"Welcome to the future: a boring dystopia where the most nightmarish technology is just another cutesy promotional tool."
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burger king wants to swap you biometric data for a sandwich.
not even an entire sandwich, a discount on one.
fuck these people very much.
You should get a free meal if it mistakenly identifies you as a Whopper.
Not hot dog.
"Burger King takes advantage of inebriated customers by bribing them with ~~free~~ cheaper food in exchange for biometric data"
Great! That won't encourage people to binge drink at all. /s