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TORFdot0 , to technology in California Resto Lets You Pay For Meal With Your Face: Payment Method May Be Available Nationwide Soon

Paying with credentials that can’t easily be spoofed means a meteoric amount of money saved for payment processors from fraud due to insecure payment methods

TORFdot0 , to asklemmy in Do we need to create increasingly more children for a stable economy?

We don’t need infinite population growth to support the economy but eventually we are going to hit a point where we have to support more retired people than workers. At that point the economy will slow down as there is less demand because people will lose their jobs because of the less demand. People will also be spending more of their time and incomes taking care of their older relatives.

Our current Ponzi scheme, robbing Peter to pay Paul, method of funding social security will break down at that point and we will have to decide whether we send mom and dad and grandpa and grandma to the poor house, increase taxes on the workers who still have their jobs, or redistribute wealth from the 1%.

People won’t vote for the first 2, so we might actually get socialism at that point but it will hurt a lot on the way there.

TORFdot0 , to technology in Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

Facebook is 100% shitposts. Most of my friends on it have aged out of posting every little thing and so it’s mostly shitposts and soft core porn disguised as short form videos on the Facebook feed and not any of my friends that I actually wanted to follow when I made my account in the 00s.

I really want to delete my account but I still have to use it to organize class reunions and alumni events for my old high school. I’m going to try to float the idea that we move to a mailing list instead. I’d rather buy a domain and maintain a website for that than continue using Facebook for free

TORFdot0 , to science_memes in It is very therapeutic to garden, though.

I don’t have any love lost for mega corporate farms and agree that we need more family and cooperative owned farms that would be more concerned with sustainability and environmental impact.

TORFdot0 , to asklemmy in What's your most unpopular opinion about music ?

As an unpopular opinion on the other end, it’s ok to stop participating in pop culture. Pop music, Blockbuster movies, and TV are all meant to sell consumerism to young people with disposable incomes. Not to people who are bogged down by kids and mortgages.

New media isn’t made for your tastes, so unless you make an effort to change your tastes to those of the current generation of young people, new media will never be seen as good enough by you

TORFdot0 , to science_memes in It is very therapeutic to garden, though.

Home gardening is an important element of individual food security. It’s not meant to replace industrial agriculture which maintains food security for the nation as a whole

TORFdot0 , to news in Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

I’m not meaning to disparage the other uses of hemp.

I’m not an expert in the uses of hemp for food but we already have the cultural palate and infrastructure for cornmeal and cornflour products, not so much for hempseed right now. If we had that back in the depression, maybe we would have subsidized hemp instead. Maybe attitudes could change in the future and we could shift to subsidizing hemp in the future. I know of a couple big hemp farms that have popped up near me, it’s possible. But it’s not feasible right now.

TORFdot0 , to news in Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

Corn is used in cereals, tortillas, chips, as a sugar substitute, and as animal feed. The one thing you won’t be eating is canned corn because that’s not the kind of corn that we subsidize.

Corn is actually probably one of the most effective crops we could use in a surplus

TORFdot0 , to news in Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says

The corn subsidies are here for a purpose. To ensure that we maintain a surplus so that we can avoid mass food shortages if a natural disaster such as the dust bowl of the 1930s wipes out several years of harvests. Hemp can’t be used as a food source.

TORFdot0 , to technology in EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again

You can’t really sell ads on a per impression basis with just product placement. They want the ad sales to be recurring revenue.

TORFdot0 , to technology in Apple Will Revamp Siri to Catch Up to Its Chatbot Competitors [using generative AI]

Yes but now it will be useless and make stuff up instead of just saying “Something went wrong” or “I don’t understand” to every request

TORFdot0 , to technology in Microsoft might be trying to sneak Bing into one of Windows 11’s apps – and some users won’t be happy

I mean you can send your Mac snip to preview and mark it up that way

TORFdot0 , to asklemmy in Why are socialist and communist countries usually considered more authoritarian than capitalist countries?

Because the rulers under communism are still the political class and not the working man. And instead of being able to uplift yourself via entrepreneurship you have the state controlling every aspect of your life, your career, and your ability to own property

TORFdot0 , to technology in Amazon Customer Service has become awful

I’ve never had issues with a return but I’ve had so many problems with items being damaged, having misleading listings, or being sent the wrong item that I refuse to order from Amazon anymore

TORFdot0 , to technology in “Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scroll

The camera is too important for me to give up my smart phone, and I don’t want to carry a separate device just for taking photos/video.

Maybe if the came out with a feature phone that had a camera on par with a smartphone and supported syncing to google photos or immich or synology then I’d consider it.

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