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Kinda hoping he’ll do it himself after some ketamine-induced psychosis snaps what’s left of his brain. My guess with his ego, money and insecurity is that he owns a bunch of personal firearms and walk around his home cosplaying with them fully loaded on the regular.

The one child policy was tried. It was a disaster. The real question is why you would possibly think it’s a good idea to try.

Arguing semantics is kinda pointless when the message is that wealth needs to be distributed far better. Nobody at Occupy was protesting that just the billionaires need to be taxed much more and the ten-millionaires* should stay just as-is. *The top 1% in the USA have roughly $12 million USD net assets as of 2025. That is far more than they need to live a very comfortable life with many luxuries.

Have they tried not voting for him?

If there’s an action, there’s a reaction.

Sort of like how when people outsource all their critical thinking to AI, their ability for critical thinking atrophies?

Pretty defensive there. It’s not even a study

Yep. I get stuck in analysis paralysis too. Like the price of GPUs in particular it’s been hard to time a ‘good time to buy’ a major upgrade in the last decade because there’s being something driving price cycles artificially multiple time and for extended periods.

Haha, holy crap. Hasn’t seen that. Thankyou. Razer releasing a holo-wife is not a thing I ever imagined.

It’s a great idea if you’re a billionaire and have a diverse team of qualified teachers to manage the schooling of your child(ren) at your home. For everyone else it’s usually a disaster, and they find out that teaching isn’t just a matter of babysitting and reading a few textbooks with them, it’s actually hundreds of years of knowledge distilled into design, practices and pedagogy - none of which your average homeschooling parent knows much about. Then they give up homeschooling after 2-3 years and bring a kid back to grade/primary school or high school who has now been set back multiple years behind their peers. Then… there’s also the abuse that goes on outside of the view of the government-supervised schooling system (with mandatory reporting laws, welfare checks, etc).

Platybussy.

I’m still confused. What is the little pod and detritus around it supposed to represent?

As those are not general purpose computing devices, and additionally have no app store - no, and no. From the law text: © “Application” means a software application that may be run or directed by a user on a computer, a mobile device, or any other general purpose computing device that can access a covered application store or download an application.

Many people here are going off on wild tangents over this. You should just read the law, it’s only a couple thousand words of quite plain English.

Many here have taken completely incorrect assumptions from the title. This law is for developers, not users.

Summary:

Requires OS devs ask for DOB, age, or both at account creation time. Requires an API that allows app store devs to request this age data for the account. At minimum this must specify the account is a member of one of these categories: ‘user under 13, user over 13 and under 16, user is over 16 and under 18, user is over 18’.

gasp

Explicitly bars OS devs from sending more data than explicitly necessary to meet 1 (hint: photo ID, facial recognition). Explicitly bars app devs recieving the data from requesting more data from the OS nor the App store. Bars app stores from using the data for any other reason and specifically calls out anticompetitive practices. Bars app store and OS devs from sharing this data with any third party for any other reason than to comply with this law. Has injunctions and civil penalties of $2500 (max per user) affected by negligent violations (eg a child account is served adult content), and $7500 (max per user) affected by intentional violations.

The only problem I have with this is that it should only apply to commercial software (app stores and OS). Libre/FOS software should not have to police ages on their app stores, due to their far reduced budgets (often zero), developer time, and the nature of the software being generally anti-centralized and anti-surveillance-capitalism. Though I’d be fine with it for FOSS software distributed via commercial app stores, as long as they gave a longer lead time to implement (EG a couple of years).