I’m sorry, but at no time during the application or interview process was I ever asked to present certification of either a brain or nervous system. Nor was such a requirement explicitly itemized in the job listing.

I will cc’ing HR for any further discussion on the matter.

sigh No. I would not have hired you. The performance of the job requires that you have a functioning nervous system and brain.

“I’m regretting hiring you now. Don’t call me outside of work.”

Right after they convince Russia to end the war in Ukraine, right?

Face it. This is the world that the voters chose. (And yes, there has been a growing Right Wing political movement in most of Europe that has been pushing for this too.)

So… Basically Argentina.

“1st, 2nd, and 3rd World” designations were always problematic, but at least they made some sense in the 20th century Cold War.

The “1st World” is Western Democratic Capitalist States. (The US and NATO nations).

The “2nd World” was a designation for Soviet states. (Though, if we were to modernize this language, I would say that BRICS is our contemporary “2nd World”.)

The “3rd World” was just “everyone else”, but eventually became synonymous with “poor and industrializing nations”.

What would a “4th World” nation be?

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.

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.

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.