No… I think they’re saying that the comic guy who thinks women shouldn’t vote is not as bad as the people in Trump’s cabinet, or something. Which is like… I can care about both pretty easily. Effortlessly, even.

or make the parents be the casinos’ first line bouncers

Or, you know, we could just have bouncers on site. Such as a system which asks you to prove you’re older than 13 before you’re allowed to access it.

I mean, this sure is a lot of pontificating and wondering about how the legal system could ever handle such an absurdly vague and difficult task when it already seems to be doing that.

I’m going to invoke a comparison here that you’re not going to like very much. I promise, you shouldn’t take it personally.

I have had 1,000 arguments with fascists who looove tilting this way and that about how philosophically undefinable their behavior is. Zeno’s paradox, the ship of theseus, what really is a “casino” anyway? I’ll tell you this: I’m fine with 80% success. “Oh, but what if someone who is 19 but doesn’t have an ID is rejected by the system? They won’t be allowed to play. :(” Uh, that sucks for them. Oh well. I guess they’ll have to go back to Atelier Ryza.

I have too little power to do that,

Damn, that sucks for you.

but what can you do? lawmakers wont make laws …

You elect lawmakers.

just let me remind you that that happens offline, and it is provable if copies are not preserved.

Fascinating.

if someone cannot properly configure their phones, then they need to be made liable

So, this is exactly the problem I have with you and the other person. It’s this contempt you have for your fellow people. It’s extremely selfish. This isn’t how you talk to your neighbors. You’re not getting invited to any cookouts or block parties with this attitude.

If you and I can agree that children shouldn’t be in casinos, then they shouldn’t be allowed into the casino. I am open to your suggestions.

Wow. The world sucks then, doesn’t it?

No, you’re making it one to sidestep an issue.

If this bad parenting happens often enough to be a real problem, then whining into the wind that “no one has any common sense anymore,” or whatever you’re doing, isn’t a solution.

I do blame the game a little because it’s a game that really, really, really wants you to spend money on diamond gem funbucks.

Let me ask you this question, hm? You don’t want to show your ID even though we all do that for alcohol—fine. Why not: $80 up front, all banners are periodic DLCs, some of them free, there is more than enough korok seeds in game to get all of them, and they never expire—infinite time to twiddle your thumbs before completing them. Would this not solve your ID problem?

That is, unless you would like to spearhead this global movement to teach underprivileged parents how to configure their phones?

Okay. So argue about that then. What does bad parenting have to do with it?

Okay. So is requiring under-13s to ask their parents. I don’t see what the issue is.

It’s comparable to gambling—you should keep up with the thread.

Damn, got 'em. Actually, they deserve to lose $16,000 while raising a gambling addict because they didn’t pull up their bootstraps and micromanage everything their preteen does in “that colorful game they play.”

Mate, asking under-13s to get parent permission is provoking that good parenting you seem to care about anyway—what on earth is the problem?

Jarvis, explain to this man the concepts of “scale” and “size.”
Jarvis, rotate this man’s eyes ninety degrees clockwise.

That’s great. We can schedule it like heroin for professional use only, then.

Yes. Fuck the owners and fuck their machine guns.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI.

Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today.

I highlighted part of the article for you.

Incels scorn society and the world for making them ugly, no powerful jawline, no American Pie sex adventures in high school, and no nice suits to wear to their minimum wage jobs. To incels, they are the forgotten scum of the earth.

Well, The Joker is a film about an abused, poor, and lonely comedian getting his face kicked in by teenagers about a month before rising up, killing a late night tv host, and vengefully breaking Society down into chaos and misery.

So, they just think The Joker makes them look cool. That’s really it. Every time they think about shooting up an elementary school, they also think about Arthur Fleck gunning down Murray Franklin.

I’m 100% positive that this comment will get downvoted heavily

Don’t worry, buddy, I’ll get you started. 🫡

Which is why they deserve and need to be mocked mercilessly until they fuck off or get therapy.

I’m doing my part. 🫡

Actually, I missed this thread.

Oh god, that’s gold.

ICE agents under the republican-elected Donald Trump’s republican administration arrested the wrong brown person, and after realizing this, said “take him anyway.”

This is it, possiblylinux. That’s the SS. We have the gestapo. There is no more “fiscal conservative.” There is no more “classical libertarian.” We are nazis now.

You can either be a classical american war hero and strongly oppose this, or you can be a nazi. Those are your options. I’m not saying this euphemistically. I’m not saying it as a metaphor. I’m not exaggerating for dramatic effect.

If you do not live in the US currently, and you do not want to be relocated to Guantanamo Bay or El Salvador, then you should not come here.

There’s nothing scammy about a product that provides you exactly the service you requested, with less risk and cost.

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Without reading or verifying anything, I’m just going to assume this is an Elon alt.

the cartoon implies that anyone who says violence isn’t the answer is lying/hypocritical.

No… it doesn’t. By its adversarial nature, it heavily implies the answers “no” to the first two questions.

Like, your main criticism is that the comic doesn’t make any sense if the answer to either question was yes, but that’s the definitive reason I wouldn’t read it that way.

A rhetorical question that you know (or are insisting you “know”) your opponent disagrees with is a very common language trick.