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You're Not Smiling Enough
By Ruben Schade in Sydney, Australia. 🌻
You know that Treehouse of Horror episode of The Simpsons where the family is bundled off for some “Re-Neducation”, and everyone’s faces are forced into a smile with tenterhooks? I reckon you could pull it off with a sufficiently-detailed mask and some theatre makeup, but I concede it does introduce a higher barrier to entry for wannabe scammers and identity thieves. Here comes the proverbial posterior prognostication: but… when we deal with people in the real world, we risk entrenching stereotypes and ableism.
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