Yeah, actually, that brings up a good point. If poll taxes are unconstitutional and you have to pay to get your ID card, then ID requirements for voting should also be unconstitutional.

There are many people who hold the views of both Christianity and trying to be good, but they don’t realize that their Christian views misdirect their efforts to be good (sometimes towards active harm instead).

If God is omnipotent like they believe, then it should not be possible to harm God and therefore it should not be possible to sin against God. Any harm that befalls God would be purely voluntary on his part.

If their account of God is correct, he’s definitely not a good person, choosing to punish all future generations for something that didn’t really harm him at all.

To play devil’s advocate real quick, that system has no teeth in actually stopping kids from signing up to services. I remember lying about my birthday for Neopets to register an account - and later I couldn’t remember what I said it was originally. So if we assume that services should be responsible for keeping kids out of adult spaces, then some form of verification is necessary.

In reality, I don’t think I agree with that assumption. I lean toward things being free and open - including potentially letting kids access adult spaces. There are certainly dangers in that but I don’t think that segregation and surveillance are the best way to address those dangers. If anything, segregating kids into “for kids” parts of the internet puts them at much more risk of abuse because the abusers can go there to find a target-rich environment with few adult onlookers to expose them.

Hey, I’ve seen this one before.

Last time it was crypto instead of AI, but other than that it’s just the same shit again.

I wish for him to learn some better judgement.

Make it Tylenol to level up your special interest.

I’d settle for “Not the worst year”.

I’d say that capitalism manufactures the chains

It maybe depends on the particular culture/context around you. When I was growing up I was usually in explicitly Christian contexts, so it was probably more repressive than what some people experience. I think that toxic masculinity is pretty widespread, though.

I think the issue there is that male friendships in general and especially with females are culturally discouraged.

My personal experience might be taken with a grain of salt because I’m a trans female (and my wife clocked that before she started dating me, even though I didn’t realize it myself until later), but from my personal experience being raised as a male I had very few friendships with girls and women and I never dated until I developed a close friendship with the woman who is now my wife. She expressed interest in dating me, and eventually we committed to it.

So, I think that breaking that cultural norm and encouraging men to have more friendships would help a lot.

Some of the Epstein files were released. Not all. And it’s nowhere near the first time that that headline could be run.

Maybe once people look through these files there will be more to say, though.

I don’t think it’s good to have outdoor cats. They’re very destructive to small animals (songbirds included) in the area.

Well, for reference, the city I currently live in has a -19C/-3F minimum average temperature.

I generally prefer cats over dogs for other reasons, though.

Clearly you don’t live as far north as I do. :P

Just a small one, as a treat.

Karma on reddit tracks the accumulated likes and dislikes a user has gotten on all of their posts. Lemmy does not have a number like that.

Edit: What this means in practice is that on Reddit there are some users who make a lot of low-effort posts to get that karma number to go up and get a sense of accomplishment from that (even when they get a negative reputation among the other users), whereas on Lemmy that’s not really a thing. Lemmy has power-users that become well-known, but they’re more well-liked because they aim to gain actual reputation instead of just farming a karma number.

Blahaj!

I would just call him a child rapist. IMO that actually sounds worse than “pedophile” because you could apply the latter to someone who was attracted to minors but didn’t rape any.

Regardless of his attraction, he raped children, so he’s a child rapist.

That’s a narrower time period than the US. A decent number of people have Christmas decorations up already in the US, and Christmas stuff has been in stores for a while already.