Smile. Seems cheesy, I know, but it’s actually real good. The plot is that someone is trying to stop a curse that cause people to kill themselves, but the thing is, it’s like a virus, so when someone sees the infected person kill themselves, they become infected and do the same.
I don’t believe in excessive monitoring, but I also think it’s weird we think of the lack of observation as a fundamental right. Too much privacy, I think universally, is any time we go out of our way to guarantee/fight for it.
The lack of observation has a clear effect on thoughts and behavior. There is even an English saying “when the cat is away, the mice will play”. I think that there is no such thing as " freedom of speech" or “freedom of assembly”, if a malicious actor is silent notes taking at all times.
And because harvested data goes to the rich, or the cops who care about convictions more than the truth it is a reasonable assumption in my threat model that data observation is malicious observation.
Also from a citizen development perspecrive, if your citizens are always watched, then they never develop the " moral muscle" and the only morality remains in the hands of those with the power to observe and enforce their will.
2015 Toyota RAV4. Reliable and does everything I need a car for. Cheap-ish too.
I live in the very north Scandinavia. I go hunting and need a 4wd for that. 25% of my mileage is long drives in Arctic winter conditions. Electric cars that manage this drive were 2-3 times as expensive and I’d have to drive 2-3 times as far every year even when electricity is free to motivate the expense.
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