Just? That happened like a week ago …

I think the bigger problem is that we are implementing a system that has been proven to be ineffective at solving the problem, yet the world is plowing ahead. All we’ve achieved is removing the liability for social media site operators. They can run cess pools of misinformation and child predation and wash their hands and say “whelp, the kids shouldn’t be there, we have government approved age verification (also until thats proven to be zero knowledge we have even more personal data to use for marketing and sell on the data broker market).”

I said “also”, that point is not lost on me.

You also can’t guarantee that that the bosses safe is actually safe. Is it a safe in his office or in some building in Russia that he sends all the photocopies to by snail mail? Is the safe actually a safe and not just an unlocked filing cabinet in the alley behind the nightclub with a sign on it saying “free ID photocopies”? Are the photocopies also put in folders with a record of all your drink preferences, conversations, conversation metadata and which songs you danced to with all the folders photocopied, submitted to the government for citizen profiling and then sold on the black market for profit by the night club owner?

Pretty sure Orban was being marketed as centre right as well, but sure, Magyar seems like a slightly less shitty piece of shit, albeit with many of the same policies as Orban.

It does seem like the best thing Orban did was to push a large number of Hungarians to engage with their system and yearn for change.

Are you suggesting that the man with the double handjob dance has not been actively trying to get boypreggers for decades?

Because digital age verification is a privacy and security nightmare for everyone. It’s not the same as showing your drivers licence to get into a night club. It would be more equivalent if the nightclub checked everyone’s details, and then also registered those details in a clipboard that they left hanging on the wall next to the night club in partial view of the bouncer.

Arguably even if they could patch all the security and privacy holes in their implementation of age verification, it’s still a flawed system, just like age verification when entering a nightclub or buying alcohol. Underage people still get into nightclubs and buy alcohol just by looking older than they are and the same is true for access to social media. Even when the sites are checking everyone, underage people are still getting in. In Australia’s implementation it’s something like 80% of children are still able to access social media but now the social media sites have access to even more of our personal data.

Social media sites have created unsafe places for minors. It’s clear they are unable to control entry of either the minors or predators, so they should be responsible for moderation of their digital spaces and the outcomes of not ensuring that moderation. If they can’t meet that requirement then maybe they shouldnt be allowed to operate.

The new guy is also a right wing peice of shit like Orban … but hopefully he’s not also a Russian asset …

Yeah that might work. I hear logistics in the region is tough right now, but Lebanon might have some ideas about the most effective last mile delivery and the best places to deliver them to.

Awesome, now send the seized arms to ukraine

Yeah I’m sure the government they installed will get right on that …

Never heard of them but their shoes look shit house so no biggie.

If you took it to a shop the apprentice will be doing the work and breaking more shit than they fixed. If you don’t pick it up soon enough and can’t prove it was them then your paying to fix their fuckups as well.

I’ve never had a Kiwi pie, but I’d like to hope you’ve toured around the regions and based your opinion on country bakery pies or on-point roadhouse pies rather than the standard city servo fair.

I managed to find one good sausage roll at the Southbank market one time (lived there for 8 years and was actively seeking out acceptable sausage rolls and pies the whole time), I blew the mind of the guy selling it by suggesting he should make some with bacon and cheese in the sausage meat.

They should be embarrassed by what they call sausage rolls.

As an Australian, English pies make me sad.

His Russian masters must be so proud

So this guy’s a moron then? Good to see the Washington Post is flagrantly defying the DEI policies of the Trump administration in giving this poor idiot a job.

It’s always pants are baggy time, I refuse to accept the was ever or ever will be a time for skinny pants.