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So here’s the question: what functions do DMs serve? This is going to vary community to community, but it might be worth listing what people use them for (or not) so we can talk about alternatives that might serve needs better - and maybe avoid escalating the risk.

Don’t want all your sekrits leaked to China now, do you?????

This is my understanding of it, yes. But there is some thinking behind “if we guarantee we never have minors, we save ourselves the headaches of making sure minors never see things they’re not meant to”. Though, realistically, I think most forums don’t need this (I’m envisaging places that have...

My own family is much in the same boat. No surprises that I don’t speak to them much any more.

There is a wonderful meme image that sums this up. I think I saw it on Reddit, but I don’t know who made it, so can’t credit them. The figure in the middle is meant to be Rupert Murdoch, media and news tycoon, owing multiple major UK newspapers.

Indeed, and we never seem to collectively question what those agendas are, or why they’re collectively harmful.

Well, shutting down migration routes out of the UK to the EU definitely helped with that…

Let me put it this way, the writer who accused me of fear-mongering about this law happily engages in writing material that would be very much suspect under this law and the only reason she isn’t banned everywhere as a groomer is because she’s writing about a fictional character getting groomed...

I suspect once they’re gone, they’re gone. Why would they prove their age/identity to a little service when they can just do so to a big service like FB and get everything they want there? Though I’m still not convinced the age checking is nearly as universally required as is being implied.

You said many Brits were leaving, I provided actual numbers to show the population has risen significantly (and you can verify my numbers). If the taxes were that bad, one would assume a visible drop in population, or at least not an increase of more than 10% in 16 years. I’ve only lived here...

It’s like you know me so well. I expect to appear on the whiner blogs soon enough. But it was who called me a fear-monger that amused me the most. I won’t go into details, but suffice to say, pot, kettle, blacker than your or my soul.

Side note: I made a post about this in a different admin community and was straight up (in the very first reply) accused of fear-mongering, which I thought was hilarious. (NB, the person doing so is American.) I’d love to be worrying about nothing but I’ve seen what my government is like.

UK population in 2008 was 61.8 million, population in 2024 was 69.1 million. Many might have left but the numbers grew significantly anyway.

Except that’s not what’s happening. The ban tackles TikTok US giving data to TikTok CN (for the want of better shorthand), but not if people just go and give it to TikTok CN directly. Or in this case RedNote - there’s no data broker between the individual and the company in that case.

From your post: Generics have been instrumental in bringing down costs for some patients. Instead of paying over $400 for a package of 5 Humalog KwikPens, for example, patients can now pay around $260 for a package of 5 generic insulin lispro KwikPens. This doesn’t seem very cheap for...