Besides the fact that nearly very single account on all major social media is already identified, you are also conflating age verification with identification. Age verification can be anonymous but it depends on the implementation.

IP addresses are already linked to your identity. Or does your ISP not know who to bill every month? It’s just they’re not known to the government until a warrant is provided.

Who would you rather trust? Foreign social media companies controlled by hostile governments trying to turn your country fascist or your own government?

Are you even from the EU? Every EU citizen has access to an eID per the eIDAS regulation. No AI needed whatsoever to determine your age privately. No AI or US company involved.

If the companies are required to verify user’s age using this - and only this - way, they cannot further identify their users.

Only the government could in theory know your social media profile as a result. But there is absolutely nothing preventing them from requiring social media companies to disclose the phone numbers (and as such identities) of its users already.

This heavily depends on the implementation.

The EU has had digital IDs for years now and they can be used to anonymously (according to the implementation) verify your age alone. The requesting service only receives a binary yes or no if the user is older than 18 or not.

Besides, social media sites are already aware of the identity of nearly all its users. For instance: They all require phone numbers which in many EU nations are directly linked to your ID. And that’s just a single metric! How much do you think do their apps track? How many people grant full contact visibility to them? Why do you think Facebook owns WhatsApp?

Oh no, the workers have weapons! Anyways…

Marx died shortly after front-loaded muskets were replaced by the earliest rifles. You know, guns so terrible, a worker and trained soldier were somewhat matched.

From what I’ve heard, small arms were plenty available to civilians during the siege of Sarajevo. Yet they were absolutely worthless because it turns out modern soldiers are several orders of magnitude better equipped and deadly.

By fucking obviousness.

At least that’s what a court would rule, likely with more formal terminology.

Renewables aren’t enough but nuclear is not the solution. Emergency gas powerplants are the only economically sound way due to their flexibility.

The concept of “base load” will likely disappear within the next 20-30 years. And without a base load, nuclear powerplants are possibly even less economical than if you were to burn paper money to generate and sell electricity.

Bing/DDG has also blocked the emulation wiki (https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/) for some reason. I noticed when I forgot the domain and tried looking for the site.

For the record, Google returns it as the top result.

Reason #186729 why it’s insane to have no right to privacy in public.

Fun fact: Recording the public is illegal in Germany. Any private video camera must only be able to record your own property. If you do record (and store - smart doorbells without storage that are only active when they are rung are exempted) material you must have visible warnings (that others can see BEFORE being recorded) or else any evidence you collect is likely to be thrown out in court.

Only thing I can recommend (as well as for literally any script) is using set -u. Only because it’s awful to debug unset variables and there’s never a use case for using unset variables.

To me, chances seem high he had some mental health problems, just like the “psychosis encouraged by ChatGPT” murder case some time ago. Substitute ChatGPT for Russian intelligence services on Telegram and you could get exactly this.

I mean, he tried committing suicide right after the murders. That doesn’t sound like a well adjusted individual.

Republican’s response:

A little bit of Venezuela in my life
A little bit of Greenland by my side
A little bit of Cuba is all I need
A little bit of Canada is what I see
A little bit of Mexico in the sun

Neither interpretation is wrong.

PEMDAS (or whatever you call it) is not a law and makes no mention of implicit multiplication. My Casio calculators rates implicit multiplication higher than explicit multiplication and division by the way.

Here’s another ambiguity:

Is 2½ equal to 1 or 2.5?

Depending on how you enter it, my Casio calculator returns either.

• If you create a normal fraction and then put a number in front (by going left with the arrows) it will result in 1
• Only if you use the dedicated “fraction with number in front” button will it result in 2.5

Fair enough, looks like we communicated past each other to some extent. I took your first comment as arguing this system was more subject to abuse.

I edited my comment to better reflect my original intent.

I mean, everything is subject to abuse. The relevant factor is the likelihood and difficulty of such abuse, isn’t it? And I don’t really see how using the stamped date as an authority reduces either or how not doing so increases either. The way you’d commit abuse changes, sure, but doesn’t make abuse any easier/harder in my opinion, just different.

Bing/DDG have a lot of weird censorship.

“Shapedo” and “Sharkpedo” both work btw.

I still don’t see how stamping immediately could reduce the risk of abuse.

Anyone intent on doing so in a position of power can still do so. Maybe they have a stamp for a future date, maybe they “lose” certain mail, maybe they do not empty any of those election mail boxes the week before an election.

How would it be subject to abuse¹? Deliveries are somewhat predictable, by law 95% of letters must arrive within 3 days, 99% within 4 days. Mail-in ballots “should” be delivered within 2 days.

If it must arrive regardless of circumstances you can generally just send it via fax (except for mail-in ballots of course).

Though this has also lead to some issues. Because the 2025 election was a snap election there was significantly less time for mail-in ballots to be sent. This caused issues for many expats living outside Germany and as a result, at least a couple thousand votes from 200,000 registered expats were probably discarded.

Edit: ¹ any more than a system relying on the date on the postage stamp?

Interesting that this is even relevant in the US.

Here in Germany the only relevant metric is whether a document has arrived at the recipient before any given deadline, from ballots to legal documents. It is considered your responsibility to ensure sending anything sufficiently early.

It’s satire. Satire is meant to be hyperbolic. No comparison of current events with past events can ever be fully accurate.

The message is fairly straightforward. Trump’s peace negotations with Putin are exclusively for splitting Ukraine up between the US and Russia. Not necessarily in the sense of occupation (for the US parts) but in terms of exploiting Ukraine’s resources for the sole benefit of Russia and the US. That’s it.

The connection is two powerful countries splitting up a third one to its detriment. What other well-known historic German event could this be compared with except Molotov-Ribbentrop?

It says Hitler-Stalin-Pakt 2.0

This is the (German) name of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, or to be more precise, the additional protocol specifying the partition of Poland.