Two consenting 16 year olds having sex is neither child abuse, nor illegal in the UK.

The original word means thick string iirc. Still hard, but not quite as ludicrous

I’m glad you posted it on the internet under your real name and face so far more people will be able to embarrass you over it, then!

This is most often used against people asking in good faith in my experience than those who just want to troll people. In this case, the sealion is actually being perfectly acceptable, the first person doesn’t get to slander a group of people without defending their slander to said group of people.

I’ve heard several different reasons, which one is it for you?

1. Copyright
2. Water usage
3. Appeal to tradition
4. Lack of creativity
5. Something else?

Also, are you against all AI (such as NPC AI, chess robots, intelligent vacuum cleaners, etc) or specifically LLMs/generative AI?

Not all games work without DRM, but some do, for example you can find your Stardew Valley files and just copy the folder onto anywhere else, and run the executable from another device, and it just works.

YouTube looks like this now?

But it introduces barriers. It’s much more of a faff to do this than just use your own face, and they’ll probably remove the feature now people have made it public and force you to upload an identity document.

This is all terrible for privacy, and for the decentralised nature of the internet. For years it’s been being chipped away at, but now entire parts of the internet are going to be locked behind a few age verification services, and entirely inaccessible for under 18s or privacy conscious people. This is really bad for information freedom.

We shouldn’t let Nazis appropriate positive symbols, we should take them back.

Oh, so a symbol of good fortune falsely appropriated by Nazis?

Of course this is bad for privacy. But the fundamental idea of trying to age lock information is also flawed. The government, or corporations, should not be able to decide who can and can’t see certain information, especially not because of an arbitrary characteristic such as age, which does not correlate to maturity at all. This is dystopic.

What is it with people associating Judaism with secret power? Just because they win a disproportionate amount of Nobel prizes?

I was just referring to the last part

Of course, I just meant the last part

Is this a reference to https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/583:_CNR?

When will it release?

Well, that is how it works in Portal.

Thanks, it was a good suggestion. Unfortunately, that wasn’t it. This book has many short sections with a question at the end of each one, but the one I remember has fewer longer sections without a question. And it has different stories.

Shapeshifting