I just heard it on a podcast, but it seems some of the concept art is way different from the final designs.

I heard Concord was originally designed to have an entirely different art style, but some top-down decision came to make it yet another hyper-realistic shooter. That’s why the character designs are so weird, they’d be more at home in their original retrofuture/art deco stylized world.

Deposit machines, which are already in wide use, could automatically read the token.

I guess someone could hack the machine? Other than that, though, it seems secure.

And also I’m not sure how knowing the date I bought a Pepsi could be useful for scammers.

How the hell are scammers, random trolls, or foreign governments going to do that with a token that says the date when you bought something? Especially if the key to decrypt the token is held by the DoE!

Do you think that kind of surveillance isn’t already happening with credit card companies, online shopping, and chain stores?

I don’t see why everyone needs access, it could just be kept with the Department of Energy (or whoever would be in charge of the proposed universal deposit program). Accessing it would require a court order, just like digging through someone’s trash.

Although that said, an open database of every single purchase would have all sorts of uses!

For instance, if someone litters, the authorities could track the unique code to the purchase and then… well. 🙂

It seems trivial to tie the token to a sale date. The future deposits on future purchases will keep pace with inflation because the deposits will increase, but you only get back the deposit you put in at time of purchase.

Even if the deposit on bottles is $2 in 2035, if you bought when they were $1 they won’t accrue value by sitting in your garage.

As long as their useless trash is in their garage and not scattered on the highway I think that’s still an improvement.

Make the recycling deposit a dollar, pin it to inflation, and put it on everything.

Critical meme theory. 🧐

Half the population doesn’t even vote tbh

The image exists in the context of all that came before it, it didn’t fall out of a coconut tree.

If there’s anything his heart is in, it’s Zionism. It’s his one true political belief.

Yes actually. Our bombs, our guns, our fucking jets. If you do everything you can to facilitate another country’s genocide and the genocide would be impossible without your help, you are absolutely an accomplice to genocide. He’s a hitler.

Not “a hitler”?

He’s doing genocide!

Doing something constructive feels really good once you’ve finished and gotten a reward for accomplishing it. Games hijack this gratification system and instead trickle little rewards at you constantly so you always feel like you’re accomplishing something.

Adds so targeted they become your only friends.

If’t hadn’t been for genocide Joe,
Palestine’d been free long time 'go.
Where’d you come from,
Why won’t you go?
Can y’draw a clock now, genocide Joe?

tbh it’s mostly just a gimmick to excite voters, not just a luxury. The Party still basically picks who the nominee is.

There was a show primary but candidates were essentially stonewalled from participating and voters browbeaten for not supporting Biden, which is why only wackos like RFK Jr are the only other people who ran.