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But you already don’t have somewhere you like

If you get banned for being under 18, you’ll end up starting from where you are right now. Trying other services, including +18 ones, can give you an idea of what features and things are important to you in a host. Not trying them only leaves you in the same spot without any benefit.

It can be hard to feel guilty about doing something you “aren’t supposed to,” but the feeling is not the same as actually doing something wrong. The feeling is there to help you slow down and think more deeply about the next steps you ought to take.

If I’m coming across as pushy, I apologize. I’m just excited about more people becoming privacy advocates (especially people who have grown up with invasive tech) and maybe a little mad about an age gate keeping you from doing something important to you.

I think I understand your hesitation better now. It feels like you’re calling attention to the fact that your stuff is by someone under 18, is that right? I get why that can feel like an unwise thing to do, but really, it’s super unlikely that anything bad will happen. I think the worst they could do is terminate your account for violating the terms of service, causing you to lose anything you posted. (Keep a backup of anything worth saving and you’re pretty well protected against that.) And it would take someone reporting your account to even get to that point in the first place. All’s I know is that if I were in your shoes, I’d just go ahead and make the account on the instance I wanted. Nobody’s checking IDs at the door, and people of every age and skill level post their anime-inspired art.

Is there something keeping you from making an account on a +18 instance? Not saying this to be obnoxious, it’s just been a while since an age gate has been a hurdle

You say this like drawing blood from wild beavers is a trivial task!

Whale sharks are the peak of fishitude, my friend

“It’s important to have a job that makes a difference, boys. That’s why I manually masturbate caged animals for artificial insemination.” – rando convenience store customer in Clerks, 1994

If someone has an invite to share, I’d love to get in and try it out!

Thank you so much for the invite, Cancer Mouse <3

Now we know where reddit took their profit strategy from

Shit, some of them charge the authors to publish.

Summarized a user’s tax return 😬

I feel like IT could yell at OP for a little bit, but would ultimately have to stare the fact that they allowed non-privileged users to just change the operating system square in the face. Like holy hell, 500 employees and anybody can just be like, “Hey, maybe I’ll make a major OS change today because why not?” What else are they letting happen?!

Someone actively spewing hate speech in addition to repeated attempts to troll the communities it posts to

Yeah! Libraries here in the US can be really great, too. There’s an interlibrary loan program that allows people to request materials from any other library, and the information they carry isn’t limited to books, reference information, and magazines–they do movies, music, and video games, too, and some of them around me have 3d printers available for people to use. I used to live in a rural state, and I still had access to a global network of libraries out there. It was wild!

Libraries are entirely about the free sharing of information, and supporting everybody’s ability to access it. 👍🏼👍🏼

Bringing me back to 1996 😆

I’m picturing someone struggling to hold on to their last vestiges of human consciousness while getting ready to blast blue-brown vomit everywhere. “Worth… it…,” he manages to rasp out, before collapsing to the ground to watch as his hands detach and skitter their way over to an instrument panel to begin their own Work.

It takes a little more effort on your part, but there’s an awful lot of good information to pull from this piece.

1. These are socialists speaking from their points of view. They want the people to have the power, and they’re pissed at all the other players who are trying to keep the people of Haiti from governing themselves.
2. There’s more than one other country trying to influence where the power to rule ends up. One country would basically be an invasion; what do we call it when more than one country, especially from opposing sides, tries to steer another country’s direction? We need to take a really hard look at how Haiti is being used as a proxy battleground between capitalist and communist nations.
3. The writer references the US’s Global Fragility Act of 2019, which can be found on Congress’s website. Look at this bit in the synopsis: “The State Department shall select priority countries and regions that are particularly at risk, and report to Congress 10-year plans for each. Each plan shall include information including descriptions of goals, plans for reaching such goals, and benchmarks for measuring progress.” Next, search for “Global Fragility Act” and “Haiti” to see if Haiti really is being targeted for US intervention. The State Department and Council on Foreign Relations say that, yes, the US is involving itself in Haitian politics, explicitly with the goal of being an investment (CFR) and “stabilized” according to standards laid out by the US (State Department).

Basically, we can insert Team America: World Police gifs as desired here. Ignoring the socialist bias entirely, we have to look at why Haiti is important to the US and Canada, how it’s being used as a proxy for the cold war between the East and West, and why we don’t think the Haitian people are capable of governing themselves. You’re welcome to ask your own questions about it, including why you want to dismiss the opinion as totally worthless right away.

You know what this tells me? It tells me that Dr. Avi Loeb would touch space goo and press any button placed in front of him. Hasn’t he read/watched The Expanse?! 😂

That’s so exciting! (No sarcasm, just middle age)