where funny

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/news@lemmy.world/t/411778/-/comment/3689270

I’m glad that the gist of the Wikipedia thing has finally been implemented, but it currently has major glean issues

It makes them.

Article doesn’t mention. I guess you either get them from the $100 electrochemical machine you bought to make the pressure-bearing parts or attempt to pay an undercover police officer for it, which was the way the only British dude arrested tried to obtain the guns.

Edit: That, or from a state where you don’t need a permit to just buy ammo.

I’m saying that any implemented gun control would become easier and easier to bypass. Hopefully our extremists aren’t smart enough.

it’s on Wikipedia and backed up by reliable sources

Ooh, I get it now.

I was sort of thinking more about the effects: it’s a punishment that only causes kind of–petty discomfort. I’d agree that it’s not really public shaming, hence there’s not really any judicial public shaming in China anymore.

what are we arguing for here lol

Like I said, it’s kind of public shaming indeed. I’m not sure how to feel about it.

That’s just a fraud offender registry, which I have listed as one of the only forms of kind of–public shaming. It’s not been shut down as part of the social credit shutdowns and only financial stuff can put you there.

I don’t sympathize with their current leadership, but social credit never was really a thing. Zhima Credit was indeed a big thing, but it was banking credit and quite frequently got conflated with these voluntary systems. I was in school in Hangzhou—one of the biggest trials according to the article—for four years until mid 2022, and I didn’t think it was a thing because it was too small to be noticed or talked about in class.

Participation is fully voluntary and there are no enticement beyond losing access to minor rewards. For fear of overreach and pushback, the Chinese central government banned punishments for low scores and minor offences.[15] During the city trials, pilot programs only saw limited participation.[20] Many people living in pilot program cities are unaware of the programs.[20] In Xiamen, 210,059 users activated their social credit account, roughly 5 percent of the population of Xiamen; 60,000 or 1.5 percent of population in Wuhu participated the system; Hangzhou has 1,872,316 (15 percent) participants and fewer regularly use the system.

And no, bank credit is not the same thing at all. That’s just your average American credit score but embedded in a monolith.

That hasn’t made it anywhere besides a little more adoption of bank credit.

That’s an interesting point, but you didn’t discuss that either. I understand that it may not have been your intention to mislead, but my first impression of the headline is that this was an actual punishment.

That’s not-

There’s no public shaming for anything (except the fraud and sex offender registry if that counts) anymore, for better or worse.

OP omits the context that they posted this as a joke/meme. Still horrifying, like if you parodied the Nazi-era Star of David.

There’s a store called Iceland‽ Do they sell Zambonis or something?

no

locks cucumbers away in 58-ton working replica of the Mosler charters of a freedom safe

yes