As you say, the government already has that information, so while people might not be happy about that, it does seem a semi-reasonable way of confirming age. But the current plan is the reverse of that, with the government asking companies to conform age using a third party, which not only will definitely be using it for advertising purposes, but is more likely to get hacked, and all the information make it into even worse hands.

The problem with a ban in response to poor parenting is that it just disincentivises both the parents and children who have been doing it right until now, because if they’ll lose access all the same then what was the point of doing otherwise until now. And what would be the point of doing it right in future.

Seems like they’re now operating in poo poo spaces.

Personally, I’m of the view that a blanket ban is simply not going to work, and comes with all the same problems of the online safety act, mostly that the government, or the companies they employ to verify ages, simply cannot be trusted with that information. If control needs to be implemented, it should be in having mandatory parental control options, but ultimately I believe it to be the job of the parents to utilise them, not the government.

They might as well just introduce an umbrella ‘won’t somebody please think of the children act’. They’re moving very quickly from porn to social media, and the slope is starting to feel real slippery.

But how many feet would fit in your butt?

They’re up to 5? I thought horses were just GGs.

You might be giving them a little too much credit there.

Isn’t the fuckass app for use with the smart buttplugs?

How is that not exactly what was described?

What kind of boat do you suppose that is?

Certainly agree that I’ve never asked or been asked about this before!

My original thing, though, was that it couldn’t be used interchangeably for fractions or percentages, but could for whole numbers. So your example with 50% clearly doesn’t work, but 3 times more and 3 times as much could more easily mean the same thing.

I can absolutely see where you and that article are coming from, but it takes me so much more brainpower to reach that conclusion, whereas it intuitively feels like they should mean the same thing. And maybe that is because the two are used interchangeably in everyday speak so I’ve never had to think about the difference.

That only works if X is a fraction or percentage though? Because 3 times more and 3 times as much do mean the same thing.

Do you imagine this is a good way of addressing any addiction issues?

Imagine an armpit. Then think of it fat.

I feel like you could only really fight a car once, and it probably wouldn’t be very competitive.