Is Beehaw doing something different from the rest of lemmy? You can log into any instance with any of the apps.

Sure is. You might check !lemmyapps@lemmy.world for some suggestions, but there’s many.

(Refer to the pinned megathread.)

In a hypothetical world where every service that wanted to be kid-friendly was willing to make two versions of their site, and where the obvious security concerns were solved, and where it could somehow be quarantined away from normal users, how would a kid even prove they were a kid?

The issue (in my eyes) is that this isn’t limited to discord. Anywhere online where kids are allowed to be, predators can also be. Fuck, even Roblox apparently has a big predator problem. So if we make it the responsibility of platforms to police, we’re setting ourselves up for a world where you have to have your ID ready to scan in to any website you visit or service you use that lets you interact with other people in any way, no matter how mundane, and there will be no internet services where anyone under 18 is allowed.

Or, we just accept that there’s no reasonable way to keep adults and kids from intermingling, and we make it parents’ sole responsibility.

They already have that policy, as the article notes. The problem is, how do you enforce it? As the comment you replied to notes, without requiring an ID verification, anyone can say they’re any age.

At what point does it become the parents’ responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing online?

Changing what policy, and to what?

Edit: You know what, nevermind. I don’t think I actually want to debate this today. It’s been an alright day so far and I don’t want to fuck it up like I’m sure this argument would.

That’s a good point; it becomes less economical if you need multiple of these cells just to counteract the self-discharge. Even so, it’s really just a demo of the technology; they do mention they expect to have a 1 watt model later this year.

Almost nothing… Maybe some very basic scientific equipment, but they do note that they’d be able to use multiple batteries layered to produce higher output, and that they’re expecting to have a 1 watt version later this year; that’d be far more useful in practice.

This is wild; the battery would outlive the electronics it’s powering in almost all cases.

The output is incredibly tiny, but I wonder if it could be used to trickle-charge a higher-output battery for use in electronics that only need to be used infrequently for short durations.

That’s correct, it is, but that has nothing to do with the post I was replying to, which claimed

Anything not to paint Israel as child murderers, I guess.

Either way, I’d say that the the lede they did use - ‘Israeli airstrikes killed at least 100 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip on Thursday[…]’ - is just fine.

What would you have had them call it?

Israeli strike on a school in Gaza kills at least 14 children, 5 women, and (presumably) 8 men, Palestinian health officials say"?

As it happens, children, women, and men are all ‘people’, and using the collective term makes for a more concise title. It’s not like they’re sugarcoating what actually happened.

The bodies of 14 children and five women were recovered from the school in the Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City

It’s literally the first sentence of the second paragraph.

I think the trailer and Steam page makes it pretty clear that this isn’t just aimed at furries. Not that furries won’t jump on it - we will, but it’s not just for furries.

As a US citizen, I consider the current administration an enemy, too.

I’m not sure a theatrical release is the best option. They might have been better off selling it to Netflix or some other streaming service; as much as I want to see the movie, I’m not sure I’d actually go to a theater to see it. (Not because of a lack of interest in the movie, but rather, it takes a lot more to get me into a movie theater today than it would have 5 years ago.)

Wouldn’t you be least likely to die if you were, say, in a coma, under 24/7 medical surveillance in a hospital, or some other similar circumstance? Being out in public at all raises the probability of dying, so how would you ever go out? You wouldn’t be able to use a knife, or even scissors. You’d never be able to interact with anyone online - there’s a non-zero chance that someone takes such offense with what you say that they find where you live and come hunt you down, so it’s safer - infinitesimally so, but safer - to just not go online at all.

What I’m getting at is, the scenario you’ve laid out with the bounds you’ve set just means you’d have the worst life imaginable. At least you’d be alive, though?

Really impossible to say because, to reiterate the point the post you’re replying to made, the media is not covering protests like it was in 2017. There have been multiple protests in all 50 states, some very large, but the word just isn’t getting out about them.

“Free Speech Absolutist” invariably just means “I want to be able to say whatever I want with no repercussions, but believe that nobody else should have that right.”