I don’t exist to entertain you, and I don’t find your ideological bent worth more of my time.

Have a pleasant evening. :)

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For starters, requiring ID verification. That is something that is very obviously easy for an adult to provide and for a child not to. At the end of the day, that will be for each individual country to decide.

Though I imagine over the long-term there will be more nuanced solutions.

The problem of people losing their cognitive abilities is far more consequential than a small group of people having a more difficult time because they don’t socialize easily. I’m just looking at the bigger issue here.

Seeing as how the linked article is an editorial, I took a look at the link from the Guardian.

And it’s all people saying how it’s more difficult to talk to their friends now. But how? You still have a phone that dials numbers. Your parents, presumably, have the ability to access social media and obtain any numbers you need if you inadvertently failed to do so. You have email. And it’s free.

The last line reiterates how, while this is ultimately a parental failing, the parental failing has been so astronomical and the harm to kids’ cognitive abilities and mental stability so profound that regulation is essential.

I look forward to the day when social media use is banned globally for all underage people, and if you need more information as to why, go speak to any schoolteacher in America who can’t get their students to pay attention for more than 60 seconds, or who can’t retain information that is literally written on the board in front of them. And it’s getting worse because most parents just park their kid in front of a screen all day.

Like recycling, this is a problem that cannot be solved by expecting individuals to act. Government regulation of social media platforms is necessary.

That’s fair. Gen Z and millenials are radicalized by their corporate social media feeds too. I just default to Boomer because, for so long, Boomers were emblematic of this kind of thinking.

Not only wrong, but willfully ignorant. Your point of view is ignoring so many basic facts, two of which are exceedingly important:

1. You have no power whatsoever at the national level absent a billion-dollar fortune or membership in the Epstein Class.
2. Our only power is local, and locally, progressives are winning, and it’s not just Mamdani.

Hell, look at my state: deep red Missouri. You probably haven’t given it a second thought, but in 2024 we approved state amendments to mandate required paid sick leave, a $15 minimum wage, and legalizing abortion. Kansas City has passed two extensions of its streetcar line in recent years, which is amazing because KC is a car-centric town. (And the streetcar is free.) We even imprisoned a killer cop, one of the few places in the entire country to do so.

In deep-red Missouri.

The alternative explanation is that, on top of having to overcome billionaires, we have to deal with brain-dead partisan Democratic voters who think someone is ‘electable’ because they don’t consume any info that isn’t fed to them from their moronic, corporate-owned social media feeds or MSNBC, or they ignore how shitty a candidate is because that politician possesses a vagina.

Sounds like they didn’t rig any votes, just didn’t give them a fair race

That’s some hair-splitting right there. They were quoted as saying it’s their right to hold unfair primaries, in court, which to me is as good as an admission.

But we know they’re rigged. It’s why superdelegates were invented, and why Bernie never had a chance despite being immensely more popular than Hillary.

You’re not getting a progressive because you aren’t trying.

L-O-Fucking L.

Unfortunately the primaries are rigged, and it’s legal. We know this because the DNC was sued after 2016 and admitted it in court.

We’re not getting a progressive anywhere near the presidency.

Eventually, well over 1000 people were tried and sentenced,

But not a damn one with any real power, and that’s the problem.

Which is why I figure the only semblance of justice that will be had here will be social or civil, not criminal. I think we will see victims suing the agents who attacked them, or raped them, or otherwise brutalized them. There will be stories in the media about these monsters that will result in some flavors of social consequences.

But I’d be shocked if any of them spend significant time in prison.

We have to tell them in every possible way, that we expect JUSTICE.

Dems won’t listen. We told them we wanted justice with 1/6’ers. You saw how that turned out.

My brave browser’s still working fine.

I keep hearing people speculating that, when the American regime changes, these DHS and CBP agents will be put on trial.

But I think we all know that’s never going to happen. Best we can do is name, shame, and socially ostracize them.

Sounds about right. Boomers are adorable.

What’s also interesting to me about this is imagining how many crimes they know about that they simply allow to take place.

100%

It is fascinating to me that the FBI desperately wanting to pretend that they’re relevant and doing actual investigative work in the Guthrie case stupidly confirmed that corporations are not only spying on us all, but feeding the data into federal databases for access without a warrant or any meaningful oversight.

Y’all, it’s wild that so much of what your dumbass, Infowars-obsessed grandparents told you is literally true and provable now.

A few people have said it, but I’m really glad my tech is always a few generations behind and I never bought into voice assistants or smart home technology. And I keep my phone in a faraday bag when not in use. That probably makes it somewhat harder for them to spy on me logistically.

It’s awful.

I bought a second laptop for general use, because I wanted a Linux laptop and a gaming-dedicated laptop running Windows. (Seeing as how digital surveillance made privacy more important.)

I got a very nice, used Acer for about $600 that runs everything I need AND functions well with a dual-boot, so I was thinking of selling my gaming laptop. Now? I’m holding onto it so I don’t have to get price gouged if my main computer fails.

Wild world we live in.

I see they’re taking notes from Apple.

That’s shitty.

If I could get all my games to work on Linux, I’d nuke my dual-boot in a second. But I’m 99% linux at least.

(And yeah, I’ve tried the compatibility tools.)

Fuck yeah, it is.