Encroaching on privacy and hiding behind the idea of “protecting kids” as an excuse to take away from your liberty and private life is lazy.

Go ahead and point out where I said your liberty should be taken away. Using the internet is not an inherent right.

If you want to protect your child from what they might find on the internet, then spend time with them. Don’t pawn this off to the state.

I never mentioned the state. This is like blaming the opioid epidemic on the addict and alleviating Purdue of all responsibility. No amount of personal accountability is going to fix the problem while multi-billion dollar corporations pump an addictive and harmful product into society 24/7.

I use it any time I'm turning. Remember, it's for the people in front of you as well as the people behind you, and at night, it can sometimes be hard to tell if the oncoming lane is a turn-only lane.

Sighs.

SIGHS.

YouTube isn't the police.
Verifying your age to access adult/mature content isn't some novel concept. We absolutely can come up with a way to do this online that at least mitigates the risk of leaked/stolen data to an acceptable level. Doing nothing at all and just letting kids access anything they want on the internet is not a solution, and hiding behind "freedom" as an excuse to abdicate social responsibility is lazy.

Because that data is stored and passed on to third parties in most cases. Because data breeches are a common occurrence nowadays. Because gorvernments and companies can use that data against you later on.

I'm just curious... How did you sign up for internet service? Can you walk me through the process?

Poor parenting is certainly an issue, but saying "it's not social medias fault" is like saying the opioid epidemic "isn't Purdue's fault". The people who manufacture and distribute the addictive and harmful product should be the first ones we go after. No amount of individual accountability will solve the problem as long as multi-billion dollar corporations are pumping this shit out 24/7.

Second (and I’m not sure how we would do this) cut them off from the internet.

There are a whole bunch of ways to monitor, limit, and even cut off your kids internet usage. If you get your kid a cell phone or computer, you can install apps to monitor and limit what they watch and when. The fact that parents just let their kids freely use the internet with no supervision blows my mind.

"Psyop" is the wrong term, but there is some truth to what they are saying.

During the post-WWII economic boom, the US government was rapidly expanding the highway system, making suburban land cheap and accessible. Developers like Levitt & Sons started mass producing suburban tract homes, and banks favored financing them over multi-unit buildings, due to the GI bill and FHA loans. This is when the "nuclear family" ideal was developed, which was defined as a single generation of husband and wife + minor children living in a single-family home. It was a marketing ploy to sell more houses, more appliances and furniture, more cars, etc. All of this led to more isolation, which in turn led to more consumption.

As George Carlin once put it, "you don't need a formal conspiracy when interests converge." That's the case here. This was just Capitalism doing what Capitalism does, which is sell more shit to more people.

The problem is that you think people are too stupid to understand the question, and only you are smart enough to figure it out.

It's a basic question asking if people prefer Dems like AOC and Sanders, who have a more aggressive stance against Trump, over moderate Dems who will compromise with Trump. It's very straightforward.

They have no case. A case is something you bring to a court, which they refused to do. What they have is hearsay, which does not justify the suspension of due process under the US Constitution.

It's not him. While there is a passing resemblance, the militia chud was apparently posting videos of himself in Oklahoma when the incident in Massachusetts occurred.

That doesn't mean the ICE agent isn't also a militia member. I would put money on him being at least affiliated with one.

“Our ICE officers are facing a 300% increase in assaults while carrying out enforcement operations.”

Cave wall art. Carving trinkets and talismans. Might branch out into making spear tips, arrowheads, axes, stuff like that.

From page 20:

Do you support more Democrats like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who are calling on Democrats to adopt a more aggressive stance towards Trump and his administration and “fight harder”, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise on Trump issues important to their base?

72% of Democratic voters answered "yes".

Go ahead and point out this alleged "loaded wording".

She had her chance, she’s extremely unlikely to get another one.

She had two chances. Her first one was an abysmal failure. If she had any sense, she would've learned then and there that her own party doesn't even like her. And the only reason she got a second chance was because the DNC handed it to her on a silver platter. I get why they opted out of having another primary so late in the game, but she was the absolute worst choice they could've made.

This poll may as well have just asked people "which of these names do you recognize?", because that's really all it tells us.

EDIT: It just hit me that you meant she had her chance as the nominee. I'm dumb.

She has never won a Democratic primary in her life.

Harvard poll: 72% of Dem voters prefer more left-leaning candidates like Sanders and AOC over moderates like Harris.

Lemmy Leftists: Yes.

Cryophilia: Y'all are in a bubble.

Or it gets old people screwed out of their Social Security because the new rules and guidelines to continue receiving payments was posted on X, and they don't have an X account because they are 80 fucking years old and don't use the internet.

I grew up loving The X-Files, so conspiracy stuff was always interesting to me. I never bought into any of it, but it used to be fun.

I blame reality TV for our current state. They took what was probably one of the best tropes in sci-fi, started talking about it in documentary form, and a whole generation of brainless fucking idiots took it way too seriously, ruining it for the rest of us. Shows like Ancient Aliens took the whole "just asking questions" tactic to insane levels, and it bled over into politics and social issues, providing cover for people to "question" if wildfires may have been started by Jewish space lasers. It's so infuriating.

We have been. You may have heard of the 50501 protests. If not, I recommend looking into it. There are two problems though. First, the corporate media is largely not covering the protests because they haven't turned into riots. As the adage goes, "if it bleeds, it leads". Second, Americans are generally not inclined to riot, because our police are more heavily armed than a lot of military forces around the world. When we do riot, the corporate media clutches their pearls and wags their fingers, painting the entire movement as a bunch of criminals looking for a reason to loot. This influences even our most ardent allies in Congress to distance themselves from the movement, resulting in little to no change in policies.

Honestly, it's going to take a lot more than protests and even riots to get out of this, if it's even possible.

Hoarding that much money is, in my opinion, just as bad as hoarding a cure for cancer. There are like half a dozen people with enough wealth to eliminate hunger and homelessness worldwide, but every one of them refuses to lift a finger beyond performative bullshit for PR. The level of inhumanity it takes to be like that is off the charts. It's sociopathic.