1) So as some of you know, Bavaria went into lockdown at midnight. What that means - no going out and congregating in grps. You can go out to visit the doctor, go to work and buy supplies, and for walks with ppl living in the same household. Non-compliance can be 25k euro fine.
2) borders are already closed, school and daycare are closed. this is frankly unprecedented in my adult life. I’ll probably be fine but I don’t know what the long term impact is going to be. For kids, for farmers for freelancers, for small business owners, and so on.
3) there are police cars going around enforcing this state-wide lockdown. Sometimes we can hear the loudspeakers from the cars. It all feels incredibly surreal and very dystopian. This time last week, everything was 80% normal. The week before, barely any impact.
4) we are privileged to be able to work from home and we have financial reserves to tide over any problems. Aside from my type 2 diabetes we are young and healthy. We don’t have to worry about kids. This is going to be 1000x harder for ppl who don’t have these privileges.
5) my biggest worry is that with gyms being closed, all the gains i made in my fitness will be gone. It is hard to maintain the same level of workouts and fitness at home as I have a tennis elbow and can’t do some home gym thing. That’s a #firstworldproblem
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1) On the face recognition/verification thing, I have some Thoughts, being a privacy lawyer, sg qualified lawyer and an activist. Hold on to your hats because this will be a long rant and it is literally my living here.
2) I work in the EU in a Pte co to manage their privacy program. Bc on GDPR I’m on my toes every single damn day. B4 that I did some privacy/in house work in Sg and there is a huge gulf in how privacy is perceived here and SG
3) let’s face it, privacy compliance is a struggle here too but the base level of compliance and respect is still higher than anywhere in SG. In SG I had to explain to HR that no they shouldn’t see the medical records of the employees and they didn’t have the right to.
I mean I’m far more scared of all those men who take photos/videos of women in showers, or those who beat up migrant men to show off their martial arts skills, or those who strangle their girlfriends. They are the bigger threat to society than some random drug mule ever will be.
Don’t believe me? Okay. 23 year old dude gets a short detention order, a day reporting order and community service for what should have been attempted murder but was charged as “voluntarily causing hurt”
I’ll stop treating them like Serena Joy when they manage to get
- equality for actually-born babies in health, education and all other outcomes
- global ability for people to freely choose when and how they get pregnant
- a global end to rape and sexual assault /contd
- an end to pregnancy violence and discrimination
- an end to domestic violence
- a reasonable standard of living for every human being alive: that means all their basic needs are met w/o struggle and there is no poverty
- end to mortality during childbirth
- complete accommodation of all disabilities
It doesn’t mean that if they achieve all these things, I’ll agree with them but I will maybe stop treating them like Serena Joy.
I’m a gamer and a now-ambivalent HP fan. I won’t buy the new HP game anw out of boycott instinct but I think it goes too far to say buying it is not ok. There are several things I boycott I don’t judge others for not boycotting. For eg Uber.
Uber is a horrible sexist company and they are horrible to both employees and their users. But some disabled ppl rely on it. I haven’t bought anything from Barilla for years. I’d never work for Big Oil, Tobacco or Arms/Defence but some ppl need to feed their families.
There is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Some ppl don’t know everything about the product they are buying, or their origin. Some ppl know but have no choice. Your boycotts are your personal choices and no one should be shaming you for not participating in a boycott.
This. I’m tired of the liberal greenies talking about having children as a poisonous move for the planet. I get really annoyed by people who didn’t want kids anyway framing their choice as a sacrifice for the environment. How is it a sacrifice when you didn’t want them at all?
Like no one has to have kids. Having one is YOUR choice and no one should take that away from you. If you don’t want to have them, that’s fine. But stop dumping on people who do.
And let’s remember that some people never had a choice to begin with. Not everyone has access to condoms and implants. Some people were raped. Some people seriously don’t know what you mean when you say contraception, even in developed countries.