This whole image is a smokescreen. Your ability to be employed, literate or attend an academic institution =/= being free. There’s nothing to prohibit you letting the class of citizen you can honour kill, legally demand virginity testing of and mutilate the genitals of, from attending a school and learning to write.

All that aside, from my recollection American literacy and education, in general, is surprisingly terrible given its GDP, hence gestures broadly.

100% agree, unfortunately that’s entirely what they do either directly or by supporting lobbying groups who pretend to be “thinking of the children”.

One state in the US but, fair enough. Though a lot of the wording for this seems account based, instead of an OS baked “kid mode”, which again just seems like a variation of parental control which already exists. The point is this problem already has a solution not being utilised by the majority of the world’s internet user base. This won’t fix parents just buying a device to palm off to their kids, because if setting up parental controls is beyond them, setting up an account for them properly likely will be too.

Honestly, I don’t picture this happening. The main problem is parents parking their kids in front of screens or devices with internet access and then just bailing. Most devices have the means to do this and have so for a long time, it’s called “parental control”. It’s been a thing since the late 90s in my experience and probably earlier. The problem is it requires some time/effort to set up. I’m not advocating for the digital ID solution to this problem necessarily, just to be clear. However, even anti virus suites have this ability, routers have this ability, hell even browsers do if I recall but people and parents have been hands off about it.

Now they are complaining and expecting the entire internet to change or blaming online porn companies. The alternative is realising that letting kids have unfettered and unmonitored access to the internet, the place where you can easily view graphic footage of people dying, is actually a bad idea; bordering on neglect. Though this ignores places like Tik Tok, YouTube and a lot of social media marketing their platforms as “kid friendly” when they’re anything but, probably a different discussion however.

I personally think new accounts should be limited here too. The past couple of weeks especially I’ve noticed an increased amount of 1 day old accounts posting scams. Region blocking wouldn’t work due to VPNs and the fact that they’re everywhere. I seriously doubt India and Bangladesh cover 99%.

For genuine new accounts being able to comment but not post for 15-30 days isn’t that big an issue. For a troll/spammer it hugely limits their ability to resume shitting up a website.

Pretty keen to give this a go once the 1.22 update hits. Tried RL dregora, which was arse. TFC was alright but maybe broken? Better minecraft has been solid and I’ve settled there until the update arrives.

You hit on the reason I suspect the website (especially mobile) is absolutely rubbish. To get people to install the app so it can spy on your mic and camera to harvest data for $$$. Jokes on them, it just reminds me why I deleted the app and reduces time I spend on the site overall.

Haha shit, how embarrassing for me.

Unmarked bot poster?

Weird, I scrolled through but didn’t see any of the ✅emojis and assumed it was. Either way, my bad.

Personally, a user made summary or even just copy pasting some of the more compelling bullet points would be preferable to AI summary.

The Russian Embassy released a statement, saying it was “not interested in British underwater communications”.

Then keep your ships out of their waters then or don’t bitch if it gets sunk.

“The actions of our country do not touch interests of the UK and they are not aimed at undermining its security,” the statement said.

It’s hard to tell these days if the Russian political class is selective towards stupidity or if it’s innate. Do they honestly believe anyone will buy this? Sailing a spy ship through/near their territorial waters, when you have a history of cutting cables and sabotage; is directly in their interests and undermines their security. Especially when you point lasers at their military aircraft. Few things more infuriating than a stupid narcissist.

and then you can withdraw it to cryptocurrency or a credit card!

Beautiful. Send charges to the credit card and double dip on the scamming.

I wanted to and I agree, it being semi open wouldn’t have been an issue for me but too much goodwill was lost for me to do so unfortunately.

Yeah same here i even came back when it was “getting good again” and had a resurgence but the selling shit that was literally free in other games, nah.

And the “10 years” game gets the premature death it deserves. I was super psyched when this was announced only to then hear it was free to play. Released broken, with a fully functionally MTX store because of course. Campaign as an afterthought, no forge, no game mode selection (until backlash got it implemented). A shit show from start to finish.

Ah maybe they targeted more disruptive cheats, bravo Valve.

What fixes? They’re still full bot lobbies in casual serv in CS2.

I should have typed more. I meant advocating vyvanse over adderall. That’s my bad.

Second both the ditching of stuff like monster and vyvanse.