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Usually I am an earlier adopter of tech because I'm interested in technology, and I have money to burn. But I don't need a brain chip, I'm weird enough already without having to debug my own head.

We're going to get Borg before GTA VI

I have to imagine though that most people want to come out of this alive and so unless ICE are coming for them, are unlikely to do anything if they see them.

This is going to isolate and ward off foreign business and visitors.

Also having tariff policies that just change every 5 minutes makes it rather hard to plan ahead, and businesses hate that. A lot of the companies that we work with have changed their policies so that the shipping fees to the US are either huge, or have restrictions on them such as at least €200 worth of product have to be spent before they'll ship anything. Meanwhile they'll ship to Indonesia for free for a product that cost €40.

This is because the time between shipping the product and the product being received in the US global trade policy might have changed six times. The only way to plan for that is to have a huge profit margin to absorb the weirdness.

How does the state verify that you're an adult and therefore should have a token?

This solution simply seems to be kicking the can down the road

Oh yeah the hanging up on you is really common. I would literally prefer a phone tree than having to talk to an AI because if what I wanted was something that would be simply explained to an AI, I would have done it myself on the website. The reason I'm calling is because I need someone with an actual brain, and in an understanding of the business, to use their brain to assist me with my somewhat complicated situation.

One time I got a credit card sent to my address that was for someone else. The letter was somehow addressed to me, but the credit card wasn't for me and I hadn't requested a credit card from this company. So I called the support line up and the stupid AI kept asking me for my customer ID. I told it I didn't have a customer ID because I wasn't a customer, and it said "thank you" and hung up on me. Fantastic.

In the end I had to call them out on Twitter in order to get in contact with a human.

I don't think I've ever seen a single suggestion of a way to implement age verification that isn't a privacy nightmare. Oftentimes they literally just want a credit card number, the assumption being that a child would never be able to get hold of such a thing.

In some of the worst cases they actually want a passport or other government ID sending to some organisation that would verify you. With all the fun potential data breaches that that would ensue.

Most of the time these rules never get off the ground because privacy advocacy groups basically sue over it and win every time.

I remain baffled every time I see support for this from "progressive" online spaces and voices

It's just people not using their brains, everything is just viewed at its surface level with no deeper analysis ever conducted. They are the sort of idiots that think that Starship Troopers is profascism.

Surely you cannot sue someone for future injuries where the future injuries are entirely unevidenced. There would have to be some kind of medical assessment that said that this kid is going to suffer ongoing injuries and I can't imagine they have such an assessment.

Maybe the counter argument should be that this kid's mom should attempt to get him on disability payments, and only if he's able to get on that, will they accept liability. There is zero chance of that happening.

Bet that kid is counting the days until he's legally an adult and can get away from her.

They are a right-wing religious advocacy group. So it's practically a guarantee.

The group has also campaigned against sex trafficking, same-sex marriage, sex shops and sex toys

So they just did a control + f for "sex" and then are against any of the results. Are they seriously suggesting that there are people out there who are all for sex trafficking, and would vote in favour of it? They sound like lovely people.

I don't know why they bother censoring it we all know he's called Quentin.

Yes but the fingerprint wouldn't match would it so they don't actually have to see your fingerprint they just need to get the error back from the phone OS

Surely the pro play would be simply not to go to Russia in the first place. Thinking about it that was always the pro play.

We need to wait until we're all there at once, and then decide that air travel out of Russia is too much of an international threat, and ban it. They can have a long and informative drive across half of rural Russia in order to get back.

I don't think I've ever seen an intercity tram before. They tend to be strictly local affairs. Probably because local governments have to lay the lines, and there would be some kind of giant argument if it went across jurisdictions.

It's a Lamborghini with wings stuck on the sides, it's not a flying car.

So it's a small plane then?

I swear I saw this on TV like 20 years ago, it's a stupid idea, if I wanted a plane I would buy a plane and then drive to the airport in my car, attempting to combine the two technologies just makes both of them worse.

Yeah and they didn't cost $80.