As a data nerd, I got all emosh when I saw her bar graph done in Lego.
My guess: they are doing this to mess up any facial recognition AI, and related surveillance logging.
Thanks to @RickMycroft in another thread:
Perfecto! Thanks for the crosspost!
“There is no drinking water here,” says Moncayo. “All the rivers are polluted. There is not one healthy river. They are all completely destroyed.”
Had to put this here, because the subtitle it’s posted under at The Economist is “the kids are still alright”:
Good for them, although government regulators should be the ones holding the companies’ feet to the fire. When the profitable oil is gone, they play games, loot their shell company’s assets and walk away, leaving the bankrupt husk responsible for the unfilled wells.
Or extra taxes on wells while they are productive to be used for capping orphans later. Companies that cap their own in a timely manner can have a break on those taxes, if that is necessary to push through resistance
A large capping deposit. You get it back if you can show you capped it properly.