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Two photos of the same train driver, taken 26 years apart
(thelemmy.club)
The two trains pictured:
More info about (and photos of) the driver, Han Junjia:
It does keep baffling me that your average western government keeps rolling out the scary china bad AI face recognition panopticon but like without building a gajillion miles of high speed rail and then people who advocate for the panopticon are still stumped that maybe being chinese sort of fucks rn
It's like we get all the bad aspects of Chinese system with none of the benefits because the difference isn't in the amount of freedoms or human rights, but rather in which class holds power in society.
That's not fair, outside of america we're getting at least 1% of the benefits China gets. That's infinitely more than 0%! ๐
touche