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Again, the issue is this is an American company setting American content policy internationally.

Storefronts and brands can set up local branches and sell through those using the local digital payment provider without getting in trouble with their headquarter'd country. They can't do that with a private entity that's decided to set their global content policy to align with America's.

Wed probably be in a similar place, but the advantage of a private entity being that it can bridge the already existing digital payments, so if a store big enough like steam had the option to, they could integrate with that country's digital payments directly.

True to some degree if you're an American, but this is Visa setting internal policy for American politics, and that reflecting globally.

Not every country has the same laws or politics that the US does.

You didn't say "most" on your original post. You might want to edit it if that's what you meant.

? You can get Hydrogen through simple water electrolysis. In fact you can do it at home. That's like how 4% of all hydrogen is manufactured.

The reason there's so few is because people don't want to have to figure out beforehand whether or not they can use the payment provider they have at the store they want to go to.

I've seen this happen multiple times especially in Japan when the barcode payment craze started. There were like 13 competing payment providers and now there are 2. Because people don't want to have to carry around 13 different types of card or payment typed and have 13 different types of payments. They want one that works everywhere.

It's why there needs to be sovereign digital payment systems that are legally enforced.

This is kind of misleading, China and Japan are kind of competing to see who can launch the new generation of 600km/hr maglev trains. Both have test tracks, both have clocked at 600km/hr, both have the actual lines under construction (Shanghai to Beijing, Tokyo to Nagoya).

Neither will likely run at 600km/hr, that's mostly just dick waving.

Construction in Japan has slowed to a crawl and probably won't be done will 2027 at least, and the Chinese CRRC is supposed to start this year but I don't think they have any official service start dates.

Visa continues to set the world's content moderation policies extra-judicially.

Go figure having all electronic payments be through private companies would have eventual consequences.

I thought Trump and the project 2025 gang's entire goal was the devaluation of the dollar.

Find out who on your block can’t walk because you’re going to have to deal with that. Who has wheelchairs? Who has fire extinguishers? Where is the available water? Do you have batteries or generators? Start assessing the routes of escape. You’re going to have to inventory your community, and that’s really what we have to start doing now.

This feels even more disheartening combined with the news that subsequent generations get lonelier and lonelier. Are they even going to have the social ability to build local communities?

JAXA remains my favorite of the big three (western) space agencies to visit the facilities for.

They have the same love and wonder for space that the NASA facilities had when they were built, but without the military undertones.

"it says here you clicked 'sign me up for ISIS' 10000 times?"

"Haha no officer, you see it was my social chaff AI that clicked it"