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Cake day: February 16th, 2026

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  • While I oppose ICE, this is stupid.

    The person chose to put themselves in front of a vehicle in motion which appeared to be moving to ensure it’s occupants could escape an area where a clear threat to them was present. I don’t care if the occupants were teens, drunk uncles, my grandma, or ICE. Fuck that idiot for getting on the hood or moving intentionally in front of that vehicle!

    The vehicle occupants don’t appear to have targeted anyone, so they get a pass. At least from what is shown in the video.

    It’s possible they had other exit opportunities that didn’t put the peds in harms way, and chose to drive through them on purpose, and lf so that changes things, but that’s not shown in the video.



  • There are a lot of cultures where seating in public is ad hoc, you just sit wherever, you generally don’t claim a table or area to yourself. In those situations greetings and socialization are pretty normal.

    I remember going out to eat fast food with a girl and her kid a decade ago and some homeless guy asked if he could sit with us. I said sure, and he was a nice maybe 50 year old guy. He had clearly been around kids and enjoyed the normalcy of just hanging out with the three of us for 30min. The kid didn’t mind, but the girl I was dating thought it really weird.



  • Yoti too.

    They hold and verify ID, then mostly just pass an OK to the website or service you wanna access. Similar to Paypal playing the middle man when shopping and clicking Pay with Paypal.

    They do also have the ability to share other details, but according to their FAQ it’s always with your permission.

    Likewise Paypal will share your name address and email, but that’s often necessary while shopping.

    Logging in to sites with Google or Facebook has a similar effect, the login prompts often have check boxes that allow you to control the data you share.

    The biggest problem of course is that Yoti or other similar services then know what sites you’ve been visiting, and if they don’t respect your privacy and/or keep logs of those sites that information can be hacked or misused by bad actors.

    Thus they should only keep age verification use logs extremely temporarily, or anonymize their logs if storing to track general system use patterns, for maintenance and research.