and if they [children] figure that out anyways then enjoy the arms race

yeah that’s what i was talking about in my previous comment. today, there’s no simple way to just enable “parental control” on an android phone.

and i’m not paying these stupid overpriced apple phones, no way.

can i also block developer options and apk sideloading?

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it will probably take years to figure out how to do age-verification properly.

yeah, what i actually meant with this was that it will take years for platforms to figure out how to do age-verification properly without infringing on the privacy of its users.

not because it is complicated, but because it is a societal process and these are always slow as hell.

block apps

block all 150000000 apps on the app store?

I would like to say that this is good for the quality of content on social media as well…

There’s less bullshit content on social media if there’s fewer kids, and also there’s less incentive for other people to create bullshit content for teenagers to consume, if there’s fewer teenagers on the platforms in the first place.

AFAIK only big platforms are required to take measures, so it’s actually the opposite of what you said. it shifts power to smaller platforms who don’t have to comply with these rules.

but no problem if they fail to identify minors as such?

it’s a new technology. it will probably take years to figure out how to do age-verification properly.

Get her a dumb phone. Install parental controls.

If this actually worked. I tried it once and it did not work at all. Platforms/apps don’t seem to respect the device settings at all.

One parent told the Guardian their 15-year-old daughter was “very distressed” because “all her 14 to 15-year-old friends have been age verified as 18 by Snapchat”. Since she had been identified as under 16, they feared “her friends will keep using Snapchat to talk and organise social events and she will be left out”.

I think the ban should only apply to public-facing platforms, where everybody can see your content.

Platforms where you only talk to your friends should maybe be left out of it.

“everyone i don’t agree with is a bot”

slightly more equal

all animals are equal but some are more equal than others (/s)

with the revenues to be used to fight the impact of climate change and help Switzerland meet its ambitions to have net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Maybe the people wanted to have actual social services provided to them instead of climate action.

I’m out of the loop. How is she a fascist?

I mean, that was his goal. Either destroy trust to weaken our position globally for the benefit of someone else,

It’s not for the benefit of someone else though. Trump wants to intentionally destroy the US government by destroying its credibility both within and abroad. He does this by cutting foreign aid and pissing off all the US’ former allies, and by terrorizing the US population.

His goal is to destroy the US as an institution because his key voters, which are southeners, think that they were forced to partake in the United States against their will back in the civil war from 1800, and that they should have a right to secede, and if it’s not given to them freely, they have to destroy the entire US just to get away from it.

Printing money does not create wealth but printing money and then spending it on public construction projects (like public transport) does create jobs and wealth for the general population.

That is not how economics work either.

Inflation is kinda irrelevant, what matters is the people’s buying power, i.e. how much they can afford to buy based on their wages.

And the wages are determined on the labor market based on supply and demand: If there’s high demand for human workers, wages are higher.

And demand for human workers largely depends on how much employment opportunities the state creates. Like, if the state just begins to randomly construct public transport and public infrastructure and more energy production sites and also clean water pipes and lots of other stuff, that creates construction jobs and drives up wages which means people can buy more stuff.

That has literally nothing to do with how much money the government prints, and it doesn’t really matter if the cost of bread is $2 or $20 as long as your wages rise just as quickly.

Money is fictional anyways. If they want to, Moscow can print literally arbitrary amounts of Rubels. There’s no way they’re gonna bankrupt.

What could be interesting, however, is see how the economic situation unfolds for everyday people.

I imagine that’s how it is/was for a lot of rulers. The feudal lord doesn’t have to be smart, he’s just a representative. The priests and diplomats and businessmen in the background tell them what to do. It’s beneficial for both sides because you can have a lot of influence without actually having to expose yourself to the public.

My guess is that they didn’t really intend to keep it secret anyways. Probably many many people knew about it (at least many thousands!) because otherwise how did Epstein get his clients? His clients would have to have known about his business, and that means that even more people (who were not clients) had to know about it too.

My guess is everybody kinda knew it but nobody bothered to tell the public, because why would you burden the public with what happens at the nobility’s castles?