Are you alright in the head? Read ok? Comprehend the words? Then no, obviously it's not a meme, just an opinion, and you're a troll. Blocked.
LainTrain
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That's cool. Can't wait for that vegan carfent recipe 💅
I think while practice is important and more leftists should do more realistic plausible grounded things, especially when it comes to organising IRL, especially in formal unions and political parties (I'm an electoralist and believe that if populism works for the right, we must try to make it work for us), we would have no philosophy and no left at all without the kind of "fringe analysis" that OP posted. Sincere anarchist zines and niche breadtube are leftist culture and fairly successful culture too - just look at how many YouTube videos out there are "video essays" now.
Pretty cool honestly. Title reminded me of Gender Nihilism by Alyson Escalante(I believe?).
Why? Do you think they should be ranked worse because the company is bad? Unlocking the bootloader on every Google Pixel I ever had (1XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4a, 5a) is completely trivial. It's literally just a toggle in the dev settings, zero issues whatsoever.
There's even an online flash tool for the pixels if you find all the standard adb tooling a bit too complicated or not to your liking. I'd actually put them in "safe for now" tbqh, but Fairphone stays in "caution" for using the online doohickey the other user mentioned.
Nothing says "trust me with your money and your children" like a permanent 'smelled a fart' grimace and an equally permanent entry into the sex offender registry.
He looks relatively young too, I would've guessed he's more in the cryptobro workplace harassment wing of the party.
Even though this isn't a UK rule or UK laws, but one of an international organization, it's certainly an optics opportunity for them to make their own fund to help those who need to pay for it.
Especially since it can be argued that the alarmism around trans athletes was started by terfs.
But if they won't, that's an optics opportunity for progressives, like this Pink News headline here.
Headlines like "No plans to help female athletes pay for testing" - says [insert terf org here like sex matters or for women scotland or whatever] would work pretty well too.
Especially if then some relatively rich trans person or ally then went ahead and made their own independent charity fund to help struggling athletes pay for these tests, assuming there is actually demand there (I have no idea how much they make at that level), all while having some blerbs on their website out of the way on their website about advocacy for removing barriers to participation, education about intersex disorders that cause false positives or even true positives to unknowingly intersex cis women and how they are working on streamlining this yada yada and how few trans athletes there are total or how some studies show that over time performance equalises and how they already test for T levels etc etc.
Even then, I wouldn't be surprised that most cis fem athletes don't see it that way, and I'm not sure where I stand on it either.
Personally I could give a fuck about sports regardless, but while millions of trans folks are stuck suffering from dysphoria without proper care, anything that damages the terf establishment is a good thing.
Ehm, this is an international organization's regulations. Not the UK at fault here.
The UK is just advising their own athletes of the international org's policy - and telling them to pay out of pocket rather to "avoid delays", even though financing is available to those who need it on a "case by case" basis.
Dafuck? Are you saying this won't be the case? I mean, it's not exactly what OP asked but I think a real life functional example of OS-level age checks that already exists is a valuable contribution to the conversation. Do you disagree?
Red fash mask-off.
Yes. For example, on iOS It'll work like this once this is no longer "in error" https://www.theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verification-uk-users-ios-26-4-beta
I don't know about the new law in California, but here in the UK the age verification push is happening is because our young people are overwhelmingly left-wing and progressive, and get their news online and not from our captured legacy media, and the right-wing establishment doesn't like that, so they're trying to block young people from internet access.
Edit: wtf is with the downvotes? Do y'all support this shit? Here are some sources to back up what I said:
https://yougov.com/en-gb/trackers/voting-intention -
In the UK: 49% of 18-24 year olds are voting for the Green party, highest of any party by far. 27% of 25-49 year olds are voting for the Greens, with only 19% for Reform (the far-right party).
This trend reverses once you look at the age groups over 50, with 50-65 year olds favouring reform at 29% at Green's 16%, and over 65s favouring reform at 33% to Green's 6%.
Furthermore, the other demographics factors like gender and even region(!) don't demonstrate such a clear correlation, and this is further confirmed by another recent poll done where the surveyed were asked to pick between a left-wing coalition and a right-wing one:
Our elderly consume vastly more print and specifically television news than our young people - https://www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/resources/documents/research-and-data/online-research/adult-and-teen-news-consumption-survey/news-consumption-in-the-uk-2025-research-findings.pdf?v=400636
See specifically figure 4 from page 9:
This is very inconvenient for a primarily right-wing establishment.
Obviously I don't think this is the only reason that age verification is being implemented, especially as it's seemingly being done all around the globe all at once, and often companies with known links to Peter Thiel and Palantir and the defense sector are involved, such as with e.g. discord and Thiel did allegedly say he explicitly wants to make a surveillance state. Obviously countries like the UK have been speed running that goal for a while so, make of that what you will.
There's also seemingly bi-partisan support for this issue from establishment parties, arising from tech ignorance of the boomer class and more genuine, and well-meaning concerns about the spread of misinformation from social liberals and progressives, especially where their country's young people are turning to far-right misinformation.
I think the combination of these two factors is likely what is pushing the specific law OP is referring to in California, though this is just speculation as I'm not familiar with it's state legislature and their political makeup.
The recent push for these sorts of laws in Europe also could be explained by the fact that those countries can use regulation as leverage in trade negotiations with an increasingly beligirent united states because they know that Trump's regime is beholden to the tech oligarchy that amassed around him - the same oligarchy who would stand to lose money if these regulations were implemented because they own the platforms primarily targeted by this.
This last reason is further compounded by the fact that Elon Musk has genuinely been artificially promoting far-right content, including his own, on his platform, and he has been since he acquired it. Considering how many people use twitter, its a genuine risk to the political autonomy and democratic integrity of countries like France, which is also investigating twitter for the algorithm manipulation.
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