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I used to work for a winter sports store. Skis, snowboards, winter clothes, etc.

On slow days during the week, it was often just me running the floor while I had some guys doing service work in the back. So I had a day where I was alone in front of the store, doing price changes on a rack of skis. Behind me, the only customer in the shop went through every clothing rack and meticulously removed every garment from its hanger and laid it over top of the rack. When I finally caught on to what she was doing, she said, “It looked like you needed something to do!” And then she left without buying anything.

It’s been at least 15 years, and I still get livid thinking about that.

Doesn’t the Jurassic Park power-restore scene align with this, too? Muldoon gets wrecked by a raptor on his side, while Ellie immediately notices/dodges the one that pokes through the wiring.

if only online services could implement an identity check that way.

Outside of banking and taxes, I can’t think of a single online service that I want verifying my identity. Ostensibly, these services just want to verify if you’re of legal age. The small, binary question of “Are you over 18?” should require much less private data than would be needed to verify my identity.