Comment Re:Gift cards (Score 1) 27
I love movie gift cards. When I get one I am at the movies the very same weekend.
I went to look for the latest Matrix movie in one of China's streaming sites (iqiyi.com) and noticed that all the Matrix movies were missing, which is odd because they are pretty popular here.
There is a workaround though (besides VPNs). If you run Windows, the Microsoft Store is still accessible and you can rent movies there, and I just checked: the Matrix is still there.
I am not recommending the Microsoft Store as a streaming service in general, but if you are in China and don't have a VPN it is currently the only way to avoid this kind of censorship.
It goes both ways. People heavily investing in bitcoin in the earliest days also seemed like dumb motherfuckers, but the real dumb motherfuckers were the ones laughing at them (I certainly did my share of dumb motherfucking too back then metaphorically speaking).
The latest NFT craze seems like insanity to me, and Web 3.0 also seems like a dead end (a world where corporations and governments don't control everything is just so blissfully naive), but now that I am in my mid-forties I know can safely say I have learned that I don't know shit about the future and neither do other people.
Say you are walking home alone at night. You are worried. Imagine being able to make a phone call and a drone walks you home. The drone could also record your entire walk, so anyone who messes you would know they are being recorded, and if you do scream for help it calls for backup: multiple drones come to record the situation and contact the police.
The drones should not be equipped with weapons (that would pretty dystopian). They just record and communicate. To me this is better than a big brother recording your every move ala China (or London for that matter). I am in China right now, and you literally cannot be in any public space without being recorded (and I am not in a major city center).
from the how-about-that dept
Should be from the "feeling-blue-about-blue dept". Please update!
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