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What tool/program/gadget has improved your internet/tech experience the most?

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@Hephaestic @mr_penguin I just don't like how politicians are using this game as an example on why we need to lockdown the Internet to protect the children.

Throughout the history of online games directed towards kids (Habbo, Club Penguin, Millsberry, Neopets, etc), all of the sudden, this is a problem and we need to introduce age verification. I've played some of those games growing up, and even knew kids who played those as well, and stories about pedos on them only happened once in a blue moon. Normally, it was some kid who didn't learn the lesson of not giving personal info to strangers online or just not talk to strangers online, period.

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Guys, here's this fear porn article decided to make you feel some way. No, I won't suggest solutions and any way out of it, not even outsourcing what I want people to do.

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I don't even know what this Quartering drama is all about, but I find it said that people still obsess over these YouTube political grifters. Virtually every single one of them has become a lolcow at some point. Who cares? Just move on with your life.

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Apparently people can't do math and give in to stupid ideas like Roblox has a child exploitation problem based on raw numbers.

Even people advocating against this stupidity. GamersNexus stated that Roblox has a problem and stated there are 13,000 sexual incidents on the platform a year. Without context this sounds like a problem, but it's not. There are 1.4 billion users on the platform! That is 0.000000867% risk factor. Your kid is far more likely to be hit by a car: 0.0001% and it is about as likely that they'll be struck by lightning. If you can't do math that amounts to a near ZERO percent chance your kid will encounter a predator.

Based on this logic every kid should be locked in a padded room and only released once they turn "adult" (?28? maybe... brain isn't "fully developed" until then). Yes, this is stupid, but these advocates of this kind of shit are the real threat and the real extremists. They think even one incident is far too many as if there is some magical way to stop all threats if only we pass another dumb law (that often only endangers children, or worse everyone). They advocate based on fear and rely on stupid people (those in 'society') not being able to think for themselves.

It's long past time we started advocating to re-introduce 'danger' into the lives of 'children'.

In the 80s getting cut up- falling off a bike- or dealing with a bully was said to 'build character'. I certainly wouldn't go quite that far, but there is some element of the mentality that you need to let kids live and learn and experience the world for themself that makes sense. It's how we learn and grow as humans. Not doing it leads to bad decisions, bigger more prolific problems; loss of life savings to Nigerian princes.

youtube.com/watch?v=7DibdcQTZT

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Wake me up when Rand mentions the fact that Moderna patented the spike-protein in 2016. That is what is at the bottom of the "origins" rabbit-hole.
Fauci was just the corporations' high-level govt-employee tool. We need to strike at the root.

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More entertaining nonsense from the copyright cartel world:

"'Such conduct, coupled with the use of domain names incorporating the expression 'IMDb', prima facie reflects dishonest adoption intended to exploit the goodwill and recognition associated with IMDb and to induce users into accessing infringing streams under the guise of legitimacy,' the order adds."

When was the last time IMDb had "goodwill"? Maybe in the early 90s when they were claiming to be some sort of non-profit or user-driven organization rather than a corporation out to exploit it's users contributions???

They certainly don't have "goodwill" here. They switched over to a .com from a .org and later shutdown public access to their database. Now you have to go through imdb.com and even pay for a subscription to access some functionality.

I'm not against companies making money- hell- I am the founder and CEO of one, but this isn't the way you generate "goodwill". This is how you put off users. They stop just shy of people fleeing ... not to mention Google and other search engines prioritize them over everyone else because they had the benefit of millions of contributions before anyone else of which no one today can pull off due to their dominance and the direction of traffic by search engines to IMDB over everyone else.

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Well it turns out that even the Debian team is having trouble with SFML3, due to the breaks in compatibility, which is why 2 is still on their repositories.

lists.debian.org/debian-devel/

Yeah. I'm not touching SFML ever again. At least SDL allows you to download previous versions and the current version on most Linux repros.

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@ArdainianRight What's wrong with Kars4Kids? I don't know why anyone would ever donate a perfectly good car instead of selling it, but I'm out of the loop when it comes to them.

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They would rather work for Walmart corp for 14/hr and get their allotted 15 minute break, than support small businesses. Because guess who can pay compliance costs - WALMART. And because they can pay for compliance, they drive wages down. If it were truly free market, retail wages would probably be closer to double what they are.
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