But I do find it funny how Lemmy people will one jerk down vote anything that causes them any minor about it cognitive dissidence.

Never stopped.

Just gonna leave this here…

https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=is+being+religious+associated+with+getting+happier&l=1

Well, no. I don’t really watch his press conferences.

Is anyone surprised? I mean, did you guys think it was really a $300 million dollar ballroom?

First of all, no they don’t. There is a very small minority of MAGAs that are real preppers. (I actually have some respect for those people.)

The rest are just soulless suburban pawns that hide their racism in faux-Christianity or faux-libertarianism. The cat majority of them are up to their eyes in debt.

Those people aren’t the people that need to be reminded.

Who reads their money?

If Texas became it’s own nation, it would probably become a cross between Russia and Switzerland. It would quickly develop a highly centralized oligarchy, basically operating off of oil and gas exports, while still having good relationships with it’s larger neighbors and have beneficial tax policies.

It would become a great safe place for super rich people to hide money while it’s actual population declines economically.

I think it’s more likely that soon China will start heavily pushing out a forked version of Linux on cheap fully home-built PCs. Then it’s basically game over for American software companies.

I think it’s going to be higher than that. I think a lot of counties will start rapidly migrating away from American software companies, and the only alternative is Linux. China will soon really start pushing out their own fully home-grown cheap PCs to the world with some flavor of Linux as the OS. American software companies won’t be able to compete.

Globally, I bet the desktop marketshare for various flavors of Linux is pushing 90% by 2040.

I think it’s going to start skyrocketing in global desktop use. Maybe not in the US, but globally lots of other countries have good reason to migrate away from US based software companies

There will always be sites that don’t care and won’t comply with any OS level restrictions in the first place.

And I’ll support strong laws that hold those sites accountable for negligence. I’m really struggling to see why this is so controversial.

So you are going with: Deny the problem of child sexual predators exists at all.

Do you also believe that the Boy Scouts and the Catholic Church also have no responsibility to protect kids, because doing to would similarly require collecting data on people?

(I would disagree with you if you said yes, but I’ll respect your position for being consistent.)

… And if a kid using that browser was abused because the browser lied to the website about the users’ age, then the browser’s creators should bare some consequences for lying to the website that otherwise would have put up protections. Right?

I don’t understand. There will still be porn sites for people.

The way it will work is that when you tell your browser to go to a porn site, the site will ask your Bowser for your verified age. Your browser will then ask your OS for your verified age. Your OS will respond “18+” to your browser. Your browser will tell the porn site “the OS says 18+”. Then the porn site will say “Cool, here’s the porn.” That’s it.

If you use a non-compliant OS, then your browser will say to the porn site “I asked the OS and the OS says ‘null’.” Then the porn site will say, “Well sorry. Then your OS isn’t supported. Come back when you are using a supported OS.”

That’s it.

I’m not sure what you are disagreeing with. That’s generally what I said. If you use a non-compliant OS, your experience will be “age-gated”.

Though I don’t think they will completely block access entirely. Collecting data on kids is extremely valuable to these companies, because kids grow up to be consumers. They will happily continue to let you in, but you won’t be able to go to the 18+ areas.