Honestly I think everything should move to 20.

Alcohol purchase, consumption. Military conscription, draft, voluntary service Age of majority, marriageable age Voting with automatic voting registration Drug consumption including nicotine, caffeine, and cabinets Driving ( permits at a prior age with supervision )

We know people's brains aren't really formed enough even at 18 to consider people adults, this younger age is a hold over from even younger ages and doesn't reflect reality.

People who are not fully developed shouldn't be able to make decisions with the full weight of adulthood, to take any other position is barbaric.

Memes taken down and replies deleted in conversations because they contain copyrighted text and images. Lyrics censored in online conversation. All video containing any image with a logo protected by trademark, or characters protected by international copyright, even when on T shirts and signs being taken down.

I agree, but I think all intellectual property laws should be repealed. I came to the conclusion that patent, copyright, and trademark are all varying levels of bad years ago and I think it clearly holds the human race and human progress back by limiting creative iteration.

Again, you can't have multiple competing ideologies be correct concurrently because some are going to conflict, but if at least one matches reality then your concept ( again from a logic standpoint ) is bad.

Isn't it just as likely that one religion across c all of human history was right than absolutely none from like a 'logic' standpoint?

I'm not a religious person, but the conclusion that all are wrong because all can't be right is just bad logic and doesn't follow from the premise.

What a pompous position to take. I sure hope you don't make important decisions anywhere.

I'm peddling something that may very well be true, and things like this happen all across the world, all the time. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I'm kinda trying to say that you appear naive in my eyes.

For governments, and organizations ends are often considered justified by means and that's not even a crazy position to take.

Conspiracies literally happen, and honestly a lot of change in the world, or research, or political coups would be fundamentally impossible without them. You, like me, don't have all the information needed to even know quite frankly.

That's how the world actually works.

Not to feed conspiracy theories, but it's very likely October 7th was known about and it was decided that letting it happen was more politically convenient to justify the 'war' happening now.

Israel has terrifying Intelligence that is world class, you might be underestimating it to be completely honest. By most accounts, it's the most efficient and powerful intelligence and counterintelligence agency in the entire known world.

That's on you if you want to dismiss my insights on the basis of the language I use to express ideas. Pretty surface level evaluation tbh, bruh.

Bro you have hundreds of tons of cold stone on the moon. I didn't say space.

Yes but also no, might be significantly easier to cool for instance and no environmental concerns.

I got downvoted by people without critical thinking skills. A plant on the moon isn't in space, it's on the moon, a large cold rock, I don't understand why no one charitably understood you can dissipate heat into the actual moon which is not warm and quite cold.

Nintendo doesn't have a legal right to go after NES clones in the States because the patent on the NES expired and anyone is legally allowed to make perfect duplicates of NES hardware.

The only legal ground Nintendo has is software copyright for games they published and / or licensed ( probably just published )

This shows so much privilege. Apartments, townhomes, condominiums. Sometimes you're scrolling through pages of Wi-Fi networks from your neighbors looking for your own SSID right next to the device.

Yeah, you can't do shit about open Wi-Fi networks near you and promiscuous devices.

Broken arms

At Midnight! OMG super in joke on our really niche, non pop culture website.

In English the 'base' of the word is 'operate'. Co, an affix ( prefix ) modifies operate and means something like 'operate together', and can even be written as co-operative ( noun ) or co-operate ( verb, but antiquated in my opinion ) .

So it's usually written without the dash, but when it's shorted to 'coop' I think it's best to use the dash as it removes ambiguity.

Depends on the size of the flock in the coop

I've really been wanting to try food made with aloe. What is it like? I see it for sale at grocery stores but have never bought.

I've had numerous ideological and political deltas in my life, so I know it's possible.

The 'and they have a plan' is Battlestar Galactica

Big Salmonella

Cool but what your want is more people believing your ideology, so it's strategically best to convert and understand. Ignore and block is a losing strategy.

Eventually decentralized services with anonymity will be killed by the EU, they already want to stop all text encryption, the way anyone can stand up a server and run it however it's already in conflict with the GDPR.

