"It's tragic what the Brits have had and continue to endure. They deserve so much better. Especially these abused children detailed in Lowe's report. And making them wait much longer is a dangerous cocktail." world.hey.com/dhh/the-rape-o…

It's important to remind everyone that ID verification and social media bans are not to protect children, but another device in the government's arsenal to slowly control the population and move towards authoritarianism. Unless people actually start protesting against this, nothing will change. For a politician, the primary goal is to stay in power and make money. Tracking people online is a great help in achieving that. Crying "it's for the kids" will not help when every device nowadays comes with parental control tools which are better and better every day. Plus, parents are the ones that should decide how their kid should be raised, not the government. From the Computer Science point - it's simply impossible for an ID verification system to have all three at once: - anonymity: Site doesn't know who you are, government can't trace back your account to your name. - non-linkability: Your visit on Site A cannot be linked to your visit on Site B - non-shareability: You can't post some "token" everyone can copy and use to pretend to be an adult A working system for anonymous age verification is simply impossible, mathematically. The solution? The damn parental control tools on every modern phone. Parents set up screen time limits, or app restrictions. Or, better yet, actually talk to your kid! Crazy, right? IDK about the UK, but for example in Poland, we literally have it written in the constitution, that parents are the ultimate authority over how they want to raise their kids. It's not the government's job to police what a kid can, and cannot access online, even more so when we move away from "actually illegal (gambling, for example)" to "idk man we (the govt) think its bad". Push for parents' awareness of parental control tools, the dangers of the internet, and make parents actually know how to parent their kids. After that, it's none of the govt's business. Unfortunately it seems that more and more countries are giving up those freedoms and falling for the boil-the-frog approach, and might realize far too late. The EU is my last bastion of hope at this point, and even that is... not excellent in this regard at the moment.

If the socialists had their way, Elon would have had his paypal profits taken and redistributed for the greater good. The world would never have seen Tesla, nor SpaceX. And the world wouldn't know it, because they were uncreated, and thus unseen. Imagine the companies that don't exist, because Washington destroyed them before they were born.

Your politicians are not in control, the WEF globalists are in control. We don't get to vote these monsters out. They wan't you to think your neighbor is your enemy because they fear people joining together around common interests to oppose them. Your neighbor is NOT your enemy. These people are the enemy.

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position. LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

This is what the UK spyware proposal means. There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of. When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime). The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion. Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies. Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly. The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject. The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices. @GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly: x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2053… Statement from @signalapp x.com/signalapp/status/20640… @ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware: reclaimthenet.org/starmer-ca… The government announcement: gov.uk/government/news/new-p…

We once had to contend with calls for a "diversity consultant" who was meant to come hunt for racism at 37s. Not because anyone had ever seen or heard of any, but because it could all have been hidden or internalized. Real witch doctor madness era.

And climate hysteria continues to haunt the European psyche. Without confession, without forgiveness, the secular circus of degrowth keeps clowning the old world. Pantomiming hell with apocalypse theatrics.

Now imagine these euro critters being able to scan all your private messages, group chats, AI conversations. They could ensure so much dEmOcrAZy! And launch 100x more criminal prosecutions against insubordinate citizens.

Oh I love it. Not because I can imagine anything useful off the top of my head, but holy smokes it looks FUN! We need computers to be more like this more of the time. A little GeoCities. A little more crazy. A little more TempleOS.

this has worked so well they'll invest more into anti... I mean human AI that none of you will get until 2067

There's never any appeasement possible with these lunatics. Whatever concession or apology you offer, there's always another round of demands coming. The sooner you learn to say no to these people the better.

Thank you @BrodieOnLinux for covering the Wikipedia fiasco for Odin. We don't particularly care if Odin is on Wikipedia or not; especially when Wikipedia itself is rarely reliable, but we've been dealing with Wikipedia mods for years.

I do not think you know what inflation means sir

Or you know we could not allow a money system that specifically allows feudalism and is alsoea core tenant of the communist manifesto

i'll give you the easy one. If this is true then how do you explain the most affluent society in human history with the most people ever By your logic we should be going extinct by our straight numbers Since we are so 'affluent'

this is one of the most profoundly misguided sentiments I have ever seen from a comfortable glitteratti

so you are telling me you have outsmarted deductive reasoning with 'data' I am glad you have cleared up how more people than ever are on earth currently. I expect a foreword in your book

Just when you thought you couldn't possibly like Japan any more 🤩. Can't wait to come to RubyKaigi in October. Such a beautiful, wise country.

It is more important to defend REASON than your RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, because without reason the only way to resolve a conflict is with violence!