OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
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OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
21hr ago
I think the solution to age-gating would be to have internet-connected devices to have a birth year set on the network card or somewhere that would be hard to reset. When anyone orders a device online or in person, they have to input the birth year of the primary intended user of the device. Then internet sites can query the device for (is user > 14? Is user > 21?) and the device would tell them that and nothing else. It would be possible to change this setting but the average person would need to bring it into a repair shop to do so.
There are also lots of devices that have age gating features. Kindle Fire tablets are what I'm most used to - you can order one that looks like Bluey and it comes with a years subscription to a selection of apps that Amazon thinks are appropriate for a given age range. That said, I have trouble trusting other people's judgement on these sorts of things.
If you want the best paranoid kid entertainment, get a Yoto player and hand select every card.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
I joined TheMotte right around the start of Covid. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people did. It was one of the last places where people could talk freely about things that were radically changing their daily life. There was never anything like Covid before and hopefully never will be again.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
You still need people to maintain those so that they don't explode.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
That is not enough to pay for an active freezer with VRLA UPSs (with batteries being swapped out every five years), generator backups, and annual maintenance checkups from qualified technicinas in perpetuity.
They're being sold a bill of goods that will quickly become not worth it.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
My dad was really excited about it 20 years ago. Pretty sure that's where the millions my mom can't track down in the divorce went.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
Yeah, the problem to me is more the Upper-Middle class Boomers who will give all their money first to the health care field, then to the cryogenics field, leaving little to their grandkids. But also because trusts are hard unless you have 100 million to make it worth it, all their money will be gone quickly and their corpse will be left rotting.
And then this current comment thread, killing yourself early for cryogenics is also a bad idea.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
I think a lot of cryogenics relies on the idea that in a couple hundred years our technology will be so advanced that they will be able to bring people back from the cryogenic state. Therefore, they do not need to prove that we can bring a mouse back right now, with our current technology.
I think it's all crazy to assume we'll keep progressing the way we did in the last century and a half. We're going to go into a population crunch soon. We'll recover from it, but who knows what will happen to the cryogenic-ally frozen in the meantime?
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
Are you denying that Trump I was basically a Lame Duck president due to being constantly investigated for supposed Russian Election Interference? Because the goalpost is that Democrat complaints of election interference are a random insignificant soundbites, not something that impacted politics one bit.
OracleOutlook
🇺🇸 Fiat justitia ruat caelum
3d ago
Is it illegal in the sense that, "You can't get two marriage licenses without a divorce license in the middle?" Or illegal in the sense that, "If you are married and caught with a mistress living in your house you trigger some serious anti-adultery laws?"
The Fire is actually pretty good if you don't go with Amazon's kid subscription but just hand select apps you want. What is weird is sometimes the tablet would reboot into another kid's account, or even my account (which should have been password protected,) and I didn't find out right away. After they broke down (as these things do after a few years) we didn't buy more.
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