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Thats always the problem with building hardware open source products. You spend millions developing the OS to work with your stuff and you get like six months before someone else is competing with you, except they didn’t have to spend that investment. The only reason we got the steamdeck was because the guys that made it ALSO owned the means of putting games on it, so they didn’t really need to make money on the product itself (kinda like with Google and the play store).

It SHOULD spell bad news for the people that use this verification method because it just means they lose those customers.

Only when you ignore what was literally the first premise and conclusion.

The biggest weakness of fascism is always that it tends to attract a lot more idiots who want to steal money than true believers in the actual philosophy.

Maybe they can bundle them up into investment vehicles and sell them to normal people, they can name them Regular Everyday Investment Trusts or something. Totally no way for that to fall apart.

I guess its a good thing that the point if this is just to tie a real human to their online presence and protecting kids never actually mattered.

You know, for a given value of “good” being “actually very very bad”.

As an early adopter of the whole whole “just plug a computer into the TV thing” going back to the early 2000s, I will say that its kinda shocking that no one has developed a really solid 10-foot interface that doesn’t need a shit-ton of tweaks to work right.

I understand that people want to just be able to plug shit in and go. I have an HTPC hooked up at my house, but for family members that aren’t interested in tweaking shit and troubleshooting, they get a firestick with stremio on it.

I love it when assholes torment each other and I get to just watch and hope they both somehow manage to lose.

As a life long media pirate, i still pay for PBS passport because its just so much content for such a reasonable price and the money supports a good cause instead of making some rich asshole richer.

They shouldn’t have made the announcement until they were ready to commit.

They should print this in bronze and mount it in their boardroom because the present day reputation of Microsoft is that releasing half baked shit that they need to abandon or rebrand later is all that they do.

Exactly. Same reason the UAE pulled out of OPEC.

The resource and ideological wars are already under way and countries with the means to do so are taking their positions to take the best advantage they can.

Ok. How about this. Since its really hard to prove a negative, how about we lower the bar for you to make this REALLY easy. Post 5 cases of a person whose ONLY offense was public urination that resulted in them being put on the sex offender registry. That is it. I don’t need you to prove that there are THOUSANDS. Just give me FIVE. that should be easy since there ARE thousands of registered sex offenders out there and if this happens THOUSANDS of times then it should be real easy to tease out a couple real world examples. Go for it.

That is it. Show me just FIVE cases out of the literally millions of people that have been put on the sex offender registry and I will concede that it could indeed be THOUSANDS.

If you cannot find even FIVE people this has actually happened to, then you have to concede that it is a made up bullshit argument.

How about that?

You claim there are THOUSANDS of not-really-sex offenders that are registered sex offenders. Why you are so interested in propagating that myth, I can only guess, but you have not actually provided a single source that actually says that.

Strange, I thought we were talking about registered sex offenders. Did you forget or just realize that you pulled that number directly from your ass?

If you want to make rules for this discussion, how about we start with you agreeing to stop making shit up?

If you think it is going to do that, I have a bridge to sell you.

You realize that this is exactly the ruling that META needed to force “age verification” on Europeans, right?

And your “1% of people on the sex offender register are not actually guilty” number comes from…?

And you believe that this supports your statement that there are

“l thousands of people who are sex offenders for merely urinating in public”

?

No there aren’t.

I am always fascinated by people who put a lot of energy into pretending that sex crimes aren’t a big deal and that a lot of registered sex offenders really didn’t do anything.

It is objectively untrue, and any amount of research will demonstrate that.

So what is the deal? Why are doing it?