@PoastyMcSwag@jeffreytucker Oh they'll talk about the pandemic, how they lost their sense of smell for a few days and so on. But not the lockdown. That never happened.
@dcsandbrook@TheRestHistory That obscure podcast I started listening to on my commute during lockdown is now doing a world tour. I bet the hosts are even more surprised than I am.
Read this. Blair's objective with ID cards is clear: it includes financial transactions.
In other words, the state could, at a stroke, be able to block your ability to buy goods & services. Possibility for previously unthinkable authoritarianism.
https://t.co/Mac1K7LqAX
@Apocalypsimo@DSSquiers@sagefleur Every cat where I live has a cat flap and comes and goes as they please. They all live to a ripe old age and are obviously healthier and happier.
Keeping an animal a prisoner for its entire life is sheer selfishness and cruelty. Would you like to live like that?
@holland_tom I asked it the furthest distance you could walk between two capital cities if the Bering Straits were frozen and walkable. It said Ottawa and Mexico City.
@jeffreytucker Also, without this technology, lockdown would not have been possible. Nor would the looming digital IDs and digital money (which libertarians have oddly supported).
@mygibbo This is the government deciding you should work until death and nudging the retirement age up by a couple of years every election cycle. This isn't capitalism - if 70 year olds made money for companies, they'd already be offering them salaries to tempt them out of retirement.
@OBEhizele I'm just curious why they care about this one particular conflict, but not Yemen, or Syria, the oppression of the Uyghurs, or the Rohingya genocide.
What would you call someone who only cares about crimes when they think the perpetrators are Jewish?