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Amazingly people (not literally) rioted in Seattle over a soda tax until the city made it go away. I can't wrap my brain around that one.

I think that the better question is why these were allowed in the first place for a supplemental program.

My impression is that they had a problem of an economy that could not support the population at that time. Overpopulation vs underpopulation.

I buy experiences and consumables. No more stuff.

The catch is that it's not a final decision and they can still do whatever the hell they want but probably won't.

was this on MTV?

Huh. I remember the name but don't think I ever saw it. Interesting idea though.

What's amazing here is that the people being hurt are the very wealthy. Those are the ones you don't want to piss off too much or they might put their money elsewhere.

I'll never stop being shocked at what an idiot man child Zuck is.

I have some contact with my siblings but pretty much only see most people once a year for holidays. I could do without the holidays, honestly.

There is probably truth to what you say but I will point out that people used to get pocket guides to carry around that explained how things worked in the target country and provided basic phrases for ordering in restaurants, saying thank you, and such.

The problem is that you don’t want to record important information like passwords so if they did log them, it’s another possible vector of loss. I e if someone got into that copy of the data