Somehow I've gotten through decades of working alongside women without having accidentally assaulted anyone. If you're unsure then use your words to ask.

The perpetrators will say "well, I asked her and she said 'yes'" and you get a "He said, she said" situation again.

The rest will genuinely ask nicely and risk getting reported to HR for harassment.

> The rest will genuinely ask nicely and risk getting reported ...

You're implying here that a significant number of women would want to report genuinely respectful men for an unstated reason.

Would you be able to posit a reason why so many would do this?

Because the incel/manosphere narrative is that women are inherently dishonest and always looking to go after men for profit and/or spite.

These people simply do not want to believe that sexual harassment and assault really happen.

Consider the number of lives ruined when there's no way at all to speak out.

If you have evidence, take it to the cops, otherwise I don't care.

Why don't you apply this attitude to the people you do seem to care about?

If someone is accused of sexual harassment, sexual assault, etc. and they believe it's defamation, they can always take it to the courts.

See how this works?

> All the smart glasses I know of have a light on when recording.

How long until someone differentiates themselves on the market by not having the light?

Not to minimize Meta's push for these things, but there have been devices that do this for quite a while now. You can get tiny cameras hidden in pens, watches, glasses, and all sorts of other items.

It's just that in the past, these were sold by janky companies selling them as spy/hidden cameras, not massive multinational data brokers like Meta.

I would be surprised if those don't already exist, I hear stories in the news all the time about small hidden cameras places they shouldn't be. For a private space like the locker room I'm not sure what option there is besides laws making that illegal (I assume/hope that already is?). Someone dedicated already can get a much more discreet camera.

For public spaces, at least where I am, there really isn't a legal expectation of privacy. I couldn't tell if someone was watching YouTube or filming me with their phone and I probably don't have any recourse anyway.

People already sell services to disable the light.

And the next generation of "smart glasses" made by companies that aren't so reliant on public image will just forgo this entirely voluntary nicety.

What do people who drive look like?

> they would all be for it.

Would they? "They" being people you imagine don't drive (with whatever that implies to you personally, it isn't made clear) based on their appearance.

Maybe take a step back and focus on what can actually be confirmed instead of leading with multiple layers of conjecture.

Depends on your local community, worth considering what spaces there are and just reaching out or showing up.

Why is that notable?

Because without noting that, "revoked" sounds like all limits are being removed, rather than that we're back to the 2024 limits.

Because how else would you plant the seeds of doubt that this decision is fucked.

For a smith to operate at all there has to be a level of societal stability that could well be too much of a starting assumption in this scenario.

Nah. Smiths literally came along with travelling war parties all the time.

In Europe, nearly every village had one (it was pretty required), and they operated even during active wartime. Because they had too.

All you really need is a skilled blacksmith, a forge, an anvil, and some hand tools. Well, and some fuel and iron.

All that can be transported by cart with a small team of people. In a village, even in wartime, you don’t need to move it, so it’s really just fuel and a few folks + metal feedstock, which is likely even more available from scavenged weapons and the like.

> the culture has not been stolen - it's still there

It's there in much diminished market, one that has been saturated overnight on a scale previously unfathomable. Their art is still there but it has been used against them to obliterate the playing field.

> nor are the people involved selling it back in any form.

Aren't all of these AI companies selling subscription models for people to create derivative art?

> And let's not forget what we got back for this

Get back for what, exactly? Didn't you just argue that no theft or sellback has occurred?

> Do you not believe the rest of the world will not move in this direction to decouple from the US?

Sure, but that will require more than 20 people, 5 million USD and the sole will of the Iranian government.

Different contexts. It is cheap to build your own Let's Encrypt, it takes more time and effort for the world to decouple. Both can be true.