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Should be a wild four years.

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Allegedly, Texans have a hard time with South Asian scammers calling from Texas numbers.
I have a hard time not fedposting when the subject of scam and robocallers come up. I get 4 to 5 calls a day from these pukes spoofing local numbers and it needs to stop.
 
This is the same ridiculous thinking that leads Americans to binge drinking because they become legal and never learned how to control their intake.
I agree. You probably wanted to quote this part:
We need to expect more from our children, instead of locking away everything that could be potentially harmful to them and only unlocking it once they have reached the arbitrary age of xy years, like they will magically learn how to deal with those things due to crossing a certain age threshold.
My point is that this shouldn't be the responsibility of the government, but of parents. Kids watch scary movies, play violent video games or consume drugs and alcohol that they are not old enough for.

Back in the day, you learned good behavior by looking at what the other adults are doing. You were a silent observer. My parents were very good at teaching me the necessary skills to navigate the Internet, and I was exposed to porn very late in my childhood (relatively speaking) despite having internet access.

I am making the argument that the Internet should be 18+, and if youre an obvious child you should be banned from everything - if they are found out. Kids should not feel comfortable using voice chats. Kids should not feel comfortable giving their actual birth year on a website. That is the way to teach children proper digital hygiene... by letting them be silent observers.

And it should be the parents who decide if their child is ready for certain steps in their growth or not. If you decide that you can drink a beer with your 16 year old son, you should be able to. If you feel comfortable with removing the child protection locks on your 14 year old's devices, that is your decision. You're preparing him for the world, after all.

If pornography is bad for adults is another question, but it shouldn't be restricted for the sake of children, because they shouldn't even be a factor in that discussion. Making the internet a "child friendly space" is a mistake - and unnecessary.
 
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I think about this a lot, but not in just a "leftist comedy" way but for all of modern comedy as a whole. It's harder than ever to write any funny comedy these days not because of censorship or anything, instead it's because reality around us is so insane that any fake humor people write up pales in comparison to the real deal. Reality being filmed 24/7 means people have more access to this insanity than ever.
This is not a new issue:
While Malcolm Muggeridge was the editor of Punch, it was announced that Khrushchev and Bulganin were coming to England. Muggeridge hit upon the idea of a mock itinerary, a lineup of the most ludicrous places the two paunchy pear-shaped little Soviet leaders could possibly be paraded through during the solemn process of a state visit. Shortly before press time, half the feature had to be scrapped. It coincided exactly with the official itinerary, just released, prompting Muggeridge to observe: We live in an age in which it is no longer possible to be funny. There is nothing you can imagine, no matter how ludicrous, that will not promptly be enacted before your very eyes, probably by someone well known.

Tom Wolfe, “Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast: A literary manifesto for the new social novel”, Harpers, 1989-11.

We no longer really have need for any satirical magazines or the likes because you would probably laugh more just reading normal news, although Babylon Bee is pretty funny most of the times you could easily mistake those fake headlines for a real one.
There's a running gag on twitter about how the Bee is genuinely prophetic, as its satirical headlines will often become reality within 6 months.
 
This is the same ridiculous thinking that leads Americans to binge drinking because they become legal and never learned how to control their intake. You seriously can’t limit a teenager from exposure to the Internet and then suddenly expect him to maintain a level of self-control at age 18. Childhood is a time where you are allowed to make mistakes. Once you are an adult and you do something stupid on the Internet, your life is over.

Children should absolutely be exposed to the Internet at a young age and should be able to log on at the age of 13 or so on their own. They should already be well-versed in digital hygiene and maintaining opsec by the time they turn 18.
Based on my own experience I'd agree but really just no. Just cause we turned out fine, doesn't mean most people will. Specially nowadays where The Internet we grew up with is dead. Getting doxxed isn't an issue like it used to be, nobody cares anymore. The real issue nowadays is getting groomed on roblox and discord, or getting mindraped by shorts on chinese spyware, into wanting to castrate yourself. The internet isn't an all white safespace like it used to be, anymore.
 
