This is literally my ideal world.

You personally have sex maybe 20 times with various peers before you reach your 18th birthday.

But surely this is already the norm, yeah? Who is sexually active and has sex less than 20 times? Did you mean 20 partners?

They’re not replicating OF, their advertising their OF, and there’s nothing about twitch or these streams that explicitly advertises to children.

When you sell something to someone, you’re not exploiting them. You’ve got some terms mixed up here.

You could make similar arguments about gambling being a moral panic and they shouldn’t ban that on the site.

I mean yeah, banning gambling is weird as fuck and just creates black markets

For further clarity on why this was a funny mixup, to anyone who sees this, Plex is also a thing, but it is a very different thing, just with a very similar name.

https://www.plex.tv/

I don’t understand how any of this is a problem. Just, like, parent your fuckin kids.

This is one step from “take the books out of libraries” level of paternalism

Dude what’s neat about this is Oxygen on Venus is like Helium on Earth (less dense than most of the atmosphere, so rises naturally) so your balloon doesn’t even need to be hot, just really sturdy.

That’s true about their upper atmosphere, but we’re nowhere close to being able to capitalize on it (as in, no missions even planned). Closest we’ve got on paper is an orbiter by the early 30s.

Hopefully in my lifetime we see an upper atmosphere balloon or something. That alone would be unbelievably cool.

NASA plans to have a manned mission to Mars in the next 6 years.

Venus is significantly more hostile than Mars, so while we definitely want to do more with Venus, Luna and Mars are clear next-ups for manned landings.

While all of Mars is hostile to human life, Venus is also incredibly hostile to equipment, and thus requires a different approach to even unmanned launches.

Current maximum lifetime for any unmanned craft in the Venusian atmosphere (to say nothing of the ground) is only about 2 hours.

Maybe it’s in the morning, when 3rd shift gets off (ayyyy) and then rises as the majority of people don’t work 3rd shift?

but like… instantly forgiving all student loans… or Forgiving all medical debt… or immediately begin building high-speed rail across the entire country spending like $10 trillion etc. to do so… like… that kind of shit - something that the most rural red state right wing fucker can’t ignore.

Hey this might help ya

https://youtu.be/OgVKvqTItto?si=u_cubR7B2h7r25Co

we need to reel in the international shipping industry, the fashion industry, and also the global war machine

Believe you mean “modernize” and not “reel in,” because ending international shipping would be catastrophic worldwide.

“This actual data isn’t data. My personal anecdotes are data”

Idk why anyone would downvote this. This is literally what happened.

If it just like, makes you mad, cool - this dude’s mad too. You agree with each other.

so it does have to grow every year to have value for investors

This gets said a lot but it is not true for a couple reasons.

1: With an IPO you’re not as dependent upon individual investors, and as your value grows - which often has nothing to do with your company’s performance, you obtain additional funding.

2: private or large-scale investors will literally have you sign contracts stating X% return on investment is what you owe them - once you surpass your return on investment, unless you seek additional funding, significant growth pressure is gone. Most companies immediately seek additional funding, which is how this gets interpreted as “requires perpetual growth.”

If this includes % of revenue, then yeah, your investor will want you to make wise choices, but they own that percentage in perpetuity, so there is generally not the pressure related to seeking new investment - they’re already priced in and getting their returns.

You can literally find examples of these contracts online by searching for “investor agreement sample.”

People usually only care about your growth as a function of how it correlates to a rise in your value. Most stock growth is entirely based on feels - it’s closer to social media than it is to any sort of accounting.

It’s wild you are so desperate to defend these out of control capitalists wanting to do literal human experimentation.

This is not a remotely accurate reading of either my comments or this article

Agreed. That’s my point.

People really are afraid of things, or not afraid of things, all across a spectrum, and people rarely agree on everything that is serious.

Policy shouldn’t be shaped by fear.

Like data privacy concerns?

See the problem there? We disagree on what to be afraid of.

I think a lot of us immediately think of the science fiction book and movie, “Minority Report” wherein law enforcement has access to the private thoughts of citizens and arrests and convicts those who have contemplated crime but have not yet perpetrated the crime.

This is a matter of public policy, not tech. As are your privacy concerns.