Enough to kill a bunch of sea creatures.

Thanks for the explanation.

So they raided a non existent group two years ago? That’s a bit confusing.

It sounds like a coffee shop.

Budapest Memorandum worked out so great that they need a sequel.

Just because I don’t think regulating large corporations is a “dangerous precedent” doesn’t mean I think IDs are a decent solution. Your nebulous “deep rooted societal issues” cannot be defined let alone solved. I was mostly making light of that simple solution, not saying complex problems aren’t worth tackling. Anyway, I’m done talking to somebody that puts words in my mouth and tries to make issues into a binary choice devoid of all complexity.

state control

As opposed to corporate control.

guardians

That’s an individual solution to a systemic issue.

But the real issue

So all we have to do is fix society? Then yeah, let’s just do that. We can probably finish that off by the end of the year, yeah? Education should only take a week or two at most. Then next year we can finally focus on climate change.

You can’t fix those companies because you can’t fix their incentives.

And if we agree…

There’s a ton of things that are acceptable for adults that aren’t for children. I bet you can come up with at least three.

Parents can’t compete with the resources of these unimaginably monied corporations with teams of people trying to get everybody on their site as much as possible.

While I can see your point, I don’t think education can stand up to companies with more money than we can conceive that have teams of people making it as addictive as possible and shoehorning in into every aspect of life. If education were enough, nobody would use tobacco, either.

One of the biggest benefits of young people not being on social media sites or having to at least pretend to be somebody else that I see is that their mistakes can be private. Nobody deserves to be publicly shackled to who they were as a 14 year old dipshit.

Well, good thing Portugal passed new immigration laws recently since that’s… third least important to them. Any other places that are really misaligned with these priorities?

By buying it or using the app for it, he’s probably agreed to some binding arbitration BS along with some other things that would make a lawsuit practically impossible.

I tried to parse the first one but got all confused because there’s no closing single quote.

Your refuse to allow a referendum for all of the rest of us commenters to change your opinion. You see the votes and yet you’re unwilling to change. You leave us no choice but to invade your comments for the sake of all the other commenters you’re oppressing that want you to change your opinion.

🪖🪖🪖🪖🪖🪖🪖 “Let’s go make his opinions better and free his head from the oppressive imprisonment of Buttistan!”

It’s cool to kill a bunch of people if some people want to be part of a different nation but aren’t willing to emigrate there? Get your head out of your ass.

What’s next, a quota for the number of school shootings?

I’m not sure it’s like this everywhere, but many airlines are more focused on financial products (like credit cards) for profit than flights. Here’s something about it, no guarantee of quality, but it’s enough to get the general idea: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-banks-mileage-programs/675374/

Even over the mini disc? Blasphemy!

Also, the houses are in poorer towns that are depopulating.