Easy, replace all price tags with qr codes that you scan with your phone. Then they can make the price whatever they want for whomever they want individually. More realistically they will use an categorization AI to put people into rulesets which set their prices.
Here is a great video to illustrate and educate: https://m.youtube.com/shorts/acpd3UXQdmw
And an article to back it up: https://www.fool.com/investing/2026/03/05/walmart-rolls-out-digital-pricing-could-the-ai-fue/
I want to see towns implementing rental tokens like NYC did cab placards. You have to pay the city every 5 years and the house must be inspected before the token is issued, otherwise you lose it and the current residents get to live rent free. You have the option to sell the house, current residents get first dibs and their rent counts against purchase equity.
Also, there is a limited number of these tokens, so there can be only x% of the single family homes in a town that are rentals.
Just so you know his argument was a good faith one. He posed his opinion then backed it up with actual first party documentation on the specific topic. Do you have any idea how hard that is to actually do in philosophy? The person should receive a legitimate physical award to sit on a shelf for making the first cogent researched argument ever posted on the internet. And I am only being hyperbolic about that last bit.
This IS potentially new as some of the plans involve using facial tracking from security cameras to identify customers and analyze them for their net worth so they can set prices to specific customers, rather than setting prices to specific situations. Also, anything that makes price gouging easier and easier to cover up is bad.
The point on this is the cars are broadcasting the numbers. Imagine your license plate including a loud speaker that shouted it’s number while the car was running. Tracking via plate requires line of sight. Tracking it in an automated way requires a good high speed camera, text analysis computer vision to log the vehicles, and storage for all of the images. In contrast, this signal is a repeating unencrypted broadcast. I could build a Raspberry Nano device that I can sit next to an intersection and capture the numbers of every vehicle that drives by. It is also just presumably storing the number and time, so years of tracking data could be managed with a gig or two of storage.
This is absolutely a threat, and I am surprised it is not actively exploited by companies like Walmart to track every vehicle which drives by their stores and enters their parking lots. Hell, Amazon has enough vehicles out driving around that they could pretty effectively generate profiles for every vehicle in a town just by equipping their trucks with scanners and compiling the data into a behavior analysis system. Every car which drives past is read and stored. It is truly worrying.
Breaking news: the sky is blue, flowers are pretty, and fire is hot. More at 11.
Use Jellyfin. I have been running it since the middle of last year and it has been amazing and stable. Have fun.
Yo ho ho. If purchase is not ownership, then piracy is not theft.
Yes please. Or at the very minimum let us ban sections of advertising. My wife and I hate horror movies, but when we watch YouTube we are bombarded with horror ads. We have a young child that we are working hard to not expose to certain imagery. Let us ban fucking horror movie ads.
This quote reminds me of the owner of this one TTRPG and card shop in my area. If you try to talk to him about literally anything he sells he will straight tell you he does not care about anything he sells. All the nerdy shit under one roof and his ass is there because nerds will pay through the nose for it.
Needless to say I shop at the store where the owner participates on FNM every week and runs D&D campaigns.
And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.
In other news: fire is hot, water makes things wet, and things that taste good make us happy.
Can confirm, both true and stupid.
I feel it is less responsibilities and more the societal awareness that comes with them that tends to make the change. When you start paying bills you start dealing directly with greedy corporations, landleeches, and greedy employers, all of whom view you as a commodity rather than a human being.
Life being pay to play, as it has been for a couple hundred years, is where I feel the “downward trend of society” feelings come from.
If you have not seen it, you should watch the movie Wag the Dog, and check the release date on it after doing so. Phenomenal movie about government spin doctors.
I believe confidentiality refers to sharing details about the study as it relates to individuals, privacy relates to sharing personal details about a participant, and anonymity refers to sharing identifiable details. Examples Confidentiality breach: patient X reacted badly to the study and gained a disfiguring disability. Privacy beach: patient X is a married straight white suburban male. Anonymity breach: patient X is Steve Rogers and he is also Captain America.
I will take Munchkin Digital.
No idea why I am getting down voted. Helion’s tech is a great alternative to steam for generating electricity from fusion reactions.
This requires massive mortgage reform. I am not saying it doesn’t need done, just saying that it increases the complexity. I would almost rather see laws requiring some % of a capped rent be required to be reinvested into the properties.
If we are reforming Mortgage laws, require lenders to treat rent payments as they would equity payments on property, that way if you have been paying a $2k rent reliably for 5 years you are eligible for a $1.5k mortgage payment.