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B in the Netherlands
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A writer and photographer from Oregon who lives in the Netherlands. Posts range from serious news to micro-sized movie reviews and random photos of Dutch stuff. Someday I'll fix the cowboy banner. Someday...
You might want to change your plans and stay in the UK another day or two. Record sales were being reported back in *November*.
December 12, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I'm thinking this will be the most chaotic NYE on record, especially if it's windy and dry. They couldn't pay me enough to be an emergency worker or cop on 31 December.

Let us all pray for rain. And a lot of it.
December 12, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Good point and something I noted while talking this over with some folks earlier this week. Altogether ridiculous, but let's see what happens if they try to actually implement this draconian rubbish. I wouldn't put it past them.
December 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Maybe that’s all there is to it, but I wonder if they’ll actually attempt to do this…and how bad the ensuing fiasco will become.
December 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Reposted by B in the Netherlands
The full list of demands, in all its lunacy, is available here:
👉 public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-22461.pdf

The demands include :

- All your biometrics: face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
- All your phone numbers from the last 5 years
- All your email addresses from the last 10 years

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December 11, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I think it only aired over here and it was just for a few days before it got yanked. Hopefully it discourages others from trying to put together sloppy AI ads like this one.
December 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM