First we're all like "Thou is too casual, gotta use the plural second person instead." Then oh no, turns out number in pronouns is actually useful sometimes, but thou sounds old fashioned now, so we just gotta re-pluralize the second person. And then you get y'all.
I like y'all, but I almost wish we could just bring thou back.
Spreading rumors about someone is a genuinely nasty thing to do to someone. But even the best of us can probably spread information that we think is true and important but is really a fabrication.
I guess to me the difference is: were they genuinely mistaken and are now aware of their error and how they can avoid similar errors in the future, or are they a gossipy removed?
There is so much you can just not know about home maintenance. Contacts for honest contractors (that are not cousins or old roommates) can be useful.
I would not recommend relying on Tailscale. They have been soliciting a lot of venture capital lately and are probably going to go for an IPO sooner or later. I would not put a lot of trust in that company. The investors are going to want their money.
Nothing more fun than paying for a game piece meal and without end.
Valid.
I think it's good that Reddit is trying to continue to allow adult content within the legal framework in which it must operate.
I guess what I'm not clear on it is what the legal framework is for verification services. Absent rules that require robust privacy protections market forces will push a race to the bottom in terms of cost and data security will be the first to take a hit.
I know this might seem weird but I think this is one of those cases where a blockchain based smart contract might be the best solution. I'm not exactly sure, as any system that allows one to consume content generally also allows one to copy it, but having a system defined in code in a publicly auditable manner that cannot be changed without notice seems to me to have the capacity to grant the most reassurance.
I mean I assume that all the verification company is doing now is verifying a person's age and then giving a kind of authorization token that's cryptographically secure that basically says "the owner of this cryptographic key is of age".
Keeping the age verifier seperate from the content host is good. Destroying the files used for verification is good. On paper it's not too a bad system for age verification, but it really hinges on if you can trust them. Given the track record of basically almost every company and government ever...
I think when you're young it's especially easy to get cowed into following strange rules and patterns, even when the authority or consequences demanding that you do so are vague or unclear.
I guess I just find the use of psudo-homophones as euphemisms/codes for platform (or school?!) based psudo-profanity to be particularly weird. Like I get that an advertisement-dependent platform will want to de-prioritize content that discusses suicide because Frosted Flakes doesn't want to be associated with people killing themselves, and I also understand people wanting to be able to speak freely and be heard and therefore finding comprehensible euphemisms to use on ad-based platforms. I guess what I don't get is how it leaks over into unmonitored communication or even out into offline contexts. Actually I kinda do; it's basically Foucault's panopticon. But I don't think the solution is just to become ungovernable, but there is certainly utility in being able to recognize the tools that are used to structure your behavior and thoughts.
Idk, maybe that's too much of a tangent, but it's weird, right?
Man I'm not saying most of those games don't look like skeezy dreck, because they do, but a payment processor shouldn't be able to make the call about what a store can or can't sell.
Someone should come up with a way to exchange funds without requiring these corporate intermediaries.
Why? What was stopping you? Would you get sent to the principal's office or written up if you spoke normally about rape, but not if you used tiktok lingo?
I truly don't understand how Visa/MasterCard/etc can be pressured. They are basically infrastructure.
What's someone going to do, stop using credit cards if they don't stop a store that person doesn't even patronize from selling morally hazardous goods?
I don't get how these campaigns are even effective.