I think that may be a literary reference.

“How Much Land Does a Man Need?” is an 1886 short story by Leo Tolstoy about a greedy man.

Ouch. Things are about to get real harsh before they get worse. I hope you are prepared.

It’s been speculated that Trump is doing this to prepare for the drop in cargo transport in the next few days. Me, I have doubts because nothing that Trump has said or done so far makes me believe that he or his sycophants are intellectually capable of that kind of rational planning. What do you think?

None of these detectors can work. It’s just snake oil for technophobes.

Understand what “positive predictive value” means to see that. Though, in this case, I doubt that even the true rates can be known or that they remain constant over time.

1. The chart shows weeks, not months.
2. It shows scheduled arrivals of vessels in LA. It may not be safe to equate that to freight arriving in the US.

I had a look into the Temu and Aliexpress subreddits: Funeral mood.

we’ve had an onslaught of freight

IDK how long it takes from the ports to you, but that should end in a few days. Keep us updated!

DHL suspends high value US deliveries over tariffs

The negative number means that far fewer ships are arriving in LA than at the same time last year.

Yes, and then, or rather now, incoming shipping collapses.

He did not point the finger at any particular paper. At least not where I saw the cartoon.

Yes. It goes from much higher than last year to much lower.

You seem to be misreading that.

You certainly have a point that doesn’t deserve to be downvoted like that.

Are you New Yorkian, by any chance?

How you figure? Trump will just fold?

Source: https://bsky.app/profile/murphycartoons.bsky.social/post/3lnlwmypsgk2d

Huh. Haven’t actually seen panic on Lemmy. I only see it on social media accounts of economists and logistics people.

I can think of a number, besides the one in the OP.

You could worry about freedom of information also for adults. Such systems interfere, by design, with receiving and imparting information. It also creates a system that can be easily abused for political censorship. Me, I worry a lot about the direction Europe is taking.

You could also worry about privacy in other definitions. Europeans, or Germans anyway, usually equate privacy with data protection, which is not actually correct. One American definition of privacy is as “the right to be let alone”. You’re certainly not being let alone with such a system. You might feel that it forces you and your family to abide by moral values that you may not share.

Then there’s the economic aspect. The people in a country with such laws will have to do extra work and use extra resources to implement and enforce this.

Maybe. I have no 6-year-olds around to ask. I have noticed that people often have misconceptions that I can’t even fathom because I have grown up in a completely different tech environment. For me, it has not worked to make assumptions.

There is a maximum number of unsuspiciously requestable tokens and people can sell their unrequested ones. There will be a black market and no ability to investigate unless privacy is lifted.

Such a thing would work as with credit cards. An unusual pattern of use would flag the card as potentially compromised and cause it to be blocked, not the volume of requests in itself. It wouldn’t be quite so easy to avoid detection.

Making porn, alcohol, or other such things available to minors is a criminal offense. Being flagged multiple times would probably be enough for a conviction if one couldn’t provide an explanation.

An age verification service would need to determine your age. It’s not strictly necessary for them to keep your identity on file, but I think the likelihood is that it would be required precisely to prevent such abuse.

I don’t fully get the part about selling adult products directly.

Such a service would be illegal in itself. It would have to exist on the darknet beside offers for mail-order drugs, stolen passwords, and so on. Might as well offer mail-order alcohol or adult media downloads with no questions asked.

Since foreign services do not need to comply, porn will still be available. So a firewall is needed. But then, why not give children an age appropriate vpn for their devices and accounts and leave the internet to itself?

Good question. Part of the answer is that law-makers in Europe have no idea what they are doing. Why there is no one capable of giving them technical advice is something I simply don’t know. Some tech regulations are so absurd that you’d never believe me they are real.

The average person probably only knows the functioning of the DNS and one or two email apps. And quartz, of course.