so! That you and that other idiot seems to think makes me look bad is some sheer lunacy.

Holy shit, my comment certainly has brought out a bunch of idiots with their idiotic arguments.

I’m sorry, are you saying that if I did nothing to prevent the rise of the oligarchs in a completely foreign country that I am somehow complicit?

Are you and your company deeply tied to the leader of a regime who is invading a foreign country? Is your company the result of massive graft and you were able to purchase a state owned company for pennies on the dollar? Is your wealth tied to corruption and being best buds with a maniac with delusions of recreating…

Unless there’s a way for the phone to be locked while displaying my drivers license, there’s no way I’m handing over my phone to a cop.

“So, Is Russia or Putin Fascist. I would say no because Fascism also means Biblical levels of Evil. But.. they are that path.”

Nationalist conservatives, so the Republican Party basically.

Or is he a clown wearing dipshit makeup?

To get you buying those sweet, sweet microtransactions of course.

So I’m a bit late to the party but the idea of creating divisions on physical ability or size would be extremely difficult. Stratifying non-combat sports is likely impossible. Combat sports are stratified because a larger person can seriously harm the smaller person, on top of having an innate advantage. There are a…

Yeah, one could really see how a driver of a *checks notes* $76k German import is really just a struggling trucker just barely scraping by due to the oppressive US government.

Or you could side with the Williams sisters, and not with either of Elliott with his sexism and homophobia or Campion with her racism.

Masks are much better at protecting others from you, not protecting you from others.