To be fair scanning people's eyeballs and giving them digital currency in return is rather suspicious.

Special election operation

This sort of thing seems to happen far too often since Microsoft took over.

Derry Girls on Netflix

Vice Principals on (HBO) Max

The Righteous Gemstones on (HBO) Max

I'd give away about half and keep half.

First thing, pull out any unneeded cables. The old red/white/yellow set from your VCR that you don't use any more? Yank it out.

suspended based on his inability to pay

If only he had some way to make money fast.

No killing them is too extreme. Put them in a room with 1,000 different types of ringing telephones for a week.

That would be a good penalty for them. Their phone number(s) must always be public so anyone can call them whenever they want.

I know, we used to be able to afford cars, video cards, housing, food.

I thought this was going to be the thing where they use cheap power to raise big weights and then generate power from gravity lowering them.