We have a Dunning-Kruger economy, the c-suite thinks that the slop they’re shitting out is good because they don’t actually have any expertise in the commodities their companies produce. Every dipshit with a business degree thinks his vibe-coded app works great, and it took less than an hour, so his underlings should be able to churn out product as quickly as he can shit out slop.

Poor white people, they have it so hard. 😢

Okay, but that necessarily means that other people are now paying for their Social Security. This person, specifically, did not fully pay for their own Social Security. They’re living off of public money, not money they contributed themselves.

The OP specifically depicts someone that’s 90 years old.

Doesn’t that mean the amount they paid in to Social Security might have actually run out years ago?

The DNA damage comes from the formaldehyde that the body produces when metabolizing aspartame, but guess what? The body makes formaldehyde anyway, just from its natural metabolic processes. As long as you don’t consume too much it’s fine.

The problem is over-consumption, which is the basis of having a consumer economy. If everyone ate less the food industry would collapse. They need us to overeat and if we ever stopped they’d have to reconcile with the fact that they can’t just keep growing their profits infinitely. Plus, when we overeat, they can make even more money by treating the sicknesses it causes. Win/Win!

Sugar isn’t harmless.

when you realize Samus is a PMC

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American Rugby

EDIT SHIT y’all beat me to it! 😅

It only causes inconvenience for herself and the cashier. It doesn’t effect the guy behind her even slightly.

They could, we’d just need to hand over even more of our privacy and rights.

Which was always the plan.

Ah yes, Harry Potterism is social fascism.

The fact that Harry didn’t break the wand and instead buried it like a sentimental asshole really sums up his weakness as a character.

“What’s the difference?” - USA

Those solutions don’t really work if you need an ID to connect to the internet. Can’t access your VPN without internet access, can’t get on a P2P or usenet without accessing the internet first.

And porn can still be purchased or shared on bootleg DVDs.

They’d definitely prefer this, that gives them a physical media that they can track and the police can seize.

Plus it’ll give them more excuses to search through people’s belongings.

In order for social media sites to actually be able to enforce this law it’s the only thing that would work. They might feel pressured to make deals with the internet service providers to actually implement this kind of ID check for internet connections.

If they don’t, it’s only a matter of time until some country does pass such a law.

And the social media sites, in the interest of complying with the law, might make deals with the internet service providers to actually put an ID check on every internet connection. This isn’t impossible.

Even if they don’t, once legislators realize their law didn’t fix the problem they can always pass new legislations.

My point is that this isn’t impossible.

One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example

They could require you to show an ID to purchase a phone.

Or finding open wifi networks

Open wifi networks certainly wouldn’t provide an ID to connect, which would mean they couldn’t be used to access social media.

This is not an unsolvable problem. The question is if Australia is willing to piss everyone off to actually do it.

1% chance you’re dealing with an unfortunate Harry Potter fan

Sorry, all we have is chickweed.

They could require an ID to connect to the internet.