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Had my suspicions but I have finally confirmed it this morning: The rival Pokémon Go team I have been beefing with, whose gym's total annihilation I have incorporated into my morning routine, is actually a group of local elementary school students

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do you guys know about scp 426 bc i swear it is my favorite thing on planet earth

like is that not so funny

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The power of friendship is equal to the torque of friendship multiplied by the angular velocity of friendship.

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I really think we should stop saying "kid-friendly" and start saying "ad-friendly". We shouldn't indulge these companies and their excuses anymore. I also think that continuing to pretend that this is about "protecting the children" pushes a lot of the blame onto kids and teens, who don't have the political power to push through any of this censorship legislature. Corporations and governments are to blame.

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Sorry if this is too kinky but can you hold my hand and tell me i mean a lot to you.

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dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

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Look me straight in the eyes and tell me your current music taste isn’t what your father played in the car when you were a kid.

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Ich kann nicht damit umgehen dass Kinder im ÖPNV neuerdings scheinbar weder Angst vor Fremden haben, noch irgendein gesundes Schamgefühl zu haben scheinen. Und ich will jetzt gar nicht mit irgendwelchen wilden Rückschlüssen auf Modern Times TM anfangen, ich bin einfach nur überfordert davon dass mich Neunjährige anschreien während ihre Eltern einen klassischen "not my circus, not my monkey" pullen. Entschuldigen Sie, das ist ihr monkey. Das ist definitiv ihr monkey and it won't stop yelling tiktok sounds at me.

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Habe heute im Wartezimmer beim Arzt festgestellt, dass ich nun endlich vollends im Erwachsenenalter angekommen bin:

Der Ehemann einer Patientin erzählte mir, als seine Frau kurz auf's Klo ging, im Eilverfahren seine Lebensgeschichte- er war Lehrer. Hier kommen wir nämlich zum wichtigen Teil, er brachte mir dann ein Jugendwort bei. Ich wiederhole: er wollte von mir nicht wissen was ein bestimmtes Jugendwort bedeutet, er wollte sich mit mir zusammen einfach nur über ein's aufregen. Es ist so weit, Altersvorsorge here we come

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the only reliable, effective way of "protecting children" is education. but people don't want to hear that because they don't actually care about protecting children, they care about protecting a mythologised ideal of innocence

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This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.

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For those who don't know, YouTube will be adding AI age verification for US-based users starting August 13th. This will attempt to use "the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account," to determine their age, regardless of what birthdate they have entered. If an adult is incorrectly determined to be a child, they will need to give YouTube a government-issued ID or a credit card to verify their age. As with many such things, YouTube claims it is for the children's safety. Obviously, I am all for protecting children, and I don't want them to be exposed to things they shouldn't see, but this is most likely more about data collection. Even if it was about children's safety, this was the logic used for creating YouTube Kids, and we can all see how "safe" that is.

If you don't want to directly send your driver's license to Google, you'll need to deal with "age appropriate product experiences and protections," such as "digital wellbeing tools" and disabling personalized ads. The second part is because in the US, it is illegal to collect certain information about people under the age of 13. Now, the people at Google (which owns YouTube) love collecting information about their users, but they don't want to get in trouble, and they believe AI moderation is the answer. Not only can the AI work around the clock, but if anything goes wrong, they can say it was the machine that made the mistake, not them. And, as with any moderation, there will be mistakes (again, look at YouTube Kids).

Because of this, creators and viewers alike are planning to stop using the site starting on August 13th. I personally doubt YouTube will care much, at least at first, but if they lose enough ad revenue, they might reconsider their decision. YouTube says they'll be rolling this out to a small test group first, so it might not affect you right away, but if nothing is done, it will soon. If you're an American who uses YouTube regularly, I encourage you to join, whether just for a day, or as long as it takes. And if you have kids, please teach them internet safety and monitor their internet access so that companies can't make this garbage excuse anymore.

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tgis is so fucking funny to me. they accidentally Rock Lee'd a retired racehorse

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