They sell it as wanting to protect children, but what they really want is to be able to track everything you do on your device, because the verification will happen at the OS level.

It’s something that sounds sensible at first. Of course it would be great to be able to prevent children from going certain places online and interacting with predators.

But what’s actually happening is everyone is sacrificing their right to privacy for pretty much nothing, because anyone determined enough can get around any safety measure. And both kids and criminals excel at creativity getting around blocks.

Not to mention that a lot of the verification happens through private companies, who shouldn’t be trusted with it.

I don’t disagree with you.

But this type of law is the exact same as the age verification laws.

There’s a plausible sounding risk, but if you dig deeper it’s always the government reducing freedoms in a way that doesn’t really help the stated goals.

325 3d printed guns were seized in 2024. That’s a drop in the ocean.

He leaves all of his light switches almost flipped to release the magic smoke.

Well, of course you would. If you’re in the community you’d have a skewed view of the normalcy of the fetish.

The vast majority of the population would consider getting off to anthropmorphic animals fucking to be a weird kink.

Not that I’m saying there’s anything wrong with that kink, mind you.

Be honest. What percentage of gun crimes do you think 3D printed guns are?

You don’t even need to print anything. Just run Klipper instead of the stock firmware.

You haven’t provided any relevant context.

I mean, technically it’s an aerosol since it’s a spray, but it doesn’t use the harmful chemicals that ate the ozone layer.

Proton dropped prices when their costs went down.

If you have a college near by, their ag department might do testing for cheap.

HPV is one that can lead to cancer.

It’s not aerosol. It’s just pressurized.

You’re still not answering the question of ‘what buttons is she still pressing.’

An old person releasing another album isn’t pressing buttons.

Right? This is absolutely a non issue.

I guess unless you’re incapable of balancing on one foot for 3 seconds.

Dollar stores are just large convenience stores. Very few products are cheaper than an actual grocery store.

This time is different because the chip fabs intentionally retooled for AI chips. It’s not an uncontrollable external pressure.

There’s no guarantee that they’ll switch back to consumer modules after the bubble pops. I’m willing to bet that Big Tech’s contingency plan to the pop is to utilize a dead consumer market to push subscription based virtual desktops and zero clients.