Apparently they rolling out this technology that scans our eyeballs online and forcing people to prove their a 'real human'. I thought the constant harassment of captchas was bad. Somehow they've made things even worse.
biometric identification is hard actually even when you have legitimate reasons to do it
Yea, there are a lot of problems with it. Same with facial recognition and that's when you have a database of drivers licenses for comparison. It doesn't even get into the cameras.
It's humorous in that while the technology is scary and orwellian in and of itself it's so much worse when law enforcement actually uses it. People don't understand how truly dangerous law enforcement is to the ordinary individual nor how bad our criminal justice or court system(s) are. We've wrongly trained our 4 year olds that law enforcement is your friend. They're not. Law enforcement is actually terrible and would get an F if properly evaluated like other government entities. They are more of a threat to the public than the small bit of risk that other bad actors are and we're entertainingly (?) funding them through taxation.
Law enforcement and the system is setup to make you think police are doing a good job going after real bad people. More often than not this is not whats happening. Those arrested can't object, but the media doesn't report on it or even seek comment of the side of those accused of heinous crimes. It might be one thing if those folks were guilty, but they're often not, and the public relations departments always get a comment in that will make it sound like the cops got a bad guy and they made the community safer. More often than not this just isn't the case. A very tiny percentage of criminal cases involve genuinely dangerous people. If you pay attention to the courts and cases that occur (and most people don't get a trial by the way) you'd quickly realize there is very little in the way of protection and far more harm occurring from the bad policing that is standard practice throughout the world (some are worse).
victorian england made them for that purpose. america was a bit anti-hobbs (armed populace, limited sheriffs office) but that's gone now.
Yea, it's largely what they do. I don't even know so much if it's the poor, but certainly the weak. Entertainingly the cops are usually running from me. I actually had a slow 40 minute 'chase' of a cop up to no good once. They don't like me and umm those around me. We put them in the spotlight on occasion and make them look pretty silly in court on a regular basis. It's gotten to a point where the city I live won't give us court dates for parking tickets (that is they drop the ticket instead), cops run from us, avoid pulling us over, and on a rare occasion when someone does get pulled over due to the cop not realizing who he's pulling over at first (think out headlight) we get thanked for not giving them shit. It's pretty funny.
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No Idea. Something about an 'orb'.