What do you want to do with gold or USD if the us economy collapses? This isn’t the middle Ages where you can pay the peasants with gold or silver coins. In an economic collapse canned food, fuel, etc. will be useful. Something people need every day and can be swapped in small quantities.

“User connects via VPN XYZ” is part of the fingerprint. It doesn’t protect you from identifying you, instead it ads to the number of unique properties of your computer and connection, adding to the size of your fingerprint. Besides, a lot of VPNs and proxies add another header x-forwarded-for with your original IP. Source: I worked on multiple e-commerce platforms that use fingerprinting as part of their fraud protection. Also see https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/learn for a more detailed explanation.

Doesn’t matter, your browser will be fingerprinted with some embedded JavaScript that works in all modern browsers. Detecting VPNs is also trivial.

Tell him you have a-grade ketamine…

No this can’t be right, Mr poopy butthole is a good and likable character.

Just a normal train, but it has RGB lights and a touchscreen on each seat…

“No sorry, I only carry hundred dollar notes with me.”

Fair Point, but I guess vacation in Europe was not that expensive for Americans in the 80s because of the strong Dollar.

Consoles don’t make money, the expensive games and subscriptions do.

“Have you tried living in house?”

Originally the radio was an expensive extra and not part of the standard equipment in most 1960’s cars.

… which was easy, because each button had exactly one function, and there where only 6 buttons on the dashboard.

BBC World service is still broadcasting on AM :)

Lol, every second reply is some kind of crypto scam!

“hey, want to see where daddy works, disposable meat shield number 9?”

Doesn’t even register that you created or deleted a file in the explorer window that’s open, instead you have to refresh it with F5 to see the changes, like it’s some sort of web app from the 1990s. Pretty sure older windows explorer versions would update the view when files changed…

You know that most modern devices have a volume control…?

How much profit would Tesla have to make on each car they ever sold to finance his package?

That’s like a normal taxi with extra steps!

Why? At least I don’t have to download and install gigabytes of files for something I might only use once?