I mean, I feel like just shutting it down would solve at least some problems. Shuttering it all, video sharing platforms included.

Not a situation most anyone would agree on, but it’s an idea.

Have an adult handle the account. Simple as. They set it up and manage the account to ensure their kids privacy to as much of a degree as they can.

Had to look up TRT because I don’t know medical acronyms all that well.

As for my opinion, I don’t care so long as the patient is fine with it and it’s safe for you to do so. What you do with your testosterone levels is none of my business since I’m not and will probably never be a medical professional.

This post made me look into virtual desktops on my laptop and I can easily double the current amount of desktops from 2-4 under settings.

Biggest problem with that is that I almost never use more than my first virtual desktop unless I’m working on multiple things and need to switch to not get caught working on one of them over the other.

Depends on the situation.

If we were all put into an arena with zero weaponry, the 8 billion. Under no circumstances would the 3000 win because the 8 billion would most likely end up murdering them, even if by accident.

Under the current world conditions, not looking good.

My brother has told me many times before that giving them money ain’t gonna do nothing because that’s money that they can use for drugs if they’re addicted. He says buying them food is better.

As messed up as it is, kinda gotta agree, especially since zi don’t know who’s an addict and who’s not.

I normally ignore them because I don’t keep physical cash on me unless I’m making an as discrete as possible purchase. It may sound kinda cruel, but I find it easy for me to just ignore them and pretend they don’t exist. Don’t know whether that’s more of a personality thing with me or because of my autism already making me less likely to wanna deal with people in general.

Every single classroom I was ever in had a corded phone in case they needed to contact the front office or in case of an emergency. The only exception would be gym class, or orchestra class, where the phones would probably just be in the teacher’s office ( classroom? ).

This wasn’t the 90s or 2000s, but later. I personally think it’s a pretty good idea. Even if everyone has a phone, having a backup in the classrooms just in case is useful since, unless the power goes out, you don’t have to worry about not being able.to call the outside world if your personal phone is dead.

Front office definitely had their own corded phones as well. I presume it’s the same for middle school as it was for highschool, but student office had a phone that the students could use in case they needed at my highschool as well.

Edit: the phones were normally on their desks, so messing with them wasn’t an option. We did have a PA system at every school I attended, but I don’t ever recall there being a way to respond outside of calling the front office.

Mostly my mother and I. It’s almost certain my dad will complain about cooking taking more than 5 minutes and only sometimes helps ( only if my mom gets him to do it ). And my brother sometimes does it and sometimes helps, but more often than not I don’t need his help.

I personally don’t mind it since I don’t hate doing it. And it’s a pretty good life skill to have in general. None of us are professional chefs, but I imagine my mom and I could definitely outcook the average family in America anymore. Cooking is a dying art because of a combination of lack of convenience, laziness, grocery prices going up, and impatience, I swear.

Man who invented torture nexus claims torture nexus isn’t used for torture.

Pretty sure it would depend on the crime. Speeding slightly over the limit or jaywalking would be basically a no reaction crime because everyone does it.

Theft? Depends on what I stole and from who. A few coins go missing fromy brothers room and my parents probably aren’t gonna care as much if I tell them later ( which I never tell them ), so long as it’s not a significant amount of money. My dad would also have no leg to stand on since there have been plenty of times he’s taken stuff from our rooms without asking ( like the time he took some snacks I had stashed in my tech junk drawer in my dresser maybe a year or two ago, which I’m still salty about ).

Stealing from a store? They’d be shocked and I would definitely be punished. As to what the punishment, no clue, besides definitely returning whatever I stole to start.

Murdering someone? More than likely gonna be reported to the cops and locked away.

Piracy? Don’t get caught. They have received emails about me doing it a long time ago and just don’t want us to lose our service.

Tax or other kind of financial fraud? My dad wouldn’t approve at all and might report me if he ever figured out I was in on some type of financial fraud because he doesn’t want to get screwed over by association of being my father. No clue how my mom would react, but I don’t imagine she’d be thrilled about it either.

