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.