I can fly out of Warsaw, Copenhagen, Vienna, or Berlin (have done all four in the past year) within the EU and not be subject to an ID check (or really, much stricter security than in pre-9/11 days in the US).

MS Windows has essentially become malware, forcing software and UX changes on its users without their consent ... it's the adware model from the 00s, except commercialized.

When it comes to AI adoption, Sam Altman has as much respect for the public's consent as he did for his sister's consent.

Utah is basically Saudi Arabia West, theocratic police state ... it's a shame that the Mormon faith was allowed to continue to exist in the US after the Mountain Meadows pogrom.

Your comment shows how normalized violence and abuse by American cops is.

At least in Snow Crash, the central government was fairly weak and inept.

You shouldn't be required to identify yourself to anyone unless conducting an activity that requires public licensure (i.e. driving) or suspected of a crime with a reasonable level of suspicion. No, government vermin shouldn't be stopping people on the street at random and demanding that they account for themselves.

It's complicated. Most EU countries have biometric ID cards, but they're checked and recorded much less frequently. Scanning ID to buy a beer would be seen as abhorrent in most EU countries. I've flown "domestically" within the EU in the last year without any kind of ID check. By contrast, with TSA, you have to identify yourself, and even with Amtrak, you have to give name AND exact DOB to buy a ticket.

Pig mask. A.C.A.B.

What restaurants require an oink oink ID scan if you're not drinking?

... for a sick society. Low quality food, low quality culture, need a stinkbox (car) to do anything in the majority of the country. We'll still be lonely, disconnected, and sick even if we take drugs to paper over the problem. God damn America, land that I loathe.

Introverts shouldn't be allowed to homestink ... being part of a society should require doing things in person, not being a reclusive coward doing everything online. Technology and the dweebros that push it are fundamentally anti-urban and anti-human.

Also, even drones flying 100 feet overhead sound like mosquitoes on meth.

You haven't met any millenial/Gen X cops ... they refused to mask up and got (in one case in NYC) a nurse married to one of their colleagues to print up fake vaccine cards. They wouldn't protect themselves even if it killed them, and sometimes it did.

Fuck that ... just what we need, more stinking noise little surveillance copters hovering over our heads. I hope it fails spectacularly and clocks a few well-heeled pedestrians on their noggins, followed by hundreds of millions of litigation.

Don't neglect lunch specials ... you can get a reasonable sized main and salad for $15 (about $20 with tax and 18% tip) in many places in NYC if you go before 3:30pm on a weekday.