Canconda

Cis-het with a dash of bi here.

When I was younger I was terrified I might be gay. Not because my parents would disown me but because of all the social hooblah it would bring my way.

However I feel like I'd be less worried about that today vs couple decades ago.

TLDR its nice that society has become more accepting.

Smoking kills massive amounts of consenting adults. Far fewer now that people don't start smoking at 14 mind you. Every family member of mine that smoked started before they were 16.

I brought up smoking to illustrate the point that the existence of people subverting a ban isn't mutually exclusive to the positive outcomes. Not to draw a straight line comparison.

comparing social media to cigarettes just because both can be addictive

https://socialmediavictims.org/mental-health/suicide/

Also cigarettes are a physical drug

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine

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IMO the ban should be below 12 or 13yo, not 16. I think where we need to draw the line is children who are at risk of long term mental health damage or victimization.

Corporations want you to assume that ID verification is inseparable from holding them accountable.

However it is entirely possible to write the law such that companies aren't required to verify user age, BUT once they have reason to believe they are providing services to an underage person they must suspend the account and investigate.

If corporations had their way we would have to upload our ID and they would be able to target children.

Don't get tricked. We can hold them accountable without giving them our personal data.

Corporations want you to assume that ID verification is inseparable from holding them accountable.

If corporations had their way we would have to upload our ID and they would be able to target children.

Don't get tricked. We can hold them accountable without giving them our personal data.

"Smoking Minimum Age Pointless" - Teenage Smokers

The point of the ban isn't to keep teenagers from social media. It's to mitigate the incentive for corporations to target our children.

Teenagers still smoke despite restrictions, but at least we don't have MR BEAST repping Camels.

Just as this problem didn't appear overnight, nor will the positive results manifest immediately.

Wow yea I just reported like 15/20 of the newest posts as off topic. They were just news headlines. Nothing oniony at all.

Canada is hiring American doctors left right and center.

it's not something that you can just walk into an office and a doctor will just shoot you up.

TBF the uproar is from people who also believe children are getting sex changes at elementary school.

True but the motive isn't mutually exclusive with the outcome. And musicians are defs doing it for both reasons.

lmao you clearly dont enjoy people having differing views. Oh I am.

How bout instead of arguing with me you go research it yourself? I literally could not care less about convincing you of anything. Not my decision whose hearts God hardens.

Voluntary Fraud Exposure.

Like taping your SSN to your dick and sticking outside a moving train during a blizzard.

kill themselves

Or others for that matter.

Tumbler Ridge investigation is apparently in it's final stage. I really hope the government takes legal action against OpenAI for this. It should be classified as cyberbullying or something.

See my other comment. You not saying anything hateful doesn't preclude your desire to use the bible to justify your hateful beleifs.

There's simply no way you could see the bible as potential hate speech unless you agree with hateful interperitations of it.

You can say nobody saw you put your hand in the cookie jar but the crumbs are all over your face bud.

Didn't say that. I said the verses on homosexuality were deliberately mistranslated. You need to work on your reading comprehension.

Nothing you've said is hateful. So why are you worried?

where is the part where you and I can just disagree, and you can hold your beliefs and I can hold mine?

Matthew 12:30 "Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me."

Basically this but with wild animals so it's stupid on top of being disrespectful.