Post #2068889
2026-04-19 19:37 UTC
Replies (2)
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@u9000@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-04-20 20:16
Make sure to cover the T of the bridge of your nose and the eyebrow ridge, and your ears
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@PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2026-04-21 10:53
Same, despite all the (financial) incentives to get me to drive electric (including self-induced gasoline price-hiking). Do you mind expanding on what it is you're seeing at roadsides, and in what country this takes place? > As for out in public, I have been considering a really light mouth mask, glasses and a hat. I thought I was crazy…I really thought i was turning into an irrational paranoid person. I've also been there, and honestly there might be something to it, but I feel like automated systems might ironically keep a closer eye, on those wearing: a mouth mask (thanks to training-data from the COVID pandemic), glasses, and a hat. And I have no answer to it when pay-by-face (which self-checkout registers here could already do technically) becomes widely adopted. For now I completely avoid said registers (despite the manned ones also having a camera nearby, but at least not ~50cm from my face); but entries to (public) transit terminals also increasingly have cameras at facial height (which might also be in preparation of pay-by-face). So in the not so distant future, your face may be captured with every transaction (whether you use the system or not: as the camera remains in place). It seems like concepts from e-commerce are ported to the physical world: primarily the customer tracking and digital payments. And perhaps the entire web has been a simulation, in preparation for the digitization of the physical world. It's quite difficult to make a payment anonymously online: customer details may be shared across web shops (to check for irregularities: potentially raising a red flag, prompting the customer to supply more details), and orders are increasingly fulfilled by centralized fulfillment centers (which take the details from "independent" shops, and know exactly what goes in your box, because they store and package the products). So perhaps we should "enjoy" physical shopping while we can, because online shopping seems to be the basis for future physical shopping (that is if shops don't go delivery or pick-up only: similar to during the COVID pandemic; which goes for some IKEAs are around here).