ViatorOmnium

It’s a gradual thing. People (are supposed to) acquire more and more agency and responsibility as they grow and at some fuzzy point they are the main responsible for their own life. Some people never really get there.

Romans 1:26-27 is not better.

How does the phone confirm the payment without a network? With NFC the phone has a low bandwidth connection to the payment terminal that’s enough to sign the transaction.

EDIT: I found it. It uses special phone codes that still use the mobile network to do the payment. If I understand correctly it would still not work in places where there’s no reception, like some large buildings or air planes.

Do the QR codes work without internet? The NFC payment schemes do.

Regime change in Iran could be a great thing for lots of people, first of all for Iranians.

Trying to change the regime in Iran by bombing the country to ruins is a lose-lose scenario for everyone, as waves at everything in all directions demonstrates.