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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.

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.

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

I really hated highschool, so avoiding anything remotely like that has been my main guideline.

At least he can't stop you from editing it

I bet they will keep making movies after we're gone

Kind of inevitable when automated moderation becomes the norm