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@BovrilG Your error is assuming that the people making the legislation to ban think it has anything to do with it's stated purpose as opposed to keeping the furniture warm. This is the country which legislated to move desserts 2 feet to the left to combat child obesity, after all.

I’d honestly be prepared to contemplate a ban on social media for under sixteens (if it could be done without compromising anonymity) as part of a grand bargain aimed at restoring the social conditions of the 90s (including vastly greater personal freedom for teens). Britain is currently a country contemplating a ban on non alcoholic beers for under 18s in case they lead to a Rake’s Progress-like descent into alcoholic beers. This is not the sort of place where freedoms of any sort will be restorable for quite some time.

@RebecTV Moffat's problems (writing of women aside) were largely treating The Doctor as the lynchpin of the universe but being unable to make a satisfying conclusion to those kinds of stories. But at least he never wrote a series where half the episodes were solved by clips of Tom Baker

Yeah, I think everyone knows I don't like the Moffat era as much as a lot of people but looking back he didn't do anything remotely as baffling as recent years

@RebecTV It's way more cynical. It's because the marketing and focus groups people raised a concern about people sticking around for Ncuti if he got a traditional 2 minute scene only so they had to contrive a way to give him a 15 minute scene.

Ok I think I've put my finger on one of my biggest pet peeves. When writers feel the need to drastically change canon for no good reason. 2005 Who had the Time War and Time Lords gone but that was a fresh start, a new page. The crazy changes in recent years feel more desperate

@darkwillowz My pet theory is they were originally written and shot to be 60 minutes, then they found out it was 45 and had to cut them down. It's why the pacing and structure is never quite right and you end up with a collection of tiktok-brained snap scenes rather than a proper story.

No fr cause the quality in the writing for the 60th specials is vastly better than the seasons...it's night and day. Like what happened?? We had such high hopes after the specials...

@minimoefoe @Markstirton Well no, because the justification wasn't "let's see young Davros, canon be damned", it was "Davros is evil so can't be a wheelchair user". Nabil Shaban spent a lot of his life campaigning against such fluffy tokenism for disabled people.

@Markstirton thats actually one of the few changes he made that made an amount of sense

crazy rtd things of the last few years an off the top of my head thread of things that i've found baffling

@drborgle The whole set for that room is just a bit too small and very, very Power Rangers coded.

Unrelated i still cannot believe this moment was real writing and played entirely in earnest like 😭😭 this is for 2 year olds

Something is clearly out of balance when someone earning £10k and someone earning £140k take home the same net amount. No wonder so many hard-working people and entrepreneurs are leaving the UK. Would you want to live in a country that punishes hard work and jobs creation?

@dylanmtaylor92 @dchackethal @0xglitchbyte I want to be clear that I completely understand this reasoning and my next comment is not coming from a place of misunderstanding. It's fucking stupid to "soft comply" with the law because you think it'll stop there. You're building the infra for far worse things for them.

@dchackethal @0xglitchbyte If you can't see that shipping software that is non-compliant with the laws of multiple US states would be an _existential threat_ to these free and open source project and their ability to receive commercial contributions, I don't know what to tell you.

Damn, theyre trying to do it to arch too What happened to privacy and freedom?

@AnsonyManji @hackerfantastic It's unenforceable until that date field is replaced by a token which is actually derived from an id; or worse regulators figure you have to actually have to keep unique face scans on your machine. This is just the start, not the end.

@hackerfantastic but if the child installs the Linux distro, they are root root adds users root specifies the date of birth of any user even if they do not use a fork of systemd or no systemd it is unenforceable on GNU/Linux, it's a joke. only a "sign in with microsoft account" cancer works

Imagine a world where you must prove your age to compile code... It's coming with systemd.

@mc_eochaidh @BBCNews Doesn't matter. There have already been cases where a site blocks all UK traffic, so OfCom use a VPN to access the site and then fine them for existing.

@BBCNews Can the UK block this private US company from operating in its territory?

US messageboard 4Chan mocks £520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches bbc.in/4lyLyNK

@BigBrotherWatch It's a coin toss in the second order effects. Whether it will inspire a new wave of innovation to create an internet which is free of government meddling, or whether every country will erect their own Great Firewall.

