Show me any single thing anywhere that has ever reduced children on social media by 30%.

Maybe if you could, I’d give a shit what they said about the bill before it passed, or what you think. Since you can’t, I’ll call it, objectively, not rosily, the greatest success of all time in getting children off social media.

And I will still be downvoted here regardless because people hate age verification (with cause). But more than one thing can be true at the same time.

7 in 10 children remain on major social media services? Does this mean they got 30% of the children off of them? I’d say that’s something other than total failure. A start.

The best is no door at all - like at airports where there’s just a barrier wall you have to walk around. I was about to say it’s not something you can do in every setting, but that’s only because we aren’t willing to dedicate the space to it.

Thank you for complexifying the stereotype of the mustache-twirling CEO, which most people can’t see beyond. There certainly are more people to blame than just CEOs - people with more power. The entire concept of a fiduciary seems like the seed of evil to me. Once you have a CEO beholden to pursue the interests of shareholders to the exclusion of all others, the incentives are in place for people to get hurt. The shareholders don’t really have to call a single shot (and they usually don’t). The financiers / shareholders are still guilty of participating in this system at all, of course, but surely the CEO is at least as guilty since he’s usually also a shareholder and will be the fiduciary in question to actually carry out the hurting. So I think it’s fair to hate the CEOs, actually, as much as anyone.

But I would agree that the politicians and lobbyists have to be on this list, probably at the top of it. They are the only ones who can do anything about this entire system, which, as soon as it exists, is a recipe for hurting people. The people who drive the regulatory capture that allows our system to become so shitty are surely going straight to hell.

What of the rest of us though, who don’t even run for office and give them a challenge?

You can impose that technicality if you want, but when corruption is perhaps the world’s top obstacle to funding solutions for things, I see little point except the joy of splitting hairs.

Corruption is probably the biggest thing that keeps it from working. Developed countries don’t have the slightest idea what corruption even is. We hear that word in the US and we think “oh dear, bribes!” But in many parts of the world the entire economy is basically spent on greasing every palm, high and low, to keep some regime in power. Whole generations of entire countries have basically gone up in smoke this way. It makes the army’s $400 hammer sound like an absolute bargain.

Where did they dig this guy up from?

Gaddam he looks especially orange in this one. Actually terrifying to look at for more than 1 second. WTF.

Funny… the one thing I still use Facebook for is getting rid of crap I don’t need - my neighborhood Buy Nothing group is there, though I wish it weren’t.

I think it goes even beyond the addiction metaphor. There are people with genetically broken leptin response whose bodies just don’t know how to make them feel full, ever. Addiction is extremely powerful but so is starvation and you really can’t fault people for having this condition.

I’m doing my part!

You will need parental benefits if you become a parent. And magically, you will also qualify for them.

I see, thanks. I consider it a general term but I can see how it may have strong associations with Russia, especially because many Americans probably heard the term for the first time after Crimea.

They go bad pretty fast. Mold spots within a week in my experience. I always try to use it all.

Ironically, this post hassles people for saying things.

It’s a simple question of weight ratios. A 5 ounce swallow cannot carry a 2 pound coconut.

Or, rather, it’s about energy requirements vs. available area for solar. Cars don’t have enough surface area to supply much solar electricity at all. And they require quite a lot of energy to drive.

You can change this by radically improving solar panel output, lightening up the car, or increasing the surface area of the car. Basically, solar cars exist, but they are akin to road-bound airplanes that have the seating capacity of a bicycle and less cargo capacity.

There are no “feelings” about it. We can build a car that recharges itself in the sun over 3 months. But that’s it.

All I want is a car that can run ventilation on integrated solar panels so the car doesn’t turn into an oven in the sun.

I’m not sure I get it… some ports can stay open all year, some cannot. The ones that can are called warm water ports. It’s a very helpful geographic feature for any country to have so they can enjoy uninterrupted shipping for trade and transport. Dude is making the case that Texas could stand alone as a country.

He likes Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Enterprise. When he says “the rest can go,” he’s talking about… Picard, Discovery and Starfleet Academy?

Unless you believe he watched Prodigy, which I do not, it sounds like he likes about half of New Trek

ATAB?