grumpusbumpus

@grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I visited Switzerland just after the vaccines dropped. The Swiss COVID response far surpassed the response in the United States. They rolled out a nation-wide app for vaccination attestation, and any museum, restaurant, etc. could scan a QR code on someone’s phone with a phone. But do they have a scary, socially reactionary subset of their population? Yes.

  In some harmful ways they are fanatically culturally conservative. But they also care about community, sustainability, health, the well-being of children, environmental preservation, organization, and self-reliance. Being a small, rich, homogeneous, topographically-isolated country drives these characteristics.

  Surveillance State developments are depressing but not surprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can I lick it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Licking Lead is only “not a great idea?” I think it’s squarely in the “Please don’t do that” territory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How's it going?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  #1 and #9 are the same dude: Saint Thomas Beckett, getting his brains stirred.