I dunno, I guess I need to just start asking my wife more logic error questions in general conversation. Or start testing the capabilities of my new cyborg partner, I'm keen to see what kind of performance improvements she might have, can she clean as she goes? How's she do with general yard work? If I need a very large pile of dirt shifted do I need to rent a digger or is the answer now standing before me?
Are US protestants the same as UK Anglicans? Like is it the same church? I thought for sure most US Christians were nutjob baptists or other what would similarly fringe sects anywhere else in the world. Wait, are baptists protestants?
Err pretty sure that's not a thing. The biggest nuke detonated was tzar bomba and it most certainly was nowhere near devastating half the US. It was detonated in Kazakhstan. There still people living there and it's much smaller than the US.
I would suggest that dropping on on Iran would be a significant war crime, and a crime against humanity. At the very least the Trump and his chain of command would be wanted for war crimes across the globe including at least half the US. Further to this they'd be breaking the gentleman's agreement that no-one uses nukes so would we be entering. MAD situation?
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I was always told you need to eat a bunch because they tend to have a random amount of psylocibin, so a lot of the shrooms you eat will have not much, while others will have a lot. Kinda just need to eat a few see how you're feeling, then have a few more if you're not feeling anything and repeat til shit starts moving forward. Having good company that you can talk about how you're feeling with is pretty helpful.
I don't know how you solve problems, but I certainly don't go all in on the first highly expensive dumb idea I have without researching the fuck out of it first. If our politicians are listening to anything the the social media companies are saying and not assuming everything they say is an attempt to make more money for themselves then we have much bigger problems, namely the suckers we have elected.
Refining this solution is a terrible idea. It flat out doesn't work, its a non-starter. Prohibition has never worked effectively. The only path this leads to is pushing even more of Australian population's personal data into honey pots and breaking our financial system.
How am I arguing on behalf of the technology? I want people to understand the technology so they know how to protect themselves effectively if they use it and so can make effective decisions on how their kids interact with it.
The technology sucks, but the technology is not going away and any fucking moron can bypass the age verification. If you think age verification is stopping teenagers from using tiktok then you're an idiot. I'm arguing that the implemented solution is not in fact anything close to a solution, and that pulling this thread and trying to implement something in the same vein that would actually work is a terrible idea because it fucks the privacy of every Australian on the internet, even more so than the current solution.
You say that, but evidence shows its not a working solution. Its a piece of legislation that doesn't actually achieve anything close to the desired outcome of stopping a significant number of people under 16 from accessing social media. Further than that, there isn't an actual way to make this work without banning VPNs and implementing a Chinese style great internet filter.
Nicotine, Cannabis and alcohol are all banned in Australia for under 18s and you are kidding yourself if you think that has had any significant impact on stopping under 18s from getting their mits on them.
I'm not saying "just educate your kids". I'm saying instead of our government putting their effort into a pointless and likely quite harmful law, they should have looked into developing a useful education program for both parents and children that looks to raise the bar of how our population interacts with social media. Its not a short term solution but it is most certainly an effective long term solution. The current ban isn't even a good short term solution. It does nothing but 1) teach kids that our laws are dumb and should be bypassed, 2) disconnect disadvantaged and isolated kids from their support networks and 3) invade the privacy of all Australians.
Arguably banning the current social media business models altogether for everyone would be a better solution but that has similar issues to the current under 16s ban. How do even enforce it without also banning VPNs?
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