I'm annoyed that the current government thinks crypto is the answer. The US banking system was working on such a system but apparently a well governed and well regulated electronic payment system just doesn't make money for the "right kind" of people.

Oxford Electric Bell or Clarendon Dry Pile The Bell has produced approximately 10 billion rings since 1840 and holds the Guinness World Record as "the world's most durable battery [delivering] ceaseless tintinnabulation". There are others.

I used to carry a compass and navigated with a static Google map. That was San Fransisco. Using just Google maps and GPS I did find I'd have to walk a certain distance along a block before being reasonably sure I was headed in the right direction. That was NYC.

What tech? Phone apps for calling privately run taxi-type service drivers.

My e-bike that I used to commute for years was limited to 15-20mph. Folks in Lycra just zip right by you. I remember using it to cover the off-road parts of a 100 mile bike ride event with the local amateur radio group. Ride out to the mid-point all I heard as "On your left. On your left. On your left." Only on long steep hills is it an equalizer. But, I can totally believe there are folks getting better motors there even if it is regulated.

I used to use TinyTinyRSS until I moved to where the cable company ISP doesn't support incoming connections. Switched to The Old Reader. Besides that I could make do with Akregator. Mastodon and BlueSky both support RSS so I following postings there easily. My two RSS feeds are: https://tudza.org/siteRss.xml and https://tudza.org/clocksRss.xm.... The first is automatically generated by the software I wrote to make a web site out of Markdown pages. The second one I hand edit.

At one point they planned to replace credit card transactions and their associated fees with an ecommerce direct banking system. Sounds like a better plan than making a whole new payment system based on bitcoin like systems.

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Now that Trump knows it exists, while he assign another know-nothing to destroy it? "What do you mean the mile is actually based on the length of a meter? Change that immediately!" The mile shall hence forth be based on the length of his male member times on an appropriate multiplier. Something like 63,360

Does this mean we won't have to invade Greenland now? Won't have to ship rare earth minerals through the American Canal? "Screw the trees. We want our trillion dollars!" - Head government officials

President Trump declares Constitution as "woke nonsense". So far as I can tell, originally being woke meant a victim of racial inequality was aware of the many ways racism effects them. While words can take new meaning over time, I'm not sure I approve of the current use of woke as a pejorative.

Well, if you want the 10 hour day with 100 minutes per hour I've got several watch faces on line that keep that time. Some are local time but most use UTC. Swatch Internet time was the equivalent. I run mine on UTC instead of whatever Swatch used, Bern or something.

Let's see, Canada and Australia got rid of pennies ages ago. Probably many more countries. Boy did I get a look way back when I spent my Canadian one-dollar bills at the drive-thru. "What? What the heck is this? If it's real, is it legal?" I've got some Japanese ¥1 aluminum coins floating around. Do they still make those?

Hey, wish we hadn't cluttered up low earth orbit with stuff that will mess up our new space stations.

Sounds like exercise or practicing a skill.