nah, it’s been like this for years. i’m like 99% certain its because either their geo-ip tables don’t accomodate the ipv6 range, or, like in the case of netflix, hurricane electric blocks are marked as vpns.

but i appreciate the call to paranoia. it lets me know i’m among my people

it’s the vpn that does it, ime. i use a hurricane electric tunnel for ipv6 and it causes a lot of the big sites to get very anxious. over my residential ipv4 it’s no problem.

i don’t really take pride in not being a raving lunatic, but y’know what? time are hard and we all need a pick-me-up, so maybe i should start.

why can’t every day can be a good day if i just don’t excuse a genocide?

technically they work

turns out “technically correct” is the worst kind of correct

this is correct in a fashion. when he says “we” he means “everyone”, as you say, but to him, “everyone” means him and his allies. he says “we” in this crowd of people, but the crowd of people do not understand that, to him, they are nothing but objects who are there to adore him and adulate him.

that’s why he doesn’t even think twice about saying these things. it literally does not occur to him that this crowd can do anything other than praise him for taking so much for himself.

some time ago, trump was about to take off with some press on the plane, and before it takes off he wished everyone a great flight, then followed up with, "You know why I say that? Because I’m on the flight. Otherwise I wouldn’t care.”

if you want a deep look into a narcissist, this is just about as raw as it gets. not just that he thinks it but that he has no qualms at all about saying it. he simply says it because he wants to and nothing else matters.

This is you saying you want this.

yes. does that say “we need age verification”? it says we need to acknowledge legitimate issues if we’re to have any hope at consensus.

age verification is not the answer, it’s just the only one being proffered… you want to make this go away? find a better answer to the problem and espouse that.

here’s a small one: no use of internet connected laptops for school work since that is widespread and directly undermines a parent’s ability to keep tabs on their kids.

the answer is not “you’re just a prude afraid of boobs, loser.” that’s how you drive people to the right wing, because at least those guys are saying “the internet is dangerous for kids.” and that’s how you end up in the funnel.

eta: sorry about the insult if you saw it. it had no place here

is it a dark secret if everyone knows?

you need to re-read everything i wrote because you clearly did not understand it when i twice said that i don’t want id verification. you’re not arguing with me, you’re arguing with someone else in your head

i’m already keeping them off the wider internet. that’s not the point. the point is that even if i do that, society as a whole makes it very, very difficult.

i’m not saying anyone should give a website id. one of the major things i repeat is: “never give a website a face or an id”

but the idea that it’s just reactionary “omg my kids can’t see boobs” is flat out wrong. the internet is a dangerous place for everyone, but especially children. pretending it’s not is hiding your head in the sand. at the same time as it is incredibly dangerous, basically all the forces of modern society are trying to force our children on to it.

this is a battle i fight daily, and have been fighting for many years, and i’m tired of people trying to pretend it’s simple when it is anything but.

you are not going to win over people rightly concerned about their kids by telling them it’s actually simple when it isn’t. you’re going to drive them away.

you want to tackle this, you have to acknowledge reality, and that reality is that on the internet, your children are prey.

these are the same people who beat their kids. when the kids eventually cut contact the parents are shocked and can’t understand how this happened and think maybe if they beat them more it would have stopped this

tbh, i’m more scared of the pedos that haunt roblox and every other platform for children rather them seeing boobs.

i don’t like age verification either, but that means my kids aren’t allowed to use the internet except in a very restricted fashion. meanwhile every single one of their peers is left to run wild, so they’re socially isolated as a result

don’t pretend internet anonymity is an unalloyed good. fuck, just look at the bot farms for a less rapey problem of enormous magnitude.

it’s not a distraction. it’s a show of force. things are ramping up.

found the pedo

ah, i see. i think i’d say “divisive” or “politically divisive” in that case, but i understand where you’re coming from

i am honestly curious what you mean by “political” here.

from my perspective, it’s a celebration of america declaring independence 250 years ago and the continuance of it as a state in that tradition. i can’t imagine anything more inherently political no matter who or what force is behind it. like, it’s tautological. so what do you mean by it?

we should have learned our lesson after they did and done our damndest to create protocols immune to capture. there were excuses in 1989, there aren’t now

Regardless, the potential for a company to dominate the implementation of a specification is not a reason not to create said specification

yes it is

and they would never violate your trust and later force this onto you because the love their users.

the more apologetics for this shit i see, the less i trust it.

because the map has become territory. we’re culturally unbound from reality (or at least trying really, really hard to fake it that way) and we’re paying ever higher prices to maintain these fictions.

everything she wrote did happen, but what’s really, truly important, is that we recognize the aesthetic and use that as judgement, apparently.

it’s incredible how many godfathers ai has. i’ve lost count

weird i never hear about the godmothers though. wonder why that is?