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As a kid, me and a friend bought the game "Leisure Suit Larry" or one of the sequels. It included an age check because of adult content. After asking our age, which we dutifully entered as 19, it would ask questions that only an adult would know, like "who was the US president in 1962?" We would research these questions in my friend's encyclopedia to play the game.

Now, I have all this trivia knowledge in my head due to my childhood quest to see highly pixelated cartoon boobies in 640x480 resolution.

I had a bike when I was a kid and as long as I was home for dinner, nobody cared. I biked a lot. Like 2 or 3 cities over, maybe 25 miles each way. Parents thought it was good exercise. I now realize that it was freedom. I went to tge computer store and played games on the computers I could not afford. Also, in hindsight, biking was the physical thing that I needed so that I didn't punch someone, or worse. I had lots of rage and took it out on the road. I averaged 18MPH, which is pushing pretty hard.

Part 2: until social media, I never realized how messed up the Chinese culture is. I'm sorry to hear that you are going through all this.

Interesting read. I wonder if all the AI slop will bring back hand written applications as a way to filter out the AI. Maybe the Amish are ahead of the game here.

Excellent write up!

A girl. An ultimatum. I left. We've been married 26 years.

I win.

It's already a thing: rentahuman.ai

I would wonder if it would be illegal to promote your live of the country by hanging a giant flag directly in the viewing path of the camera. Would you get arrested for being too patriotic?

This is too defeatist for me. I am upset to see these all over town, but too small minded to do anything about it. I want to start something to pressure community leaders to change, but i worry that i'll make a lot of noise then drop it like i do with everything. I'd love to join with a group.

I'll try to argue about something I know little about. Don't advertisers pay for ads served? Don't many ad blockers work by hiding the ad from view, like making it's size 0x0? On my older devices, I can see the ad show up, then disappear. Doesn't that then imply that the advertiser must pay for the ad eve though it does not show on my device?

Going down the rabbit hole, doesn't that then also imply that people using assistive technologies like a screen reader for the visually impaired are actually stealing content?

I wonder what capabilities the vehicles have that are of concern? Cameras? Microphone?

I read a suggestion that countries simply mandate that anything sold in the country which operates with software and has the ability to disrupt items of national security be made with software that is auditable and preferably ooen source software.

Cars, routers, solar power controllers, computers, etc.

Externalize your self-hate into a Blerch, then use it against yourself. For the author of the comic, it's running. For me, it's biking. Some people turn it into music or art or something else.

Some people are driven to greatness, others are chased to it.

Agreed 100%. Enable parents, even not tech savvy parents, to parent. Ultimately, if the parent wants their kid to do whatever, they'll just create an adult account for their kid. Do we really want the government parenting our kids? Sure, it may be an improvement for some, but it's a slippery slope and could lead to a Brave New World.