You say it was a coincidence, but how do we know that his name didn’t encourage his invention?

Maybe if his name was Thomas Cureforcancer we would be living in a very different world.

I’m so happy I got married before romance was “disrupted” by tech bros.

I don’t know why anyone would use any of these apps.

I would basically assume that 99% of all messages were scams of some kind.

But I don’t have the luxury of knowing specifically where and when the people that break things are going to be.

That comment really triggered you didn’t it. Sorry about that.

I don’t know, I think it’s a pretty common refrain.

Maybe not common in progressive social media circles.

Yeah, it would be. And my reply comment would also be the same.

Women: Why didn’t men ask women out anymore?

Also women:

Yeah have someone burn down your house and then file an insurance claim.

See how that goes for you.

Ironically, arson is a felony and it’s unlikely that insurers cover such events that are due to criminal acts.

Insurers are likely not paying out anything.

Disney is all: Calling it “Euro”? Let us know how that goes…

You really underestimate the trouble meta and YouTube are in. The specific rulings were barely tickets to them, but if they are upheld then follows flood gates of identical lawsuits are going to be opened up. They had millions and millions of child users in the 2010s that they knowingly served an addictive product to. If the current ruling is upheld, then there will likely be a very large class action settlement to payoff all the past injured users. But instead of changing their product going forward they want to get rid of the responsibility for their product entirely.

Stop making up fake conspiracies and be mad about that.

I don’t agree that Epstein is much of a counter point. There were lots of people taking about him, it really wasn’t that closely held of a secret, and he was arrested and prosecuted and murdered for it. Ultimately, with the files released, there really isn’t much in them that we didn’t already know.

Just to clear something up, my brand new account is only new because lemmings.world is closing and I had to migrate to a new server.

The biggest problem with conspiracy theories like this is always the number of people involved keeping their mouths shut. Anyone that has ever managed a large project knows how impossible it is to keep a large group of people quiet about something. In real life, there are conspiracies. Often very large ones. But they didn’t stay secret for long.

What is easier to believe: (1) that all these people involved, across countries with leaders of many different political varieties, all agreed to stick to a single narrative in order to cover up a deep international conspiracy to build a massive international database of people’s ages online, OR (2) Meta and other orgs are doing a normal business thing and trying to reduce their liability costs.

“There’s no mechanism that the government currently has that can track you as effectively as these age verification laws can.”

I honestly can’t tell if you were serious or not.

The governments just buy your data from Google. Do you have any idea how much information on you Google has?

I didn’t know about that. Maybe that’s plays into it too. But I’m generally a “simpler answer is more likely the most correct” type of guy.

In this case the simple answer is that Meta and others just had their “Tobacco Lawsuits” moment in court and liability floodgates are any to open wide, and they are pushing these laws to divert their liability onto someone else.

Google “Protected Processor Identification Number (PPIN)” to learn more.

The y-axis on the chart is extremely misleading.

Talk about lying with statistics. The Y-axis isn’t labeled and the far end of the chart is still 47% of humans in extreme poverty.