I always find it hilarious when people look at past societies and simply assume they'd have been born in the upper classes. It is overwhelmingly more likely that you'd have been born a plebeian. This isn't "how to roman republic", this is "how to roman republic's aristocracy". It's like larping as a billionaire today. It's fun, but it's a life you'll never have.

On the one hand it's obvious that the Hindenburg people are right on this when they say that Block's app is used for criminal activities and money laundering. On the other hand that's what we get for trying to push cash itself more and more outside the boundaries of modern society. That video in a way made me root for the bad guys, a no-cash society where petty crime doesn't happen because the powers that be control it all is a not a society I personally want to be part of.

And then there is also the racial-related aspect of it all, not sure the Hindenburg analysts were aware of it. As in there is no white rapper in that video of theirs.

Good riddance. I was born in 1991 and I learned (and hated) cursive in elementary school with my teachers nagging us that "every paper you write going forward will be in cursive". Even back then I thought that was bullshit but I was big into/bullish on computers, even in elementary school. Sure enough I don't think we used it in middle school at all other than to sign our names.

I still distinctly remember taking the ACT, opening the booklet and it saying "Please write the following paragraph below in cursive" (it was a bit about how you hadn't cheated or received outside help, 2-3 sentences) and my blood running cold as I hadn't written cursive in almost 8 years. I meekly raised my hand after a minute or two and said "Um, I don't think I remember all the letters to write this in cursive" which was followed by a LOT of people exhaling/sighing, thankful that someone else spoke up. The teacher/proctor was a little confused for a minute and asked the room who else wasn't sure they could and pretty much every hand went up. After a minute she just said "just print it, it will be fine".

To this day (some ~14 years later) the only thing I write in cursive is my name and even that's a stretch, I get the first letter, a distinct letter in the middle/end and call it a day.