Post AYUNUSh71UMVwLFfKi by jtb@toot.wales
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 (DIR) Post #AYKmRkFr3bA41QL0LI by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2023-08-02T22:31:15Z
       
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       The UK government wants stores to use facial-recognition cameras to recognize suspected thieves: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/29/home-office-secretly-backs-facial-recognition-technology-to-curb-shoplifting Perhaps there would be fewer thieves if the government had not driven so many into penury.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYKsOMODvhIorW1OJk by rossops@social.linux.pizza
       2023-08-02T23:37:51Z
       
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       @rms We're slowly becoming a true surveillance state. All oppressive regimes throughout history started with intensive and invasive data gathering exercises on the population. This is no longer tinfoil hat stuff, we're living it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYPr3QbAjVFeSJhOiW by jtb@toot.wales
       2023-08-05T09:16:27Z
       
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       @rms In the past poverty did not automatically lead to crime. What has changed? Why are people no longer responsible for their own actions? (Not that I have ever voted Tory, I am just saying).https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/crime/#crime #poverty #freewill #justice #socialism
       
 (DIR) Post #AYUNURsm2e61QDhSs4 by novibe@mastodon.social
       2023-08-05T11:08:03Z
       
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       @jtb @rms poverty alone has never been a driver of crime. But inequality has ALWAYS been a driver o crime. This is not new. This has always been the case. We have science showing this.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYUNUSh71UMVwLFfKi by jtb@toot.wales
       2023-08-05T11:09:17Z
       
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       @novibe @rms Do we? Where?
       
 (DIR) Post #AYUNUTRuDVnCHT92Gm by novibe@mastodon.social
       2023-08-05T12:00:24Z
       
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       @jtb @rms I don’t think I need to Google for you, but here’s a couple of studies:https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/11/2/62#:~:text=The%20findings%20indicate%20that%20higher,expenditure%20and%20the%20Gini%20ratio and https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/073401689301800203?icid=int.sj-abstract.citing-articles.82
       
 (DIR) Post #AYUNUUChPXDscb2PCq by rms@mastodon.xyz
       2023-08-07T13:38:42Z
       
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       @novibe I was interested in your statement about scientific evidence that inequality causes more crime. I tried to fetch the two articles you cited, but each one said I'd have to enable Javascript (i.e. run nonfree software on my computer) to access the article. So I can't access them.Do you know of any pertinent articles that are accessible in the Free World? Or copies that are accessible without running nonfree software?
       
 (DIR) Post #AYWKipA8NAwO8Cu3Wq by Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com
       2023-08-08T12:17:05.258333Z
       
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       @rms The wayback machine is useful for circumventing proprietary software:https://web.archive.org/web/20230801170050if_/https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/crime/https://web.archive.org/web/20230610102716if_/https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/11/2/62The wayback machine can be used without JavaScript via: https://wayback-classic.net/ unfortunately that's SaaSS that advertises proprietary software (it's source available, but it has no license, seemingly out of lack of understanding rather than malice).
       
 (DIR) Post #AYYLCLSPljZV0RRyWu by novibe@mastodon.social
       2023-08-09T11:31:44Z
       
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       @rms unfortunately I don’t have any other sources saved up, sorry :sadness: I just found those on Google real quick.