👎Australia's social media ban has failed 70% of children are still on social media sites and many others are being pushed into less regulated corners of the internet The UK must learn from Australia's failings and drop plans to enforce a social media ban for under-16s It will come at the cost to all of our rights, freedom and internet access.

@sammyjoluxton1 @JacksonG36452 No government program will ever stop at the first and single exception. A program requires employees to run and those employees want to make sure they remain employed, so will rally to make sure the work on the program is never done.

@JacksonG36452 I don’t support how broad Canada’s system is. I’m talking about terminal illness as the only exception

My grandad had bowel + prostate cancer - he was so unwell, in agonising pain every day, being fed medication to knock him out 24/7. He begged us to kill him, every day said he couldn’t wait to die. I know he would have loved to have the option to go peacefully on his terms 😅

@stupidtechtakes @BigBrotherWatch Around the top of the page which someone thought to title "Public Consultation on Digital ID".

@BigBrotherWatch Where in the question does it mention "Digital ID"? Prior to the age verification requirement, the minimum age in the UK was 13

🆔Government to public: Do you want digital ID checks to be used to enforce a social media ban for under-16s ☐ Yes ☐ Definitely yes ☐ Strongly yes ☐ Yes 100% The “consultation” doesn’t appear to have a box for disagreeing.

@AIandDesign @nvidia Well, no. That's a self defeating argument. You can't counter "it destroys unique style by forcing it into the AI model's style" with "what if developers gave up unique style on their own?"

I'm seeing a lot of backlash against @nvidia DLSS 5 from gamers. I _think_ I get why: because it changes the look of the game from what the creators of the game had intended to whatever the "enhancement" thinks is "better". However, and hear me out here: If the game developer builds stuff with DLSS 5 IN MIND, wouldn't that just turn it into an awesome enhancement? Something to think about.

@ctnzr It's garbage nobody wanted or asked for. Whatever technical prowess goes into making it work, however impressive it most likely is, cannot get around that. Next time, ask if you should, not if you could.

So proud of DLSS5: Fully generative neural rendering, in real-time, in real games. Mind-blowing realism. A whole new generation of real-time graphics. A decade of continuous research and development. Coming soon to PCs everywhere. 💚

@real_lord_miles They don't *officially* do child rape there.

Booked a cheap hotel and they’re proudly advertising that they don’t do child rape here

@Tales_TimeLord I have heard many complaints and criticism towards TTC. None of them have been that it's out of character for the Time Lords to be conniving. Concern is much more about how it affects The Doctor's character, their role in the universe, and whether it was just a cheap twist.

If you don't like the way the Doctors life was hidden from her by The Time Lords in The Timeless Children, I'm not sure you get Time Lords Basically EVERY scene with Time Lords suggests this behaviour is their kind of thing

@AMadmanNotABox Not sure if it was a secret or that he hadn't decided yet. Didn't he give some commentary or interview that it was a late decision between two possible characters?

Ncuti found out that Anita Dobson was the Rani around the time that they were doing The Well. Russell had kept it secret from him, Millie and Varada before then. #StarfuryFlux

@CarrotsMany @Q_Review For new Who (2005+) the canonical jumping on points are Rose (S01E01), and The Eleventh Hour (S05E01). Not that it's impossible to jump on more recently. For old Who (1963-1989) don't just binge by watching all episodes in order. Watch a few select stories per Doctor.

@Q_Review Since there's probably a bunch of Doctor Who fans in this comment section: What's a good season to start watching it? I've always been interested in that show, but since it has like 40 seasons with a quadrillion episodes it's quite hard to figure out where to start.

THEY FOUND LOST DOCTOR WHO EPISODES AND THEY'RE PART OF THE DALEKS MASTER PLAN WHAT?!?!?! If you're not a Doctor Who fan, that's like our version of the Dead Sea Scrolls. It's our Love's Labour's Won. It's our... I don't know, Cracks or something. This is huge.

@Frankin333037 @Sargon_of_Akkad You need to quantify your ethos, otherwise you arrive back at where the UK is now, legislating to move desserts 2 feet to the left "in the interest of health".

@mooproxy @Sargon_of_Akkad Because the state should operate in the interest of the health of it's people and the nation. Enabling vices is good for no one. Limitations do not remove all accountability.

I'm glad you agree, but what limit would you accept to the proliferation of porn, drugs, and gambling?