Amazon is rolling out ‘paying with your palm’…Mark of the Beast? No, it's just convenience, comrade!

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[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Pulling out a credit card is extremely easy. This is a solution looking for a problem. They even have tiny credit cards you can clip to your keys. The scanner will get dirty and not be reliable because it is an upward facing optical lense.

It is overengineered. It makes it hard to choose which account you want to use. There are simply better ways.

Personally I like the rubber wristbands that waterparks have which can let you in your room and be used to buy food and rent equipment.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

I agree this sort of thing is just marketing and unlikely to have real world applications.

More likely most people will simply use something like apple pay or a credit card.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

People will clamor for the mark when it comes, and deride those who refuse to take it. They're gonna LOVE it.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

You gonna back that up with a biblical reference? Because afaik there isn't one.

Revelation 22:18

For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You act like people still use gold coins or smth when there's pay-with-your-phone available. People will line up to get chipped.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Microchips cannot be properly described as a "mark" either. But the distinction is somewhat irrelevant.

The mark of the beast in revelation is given to those who worship the beast. The restriction on commerce is an aside to that describing a repressive religious cult.

It is very likely a reference to Nero.

[–]iamonlyoneman[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

or be surprised when you get rejected by God for a convenient method of identification and payment, that's up to you

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You can continue to spread heretical nonsense but if God didn't damn eve for eating the apple he certainly won't damn her for signing up for apple pay.