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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by pixelpoet on Thursday August 14, 2025 @06:29AM (#44898809)
IMO it shouldn't even get that far, to questions of how much we should be allowed to ask of others in the name of basic decency; there's been a massive shift from people being self-regulating and trying to be considerate to others, to the conversation changing to something like, "how dare you even speak to me while I'm blasting tiktok loudly, I'm going to look up the letter of the law and see what the maximum disruption I can legally get away with is, fuck you!"

Basically sometime around the 00s-10s, seemingly everyone decided to become a massive dickface with zero concept of social cohesion, and it's just me me me me me me, and fuck everyone else.

Society needs a reset, pretty much everyone has just become vile, angry and inconsiderate / extreme main-character syndrome.

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by chillingeffect on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:10AM (#44899457)
Ive identified several aspects. Moral injury, new status baseline due to social media, and lack of awareness of effects our digital powers. Not enough time to type on this phone keybd but if ppl upvote i'll elaborate.
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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by HPsquared on Thursday August 14, 2025 @08:58AM (#44899847)
It's only a small minority who do things like that. Perhaps the proportion has increased slightly, but the biggest change is people are more afraid to challenge antisocial behaviour than before. So they are more bold.
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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by tiahura on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:32AM (#44900186)
The counter-culture movement was quite explicit in their mission to replace traditional social norms and values that led to social order with their opposites.

We shouldn’t be surprised society has fallen.

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by arethuza on Thursday August 14, 2025 @10:18AM (#44900687)
"society has fallen"

In the real world things seem to be pretty much the same as they have been for most of my life (and I am 60 in a few months).

Online, yes some people behave like monsters and occasionally some of that bleeds across into the real world - but overall I think we are pretty far from saying that "society has fallen".

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Re:UK expands police facial recognition rollout with 10 new ... by librasteve on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:38PM (#44906004)
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