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depends on how it’s declared and transported. as there is classes for each type.

surprisingly, I believe jewelry and personal goods is the lowest tax bracket. which technically applies to alot of things even electronics.

obviously every nation is different, but you have to be careful in how things are declared, otherwise they may be just flat out rejected because it wasn’t bought inside your nation. (censorship controls apply to imported goods like media, toys, magazines, electronics goods, and household items. it’s best to treat each thing not as what it actually is but what it’s made from to avoid refusals and overtax due to poor import system that blindly denies.)

there no benifits to this. extreme bacterial contaminations and mold/fungus concerns aside, there is simply too much unprocessed food available that goes unsold and is wasted as a result to ever need to recort to this.

it’s not a ecology issue, there has never been a shortage of “food”. when people say there is a “Shortage of food”, what they mean is there is a shortage of food /given/ to them.

it’s a economic shortage of food. they do not have enough wealth to acquire food and therefore they are not getting any. greed is the reason there is so much food wasted. not at the table, but at the market.

governments should be subsidising the poor and supporting their food needs by taking excess from markets at value, not margin.

as soon as food starts the process of production, before it even hits a preparation or cooking surface it has bacteria on it. nothing is completely clean.

freezing, washing and cooking ingredients reduces these or makes them go dormant. but it does not get rid of them entirely.

when it’s plated and served, that bacteria is already stating to revive and reproduce. by the end of a meal, between all the new nutrients from the human body added to the plate from the utensils, the leftover food is a breeding ground. this is why leftovers are generally considered risky if not handled properly.

you simply cannot reliably disinfect them and the only things you can do is store it in a chilled environment to slow bacterial growth and reheat to aid in killing some but not all of that new growth off.

if you start mixing these together, the salavia, which is unavoidable as spittle occurs whether you notice it or not, and trace amounts are on your utensils from mouth contact. plus any airborne contaminants from the person are in the food.

it basically becomes a Petri dish. as it’s a perfect microcosm for bacteria and mold…

we used to grow mold, yeast and fungus by spitting on potatoes and rice. to later harvest it. we understand it well.

not op, but I assume they are vegan. many vegans have the misconception any product from a animal is violence against them. as they cannot consent…

but the truth is, no vegans live on farms… they don’t understand chickens lay unfirtalized eggs regardless.

they also see the breeding programs of chickens as violent as it’s for producing meat/eggs. so by raising chickens you are perpetuating it… but that’s stupid. that’s like seeing a hurt dog by the side of the road and saying “if we help that one we have to help all of them”. baby chicks are often given away not sold…

and a lack of companies with ethics. shipping companies often make massive profits. there is nothing stopping them from shipping donations for free…

media, used to store, transmit, and deliver information.

food == nutrition + dna. nutrition is the various vitamins, nutrients, fats and enzymes the body needs to maintain cellular function and repair.

food == a media for delivering nutrition and DNA information to the human body. 😵‍💫

meanwhile I’m overhere with…

keyboard, mouse, camera, 4x flash drive, game controller, ebook reader, external storage disk, printer, VR headset, multimedia card reader, LED controller, my monitor (USBc display + hub + KVM) and my phone…

ofcourse not all at the same time. but I have a mess of USB extensions and hubs as I don’t have enough root Ports lol

(Linux not hacintosh) I apparently couldn’t run it if I wanted to.

“so a typical PC motherboard destabilizes the system” you don’t say. Steve jobs killed the external Macos program they had for GSeries and m68k Mac’s when he came back saying internally “if you let competition thrive you cannot drive demand”.

so I think we can guess why it’s hard coded lol

Better yet, vote/demand actual punishments for parents when their children chose to commit crimes as they don’t want to parent.

However this is not entirely true either, for two reasons.

1. Philosophical: FOSS relies on the “many eyes” approach to security. Adding any API, even internal adds another layer of risk. This is exactly why some projects refuse to have API access to application data, even if it runs from a privileged forked service. (Using locked sockets or other methods instead).

Any open port is a attack vector and no matter how secure it is today, tomorrow is not a promise. More so with how this overlaps with laws like Australia’s, which requires all encryption to provide a backdoor for government access. (This means the 5 eyes nations get access by definition to this API while it’s in transit, as soon as it leaves the host system…)

But that’s not just the only issue. The whole issue with libxz being targeted by nation state sabotage proved that, it’s possible to put backdoors into applications despite “many eyes” on the code. (That case was only caught because one obsessive person over the /testing/ speed… 90% of such attempts in most projects would go unnoticed simply as there is not enough maintainers)

2. Licensed software: not all applications are completely open, even if the underlying OS is. This is a API thats exposed to all userland applications. Nothing stops Firefox for example from using binary blobs in Thier source to “sign” this data for supporting websites, then send this data to places you don’t consent.

Firefox is just a example, so many applications use permissable licenses that don’t require all of the sourcecode to be human readable or even accessible.

Big thing is nothing stops driver vendors from stealing this data too, no different than Microsoft does, whether or not you are signed Into a Microsoft account on windows. Telemetry is already a growing issue and the scope of telemetry data in closed source blobs doesn’t have to be defined…

So by definition it’s not any more secure…

Even if it was, the bigger question is why. Why does the application or web service need to know.

