My point is, hardly anyone goes out of their way to use other payment options, and that's one reason why most businesses don't bother with them, so this is also a choice of the consumer. Of course there's also little incentive for the consumer not to bother, but that's kind of just the deal with catch 22 network effects, someone has to take the leap to using something else.
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Some businesses offer more options though, and when they do you can choose to use those options.
Is violence a currency?
No scarcity
I'll be honest I don't own a television, though maybe someone else knows
“Grab the TV remote, go to menu, go to controls, vertical controls, look for channel list and delete Fox News.”
I love political statements that are this specifically actionable
can fly through double-paned glass
um, how
Also I wonder how long it will take before this tech gets used for situations other than mass murder events
various forms of explicitly engineered right wing political propaganda last I checked
Any ideas for that? My main thought is to further develop technology for the anonymous web and get people using it, although probably some form of overtly political activism is also needed
I really hated highschool, so avoiding anything remotely like that has been my main guideline.
If these types of laws keep coming there might be a lot of legal liability for running instances of things
At least he can't stop you from editing it
A gas tax makes sense because it directly pressures consumer behavior towards using less gas and producing less emissions, but it's still technically regressive because poor people are more obligated to drive and gas costs are a larger proportion of their budget. The way to make it not regressive would be to redistribute the revenue.