@SandyofCthulhu Heck yes. And sometimes incredible things come out of that, and sometimes you get Star Citizen. They aren't all Ws, but they have a far better chance to be Ws away from corporations like Microsoft or EA games. Just like how Lucas predicted Star Wars would flop under Disney.
Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.
Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.
This proves one thing.
It's not about protecting children.
It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.
Under the pretext of banning under-16s from social media to “protect the children,” Keir Starmer has snuck in some small print that should make Americans really glad that all the tea was dumped into the Boston harbour back in 1773.
Adults will still be “allowed” to use the platforms… once they’ve handed over facial recognition, digital ID, passport, or credit card details to prove they’re not a child.
So it was never really about the kids. It was about making sure every single person who wants to speak online has to first tell the government exactly who they are.
Step 1: Link your real identity to your speech
Step 2: police have a lovely searchable database of every spicy take, meme, or complaint you’ve ever posted
Step 3: bring in the consequences - arrests, travel ban, debunking, for out-of-bounds speech
The UK is in a free fall.
@fandompulse It's always been right. Even moreso as you watch them transform your favorite game IP into a haunting shadow of its former self. They figure out what sold well, or we figure out who replaces them. Simple.
@Keir_Starmer You pathetic, lying, sack of feces. You sure don't care about the rape gangs or the fact that children are being assaulted in the streets. You'll have to stand before God for the horrors you unleashed on the UK. You say you care about the children, I don't think you have, mate.
Under 16 social media ban in the UK?
Which means if you are over 16, you have to prove that you are over 16 before you can access social media.
Which means you have to ID yourself to the government.
Which means if you run a pseudonymous account the government will know who you are.
Which means if you say something the government disapproves of, they can arrest you.
@Keir_Starmer "And frankly, parents need our support".
Holy hell, this pathological tyrant doesn't appreciate he literally did the Ronald Reagan "9 most dangerous words" meme.
He's from the government, and he's here to help.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C.S. Lewis
🚨BREAKING: The Daily Mail has revealed that a government propaganda unit, named RICU, is intervening to write statements by families of victims of horrific migrant crime to "prevent inflaming tensions"
They are manipulating the masses.
This is one of the BIGGEST SCAMS, and no one talks about it. You buy a truck, but you're not allowed to fix it because "You could get hurt?" So instead, they force you to bring it in so they can "fix" it, which is 10 times more expensive than if you did it yourself. @Ford
Can we debunk this nonsense?
Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.
The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.
End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.
And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.
The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)
On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.
So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.
Want some truth?
We weren’t supposed to know about Henry Nowak…
If we did find out about Henry we were supposed to think he was the racist aggressor.
They were caught.
The People are rising up.
X did that.
Now Starmer wants to stop it from ever happening again.
Simple.