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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_(credit_card_company)

Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

No thanks. It’s not for me.

What are the alternatives to Visa/Mastercard?

Some surely know, they just don’t care.

Absolutely. I’d switch to other payment methods that aren’t those, if you can.

Harmless by themselves, perhaps, but if they make some ultraprocessed foods more appealing are they entirely harmless? I think it’s fine to make beet juice in the kitchen for our own uses.

Why not disallow all food dye, not just the bright ones?

Rules for thee…

I’ve stopped caring about anything this waste of carbon dioxide says.

Is this all of Japan? I wonder what it looks like comparing just Tokyo with LA

I think Moto is actually Lenovo now?

If this really is lossless, it is incredible. I’m skeptical until I see it in action though.

There has been a proposed modern implementation of a historical solution: https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-reducing-debt-via-a-modern-debt-jubilee

Wouldn’t mind something that would fix my tinnitus.

A swasti-car, you might say.

MP3’s licenses and patents have expired.

They aren’t just a black box, tinkering with them actually has negative consequences. On Android getting root access results in Safetynet attestation failing and on iOS you can’t even get root at all unless you are happy to run some bins from questionable sources. Things are very different for youths. As someone else stated to tinker in the way you mentioned means getting an Arduino or some kind of tinker-friendly SBC.

I think it’s true that owners of Apple products are more affluent so if I were to put on my evil capitalist hat and could collect this point of data, I would certainly at least test differential pricing just to see if it works.

I have no trouble using it in spite of this.