"And here's why that's a good thing."

playing rogue trader reminds me how i will sometimes open a random wh40k wiki page and read the most unimaginably funny paragraph known to man without fail

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this. The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home. There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered. What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business. Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not. This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy. That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids. What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes. Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming? No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

The amazing digital circus is for human hogs that roll around in mud. If you ain't a hog you ain't a fan.

i pulled the sword from the stone too i just didn’t make a big deal about it

Every time I see the Cardassians show up in TNG before S6 I just think of this tumblr post

It’s called taking a lover and it’s hitting the world by storm this summer

No need to be good at drawing. Draw sloppy ,big dog

This would’ve gone so hard.

Stephen Fabian

this is what they’d be wearing in the Odyssey if Nolan wasn’t a coward

Every time I see girls posting thirst traps to reel people in for leftist political content or talking about how political bimbo is a valid aesthetic, I am vindicated and I’m so happy this is everywhere now

For lunch, my female coworkers eat half a container of yogurt and three grapes. They save the grape stems for later. My male coworkers walk to a local restaurant called DOGFOOD that gives you a bowl full of DOGFOOD. It's delicious.

Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild" is all about this.

I think it has more to do with you self-proclaimed "erudite" folx being massive, condescending assholes. That used to be somewhat expected, then tolerated, in academia, but you shouldn't be surprised that it isn't anymore.

shoutout to iconoclast rogue traders. making the kronus expanse the entire wh40k's universe's first disneyland

The samurais were the “virgins” while the merchants were the “chads” in Edo Japan. This is probably why samurais made up bushido because they were tired of being mocked as nerdy bureaucrats.

GREATEST CITY IN DA WORLD

You'd think this would be the majority position post-Enlightenment, but in actual fact, consistently holding the position "impossible things made up in people's imaginations aren't real" is the fast track to get everyone mad at you.