Yeah, half of your fantasy just won’t happen
For one, you can’t really develop nukes in secret. Nukes are hard to build, very hard. Then detonating one in a war is also a really bad idea because it’s basically the end of at least your country, maybe all countries
Yeah, Europe is under attack for sure, but it won’t be THAT easy
So now the Republicans want to destroy Europe?
What exactly did Europe do wrong this time? Refused to buy their shitty chickens?
I know, and as I said, it’s something that I was writing as a quick idea, there are better ways, for sure
My point was though that social media is ruining kids, and that is something that needs a fix.
I’m not saying my way is perfect (still better than what governments are trying), I’m saying we need something
Yes and no
Call it a nanny state but companies have been abusing kids to help and back with social media which, IMHO is a much, MUCH bigger problem than porn. I’m all for a ban on social media for kids under 18 at least.
I fully agree that we need privacy and a system should be put in place that does t spy on the citizens bu at the same time we do need protections for the citizens
The entire “he who sacrifices privacy for security” is a bad faith argument. Tell that to a 70yo granny who just lost all of her life savings to scammers. Tell that to the 15 year old that just committed suicide due to some social media bullshit. Tell that to the countless teenagers wrestling with anxiety and can’t get themselves away from social media anymore because companies refined their algorithms so far that they’re addicting as fuck.
That is where governments are supposed to step in. Not everything should be legal or else we should also permit owning weapons grade plutonium. Yes, that is an extreme, but its to show that we need limits and the question is where
Yes, government can be abusive and very much on the wrong side, like with the marijuana prohibition that broke and ended countless lives. Now Europe wants to spy in all chats FFS.
Those are great examples.of bad government control but just because these bad examples exist doesn’t meant hat any government control is bad
I would favor an age verification system that is guaranteed anonymous. That shouldn’t be too hard to setup if the government gives out codes to the citizens, and they can give independent non profit foundations a list of the codes with only the birthdate. Citizen supplies the anonymous code to website, website requests age at foundation, that’s it.
Foundation can’t legally reveal to government (or anyone for that matter) what code visited what, and the foundation doesn’t know what code is what citizen
It’s just a random idea written on the toilet, I’m sure there are better algorithms out there to do this, but the point is that it can be done in a fair, dependable and anonymous way.
We need SOME control, no control just doesn’t work.
At least apply the controls to all the big players for starters
There are always a few shitty players out there. There are European companies that support Israel in their genocide. Just because a few companies do so, doesn’t mean that an entire country does so
Fuck off
If you can’t see the difference between the batt majority of a country and a few shitty players then go have a talk somewhere else. While at it, take your 51st state bullshit and shove it where the light won’t shine
Also, lower wages don’t do shit if all the companies revenue goes to the exec c suite
Eh, yay?
WTF man
Beaverton… I almost fell for it as well
I just love how Linux is awesome and outperforms windows in just about any metric, and every update is basically making it faster, better, more secure, and more featureful.
I love how easy it has become to get it to run, even when confronting complicated problems
Meanwhile in the microsoft camp, its always been shit, severe known security bugs don’t get fixed because marketing goes before everything, even if it means that the US government gets hacked (but don’t worry, we pwomise that the CEO wiw now cawe about secuwity!) and apparently M$ literally only cares about shoving security averse AI down everyone’s throat with a used plunger.
Sure sure, the AI my install malware for you, but AI, man! It’s awesome even though you hate it, even though it’ll steal all your data and your first born back to Microsoft for processing. You MUST love it, resistance is futile!
And still people keep going on about how windows really is the best
Meanwhile, I try to type a document in Microsoft Word online, because unfortunately that’s is het we still use at work but it keeps randomly and quietly deleting text that I wrote 30 seconds prior. That high quality, of course, is all due to the AI vibe coding that is all the rage at Microsoft now.
To anyone who still needs to hear it: switch to Linux now, get rid of Microsoft nonsense. Linux is awesome, we have cookies
they would prefer not to do
First of all, says who? There are loads of sex workers who are content with their job
Second of all, isn’t that something you could say of any job? Do you think the McDonald’s burger flipper is content with their job? They actually are paid shit to do something they don’t want
What about porn? Should we forbid that too, then? Because no one making porn must want to do it, right?
Yeah, let’s keep sex work illegal, that way if a woman decides to get into that, she can’t go to the police when abused, she will need to do it in ways that are much more dangerous than needed, she won’t be able to say no, and we can improve and increase human trafficking… I mean, all great stuff, right?
Here is a kicker: people like sex. Bigger kicker: women like sex. OMG! I know! Who knew! I did, you didn’t!
If both parties consent, it is fine and should be perfectly legal.its not your job to tell other what they can and cannot do, or what they can and cannot like.
I did that well over 10 years ago for my mother in law and she loved it. She did basic browsing and a few games here and there, windows always fucked up and had to be reinstalled every few months.
I installed Linux, Kubuntu I believe, and it was the end of it. Never heard a peep again.
Not to mention outright sabotage when you’re not in their ecosystem.
Use Linux? Your browser default user agent says you’re on Linux? Word 365 will now randomly stop saving which just quietly deleted some of the text you wrote previously
I can write up a whole list of more sabotage, but just read this as a much, much bigger example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO–Linux_disputes
Microsoft execs should have been jailed but in the US it’s all fine as long as you’re rich.
Uh huh, so there will be consequences this time, right? Because no matter what, this person won’t get that job back.
I take it that the responsible for this law breaking will land behind bars for at least a few months for this, right?
Right?
Or is it just going to be another “tsk” and pay a small fine to the government and the employee can just go fuck themselves?
And then there is that song that is just a never ending stream of dopamine. 50 times, 100 times, doesn’t matter, it just goes on
Man, there are weeks that I hate what the Internet has become
And then, there are days like these, where the Internet remembers what it’s good at.
This shit is hilarious and I must have seen a hundred memes by now and it’s still not enough
I wonder what caused that to happen 🤔