It is a tough situation, because yes it makes complete sense to say “I cant stop them, but I can ensure their safety” since we know abstinence is a pipe dream, but its also not fair to say your ideas on how to parent supersede another parents. Hell this could even be a teaching moment for your child by explaining this in full candor with them so they understand your concerns with the request and why you made the decision you made, it can be helpful for them to understand that just because other people do things in a way you don’t agree with, doesn’t give you the right to force your ways on them, a lesson in desperate need across the world lately.

All these takes going against this advice feel like we might be being astroturfed by an army of horny preteens trying to manipulate their millennial parents lolol.

I had a friend who ran away from an abusive home

Can we agree “I want to talk to her parents before u fuck their daughter in our house and with our knowledge”, is so far from an abusive home scenario that they are in different solar systems?

I am all for trust, but in this scenario we are discussing the honesty of a teenage male trying to get laid, and I wasn’t born yesterday, and I was him at one point. The downside of “Your son violated my little girl in your house and you knew about it!!!” is quite high to let trust take the wheel, especially when all you had to do was ask your son to have her parents call you.

This meme format never shows a scenario that isn’t made up anymore.

Most every major company isn’t entrenched in people’s lives as deeply as apple is though. If I want to leave Netflix it’s as easy as switching subscriptions. If I want to leave Apple I need months of migration and multiple product replacements.

Or at least that’s what it looks like to someone who has avoided Apple their whole life, it was apparent to me as a teen that the walled garden was a trap. The iPhone and iPhone 3g where the only and last peices of apple hardware I’ve ever owned.

Take this with a grain of salt, I am by no means qualified to say anything on this topic with total certainty.

All a VPN does is encrypt traffic between you and the VPN. The VPN Hub you’re connected to has to unencrypted your outbound traffic, fulfilling those requests, and then encrypting inbound traffic back to you. A VPN obscures traffic by allowing you to make your requests from a different location, where thousands of others also do it, all while hiding who is making any requests it fulfills, and hiding your activity from your ISP with encryption. A good VPN will also not keep logs of anything it does, and will have options to connect to Hubs outside of five eyes countries.

This would mean that while the VPN might not know who is making what requests, they would know what those requests are, so they could blacklist illegal content. All this to say a VPN >VPN >VPN > VPN still has a final VPN that has to make the request, and they will know where the request is going and what its for. But unless that final VPN company or Hub is actually inside of Italy they have no jurisdiction.

The real problem with this method is A) who determines what is blacklisted B) How do you enforce this blacklist C) How do you make the blacklist grow as fast as pirates spread out. This is a stupid law that wouldn’t do anything even if the entire world got on board.

Don’t worry, our choice for each election is capitalism and cruelty free capitalism, it’s always been a matter of time.

It will always be the case that given enough time a capitalist will find a way to convince the public to vote against self interest just a little, and then the snowball starts rolling.

Hmm, well when u get a new card u can toss the old one into another computer.

Or you can use any vid card since 07 with a display port to HDMI 2.1 adapter

one day my 2006 42" sony bravia is going to die. I will be very sad I have to by some new age bullshit, but at the very least ill be happy I dont have to deal with their spyware posing as convenience when the TV is permanently set to input 1 lol.

…thinking about it, maybe I should buy a new TV now, just incase the TV’s 5 years from now dont allow you to play from a physical input connection. Like a preemptive move in the endless game of enshitification chicken were all playing with companies.

Use an old computer. Get a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse controller. I have only ever had my TVs run by computer since I the mid 2000s. fuck smart TVs what a shit show.

If I don’t know, am I not allowed to know now?

It’s unfortunate but I think the niche aspect of the phone makes it more expensive. I’d wager a guess that at 50$ a phone they won’t recoup development and manufacturing fees without big sales.

I follow updates on their policies. Its entirely culture war, using protecting children as an excuse to target and oppress minority groups that the vast majority of GOP voters have not and will never interact with in real life. And using that as camouflage they gut any institution they can to shrink the government in an effort to divert more of that money into their donors through government purchases.

And the Dem’s just use the same tired ole “At least we don’t target minorities” as their entire campaign, because they are incapable of following through with any of the possibly meaningful changes they campaign on because anything Dem voters truly want is not allowed in our pay to win system of government.

Hitching your wagon to either is how you become a sheep that is guided by the system of pitting us against each other, evaluate choices each election, you will learn real quick both parties sell the country to the highest bidder and do nothing to protect the people, both sides only enact token gestures of protection that do nothing to help our endless growing list of systemic problems, and are made purely to do the bare minimum to satisfy voters so they will stay divided into two camps that hate each other and continue to vote on wedge issues instead of demanding the change we need.

You even automatically assumed that because i spoke about the poor education of the voting public I was talking about GOP specifically, which immediately made you feel defensive. This is exactly how we stay divided, we continue to villainize the voters and leaders of the other side, which ensures whenever we learn from each other because we are playing defense, which is proven to make sure we cant learn from each other. All this to prevent us from joining together and demanding the government do literally anything at all to stop this system that pushes the general population closer and closer to poverty just to allow the richest people in the world to become even richer.

If ever a time comes where the people put aside wedge issues and focus on the betterment of the citizens the country will begin to rapidly improve, but sadly as i said in my first comment, we are a weak willed unresearched and uneducated population that is too easily tricked into playing a game about identity politics, while the real game being played is to keep us so focused on wedge issues that we dont notice them going through our pockets and stealing the copper out of our walls.

Good detail added, I did not know that. But they’re still doing so with a much smaller payout than if they tried to compete the way a US capitalist would through a closed source full ownership model.

Because an angry and stupid population votes GOP.

It’s simple really. People vote on culture war issues, and respect posture more than reason, we are a weak species that is easily manipulated, moreso when you gut education.

He’s not wrong. He was speaking in the implied scope of capitalism. Where u can’t do something that cheap because without the ability to hit a huge payout for investors noone will fund you.

We’re just seeing that capitalism can’t compete with an economy that can produce stuff without making investors rich.

Yeah you’re right, I couldn’t remember the exact wording only the general sentiment, so i went with something close enough lol

Sadly though this was never going to be avoided, sure they’re leaning hard into conservative cult nonsense, but they were still on a downword optics trajectory. Its impossible not to have this happen in capitalism, it will always be inevitable that enshitifcation happens to milk profit from anywhere it can, and that will always look bad.