My book collection is in a storage unit after a recent move, but I really wanted to read an old book I have. Considered just buying it again as an ebook, but the ebook price for it is twice what I originally paid for the paperback. Anywho, I technically already paid for it, so...
@Gaismair The funniest part of the background to this loophole is that he identified it while studying for his citizenship test and all his friends essentially staged an intervention to convince him not to bring it up at the test/interview.
what an unexpected shock! on the plus side the digital ID industry's annual revenue has now doubled to £2bn and hundreds of random third party companies now have 10s of millions of people's sensitive information to sell and/or leak to the entire world!
@PotatoMcWhiskey "children shouldn't be allowed to say no" and "they should be made to understand they have obligations" when the context is bodily autonomy and unwanted touch is the wildest fucking thing I've seen someone post. Is there an abuser handbook people are cribbing from with this shit?
The most disturbing thing about posting this was seeing how many people came out of the woodwork in a frothing rage at the very notion of respecting children's boundaries.
People are so drunk on the AI kool-aid that they'll post a long screed about how "hey, uh, so, I think AI is about to royally fuck us after all" and close it out with a recommendation for more people to start using it, b/c the disaster proves how useful it is.
@enby_bayani The part of this story that doesn't get mentioned as much is that the cop thought this was someone who ran from him the other night (and got away), so he went over wanting to shoot him. It's not just reckless use of force, but entirely premeditated. He wanted to shoot.