mass surveillance. you can be id'd via electronic payments, phone, bluetooth signal from ur devices, fl*ck cams, wifi, ai ids your face + gait, license plate readers etc. high powered data centers can process it all in one work flow to know where everyone is all the time :)
@wumujinki Hey I'm just a stranger on the internet but I want you to know that I always love seeing you on my tl cuz you always have something really smart or funny to say. You matter to a lot of us and we care
also im so sorry but this whole convo on whether or not its "moral" to dislike sg is so fucking sick and tired esp when he has done nothing but serve vocals and exist like I deadass just want ppl to stfu no shade
260702 Taemin interview
Q: At this point in your career,if you could share a stage with anyone, any other artist,who would you want to share a stage with?
T: Jonghyun,he would have been such a great artist and I would have loved to share the stage with him. I respect... I respect him so much
It really is a mindf*ck to be working on a story about cruelty to pigs while at a cafe where the smell of cooked bacon hangs in the air. Once you're attuned to the suffering of animals — all animals, not just farmed ones — things like this happen just about every day.
My husband’s friend works in a Walmart distribution center. She says it can get very hot in there. But they finally have some decent AC. Why? Because the robots that are there now require cool air to function. Fuck the humans but cater to the machines. What a disgrace.
As someone who lives in Portugal which already stops every single package you get from outside EU with no exceptions for a decade or more:
I can tell you how this will go
From now on if you receive a package from outside EU, it'll first go missing for weeks and nobody will know where it is, then you'll receive an email from your country's customs agency
They'll make you login to some extremely unusable and outdated web portal which breaks half the time and where you have to classify your shipment in one of 10,000 confusing category codes
Depending on the category code you'll pay a different tax rate, sometimes it's 5% sometimes it's 60%
Then you have to pay the customs duty in some archaic way that will also be broken half the time
And then you'll finally receive your package from outside EU after months
Experiencing this for a few times you'll realize you will never ever try to order or receive anything from outside EU ever because the ordeal is too painful and expensive
I get asked a lot here by people from US to test out new products (like the guy who made the Minimal Phone) and it's just literally impossible for me to receive it even for testing. I tried to classify it as samples for testing but you need to go through a bureaucratic process of insane lengths to get that through so I just gave up
Realistically all this does is make Europeans live even more in the stone ages, as now they can't use modern AI, nor get modern products from outside EU because it'll be too much hassle to order
@Sci_Flu Humans deserve it but there are other living beings on this planet that have been suffering immensely and going extinct faster than we could keep track of even