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  • I use capital ones website on graphene OS and have full access even to temporary cards and all that.

    It didn’t want to play nice with Vanadium so I had to use Brave browser just for the banking stuff. I have a friend who uses cashapp and chase banking that way as well.

    Only thing that doesn’t work is tap to pay and its only because Google are dicks and won’t allow it. Small price to pay to not have one of their spyware loaded versions of android on the phone though in my opinion.


  • So in my imagining of how this would work out I think you could buy it outright maybe if you wanted and avoid the subscription OR get it subsidized somehow where insurance or government or facility you’re in pays part or most of it and then you would be stuck with the subscription model for using it. Kind of like you lease it from them, sort of. I could maybe even see where if you buy it outright you don’t pay the subscription but upon death it goes back to the company/facility but I think that will be a new way of doing things. It might even be a part of the condition for the overall subsidization of the industry. This is all just guesses though but I don’t think its that unlikely if you think like a greedy VC.

    The reason they would do this for this technology in particular is because the end goal would be having no more cnas and stuff like that you would eventually after many many years of perfecting the technology be able to have these robots do all of that.

    The long term projected profits will be insane. Again, this is just my guess but I believe it would work out very similar to this.

    Edited to add: this isn’t JUST about helping the elderly BTW. The long term goals would be (again many many years down the road) for these things to replace heart surgeons and nurses and the like for everyone. No more pesky malpractice lawsuits or high wages to pay, just a deal with the company that makes these things. The goal really isn’t to help anyone except the people who own this or get involved by making them rich but it will be presented that way (X% success rate much higher than human doctors or surgeons!, no more elder abuse at nursing homes, etc)


  • You’re forgetting those eye watering return charts they will be promising. The government will probably give them kickbacks or something similar to get it established at first. They have definitely done this in the past to help businesses (Texas Instruments, Foxxcon, Amazon, Volkswagen and many others they spend about $200 billion a year doing that)

    Also when someone dies they don’t get buried Egypt style with their robot, that unit would be the property of the company/insurance/facility and go to the next person. Although I will admit mortality rates among elderly is something I didn’t consider but disabled and injured or otherwise handicapped people will be the customer base as well.

    And I don’t know if I said it in this comment or the other one but getting them into facilities/hospitals will absolutely be the end goal of all this but they have to go slow and test it all out first which is why I think getting them into homes will be the first goal.

    Also to add more to this, the 15¢ savings was just me being cynical the actual savings will be a lot more significant but the subscription model they will undoubtedly attach to something like this will be the real money maker I’m guessing they’ll charge it annually and I bet it’ll be quit expensive.







  • But that’s just the problem isn’t it? You highlighted yourself how untrustworthy the US government is.

    So what if you live there dude? Can’t easily get Euros and shit although gold and silver is an option for now until they pass a law banning gold again like they absolutely did before.

    So what then? Put it all into their dollar? Fuck man idk. I definitely hate memecoins and shit but crypto as a whole doesn’t really seem like that bad of an idea to me. You can hide it a lot easier than gold and silver and they can’t bring a sniffer dog that will find bitcoin in the backyard.

    Sure they have electronics smelling dogs but if you memorize a seed phrase and don’t write it down its yours forever so far they can’t read your mind and extract it from you short of torture but even then they have to know prior that you had it before and that you didn’t forget the seed phrase.

    I agree crypto has a lot of scammers and ignorant shit attached to it, but I also agree that blindly putting ALL of your eggs into the fiat basket isn’t the best idea either. I think diversifying between certain (definitely not all) cryptocurrency and gold and silver is the best bet. I know I know people will hate me for saying that but damn I don’t understand why people know to hate the government but LOVE their money and don’t ever question that at all.

    Edited to add: I’m gonna be real if I lived in a nice stable country with a government I respected and felt like respected me and their allies around the world I probably wouldn’t fuck with crypto. But I don’t. Along with millions of other people.

    When they use some bullshit app to scan my face and say I’m not a citizen while throwing away my papers and licenses proving I am and ship me to some even worse shithole country and freeze my bank accounts and take all my gold I could still have that seed phrase memorized that they never knew about.

    And wow, turns out the impoverished country I’d go to would accept the crypto for payments because they know even better not to put all their eggs in the government issued bank note basket.

    Why do people hate that truth so much? Because there are bad people that exploit it? Shit dawg, how do you think the US Dollar got dominance?