Microsoft saw Google and Apple do this with phones, and Steam do this with games, and that's why they made the Windows store a thing starting with 8.

They wanted to go the same direction.

Yes, that's the implication, and it's certainly intentional for you to think of it like that.

It is planned obsolescence

Unironically yes, you would not know who Spiderman was without viewing a copyrighted work demonstrating what he looks like, and now you understand while generative AI fundamentally has to ingest copyrighted works.

Not true in the US, but commonly stated by Americans like it's fact.

European Union regulation will probably threaten the very principles that the Fediverse functions on, potentially making Lemmy illegal anywhere in the EU because it's not auditable enough, or doesn't meet data retention or some kind of consumer privacy law.

The EU is a threat to the Fediverse unfortunately.

We don't have a century, we barely have decades, your scale is off, and honestly I don't want to be right, it would be amazing to be wrong about this, but I feel like I know with absolute certainty that we've really just got a few decades max before the planet is unrecognizable in significant ways you are probably thinking won't happen until centuries.

It'll be too hot for roads, solar panels, and conventional air flight much sooner than people realize. The first springs that trees fail to reproduce will honestly probably not be noticed, it won't happen everywhere, all at once, but eventually the lifecycle of much of the plant life will be so misaligned that you'll see the failures of entire areas of plant life, but by that point too, you'll probably be more aware of how silent it is outside except for cars.

We're already at the point that localized heatwaves are killing a huge, like unimaginably huge amount of land animals, and ocean acidification is preventing shelled creatures from forming or maintaining shells, all while coral reefs bleach, and fish die off due to changes in oxygenation.

I wish this sobering reality wasn't happening right now, but it is.

I am absolutely insinuating that yes, when it comes to the biosphere and climate change the situation is irreversible and catastrophic and the level of certainty I have is unshakeable.

You are utterly powerless to stop this, even at your most self actualized, mobile, and focused you are fundamentally incapable of changing what needs to be changed.

There really isn't hope, people who think there is unfortunately don't understand how the universe works. Your attitude towards the end is irrelevant ( unfortunately ) and we are surely on our way towards extinction.

Honestly everything you're saying is effectively the most realistic understanding. I promise things are worse than most realize, and even worse, we're past the tipping point and have been for a long time too.

Being positive is utterly meaningless, and even worse it's harmful - don't prioritize your mental health over the reality because the prevents the selective pressure for change.

You must understand this is really that critical. We're already in for a far worse future than most understand, the question now is, well, do we do anything about it, and we won't until pretty much everyone understands how serious this is, and freaks out the requisite amount for change.

From Western media in English. You're in a cultural and linguistic bubble online where people who think like you ( or within an expected range of dissenting opinions ) post and respond.

The ideas and values you see and even have fall into a range that believe it or not is different in other communities, often segregated by language.

It's hard to explain if you're a monolinguist, but the language you speak includes ideas and cultural nuance for idea that doesn't often cross the language and cultural boundaries.

But talking out loud with words isn't action? I broadly agree with you, but by that logic it deconstructs the statement entirely.

If typing words is action, then so it's speaking, so the rules are made up and the points don't matter.

Except actions and words both matter so I think the saying is garbo.

https://fair.org/home/propaganda-against-north-korea-and-the-travel-ban-go-hand-in-hand/

I'm upset that they've made this decision to be honest. It means the physical release is incomplete and this is bad for have preservation, so I have the opposite feelings.

Honestly if you're living in a Western country, you are a victim of major anti North Korean propaganda that goes all the way back to the Korean War.

Like, North Korea is nowhere near as bad as people think, and it's people are fairly happy, yes the government censors and controls media, but it also creates a unified and strong society with far less division than all these Western countries tearing themselves down the middle about which party is less evil.

Came for the double entendre, stayed for the wood.

There is essentially no way to enforce, or even monitor this, like it's fundamentally impossible without controlling everything from stl creation, to weapon construction.