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Not likely to be helpful, but your feeling is normal and understandable. Didn't wait too long to talk to someone.

I can't figure out the rate hikes on property values right now.

Also, what do you I think the correlation is between rent and violence? I could see theft and costs of living, but not random shootings.

Yeah we get it, American, lots of shootings, yeah already know.

This was my downtown and a mall.

I have guns. I have exceptional training. I don't shoot people at malls.

WTF

Fair enough.

Maybe everyone agrees it sucks and all change?

Turn it into a group 'stick it to the man' effort?

I don't have friends,.no problem for me 😋

Also,.I'm old and just text my friends!

Vote with your feet. Have to leave the platform if you want to stick it to them.

I don't mean to downplay the environment, but I think we'll have a long list of worries... 🫨

I like the recent estimates of his appearance. This artist renders him even less good looking than probably most imagined when they think of someone from that region of the world, which makes me believe it's closer to appropriate.

Jesus wasn't a rock star. In Christianity and the new testament, God didn't portray himself in any way other than meager and a bit of a communist. That's the beauty of part of the story.

Edit, I think Jesus would have been easy to put on the no fly list, or walk by without a second thought, which is a challenge to our ways of thinking.

I dislike Facebook / meta so much, I can't think objectively about the implications here.

I wonder how many people will just consent?

Why is this not an acceptable option?

It annoys me that we've given so much power to a single social media company by thinking the thing is so important that we have to have it.

Why can't we just stop using it? That's the only way to take back power.

Further than ad blockers, if the page doesn't work with reader mode or simple view, I don't read it, just swipe back.

Between insane ad intrusiveness, the ridiculous notifications about cookies, and the general terrible usability and lack of concern for a clean, user focused design of most sites now, I can't use most of the Internet these days.

We need a new model. Free isn't free anymore, it's more taxing than fees

I haven't seen any suggestions on this age verification movement that anonymizes users. The obvious big concern for privacy, tracking, etc.

If a site redirected a user to a trusted government PKI or identity system like their BMV, and the only answer the website being visited got was 'over 18 = true', I suspect it would be less intrusive.

There's still the problem of the government systems extended to do this. Will they be secure? Will politicians try to collect that data? Will they sell it?

I personally in no way trust websites with personal data beyond what we are forced to just deal with or not function in life: banks, cellular carrier, utilities, online shopping, etc. It's an enormous list.

I would support a single government identity service if they handled personal details and allowed removing all that from individual websites and stores, but that's basically what a social security number is.

This whole thing is extremely complex and has the ability to go very wrong.

This story, like most corporate stories these days, frustrates me.

This is a tale as old as time...the time when American corporations went to shit as our elected officials ensured there was no liability and realistic legal consequences to executes or MBA decision making.

I'm not a business scholar obviously. I've always been led to believe that in order for the world to turn and air to be breathable, corporations and businesses need liability protection for those who run it. Why?

If I kill someone with my car, even if it was completely an accident, I'm still liable right? Should I account for the death of that person, child, etc?

How would things not be better if, instead of the bottom line and stock price being the ultimate concern of CEOs, it was them not going to court to face charges because they allowed their company to kill people with its negligence? I know there's some nuance here, but ultimately, I feel like everything sucks because there's no incentive to care about anything but investors and greed.

If industry, aerospace or other, was run by people who cared about not killing people and going to jail, would they in turn ensure their design and production met the quality and ambition of the type of people here, discussing their accounts of cutting corners or experienced personnel just to save money?