I thought not about buying moonshine through specific channels but rather asking an older friend/acquaintance/family member to do it.
EngineerGaming
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I am not saying that companies are trusted - they're equally as bad. They collect and hoard your data for profit, government hoards it for control, that's all the difference. And both can exchange data with each other. The trust level is about the same.
I wouldn't be as trusting of them. They have all the power to lie to people and just do the thing in their interest. Or someone there may just be bribed.
I have evidence in form of drinking classmates. Moderately so in my school because it was cultured, but classmates told it was much worse in their previous schools. I guess it largely comes from the families.
I was under the impression that kids don't smoke anymore because it is not trendy like it was in my parents' times. But they do drink alcohol. And especially they do vape.
Interesting how in parents' times, you did not have to be 18 to buy alcohol... But juvenile alcoholism is a much bigger problem now. As if there is some bigger underlying reason...
IDK... Where I live, a lot of things are blocked. And while there was a decline after the bans, the banned social media are NOWHERE close to being "dead" or "not viral".
The government can keep a log of what sites asked for such a proof though, and better assume they do.
I would be very much against tying my social media accounts to a government services one. I know it can be correlated if needed, but the government automatically neatly having this information all in one place? No thanks, it's outright dangerous.
Regardless of whether the content is "useful and educative" or "brainrot", I just don't seem how you can comprehend rapidly-changing and very short content at all, this just seems unnatural. Is that how ADHD feels like? And not like you can get comprehensive knowledge from such bite-sized videos anyway, maximum disjointed factoids.
By "passport" I meant "the universal ID everyone has", maybe it's named differently where you are.
Yeah, sorry for being confusing. The library having a record is indeed just an additional concern, personal main one is the reader's manufaturer getting telemetry, including on the DRMless books. I personally download my books from Libgen.
The passport mention is because here - at least as far as I remember - they do want your passport to sign you up for the library system. And I would just be surprised if this massive system isn't a part of the super-invasive surveillance apparatus, or at least isn't freely accessible to whoever wants it in the law enforcement (like most data out there).
No, my point was that the reasons are way deeper than "being allowed to buy alcohol on their own".