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Woman Hailed as Hero for Smashing Man's Meta Smart Glasses on Subway (futurism.com)
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A New York subway rider has accused a woman of breaking his Meta smart glasses. She was later hailed as a hero.

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[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

how is this news?

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That she did something about it, and is being hailed as a hero. Both rare.

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

fair enough, shame really does have it's place...US could use more of it in the right areas

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Shame is never gonna stop those guys. Broken cameras will.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Because we haven’t figured out how to make this acceptable in public, since there’s still debate about it.