I have a hard time not fedposting when the subject of scam and robocallers come up. I get 4 to 5 calls a day from these pukes spoofing local numbers and it needs to stop.
Remember, they could flip a single switch and permanently end caller ID spoofing, but they won't becuase they get kickbacks.

I'm sorry WHAT?
Digital phrenology. Google and Apple can detect all kinds of shit about you based on your usage patterns, including how you swipe on the phone, what apps you use, type in, what you say in front of the phone (try discussing some sort of product that is commonly sold, like household appliances. Don't search for them, just talk about them around your phone. You'll start getting ads for them), et cetera.

Twitter calls it "Inferred Identity"

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And yes, it's illegal as HELL to treat people differently because of protected status -- civil rights law -- and it's REALLY FUCKING ILLEGAL to illegally spy on them to find out those protected status elements AND then treat them differently.

This was part of a tactic by Tyrant's Muse called the Butterfly War.

tl;dr: Poisonous butterflies look a certain way. Non-poisonous butterflies eventually evolve to look the same way by simple natural selection. Predators learn to avoid both because poisonous butterflies taste like shit.

If you can trick Google into auto-shadowbanning conservative + gay, they will flinch and try not to do that, becuase they CANNOT target Anything + Gay or it's a paddlin'. So if you connect conservative + multiple other things by faking digital phrenology, eventually Google will stop targeting Conservatives, becuase they can't risk targeting + Gay or + Black or + Trans or what have you. If you evolve to look the same as a poisonous butterfly, the predators will leave you alone too.
 
The irony is lost on them, they're so gay and retarded the interns at the TDS scam PAC never learned anything in school but sucking pride flag dick:

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=mBvWTf3B5h4
You guys remember when we fought World War 2 the Germans started and ended the war with may more advanced tech and fancy military toys but at kinda low volume and America beat them by just Mcdonaldsing their ass and bringing 11 Shermans to fight every 1 tiger, basically we destroyed them with production and logistics

some know me one here, im a retard but I know a little history, I ask all willing to engage with this point seriously, if china started, tommorow making these with bombs on them and tells us

"we are going to start sinking ever single navy vessel under a US flag we find within our territorial waters, This includes the Island of Taiwan, any use of nuclear weapons from any nation will result in a total use of all Chinese Nuclear weapons onto American citys, however we will not use a 1st strike nuclear policy"

Short of us using nuclear weapons how do we credibly go up against a never ending supply of cheap drones? Only strategic bombers could reach as far as China from US soil and we have less than 200 of those, they would be gone in a month of continuous strikes. Hell we allow the use of modern strike aircraft and it only buys us another 1,500 or so.

I think we might have been outmaneuvered on this one and its kinda just a matter of time but Im open to be shown another perspective, if you wanna ad hominem me thats fine just please have a concrete reason why my logic is wrong aswell please
You are forgetting that the US Navy has marked every submarine and ship in the sea and most have a magnetic explosive (drone) on them at all times unless they are returning to a home port. It has been this way since the early 90s.

If the day comes, someone at the Pentagon will just press that button.
 
I have a hard time not fedposting when the subject of scam and robocallers come up. I get 4 to 5 calls a day from these pukes spoofing local numbers and it needs to stop.
Pick up, but don't say anything, just listen. If it's a human being who actually has something to say to you, they'll say "Hello? Hello?" when they hear the line connect, even if it's a business that uses an auto-dialer, like a doctor's office or your insurance company. If it's a spam robocall, the machine will hang up after a few seconds of silence. Eventually your number will be removed from their list as an unsuccessful contact. Block all the robots that hang up if you don't say "Hello" first. I did this for a couple months and now I rarely get robocalls, because I'm on the "unsuccessful contact" list. I also haven't missed any important calls doing this.
 
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