LwL

Woke absolutely is a thing, tons of people self describe as woke, it just doesn't mean what the right thinks it does. Or more accurately, it's a word with different meanings. They're either using it as an actual self description or specifically to annoy the rightoids. Or both.

I disagree that this will help at all. Certainly not to a degree that justifies restricting other people's freedom. Grooming happens in small circles and doesn't become substantially harder if teenagers can't access nsfw channels. Predators don't seek out adult-dominated spaces. Kids might be exposed to slightly less porn or something but they will still go to pornhub, and now an access channel where there are at least likely normal adults around that could give context id needed is restricted. Worst case they'll be driven to fringe spaces filled with predators.

And also, people don't just use nsfw channels for porn or questionable memes. People mark servers as 18+ for a variety of reasons, some have political discussion channels marked as nsfw to make them easier to avoid, etc.

I use discord to chat and play with friends, many servers have an nsfw channel to share things that you probably don't want to suddenly be on your phone screen in public. It will also filter images in dms.

It's not the end of the world, but it's ineffective at tackling the actual problem, if anything adds appeal by making content "forbidden". I'm certainly cancelling my cheap nitro I've had for a while because I'm not giving any company arbitrarily implementing identity verification any of my money.

I'll also probably look into setting up my own matrix server later...

If they want to be spammed with gdpr takedown requests sure...

If there is an image scan then yea it'll be a problem, otherwise rhe server being 18+ is just a setting you have no reason to turn on, and as long as you don't write nsfw in the channel name, discord won't know something's an nsfw channel either.

In any case still really unlucky this happened right after you switched lol

Tbh for that use case this changes nothing, it's a horrible change for all the usual reasons but it's only implementing the stuff that was already the case in the UK for everyone. So age verification is needed for servers that set themselves as 18+ and for nsfw channels (and there might be some ai image scanning bs to determine if sent images are nsfw?), but for just talking to people you can supposedly still use it without age verification.

Still, it'll probably get worse eventually.

This is what unranked modes are for, generally, and when there is no equivalent unranked mode that's definitely a failure of the game. Csgo had that issue for a looooooooong time as well.

There are also other legitimate reasons. The drunk account can be one (since even unranked modes often use skill based matchmaking), or the actual practice one (I feel for my alternate universe teammates in which I didn't use a smurf to learn how to play more than one char in league).

Bu5 I do feel like the negative impact from people using smurfs for ego boost or to be an asshole in some way far outweighs the upsides, sadly.

Funnily enough palm oil is, in isolation, one of the more environmentally friendly oils (based on land and water use). This is probably in direct relation with it being cheap. Switching to other oils is still better because the deforestation of rain forest being so much worse overall, but the real solution as is so often the case has to be lower plant oil use in general.

Being misinformed by it is, as I said, a user issue. But the amount of times that googling for half an hour did not get me an inch closer to the solution and then I asked chatgpt and it just lists me a bunch of ideas one of which inevitably sets me off on the right path (sometimes it's even completely right in its solution, but that's more 50/50) is greater than 2. It's a tool that has its uses. Claiming it doesn't because most people are too skill issued to use it as such doesn't change the narrow but very useful use case these things have. Far too narrow to sustain this bubble, but that shouldn't be news for anyone here.

There's an insane degree of irony in calling me a slopper or whatever while you're displaying a fundamental unwillingness to critically engage

It really isn't but sure. If you're dumb enough to assume what it spits out is gospel it's dogshit for that purpose too, but that's a user issue. Not like random stackoverflow answers are always exactly what you need either lol

Research in the sense of researching a problem you're having or getting an idea of how to start an implementation for something is a great use case and pretty much the only one I regularly use them for. Search engines usually fail to produce anything useful when describing the problem requires complec grammar.

Research in an academic sense yea they're horrible.

This isn't really anything special about germany btw, the very concept of retirement depends upon this - even when it's entirely private retirement funds. The difference with those is mainly that instead of everyone not getting shit, a lot of people just don't get to retire at all so the ones that were able to save up money can. Which is almost what we have now anyway, except all retirees at least get some small amount. Money in your account is only worth something as long as someone else is willing to work for that money, and that will always depend on the size of the workforce. It's not a germany problem, it's not even a capitalism problem (just the inequality created by it is).

Later retirement age is the one thing I'm not vehemently against, in part because it seems inevitable, in part also because medical science advancing makes it more feasible (and also increases the time people have after retirement).