And, pray tell, what library or school has pornography in it that is easily accessible to minors?

Furthermore, having lived my entire life around educators and now working for an educational institution: parents are fucking stupid lol

The sheer numbers of videos of parents bitching and crying at school meetings or libraries about “X book is pornographic” or “this book has witchcraft and should be burned” is absurd. Those mouth breathers don’t even know how to critically examine a fucking facebook post for bullshit, let alone comprehend the difficulty in teaching children.

Don’t like your kid learning about how Trans people exist? Go fuck yourself and homeschool your kid so they can be permanently stunted in terms of preparation for the real world. Let the vast majority of regular people make sure their kids grow up socially aware and at least passingly prepared for the future.

Also, “this will be the law?” Have you seen the flailing Republican party? Guess what fucker - the average American thinks project 2025 is batshit and the republican party got hijacked by a manchild and ruined their stupid plans. It’s only downhill from here now that they went mask off - most people think they’re nuts.

Thanks lol

I wasn’t sure about the longer term background issues simmering under the surface

I haven’t played since the PSN fiasco…what’s going on now?

What a weird thing to say

Usually, they are used to burn books :/

New Madrid fault line babyyy

Another day, another conservative yelling at clouds lmfao

Maybe one day they’ll realize change is inevitable

The effort/cost expended to go after a tiny group of people vs the amount of money generated/saved from stopping them was (and probably still is) not worth it. There just aren’t that many people who use 3rd party services without accounts.

There is still a footprint of “person is watching X, then they go to Y” with or without an account by my understanding.

Its less valuable data, sure, but it all feeds thr algorithm

Again, the point is that those accounts are still users that can be pointed out as such for all to see. Remember: a youtube account is just a Google account.

One could argue that youtube is a highly effective loss leader - people get into the Google ecosystem because of making an account to subscribe to their favorite content creators. Now Google has data they can sell, and metrics for advertisers to go “I see 18-30 year old white guys who watch things about X are likely to respond positively to things about Y.” The algorithm, even without advertisements, is constantly building a profile of every user.

It still goes to active user counts though. There will still be a footprint left by any view and that can be marketed as “we have X million users daily!”

They are still a metric they can peddle to their advertisers to show “how many people see this ad in a month.”

Its rather telling when they go on about how “the rest of the world is still fucked no matter who is President, just look at Yemen or Gaza” while conspicuously not talking about the countries that want help and are getting help like Ukraine lol

Just some rando from outside the US with the “America bad” fixation (which is generally justified don’t get me wrong) who doesn’t understand how the US’ politics are, quite literally, the most important politics on the planet in regards to where global events are concerned.

And, for anyone who wants to screech about “self-centered American thinks his country is the most important,” just think about which nation is top dog militarily, economically, and politically. It’s not boasting - it’s just reality that a global superpowers politics are more consequential than a non-superpower.

Hoosier here…yuuuup

The pockets of blue are growing a little bit in some of the more affluent areas just outside of Indianapolis like Carmel (or, at least, it’s more purple than it was 20 years ago).

I’m hoping as remote work continues to grow, people move here to change the place because of how cheap it is - even in like the heart of Indianapolis lol

How many Palestinians are gonna be killed by a Trump presidency vs a Biden presidency?

I’ve got more uncles than my siblings and I can cancel out - wanna help us? :P

To be clear, I didn’t necessarily state I advocated for those things, but the prompt was for what interests the US has in being involved in Ukraine.

Whether it is right or justified is another matter, but it is undeniably of significant importance for a state to be able to show it can project force/inflict harm on those it deems a problem.

As for US involvement in the Middle East…yeah…not great. US involvement in Ukraine? I’d say it’s a different story since we are actually wanted there by the Ukrainian people, and it is reasonably likely that Russia would be involved in Ukraine whether or not it wished to be involved with the West, as it is valuable land in an area of historical Russian influence, and the crackpot ideology of Putin’s Russia all but demands its subjugation (no, really, shit’s wild).

I think you’re conflating “maintaining a global hegemonic order” with “fucking up a nation that has actively tried to harm the United States AND is provably committing war crimes.”

Is American hegemony all sunshine and roses? Fuck no lol

At least it is built more on consensus of member states than a hegemony built up by dictatorships like Russia (which, let’s be real, isn’t ever gonna be a global hegemon) or China?

Not giving a hostile power control of 20% of the world’s grain supply is a good one.

Demonstration of American commitment to stopping its enemies worldwide is always handy.

Weakening of a major geopolitical enemy’s military capabilities for a fraction of the cost of a conventional war.

That’s just off the top of my head, though.

I’m guessing their tune about France changed when they joined the 8 Nation Alliance 50 years later