The idea of digital passes being used isn't new. After all, international flights have increasingly demanded passenger proof.
That draconian measure being extended to visiting the theater, events supported by Ticketmaster and similar companies, the evils of Walt Disney parks, and other public spaces has been speculated about for the better part of 1 year.
Fans of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Rangers, however, are among early proof of concepts of what this may look like.
Already doing my job! It's easy too, with alternative options (if one must):
NFL, NHL, etc.? Stream it.
Movie? Book? Game? Pirate it.
Console? Homebrew it.
Boycotting sports, Hollywood, and woke companies that are in luxury entertainment is one of the easiest things you can do.
People have dilemmas when it comes to mega-retail corporations, which becomes tricky to navigate. Not the case for these examples...and I do believe we can expect it to come to fruition.
It'll be more difficult, of course, if they require the pass for public transportation like buses, trains, and domestic flights. We'll see if they go to that extent.
I've been boycotting the NHL for 20 years, and is he still there Gary Bettman? An absolute villain.
NHL hockey turned to garbage when they built all the luxury box super arenas, never converted to big ice and threw more referees onto the tiny playing surface; all the while hiking prices, screwing players, and expanding into the desert forchrisake because mo' moneh.
I wasn't entirely sold on expanding the rink but I've never played hockey, so I am less informed.
Don Cherry though is an easy agreement. How they kicked him out is disgraceful, but unsurprising; CBC and Canadian government is massively cucked, and unfortunately the comments that I read of 'hockey fans' was very uninspiring.
Stopped following sports entirely many years ago due to the time investment being implausible. Never regretted it. I stream the NFL occasionally, but there are limited days and it's a sport where athletes try to kill each other, so there's that.
One might be able to save enough money from the piracy that they can pony up for a realistic sex doll.
Apparently they're only $5K or so. I don't know if that's cheap or expensive for a creature suffering from notrealitis, but it's an option, and AI is constantly evolving, y'know.
People have dilemmas when it comes to mega-retail corporations, which becomes tricky to navigate. Not the case for these examples...and I do believe we can expect it to come to fruition.
I remember BLM gave themselves big discounts last year.
This is one of those oversteps where I'm very likely to resist even knowing it's going to make me a total outcast. I wasn't even totally against getting the vaccine, and even though I'm totally against masks they haven't been worth the fight. Having to scan my health approval to enter? I just can't go along with that.
Sadly, the outcast part I believe to be very true. I can foresee droves of people praising them for doing what it takes to keep them "safe."
The fact I can't infect myself with COVID, means this is discrimination based on health status, doesn't it? Like a paraplegic would walk if they could, but they can't, I'd get COVID if I could, but I can't, and it's health-related, so isn't this discrimination based on healthcare situation, a disability-related claim?
"We don't," said the Controller. "We prefer to do things comfortably."
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."
"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.
"I claim them all," said the Savage at last.
Mustapha Mond shrugged his shoulders. "You're welcome," he said.
The idea of digital passes being used isn't new. After all, international flights have increasingly demanded passenger proof.
That draconian measure being extended to visiting the theater, events supported by Ticketmaster and similar companies, the evils of Walt Disney parks, and other public spaces has been speculated about for the better part of 1 year.
Fans of the Brooklyn Nets and New York Rangers, however, are among early proof of concepts of what this may look like.
Edit: Added Rangers.
Boycott those fuckers.
"What if they held an event and nobody showed up?"
Already doing my job! It's easy too, with alternative options (if one must):
Boycotting sports, Hollywood, and woke companies that are in luxury entertainment is one of the easiest things you can do.
People have dilemmas when it comes to mega-retail corporations, which becomes tricky to navigate. Not the case for these examples...and I do believe we can expect it to come to fruition.
It'll be more difficult, of course, if they require the pass for public transportation like buses, trains, and domestic flights. We'll see if they go to that extent.
If you want to go down that path ...
I've been boycotting the NHL for 20 years, and is he still there Gary Bettman? An absolute villain.
NHL hockey turned to garbage when they built all the luxury box super arenas, never converted to big ice and threw more referees onto the tiny playing surface; all the while hiking prices, screwing players, and expanding into the desert forchrisake because mo' moneh.
Long live Don Cherry. Fuck the NHL.
I wasn't entirely sold on expanding the rink but I've never played hockey, so I am less informed.
Don Cherry though is an easy agreement. How they kicked him out is disgraceful, but unsurprising; CBC and Canadian government is massively cucked, and unfortunately the comments that I read of 'hockey fans' was very uninspiring.
Stopped following sports entirely many years ago due to the time investment being implausible. Never regretted it. I stream the NFL occasionally, but there are limited days and it's a sport where athletes try to kill each other, so there's that.
Edit: Canadian government instead of 'Canada'.
NFL, NHL, etc.? Pirate it. Movie? Book? Game? Pirate it. Console? Pirate it. Picking up a girl at the bar? Pirate it.
Yo ho, yo ho... a bottle of rum... and really bad eggs!
One might be able to save enough money from the piracy that they can pony up for a realistic sex doll.
Apparently they're only $5K or so. I don't know if that's cheap or expensive for a creature suffering from notrealitis, but it's an option, and AI is constantly evolving, y'know.
I remember BLM gave themselves big discounts last year.
Welcome back! I was wondering where you were for the last month.
I don't think we're entitled to the same retail service, unfortunately.
Nothing interesting happened and I off playing video games lol.
This is one of those oversteps where I'm very likely to resist even knowing it's going to make me a total outcast. I wasn't even totally against getting the vaccine, and even though I'm totally against masks they haven't been worth the fight. Having to scan my health approval to enter? I just can't go along with that.
Sadly, the outcast part I believe to be very true. I can foresee droves of people praising them for doing what it takes to keep them "safe."
"Have you been inspected by the state? Have you been deemed acceptable by Omnicorp? Apply now for your Excelsior Pass to rejoin society!"
Doesn't sound dystopian at all, nossir.
Let's do TB, polio, and smallpox vaccines next at our border! Or is that considered racist?
The fact I can't infect myself with COVID, means this is discrimination based on health status, doesn't it? Like a paraplegic would walk if they could, but they can't, I'd get COVID if I could, but I can't, and it's health-related, so isn't this discrimination based on healthcare situation, a disability-related claim?
From Brave New World:
Just saying.