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the republican party in the us.
I thought phone numbers and traditional telephone service would be dead by now. Instead, purely internet-based communication services often use them as an identifier.
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Measles.
Coal power plants.
The belief that somehow through democracy and a constitution written by slave owners, somehow a country with half of the population being crazy, nationalistic nazis and the other half believing it's enough to live with these kind of people because of said democracy and constitution, that somehow society can go on and prosper just 'cause.
Blockchain. It was an interesting poc, but it has yet to have a useful implementation apart from scams.
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Internal combustion engines.. We just don't need them anymore.
Their continued use really only measures up to hubris.
I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:
I'm not sure that's true.
The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.
Presently there's no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it's not economically viable at this time.
The subsidies don't really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it's more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.
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The oldest two mechanisms of authenticating on credit cards.
From oldest to newest, they are:
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Printed data on card.
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Magstrip (which basically has the same data in machine-readable form).
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Smartcard chip with contacts.
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Wireless.
The first two mechanisms hand over all the data required to impersonate the cardholder whenever used, which isn't very secure. Yes, there's value to keeping a mechanism around for a while to permit transition time, but we should have had tap-to-pay hardware on PCs and phones and the like a long time ago.
Does smartcard and wireless actually have an encryption layer of some kind?
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Lithography.... That's the origin of phones, satellites, and rapid communication which apparently is something we as a species can't handle.
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Chat control and any similar legeslations
Humans