Ya know, I never really thought about Pulp Fiction in this light but…

You could read Jackson’s character’s obsession with that quote as faith sans interaction with the source material. He never read the bible, he just found something cool and started saying that and it turned into something approaching genuine belief over the course of the movie.

When Pete says it it’s the exact opposite. It’s an appeal to pulp spiritually similarly lacking in engagement with the source materal except here it doesn’t result in anything. In pulp fiction Jackson’s character starts off with a lie then stumbles into true faith. Pete starts with a lie upon a lie and faith never even enters into the equation. It’s just preformative all the way through.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

The worm recognizes it’s own.

Hard agree, and I’m not making excuses. Just trying to figure out what flavor of evil to expect. Original flavor corruption, or extra crispy dissociation.

It’s somewhat trite to say “Trump has dementia”, that’s just been clearly evident for a while now. But even given that I feel like he’s gotten so so much worse recently. Like, throwing the country into an unwinnable illegal war, threatening genocide over Easter, now he’s posting snuff films? I feel like even people who correctly interpret that the dude’s got some serious cognitive impairment going on still end up writing him a pass because “Trump’s just crazy like that”. But just given his behavior over the past few weeks It feels like his mental decline is accelerating quite a bit.

Got FreshRSS running on my home server and feeding a couple of client programs. RSSGuard on my computers and Readrops on my phone. No complaints, got it doing exactly what I want it to do.

I’m aware, I just think the bracket is too much information. Besides, laws can be changed and increasingly laws are broken with zero repercussions. What is to stop Microsoft from not “transmitting” the information yet still using it internally for targeted advertising? Honestly the raw date of birth isn’t even needed for that. An age bracket would do fine and as far as I’m aware there are zero restrictions on Microsoft using that.

No, if your actually only interested in protecting kids, I think this is vast overkill. This is a mesure for surveillance and advertising and I think age brackets are more than sufficient for accomplishing that.

Respectfully I disagree. What I’m describing here is a checkmark. It’s a flag that gets turned on presumably by a parent and turned off presumably when the kid comes of age or gets their own computer or whatever. There is no date attached. There’s no personally identifiable information that your operating system is collecting and distributeing without your knowledge. At worst it’d allow people to be sorted into above and below certain ages, that’s it.

I get that what’s being proposed does not require verification (for now, way things are going I don’t necessarily expect that to stick). But even if your assuming good intent on the part of these law makers and corporations I still believe entering a date is too much of an invasion of privacy. If this is something we have to do (which I don’t believe it is but idiots seem to be forcing the issue) then it should be done with the least amout of data possible. That means a yea or nay on a binary checkbox.

I genuinely feel like there’s an appriciable percentage of the population that don’t even know that other operating systems exist. For whom Windows is “the computer” and for whom even Apple being a separate operating system is a difficult concept to grasp. If that’s truely the state technical literacy is in with a sizable slice of the population, then it’s quite the hurtle even explaining the basics of what Linux is. Let alone using it.

People responding to this are right about their actual intentions, but yeah. I think if you wanted to go about doing this the right way it would be an “I’m an adult” or a “this device is primarily used by a child” checkmark that could be locked down behind an administrative password.

That’s it. That’s all you really need if your intention was actually just makeing sure kids couldn’t wander into a part of the internet not made for them. Everything else, verification, that’s just surveillance bullshit being bolted on top.