Illegal things like CSAM, beastiality, etcetera? Ain’t no way I wouldn’t be put in some sort of psych ward or something of the sort for such sick and dastardly material. If not straight up sent to prison because the feds get to me in this hypothetical before they find out. There’s definitely a chance I wouldn’t be part of the family if this ever happened, which I hope it never does and that if I have a midlife crisis that it’s just me buying stupid things instead. Especially since I know someone who got caught during his midlife crisis flirting online with a “minor” ( some form of either fed or law enforcement honeypot account ).

Yeah, my brain had stopped working. Thanks for the help.

The fact I can hear their exact voices saying this says something.

Swift could easily get a lawsuit set up against them and most likely win, if AI nudes start getting made and sent out by average people. If she did, she’s already won the court of public perception or whatever it’s called ( drawing a blank ) because of how popular she is. I guarantee if she told people not to use grok or ex-twitter, a large of the swifties on the platform would run faster than Usain Bolt to delete their accounts.

Imagine you’re a teen dealing with a serious parental abuse issue. You don’t wanna give that info up to just anyone, so you rely on forums for people that are having or have had the same type of problem. Suddenly, under the new law, you are either geoblocked from the site entirely or you must provide some form of age verification.

Your options are either get a VPN ( which could very well be being blocked soon enough ) or you could find a free speech forum on the edge of the web that doesn’t require any of that. For people with even just slightly above average tech skills, a VPN wouldn’t be that hard to get.

For the forum, I can guarantee there are gonna be people looking to make you feel welcome, only to suddenly change once you’re comfortable and start demanding illicit content. Although this probably happens a lot on big platforms like ex-twitter, you have more options to deal with the people on there. The admins/mods of free speech sites probably aren’t gonna care as much if you’re getting abused on their free speech for all forums, so long as you don’t report their site to the government.

If neither of those are a good enough answer, imagine any company responsible for all the age verification stuff. Imagine they keep all the info they collect, whether that’s the verification for adults or minors. You know they aren’t getting rid of that data because it’s worth more kept and constantly being sold than if it was being deleted. What would happen if their repository of age verification data got hacked? A matter of when, not if, they get hacked, and suddenly every single person who submitted an ID, including the IDs of minors, gets stolen and suddenly any minor in their database is now a very likely victim of ID theft and fraud before they’re even considered a legal adult.

I don’t remember my parents having many, if any, rules for games, probably because I was the final child by that point. They didn’t really have to worry too much about me getting into games too mature for me ( probably the worst I could remember when I was still little would have been Turok on n64 ), so I was fine either way.

I do remember on weekends, though, my dad specifically trying to get me, someone who doesn’t like to eat breakfast in general, to eat before I’d play games. That was around middle school when that would happen.

Definitely.

Although, I don’t think I’d go for a full suit for my fursona because I’ve never imagined them naked, I’ll agree this is a good idea.

I have thought about that, but for the first one I get, if I ever get one, I’m probably gonna get one without just to make sure I can handle it. Last thing I want is to spend a ton of money on a fursuit with a ton of extras only to find my body cannot handle it, with or without fans.

That’s why I’m definitely gonna get a partial if I ever get a fursuit. All I need is the head, hand paws, and tail. Then I’d be set… as soon as I get a bunch of sweat reduction clothing and more black pants and long sleeve shirts.

Maybe a +3 or 3.5 max. After having a little bit of experience with artificial “intelligence”, I have been doing everything in my power to block it out of my life.

People can call me a Luddite for this, but my response to those people is that I can at least think and form an opinion without needing an AI telling me how to think or what to feel.

The only exception to the AI rule for me are the people who either use their voice or get consent from a friend, to work together, to use their voice for something like creating a Diffsinger or ENUNU voicebank as that requires a lot more work than just typing a prompt on a keyboard and, when done in an ethical way, doesn’t involve theft in general. Similar reasons I support UTAU voicebanks and older vocaloid voicebanks that are basically confirmed not to have used AI.

As for other forms of technology, I will absolutely agree with OP on fearing the people over the technology, even if I don’t fully understand it all. Except for VR. I’m 100% worried, with the way my brain currently works, that someday we’ll have realistic enough VR that I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference and that scares me a lot.

I would hope being rich, but I’m not counting on it.