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I don’t think that would stop tRump from trUmping. If anything, he’ll use that to further his lie that Canada’s a nasty country to deal with.

I’m using an app called Voyager and you can create user tags in it. It’s local on your device though.

No doubt about it. And I’m actually glad to read that is, and that there are banks who are happy to just hop on something that they didn’t make themselves, and don’t necessarily have control over, which many banks around the world are very keen to do as, well, most major banks are extremely conservative (small c of course) organizations, all over the world.

In Japan, afaik, none of em have really worked with any of the transit cards in any meaningful way, despite us actually seeing some of these cards becoming more and more universal, ie their systems are becoming more predominant than what the Japanese banks use (can’t remember the name right now). That said, Japan is still a mostly cash-reliant country, esp the older shops, many of which just don’t care about adopting technology.

In Malaysia, one of their major banks have instead tried to mimic what TouchNGo does, allowing people to transfer money via scanning a QR code, and essentially use their status as a major bank to sort of compete with the original toll card. Some other players (non-banks tho) have sort of just joined in the bandwagon and so you end up seeing some shops ending up with a bunch of different QR codes plastered on their counters. Despite the fragmentation, because QR codes are just super easy for even a small roadside stall to set up, it’s actually gotten really good adoption even in smaller, near rural places. Carrying cash is still a good recommendation, but you really just need a few bills of different denominations (there are only a handful), and can generally go without using cash.

Presto essentially had that sort of potential in Ontario, if it just expanded beyond being a transit card.

There are lots of such examples outside of NA. In Japan, their transit cards can be used in lots of convenience stores, vending machines, and even claw machines. In Malaysia, the old highway toll debit card called TouchNGo can now be used essentially anywhere where the vendor pastes their QR code.

That’s not always bad though, but you definitely need a strong leverage. And a strong leverage is not something the US really has these days. In fact, they’re working really hard to get rid of their leverages. That’s some smart politics there. /s

So this rando just came here and just said something like “I’m gonna make it harder for people in your neighbourhood to do business with mine if you don’t stop the fighting.” Like, sure bro. Like that’s gonna work.

Sure, Thailand exports 19% of its products to the US, might hurt em a lil, but I don’t think that’d stop them from fighting Cambodia if they’re serious about it, and they were. Cambodia does export 42% of its stuff to the US, so it’d hurt em, but if Thailand isn’t gonna be bothered, it’s not like they have a choice.

So much for the self-proclaimed master negotiator.

I’m sorry, but if you want to promote something, at least do it in the right places, and don’t try to spam your message everywhere to try to get support. You’re pretty much making yourself out to be a spammer, and most importantly here, your insensitivity to the topic here has only ruined any chances that I’d look at your project.

I’m sure it’s well known at this point, but Trump’s strategy is a tale as old as time: keep lying and at some point, some people will believe you, and it will then multiply and spread like fucking cancer. Not everyone has the ability to tell truths from lies, and they rely purely on “How many people are saying it?” Other times there’s a nugget of truth to the lie. And more often than not, people accept a lie because it keeps them safe in their community.

Seriously, for all the shade Westerners throw at the Chinese government for their surveillance of their people, we’re just gonna do the same? WTF is wrong with our governments? Who are the people giving these advices if it’s not their own idea?

Believe he talked about that in a bit more detail in another video about trams. I think that video was titled “Trams are the G.O.A.T” or something to that effect.

But essentially, and iirc, trams and subways serve subtly different purposes. Sure, at the end of the day, they move people between points, but the difference lies in what you can get between those points. Running trams at ground level close to shops means that they facilitate local foot traffic, and makes it easy for people to just get off and go get what they want to easily, sometimes at the moment they see what’s on their way. They can do that without the need to get up and down via stairs / escalators / lifts. Sure, you could check out a map to know where you wanna go, but where’s the serendipity in that?

Subways are great for faster point-to-point travel, especially if you don’t need to visit any of the areas between those points. Trams are generally slower than subways cause, at the end of the day, even if you give it priority on the surface, you are still close to humans on foot traffic, and there are points where you’ll have to slow down to not make people feel unsafe, even if their path is predictable.

Let’s make us all feel worse… courtesy by NJB https://youtu.be/HhQxNHrD6fA

I know some people absolutely dislike the guy for essentially dumping Canada and emigrated to the Netherlands, but seriously, if I go through the episodes he did: trying hard at advocacy and planning hard to improve the city, only to be met with unreasonable car-brained suburbanites throwing absolutely ridiculous arguments against the plans and essentially pouring cold water all over everyone, all in the face of facts, and you end up having to just watch things go to the shitters like you expected, you flip the table, and you leave. I can say that cause I’ve went through something similar. You end up not being able to just stay at that place anymore, no matter how much you loved it.

As Henschel continued walking toward the conference centre, he told protesters he was "racist and proud."

And his lawyer says that he’s a “good person”? WTF??

I wonder how much of it is Shwitter (yeah, Shit Twitter) feeding them all sorts of blatantly biased and overtly rosy image of tRump. The Japanese is excessively hooked on Shwitter after all, and they don’t typically follow US news too closely.