In the UK we are in droughts, and we are being told to restrict our water usage. Somehow if you run a data centre then the rules don't apply.

If the water company is telling me to restrict how much I wash my clothes then corps need to feel some of the pressure too.

You need to blame the actions of shitty politicians on themselves.

Don't want new features, and don't need an upgrade then stick with it. If you need the new version, then pay a partial amount of the app for the upgrade?

Example, Texas: HB 1181, effective 2023-9-1

United Kingdom: Online Safety Act 2023, effective 2023-10-26

I'm not saying this is all the US' fault (blame lies with big tech who need excuses to mine minors data), but the title blames the UK exporting id verification to the US when the US is very capable of doing it to itself.

I find that all the metrics about CCTV very misleading, and the whole thing seems to be to distract that the article is blaming the UK for actions of the US and US based companies.

We know there is censorship.

We do not like the censorship.

Americans fund the censorship.

Americans pass laws for censorship.

Americans fund censorship overseas.

UK passes law for censorship.

Americans - See it's the UK fault.

That is the part we are discussing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/18/facebook-com...

https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/new-hampshire-police-a...

https://www.fire.org/news/lawsuit-ex-cop-sues-after-spending...

Are we pretending that the porn id laws weren't a first attempt at getting forums like Reddit that might "accidentally" have naked pictures liable and therefore profile everyone?

Because this is leaning on blaming to UK for everything the US is doing to itself an awful lot.

I think most people can see that there are levels to everything and UK police are better than a lot of places whilst still needing to improve.

Sometimes I get code handed to review that has to same variables set multiple times, additional classes/methods/functions added that aren't used, and when questioned I get a shrug as a response.

Slop.

Sometimes they review it and tidy before handing it over. Much like although we have printing presses, hopefully someone reviews it to make sure that they actually printed square on the page.

Not slop.

The problem is that we have lazy people and mandatory LLM usage has forced us to confront these people that don't even proof what they write. Before they would just hide in the background and not do anything.

Literal slop.

Yeah, some are looking really good!

It's been around since 2011 so for the majority of its life its not been that.

It's a design choice.