The above comment definetly was a bit anectodal, but there really aren’t that many countries that use the USD. Its pretty much only the US, its territories and a few smaller south american countries. Canada and mexico maybe accept payments in dollar but don’t officially use it.

Apart from that the USD is sometimes used in international trade, but that’s more for currency conversion and not as physical money.

The only people that use physical USD outside of the US are American tourists with their america first worldview and mexican cartels.

Because a currency without a stable backing is completely volatile. Sure the value of normal currencies fluctuate, but apart from a few hyperinflation edge cases that’s at most a few percent each month.

Small cryptocurrencies fluctuate sometimes hundreds of percent each month and even the big coins can swing ±20% every few weeks. The only somewhat stable coins are the ones directly tied to real world currencies.

Having a currency that fluctuates this heavily in value creates the exact same problems as the ever changing US tarrifs did. There simply is no wax to reliably price goods and services for more than a few days. You essentially have to barter each trade.

No SA stormtroopers, no camps, no coup plot, nothing like that

These are all things that happen after the Nazis get in power which hasn’t happened yet. If you need proof about that, take a look at the us, they already started doing all of the above and are slowly ramping things up.

At the moment they are riling the people up. They try to block every change that would help the average person (not that there are a lot of those changes being done at the moment), while simultaneously blaming everything bad at any miniority group possible. They don’t have much of an actual Programm apart from black people bad and kill all trans but managed to get one third of the votes with hollow promises and beeing backed by a few of the biggest private media groups in germany.

The Verfassungsschutz (office for the protection of the constitution) considers the afd youth organization a right wing extremist group. While the afd may not be as bad as the nsdap was in its prime, half their members would wish that to be the case, so calling them nazis is fair game.

That advice has a different reason.

We automatically steer where our eyes are looking at. If you are awake and focused, that doesn’t matter cause you adjust for that subconsciously. But if you are preoccupied with something and are driving on autopilot, then that one tree you were staring at for a second too long is the place you are going to end up.

That’s also the reason why people tend to hit the only upright thing on an otherwise empty 5km stretch of road.

it’s an annoyance for the sake of trying to get us to use auto sign in

Not really, that’s more in the realm of incompetence than malice. Its basically the cheapest and fastest way to implement multiple different log in methods within one login page.

Let’s say you have Google login, Facebook login, SSO (corporate single sign-on), Email/SMS codes and good old password and username. The easiest option would be to just put a different login button for each of these and be done with it. That works as long as your users know what type they should use.

But once you have a user that doesn’t know what he should use you need a backup login that always works. Thats what the standard login button is used for nowadays. When you put in your username/Email it checks the associated login method for that account and redirects you to the correct login page. That way multiple login methods can be accessed with the same starting page.

Sure, its mildly annoying for people that use a normal passwords, but considering that the overwhelming majority of people either uses Google sign in or just stays logged in, its a very easy decision to make for the developers.