I’ve noticed a significant drop in people using the phrase “America bad” as a mocking jibe, since it no longer really works as a hyperbolic statement.

Also, 256 colours

It’s weird that this hasn’t already long since happened. Most every Asian country I’ve been to has had its own local payment systems.

There seems to be this idea that Visa & Mastercard are somehow too big to be usurped, but it’s all illusion.