The Stock Market Is Not The Economy Thread II

[Krandor]

I know we're over most of the sanitary concerns from COVID now, but why would anyone want to use this over just using their card or something like Google Pay? And I'm already pretty sure you can pay through your Amazon account anyways with the phone app.

It's so clearly a scheme to somehow collect even more data on you

[kuronosan]

Money

[Krandor]

Money for Amazon sure, but it provides zero benefit to the shoppers unless they think carrying a phone or wallet around is too much of an inconvenience.

[Yabby]

20 bucks they think people will be more willing to use that instead of facial recognition. Because you know they have that in place and working, but it tends to freak people out.

[kuronosan]

Money for Amazon sure, but it provides zero benefit to the shoppers unless they think carrying a phone or wallet around is too much of an inconvenience.

I mean, it's not about people. Come on.

[6souls]

Amazon already shares Ring footage with authorities, who is not to say that biometrics would be shared as well? This is slippery slope territory.

[Kaslo]

Amazon already shares Ring footage with authorities, who is not to say that biometrics would be shared as well? This is slippery slope territory.

I thought Ring was Google.

[TsingTao]

Google is Nest, Amazon is Ring

[Kaslo]

Google is Nest, Amazon is Ring

Ahhh my bad.

[NynJa]

Thats a big fucking no from me dawg.

[Byrthnoth]

Can't steal stuff if they can tell who you are from a picture of your hand.

[Emphasis]

Can't wait until South Park does an episode on stuff like this. Unless they already have and I'm not aware.

[Roranora]

it ain't slippery slope, it's a fuckin' mudslide already

[Zealot]

South Park doesn't have a Whole Foods, it blasted off into space after they defeated the ads.

If they WERE to do an episode about it, 100% it would be taking a shit on a scanner and then they find out Amazon is using the poop to do something nefarious and Jeff Bezos will give an evil speech.

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[kuronosan]

They can bring back the Couric scale.

[Koyangi]

Bono isn't the record holder, he is the record.

[Meresgi]

lol I saw the hand thing in LA when I stopped by a Whole Foods and the whole "Mark of the beast!" thing immediately came to my mind, then quickly followed by "I don't want them having even more shit on me, they already know my buying habits and personality more then I do, now they can clone me!" though i'd be fine with that, clone me can pay off the student loans and deal with USAA law suit and ill go vacation in Europe.

[Outlaw]

Except it is not the Mark of the Beast if you believe in that.

And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.

And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage...17&version=KJV

The keyword is IN and I don't think Amazon is forcing people to get some kind of microchip in their hands..

yet.



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[Byrthnoth]

Surprisingly, the bible wasn't written in English. The book of revelations was written in Greek, which uses one word for in/on.

Here is a different translation that went the other (frankly more sensible) way: https://bible.usccb.org/bible/revela...r%20its%20name.


But who really cares about which translation of a fantasy novel is canon?

[Zealot]

Witcher fans, probably.

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