I mean, Facebook already requires ID in many cases. https://www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/

You’re required to prove your age in a bunch of real life scenarios too, like buying alcohol, tobacco, or a firearm.

It is a privacy issue, but the question is on the balance is the privacy concern worse than the harms being done by youth on social media?

Given that there are literally hundreds of university studies showing how bad this shit is for kids, and leaked internal documents from the social media companies themselves, I think it’s the better choice at the moment.

The same way Australia is doing it, a big fine for companies that don’t comply and add an age verification process to sites.

Will it work 100%? No

Will it work enough? Probably

He killed the market, let a few buddies know he was going to reverse it so they would buy stuff up cheap, then reversed it.

Literally hundreds of billions of dollars in value was just lost/made by various people in this pump and dump(dump and pump?) scheme.

Fucking epic

It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.

I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)

My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.

You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.

You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.

While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.

and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker

There’s zero chance this catches on, nobody wants to get rid of a camera bump badly enough to carry around a second device.

Fair, but in this case, it’s Raph Koster. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raph_Koster

He was Creative Director for the original SWG, and then Chief Creative Officer under Sony once they bought it.

He also was a lead designer for Ultima Online before that, and did work on multiple other games (Including EQ2) afterwards.

Nothing stopping you from setting out on your own.

There is limited worlds, but they aren’t static, the number of worlds (and which worlds) will change. The surface of the planets can (and will) also change. There’s someone in alpha right now cutting down a mountain (literally). There’s also a system for planets dying, and being restored.

Anything over about 90 feels great to me, and I can’t even notice the difference between 144 and 240.

War

“The US Government is worse than the Chinese government” -Tiktok Refugees

The US government has serious issues, but not 22 square foot rental issues. Being homeless in California is literally a better quality of life than tens of millions of Chinese citizens experience.

False assumptions.

The people of China are not the reason China is bad, and they do not control their government in any way.

Peace is not an option for the government of China.

“We’re cheaper” - Literal Slavers

Most haven’t been around for 25 years yet, but here’s a study on german panels at 16-20 years showing they’re just fine.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2023/05/16/researchers-assess-degradation-in-pv-systems-older-than-15-years/

You can simple google it. It’s considered common knowledge at this point.

Solar panels have been out for a long time, they definitely last more than 6 years. You can easily look this up.

The warranties are usually 25 years at this point.

Maybe do some research instead of using your feelings to make every decision, you’ll get a better result.

A game I played as a youth, but was bought and killed by Sony that has been resurrected by passionate devs

Infantry Online https://www.freeinfantry.com/