If a child walks into a liquor store and steals alcohol, they get arrested. The burden of proof was never on the liquor store. Why is the burden of proof on the OS and not the parent or child.

We don’t need nanny software, that teaches kids to be better liars. We need stronger punishments for criminal actions, regardless of age and more importantly punishments for the parents for allowing it to occur. Babygating the entire OS for some one elses children that would never touch it, legally. Is a example of creating solutions for a problem YOU(parents/government) created.

All of these age laws came from the social media bans. These of which only came into existence as a means of datacollection… Non-compliance, is actually compliance with how they are written, as they all place the burden of proof on you. No evidence == no crime. It’s still a crime to lie about your age to age restricted content.

can’t expose what doesn’t exist. if a site asks for age verification, stop using it and find a alternative that respects privacy.

your OS starts asking for your identity information, to share with everyone that pokes a open API, it’s time to jump OSs…

privacy is something you make a best effort to avoid creating obvious methods of exploiting. you don’t share your credit card numbers with every email too, just because they say they cannot prove it was your card on file?

identity is personal online, no one is entitled to it unless you choose to share it. otherwise it’s a invasion of privacy.

want to protect kids? educate them and keep them off tiktok/social media by fining the parents when they are identified.

fined twice? treat the kid like you would any other time a theft of service occurs.

there is no such thing as privacy when sharing private information, that’s accessible remotely.

leaks can and will occur. but more importantly this will be used to create digital associations between inviduals and Their online presence, just like all the other digital identity laws have.

it protects no one, as getting around it is easy as lying. while intentionally harming adults that comply out of necessity.

there is a reason people are jumping ship from privacy invading services already…

the solution is holding parents (and the child) responsible for the action of their childrens actions and not trying to create industry wide privacy invasion for bad actors to use. what’s next, gold stars for Linux users to wear?

I completely agree with this. treat it like a privilege level. it’s that simple. it doesn’t need to define “age”, it can just define what a account cannot access.

this is all a slippery slope, and a terrible one at that. gates protect no one and just tech people to learn to get around them…

perfect example of “coffee is hot” signs/labels. I think we all deeply understand the sentiment that the general public, is in fact, generally willfully inconsiderate to themselves and others, when they want something lol

Unless you physically impede some one, to disrupt their flow, they will not think twice about desire fulfillment in today’s society… Everyone needs to pee, but not everyone respects your need to pee.

NYC has laws that punish the poor for existing, allow people to piss in the streets and lets the homeless masturbate on public infrastructure/buses/trains to passers by, rather than get them the help they need by funding anything besides billionaires.

NYC is a example of a century of continued messes by wealthy, bigoted men… (and im not just talking the ghoul in a suit, “Garden Center” Giuliani)

its deeper than that, Cost of operation. Who pays the cleaning staff to disinfect those tiles so bacterial growth doesn’t occur? Plastics and many cheaper materials are bio-inhibitors. They can be covered in fecal and urine waste and not be literal petri dishes for bacteria, fungus’s and mold.

they also look plain (IE: “Industrial”, currently a desirable artistic trait. When we live in a society that is all doomer and see’s everything for its resale “potential”) and last a relatively long times(plastic erosion is significantly slower than cheap tile). In a era where operating a business is less about making or selling products you believe in, but making sure your investors (bank/shareholders) get paid. its one major cost(staff) off the top.

More so when most businesses rent the buildings they use, they do not own them. You want to blame anyone, blame the landlords that charge based on location, not based on business profits + their own costs.

lol, i never said its a good solution, just the only reasonable one. The best solution is having government controlled public restrooms and regulating where dining institutions can operate their businesses to restrict them to areas where these restrooms are located.

Then have a always on-staff, thats well trained, well payed and lives in the local area. A Government personnel to keep them clean and paid for by tax payers, rather than wait staff that are forced to do it on top of their already demanding jobs of dealing with customers. Treat it as public infrastructure like roads and sewer and the problem solves its self. People generally treat public infrastructure much better than business infrastructure. They see business infrastructure as a outlet to their gripes with a businesses practices. Some one wants to vandalize? its suddenly not a business they are messing with, but a government facility… holds a lot more legal weight and punishment. Additionally staff have only one job, that bathroom facility, so if something happens, they are not going to miss it for 12 hours until some one complains…

Would it be worth if financially? yes. Most governments spend more per year on research groups to make policy decisions than staffing. Staffing costs are generally one of the lowest operation costs, and infrastructure pays for its self when you tax businesses for the use of it. Businesses ultimately save money, as its additional infrastructure they dont need to maintain or clean, and less operational cost.

Will it be done? no lol
Nearly every nation is trying to shift national operational costs to private industry as decades of corporations lobbying and pressuring has made it appear as if its cheaper to build it and sell it to them, then to operate it yourself. People are stupid and easily convinced against their own best interest, because they get situational biased based on the fact bad experiences are heavier than good ones mentally and businesses know how to placate them with sweet words and entertainment… We will own nothing and like it. its the future.

I mean, digital receipts and signs would take care of both those problems lol

Most parts of the world, public restrooms cost money.

I mean most ceos went to uni for business and paid others to do their course work it seems. Then got hired on the vibes.

Shareholders care about only one thing, and its not the company or its employees. Of course maniacal idiots are at the top of the list for CEO, their too narcissistic and lack empathy to care.