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  • And often just enough to let someone with a weak constitution drift off gently into that good night when they’re ready.

    It’s one of those unstated aspects of it. It’s not “assisted suicide,” but they’ll hook you up with a PCA pump of morphine alongside scheduled doses of potentially more powerful painkillers that will help you just gently drift off into that good night whenever you’re ready.

    Unless you’re in a “right to die” region and have jumped through all the hoops, they can’t administer a lethal injection of a substance simply intended to kill. But they can administer enough pain medication to kill a horse. They’ll give as much as needed to ensure comfort, which takes priority over organ failure and risk of death, since that is already a bygone conclusion.






  • Parents apparently cannot oversee the harm they are causing.

    Then that’s still the parents’ fault, IMO. If you can’t teach your child to use the internet safely and responsibly, or adequately monitor the services they use, then you don’t give them internet-enabled devices.

    Imagine if instead of the internet, we were talking about going out after dark. A few kids go out and do stupid things at night, but instead of blaming the parents who let them out unsupervised, we set a national curfew for everyone unless you obtain a nighttime permit from the government. Does that sound reasonable?


  • Agreed.

    It sounds like a better solution than sending photos of ID documents anywhere and everywhere, but at the same time it’s not really different, it’s just centralized. It removes other vectors of privacy breaches, but it doesn’t remove the possibility of a breach entirely.

    Just stop requiring age verification to protect an open and anonymous internet. If governments are worried about what kids are doing online, start charging their parents with neglect, because they’re supposed to be the responsible party for their kids’ behavior.






  • I used to pay less than the single plan for a family plan, split between 5 people. Back when ad-free YouTube was an afterthought and my primary reason for using it was Google Play Music’s unlimited music storage and streaming.

    The amount they just increased the cost of YouTube is about how much I’d be willing to pay total for no ads. Until then, they’re competing against zero ads (but no casting) for free.