That’s how it used to work, but that’s impossible for modern payment methods. For example, payments made with Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Apple Card use an anonymous single-use token instead of a card number. No name or agreement to pay is printed on the receipt, but some merchants still ask me to sign. You can write anything. It needn’t be your name.
You are correct that Hitler wasn’t elected, but it’s a misleading statement. German voters have never elected the head of state. Cyprus and Turkey are the only countries in Europe where voters elect the head of state.
Germany, like most democracies, uses a parliamentary democracy where the head of government derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support of a majority of the legislature, to which they are held accountable (>
You can turn off all targeted ads in the settings for your Google account. Better yet, set your device to use Duck Duck Go as the search engine. It doesn’t allow tracking.
Pig is mistaken about two critical things:1.) Business accounts are not free. Those accounts pay to access to the product.2.) Users are the product. That’s why he can’t find anyone to help him.
Nike nearly killed the best women runners in history. Research “Nike Oregon Project” “Mary Cain” “Kara Goucher”. Watch Mary Cain tell her story: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/07/opinion/nike-running-mary-cain.html. I’m a competitive runner who lives in Oregon, but I’ll never buy a Nike product.
“If you periodically embrace discomfort, you’re more likely to be comfortable than someone who tries to avoid all discomfort. You’ll have a much wider comfort zone than others and will therefore feel comfortable under circumstances that would cause others distress.”
— William Irvine (2008). A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy.
That’s how it used to work, but that’s impossible for modern payment methods. For example, payments made with Apple Cash, Apple Pay, and Apple Card use an anonymous single-use token instead of a card number. No name or agreement to pay is printed on the receipt, but some merchants still ask me to sign. You can write anything. It needn’t be your name.