You might want to change your plans and stay in the UK another day or two. Record sales were being reported back in *November*.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.