I’m pretty sure this is why the Bolsheviks just started using firing squads.

So, in summary, there’s not been a single time Democrats have actually pushed Medicare for all.

Whataboutism.

For next year’s pride, let’s do the world’s largest balloon launch. Just release the largest number of balloons anyone has ever set off at once. Release them in big coordinated rainbows. I’m sure that’s never caused any problems before.

Look. It’s fine. The plane is made from materials that originally came from nature. We’re just…giving them back to nature!

Sometimes you can only do what you can with what you have. Will this solution help everyone? No. Will it help anyone as much as they deserve? Probably not. Will it help some? Yes.

The sex part they’re a bit young for, but perhaps the Chinese Communist Party talking points have some merit. :D

Just to make the world more whimsical, we should reinstate this law.

It’s also the death of even the pretense of the American dream. Think about it. All pricing goes algorithmic, for all goods and services. Every company figures out the absolute maximum you can pay and charges accordingly.

What does this do in aggregate? It means that every raise you will ever get during your career is now immediately consumed by rising prices. This produces an economy where there is literally no point at all to advancing your career, gaining new skills, or bettering yourself. Why go to college or trade school, if the extra money you earn is just going to be consumed by companies charging your more for the same products? Why should anyone do anything but simply find the most tolerable minimum wage job they can, and simply work it until they die of old age? If all pricing is algorithmic, anything you do to improve your personal financial situation will be immediately hoovered up by the big conglomerates.

I really wonder about what people thought of that then. Did people really think it was a medical thing, or was this just a socialy respectable way for a man who couldn’t get his wife off to pass the task on to someone who could perform the task with an air of medical respectability?

Or Hell, maybe it was a 19th century kink or swinger thing. People have always been freaky. At times in history they just had to hide it better.

When these get deployed, they’ll finally implement eyeball tracking into the ads. Some smart TVs have in built cameras, and this could easily be one the norm. The companies so far have been too afraid to use it, but the tech has existed for years at this point. Technically, there’s nothing stopping YouTube from just requiring users to have an iris tracking camera enabled. And this would defeat a smart glasses AI ad filter. I suppose you could maybe have a screen on the front that projected fake eyeballs towards the camera, but maybe they could then defeat that.

Or, more likely, they’ll just lobby Congress to ban ad blockers and and blocking devices.

What’s worse is this even makes attending the game in person miserable. I know many very passionate college football fans who show up hours before the game to hang out with friends, and then more times then not end up leaving the game itself early. Why? Because the game itself is a drag. If a game is televised, they add extra breaks to the game to accommodate ads. The game gets stretched out from something of reasonable length to some absurd 3-4 hour long slog. People then only stick around if the winner remains unclear. If the games were a more reasonable 2 hour length, with more engaging and constant action, then most folks would stay to the end.

I think the problem is usually the opposite. There’s a traditional problem among white male leftists to view everything through the lens of wealth and income, social barriers are assumed to be less important. This is one of the biggest reasons white leftists movements tend to fail. You need both identity and economic solidarity. If you face rampant discrimination and police violence, economic inequality simply isn’t your highest priority.

The Roman Senate kept up appearances even centuries after they had been rendered completely irrelevant. They kept holding elections. They kept running their influence networks. They kept the illusion going for centuries after the Republic collapsed.

Most malls ban unaccompanied minors. And most places where kids used to hang out similarly discourage their presence. The death of third places is a well-documented phenomenon, one that goes back decades before anyone dreamed of social media. And while kids have been forming their own communities since the dawn of time, kids haven’t been raised in suburban hellscapes since the dawn of time. If you can’t drive. If there’s no way to your neighorhood except a giant highway that’s impossible to bike on, how in the hell are kids supposed to meet up with each other in person? Digital technologies are really the only way kids have to socialize nowadays. We’ve taken everything else from them.

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These laws are written deliberately broad to enable mass censorship. They don’t just ban sexual material, but use vague statements like “objectionable material.” Actual real-world news is being censored and kept from the eyes of teenagers. Pretty much anything on the Gaza war is considered objectionable material and inappropriate for children to learn about.

Nah. It’s not an age issue. It’s a social media issue. This stuff is bad for everyone. If you want to protect kids from the dangers of social media, start regulating how social media works for everyone. Why is it ok to start poisoning someone’s mind the minute they turn 18?

Yes. The societal level solution is the parents of the society choosing to do their jobs.

And the suicide rate of queer and other marginalized kids will skyrocket. What’s a few thousand dead kids in the name of protecting the children, right?