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  • Because it’s not about age verification. It never was. And anytime they claim anything is about safety for kids it’s because they’re trying to something extremely unpopular that even the bootlickers would have an issue with.

    If it was actually about age verification, they could use a system that uses certified identifiers like your drivers license, SSN, etc. to verify age, and requests that anonymize information from each party so you can’t link a specific identity to a specific website.

    This is about being able to tie your online identity to your real life identity with certainty. Having third party companies handle the verification means that in regions where direct government action is limited by law, they can just buy the correlation info from the verification company, bypassing many of the laws that limit similar direct action.





  • Not sure why anyone expects any different, it’s simply the nature of game development. Most of the game development staff isn’t needed after release to maintain the launched game.

    The type of staff needed at each stage of development varies quite a bit. Unless the studio is large enough that it has multiple projects going at all times at different points of development that it can move people between, there will be people that are no longer needed after major milestones. You don’t need a full story/quest writing team through release for example, even if you have post-release DLC planned, but you don’t see articles written about those layoffs halfway through development.



  • I was curious where the telematics came from, and how they could correlate that with specific accidents…

    The telematics data came from Cambridge Mobile Telematics, or CMT, which supplies DriveWell technology used by insurance companies, fleets and various safe-driving programs.

    DriveWell isn’t necessarily an app you’d recognize by that name. The technology can live inside an insurer’s branded app and automatically detect trips using the phone’s sensors and location data. Depending on the program, it can record speeding, hard braking, aggressive acceleration, phone interaction and likely crashes.

    If you’ve ever agreed to let your insurance company watch you drive in exchange for a discount, there’s a decent chance you’ve met this general species of electronic hall monitor.

    Bet that 2% discount isn’t looking like such a good deal anymore to some people.


  • It really depends on the facility. Some are better than others. They vary wildly and it’s hard for you as a consumer to know which ones are good and which are bad. Some large zoos have extensive conservation programs and focus around education, and some are just animals in jail for entertainment. From the outside it’s hard to tell the difference a lot of the time.

    It’s one of the reasons I support Alveus Sanctuary and their recent expansions and future plans. Their facilities and programs are based around video streaming and chat interaction, instead of in person exhibits. They have collaborative events with streamers, etc. in person to help further their reach to new people and educate viewers that otherwise may never interact at all with that type of content. Otherwise all of the animals have limited human interaction only with the employees. Those in person collaborations are always about educating the viewers about the animals and various societal links related to them. Things like pesticide use on bugs and how that propagates up the food chain, selective breeding and trade of exotic animals, amphibians and environmental pollution, etc.





  • Don’t know this specific situation, but there are animals in captivity because they’re unable to be released back into the wild for various reasons. Things like animals being actively rehabilitated. Or ones that are now animal ambassadors used to teach people about the species or parts of human society that negatively affect wildlife. Maybe because they are unable to fly anymore, or they imprinted on humans, are unable to forage or hunt properly, etc.


  • Various distro and general forums and GitHub/similar sites. I’ve come across several over the last few years. The types of places you go for actual help from people with knowledge and experience. Not just various social media sites.

    It’s a small amount in the grand scheme, but they’re vocal. All it takes is one raging asshole for a normie first trying out Linux and looking for a solution to an issue to be driven away entirely.




  • Changing the size of the court doesn’t require an amendment. Congress can do it whenever they want.

    The only reason it is currently 9 is because the last law changing the size was the Judiciary Act of 1869. The maximum size it has been was 10 shortly before that.

    Likewise the Constitution does not explicitly say that they have lifetime tenures. Article 3, Section 1 of the Constitution only says that justices “shall hold their offices during good behavior”. That had been generally accepted to mean a lifetime tenure, and only removed by impeachment, but it is not an explicit limit. One interpretation of that only refers to illegal activity immediately disqualifying them from holding that office, unrelated to any sort of term limit.





  • That’s pretty normal when you’re buying small amounts directly from the mint. You really only do that when you are looking to collect, and intend to hold them in mint condition until the value is increased from rarity years down the line.

    This isn’t particularly special other than the fact that the Mint is barred by law from making coins for living presidents. Well, until now of course because of Trump’s massively inflated ego, complete lack of self awareness, and ignoring laws.