For a thousand years or more, China used these little bronze coins for day-to-day transactions. This is where the word cash comes from

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For larger transactions, they used these little silver ingots, called a tael or sycee.

Many official taxes and fees were calculated in silver taels. For instsnce, your rents or land taxes

Bizarrely, the government never really minted silver coinage, you just paid X ounces

I had doubted reports of how terrible Google search results had becomes, but holy fuck, it seems like everything I search for in the past week has been rotten garbage. Even highly technical content that used to be specific enough that it wasn't corrupted with SEO spam is fucked Since I've started trying to use dotnet6 instead of the hoary old Framework 4.X, everything I search for is destroyed with trash.

Microsoft documentation doesn't even come up