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> I can use SmartID to verify my ID (and age) in about 20 seconds when buying an energy drink at the local grocery store Where do you have to show ID for that?
by petra303 5mo ago
> I can use SmartID to verify my ID (and age) in about 20 seconds when buying an energy drink at the local grocery store
Where do you have to show ID for that??
- neoeno 5mo agoUnder 16s can’t buy energy drinks in the UK Edit: currently a voluntary but widespread scheme by retailers, proposed to be law. TIL
- novok 5mo agocan they also not buy tea, coffee or coca cola then? oh no, they might drink the caffeination amount of... 2 cans of pepsi!
- red_admiral 5mo agoThe UK also has a big issue with "corner shops" (tiny stores operated usually by one person) that are fronts for organised crime and will sell you a lot more than energy drinks without checking your ID. Cash payment usually preferred. Also things are going to get hot at the next general election if you're following what just happened in this week's council elections.
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- puppycodes 5mo agoanother feature of UK dystopia
- plufz 5mo agoYou and I have very different ideas of dystopia.
- puppycodes 5mo agoPersonally I enjoy the basic human rights of privacy and freedom of speech which are deeply lacking in the UK system.
- tardedmeme 5mo agoOther people enjoy their children not being shot.
- puppycodes 5mo agoBoth systems can be bad for different reasons. I'm not making any comparisons.
- plufz 5mo agoThat I can agree on. The right for children to by energy drinks is something different for me.
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- walthamstow 5mo agoOnly if you look 12
- joenot443 5mo agoI was also taken aback by this, but apparently it's a real trend. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_restrictions_on_energy_drinks_by_country https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_restrictions_on_energy_dri...
- Aozora7 5mo agoAuthor is from Latvia (and so am I). You do actually get carded for energy drinks if you look under 30. However, more relevant to the post, is that when you're ordering groceries online, you need to verify your age at checkout if you're buying stuff like alcohol (or energy drinks). It's trivial, and for a lot of people it uses the same authentication service that they already use to access their bank.
- estetlinus 5mo agoI think almost all of Europe. Have you ever tried teaching a room of 30ish teenagers all high on quadrupled RDI of caffeine? It makes distributing software on macOS seem like a walk in the park