Personally I think there should be escalating punishments for crimes to avoid the "350th burglary" and I thought often history was taken into account but I don't know California or San Francisco's laws. So, first time caught shoplifting should be a fine, second should be community service, third some jail, fourth could be more jail, etc. That doesn't really address the danger involved in actually catching a shoplifter. You really just need more police or a way to recognize shoplifters (facial recognition?) at that point so that regular individuals don't have to become enforcers of the laws. It seems most of the tools that could be most effective are being banned or defunded in certain areas of the US. There should be ways to account for false positives, such as confirming a facial recognition software's results, that the person actually was in the area etc.

NFTs are mostly manipulated markets. No that picture of a bitcoin symbol did not sell copies to 300 people for $1000 each, netting them $300,000. It sold to the same person who made the picture 299 times and 1 person who got scammed into thinking there is a market for $1000 images on the internet, netting the owner $1000.

Twitter will ban the American President but is afraid not to listen to the Indian government. I guess they choose what political parties they want to support.

Twitter waited until a couple of days before the president left office to do that, after waiting through years of flagrant rule violation, and until they were extremely certain of the way public opinion had swung. That was no act of courage from them, it was purely to try and manage public opinion.

No they banned him from posting while he was still in office.

Twitter banned an individual Account for violating their policy. Not quite the same as a government forcing them to block tweets.

There is a difference in individual vs a government legal order.

I see this too. Almost every asset class is moving together. When interest rates can't be dropped further then the real problems will begin. Banks have built floors into their loans so that variable rates can't drop below zero already. At the point when interest rates drop below zero, lower interest rates will actually harm the economy rather than help it and then we'll see everything come crashing down.

I don't think there is a time in the last decade where I received a "relevant" ad. The most relevant they have been is spamming adverts for products I already purchased.

We have wealth taxes. They are called property taxes and inheritance taxes.

Inheritance tax is easy to avoid and property is a very small proportion of the ultra-rich's assets.

It appears sites regularly add or remove items from their trending lists, both by manual review as well algorithms which are essentially automated manual review by the person who wrote the algorithm. That kind of control is the same as a Newspaper determining what headlines you read and what stories get the most attention, basically controlling the conversation and making editorial decisions.

Depends how much is being ordered. Some people live off of delivered food now. 3 meals a day at probably a minimum of $10 per order in delivery or 'surcharges', same thing. That's 900 a month.

This is a real issue. I didn't think it was actually forbidden though but maybe that changed. For years Arco gas station had discounts for using cash.

In countries with working currencies like EU and US, yes almost all crypto is speculation. BUT, countries that have poor banking system a poorly managed/trusted economy don't have access to even banks, let alone investments and stocks. Crypto lets those people participate in the global market.