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Prepaid cards

They usually have to be 'activated' first, which gives card vendors the opportunity to collect your information before allowing purchases. This isnt common practice yet, but I'd bet that's coming. Even if they don't collect your pre-activation info, the date, time and place of purchase are recorded and attached to the card. It wouldn't be a stretch for law enforcement to request CC/security video from the merchant at the date and time of purchase. So I don't think they offer as much privacy as cash unfortunately.

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The Authoritarian Stack

This is really great (and by great I mean terrifying to see it all laid out plainly). The only nitpick is the idea that the model "is coming to europe next" ... as if this whole thing wasn't kicked off by Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Europe was the testing bed for this a decade or more ago.

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Turns out Helldivers 2 uses a real life game master.

There have been some sudden moments where maybe one planet was too easy or one was too hard and [Joel] had to get up in the middle of the night.

I laughed out loud that they woke this poor dude up in the middle of the night. Like how did that conversation go? "Joel! EMERGENCY! POPLI IX is too hard! Wake up and fix it!"

Jokes aside, I think it's awesome they have a game director who can influence the story in real-time to keep things interesting.

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1775 Boston, Massachusetts vs Current Boston

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The fill came mostly from Needham

The firm of Goss and Munson extended railroad lines to quarries in Needham, Massachusetts, 9 miles (14 km) away; a 35-car train carrying gravel and other fill arrived every 45 minutes, day and night.[11] When the Needham gravel pits were exhausted, additional fill was found in Canton, Dedham, Hyde Park, and Westwood.[12] William Dean Howells recalled "the beginnings of Commonwealth Avenue, and the other streets of the Back Bay, laid out with their basements left hollowed in the made land, which the gravel trains were yet making out of the westward hills."[13]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Bay,_Boston