Thing is, that google and apple will, for most people, automatically upload photos to their servers and process them in ways none of us are really certain of. By photographing with a phone, anyone’s face could be matched up with a time and place. And then there’s the potential problem of the person uploading it on purpose.

Photography isn’t the problem - it’s the tech attached to it.

Personally, I’m with you - because I’m not a person of interest. If I was a political agitator, e.g. trying to start a McDonald’s union, I might feel differently

Same

Absolutely lame, but age 12 I remember the worst most intense pain I ever felt was sitting on my own thumb after pulling a wooden stool towards me - crushed it right on the edge corner and it was so intense.

Way more painful than the time I got a drawing pin (thumbtack) half embedded in my heel, impaled my wrist on a set square, or winded myself falling chest-first off a skateboard.

I’ve been pretty lucky/sensible

Carp. Had it in poland. The toughest fish meat I’ve ever had, riddled with tiny annoying bones. Tastes a bit like discount supermarket proscuitto… not exactly horrible, but it was so much effort to eat the damn thing to boot

A kangaroo steak I had in oz is in the top 5 steaks I’ve ever had

As an oyster fan, I can confirm that different species make a pretty enormous* difference to both flavour and texture.

*within the confines of slimy salty shellfish meat

tucking in to anything salty with lemon and tabasco is also pretty good though

Most of my print jobs… maybe one a month, are for either artistic reasons or for making labels to stick on things.

I do still print tickets out of habit though, just in case I lose/forget my phone or drain the battery that day, though this has literally never happened.

There are some peculiar branches of libertarian thinkers (Stephen Molyneux being a prime example) that think nothing should be government/tax funded, up to and including e.g. roads. He reasons private companies should build them, and make them all toll roads, or find some other way to recoup the costs.

Disagree - someone has to deal with emergencies and investigate crimes, and I’d rather it was someone trained to do so.

But I would like to see them split up into different agencies with different responsibilities, so it’s not armed meatheads dealing with every social disturbance

Most conservatives aren’t really economically conservative. They too want police, schools, fire dept, infrastructure etc. to be well funded. There’s just also a nebulous idea that “government wastes money” and they don’t want their taxes taken.

One of the saddest things was a blog by a nanny to a little girl who was born without a face. She had eyes and a mouth, but that was about it other than random folds of skin. The nanny was so sweet, talking about all the operations the girl had had to slowly, over time, build her something resembling a face. The girl herself was apparently really sweet and loving too, but everyone who saw her would react as you might expect.

It just struck me how cruel nature can be sometimes. At least she was born to very wealthy parents, but that was the only perk.

I wonder how she’s getting on now. Must be 18 or so I imagine.

“Just the people they’re interested in”

Life IS an experiment, via evolution, to propagate our DNA. We’re doing pretty great! Colonised loads of land, even at extremes of temperature. Sure, we haven’t made it to living underwater just yet, and the poles, mountainous regions and deserts are logistically tricky, and there’s only a handfulbof us in space at any one time, but we’re getting there!

I kind disagree. I admit that e.g. growing your own veg will never be cheaper than buying it at a supermarket - it would make financial sense to spend a few more hours working instead, and just buy the veg, but that kind of misses the point. Gardening, cooking, DIY… they all have a certain satisfaction and self-sufficient pride to them that money can’t buy

“We do not collect your precise location”.

So… just like, to the nearest 10 metres then?

Child miners should unionised raise their rates.

Dammit. Why do ethics and privacy have to cost four times the price I usually pay :(

Link pls? I’d like to check this out.

Bots and shills, sure. But Russian bots? How come?