Seriously, why aren’t all of the ‘Covid vaccines are implanting microchips’ conspiracy theorists losing their goddamn minds over Neuralink?

We laugh, but that mom is the kind of person that wholeheartedly supports the ‘You must provide proof of age to access adult sites’ laws that’re poised to ruin the internet.

Okay, I’ll bite, go ahead. Why are we censoring this?

That’s just asking to have online shopping become much harder, requiring more identity verification than just having a credit card and an address. Which is maybe beneficial overall; it would cut down on fraud, but I doubt it would be a popular change.

So what happens when a store is out of raw meat, or raw vegetables, or raw fruit? What if someone is a vegetarian, or has allergies or other dietary requirements that prohibit certain items? Who’s monitoring and enforcing this (and how much is that monitoring and enforcing costing?)

Rather than spending the time and effort policing what food people buy, why don’t we instead spend that time and money addressing the poverty problem that makes SNAP necessary in the first place?

Yeah, if the goal was actually to make people eat healthier, he’d be trying to limit the availability of those items to everyone, not just poor people.

I don’t care if he does. I don’t care if he was holding an “I AM A GANG MEMBER” sign when he was picked up. I don’t care if he shouted it from the rooftops. He was disappeared to a foreign prison with no due process. No matter who it is, or what they did, that should be alarming to everyone.

I’m in complete agreement with you there. If Luigi Mangione gets the death penalty, we should absolutely take to the streets and riot.

In 2023 a federal judge convicted him to 90 consecutive life sentences, after he pleaded guilty of hate crimes and firearms violation.

Holy shit.

This might be controversial, but I’m glad he didn’t get the death penalty. Not because I don’t think he deserves it, but because I don’t think we should have the death penalty at all.

In a hypothetical world where every service that wanted to be kid-friendly was willing to make two versions of their site, and where the obvious security concerns were solved, and where it could somehow be quarantined away from normal users, how would a kid even prove they were a kid?

The issue (in my eyes) is that this isn’t limited to discord. Anywhere online where kids are allowed to be, predators can also be. Fuck, even Roblox apparently has a big predator problem. So if we make it the responsibility of platforms to police, we’re setting ourselves up for a world where you have to have your ID ready to scan in to any website you visit or service you use that lets you interact with other people in any way, no matter how mundane, and there will be no internet services where anyone under 18 is allowed.

Or, we just accept that there’s no reasonable way to keep adults and kids from intermingling, and we make it parents’ sole responsibility.

They already have that policy, as the article notes. The problem is, how do you enforce it? As the comment you replied to notes, without requiring an ID verification, anyone can say they’re any age.

At what point does it become the parents’ responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing online?

Changing what policy, and to what?

Do you really not see a difference between the Holocaust and parents with the opinion that trans girls shouldn’t be on the same sports teams as AFAB girls? Is this really where we’re at here?

This is the same as wearing a white hood to a game with a black student.

Oh come on. I respect your opinion but this is a completely ridiculous comparison. It’s the equivalent of wearing an “All Lives Matter” wristband, maybe.

I don’t agree with their message at all, but it sounds like they were being fairly passive in their expression of that message, and if it really was just wristbands… were they really causing harm here?

Holy shit, what a story. The fact that so many people tried to get him help when he was a kid and the wellness checks and whatnot just completely failed to discover any of this, while based on the accounts of what he was doing at school something was clearly very wrong, is pretty messed up.

The fact that there were other kids at the house is wild, too. How did none of them say anything to anyone? They had to know he was there, right?

This is hilarious mainly because all he had to do was type /DND and he could have stopped all of this, which anyone who had actually played the game for any substantial amount would know, but of course he doesn’t, because he just paid people to play it for him.

Even if they do, unless Musk divests entirely, they can still get fucked. As long as hurting Tesla hurts Musk, they’re just a means to an end.

That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.