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minus-squarephoneymouse@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·edit-22 months agoAmerica will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts. Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.
minus-squareGregoryTheGreat@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 months agoI thought they were $10,000
minus-squareIgotz80HDnImWinning@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down4·2 months agoFoil Hat Club FTW!
minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoNaah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.
minus-squarenull@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoI don’t think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer. I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.
minus-square1984@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoAha… Didn’t get that. Thanks. :)
America will completely fail to regulate this as it always does. Soon enough advertisers and credit agencies will be reading your thoughts.
Why? Because it’s a gold mine for some individuals willing to throw $5000 at a few dozen politicians reelection campaigns. Public interest be damned.
I thought they were $10,000
Foil Hat Club FTW!
Naah just capitalism. To America, money is the meaning of life. More money trumps everything.
I don’t think they were calling the other user a tinfoil-hat wearer.
I think they were (joking) suggesting it as a solution to the problem of advertisers reading out brainwaves.
Aha… Didn’t get that. Thanks. :)