Australia is planning to roll out massive age verification and restriction changes for social media and search engines starting 27/12/25. Companies will have multiple options to verify users age such as:
Credit card checks
AI age estimation
Guessing based off of data the company already has
AI ID checks
Facial recognition based age estimation
This, needless to say, is fucking bad. If these changes go into effect DO NOT give them your information.
My city just passed a law making it ILLEGAL to feed pigeons because they are a "health and property damage hazard" so even though there are thousands of wild DOMESTICATED pigeons in the city if you are caught feeding or leaving food for any you'll get arrested.
Laws that define how a yard must look are terrible. They're environmental nightmares, and they likely enforce classism. You want to know who struggles to keep their lawn mowed? Is it the white suburban man working 9 to 5 with weekends off? Or is it a single mom working two jobs with a barely working mower?
Requiring lawns to conform is stupid. There is no benefit to short grass other than aesthetic.