I honestly do not believe that when I said that, you not only didn’t but we’re unable to imagine an egg that by all properties confirmed to the expectations of a chicken egg until an alligator miraculously hatched out of it.

I do not believe you’re debating in good faith

Why are you conflating “peaceful” with either “act of peace” or “good”?
I explicitly said it wasn’t fair, eg that it’s unethical and I don’t support it.

All I’m saying is that China has a clear path to stop the world from getting involved if they do decide to invade, and that China has had recently success taking over countries with little violence.

So your framing this as though I’m a Gretzky supporter is kinda wild.

It’s almost like you intentionally misunderstood my comment to make a point.

Would it be an act of peace? Absolutely not.
Would it be peace_ful_, if you ignore everything else I said in my comment? Absolutely not.

But if OP is looking for the most peaceful (least bloodshed) way of “unifying” Taiwan and mainland China, then this is how. Remove Taiwan’s value to the west, propaganda tf outta the next gen, come in with overwhelming force as the world looks on and does nothing, install pro-china govt officials, ramp up propaganda, withdrawal blantant military force.

I explicitly said this was not fair eg it would be bad and unethical so this isn’t something I support obviously.

Peaceful or fair?

For peaceful, I think that China needs to make it so the world doesn’t depend on them for high end chip manufacturer, so the USA stops caring about them because they’re not a critical strategic national interest.
Then they just invade.

The world isn’t doing shit about Gaza, the world is barely doing anything about Ukraine. I think the world sits by and watches it happen, if they’re not a critical strategic interest.

Naw, I think a few of the original members are still there

So, not “technically” at all (see my user name)

Oh get over yourself

Short form is cool because it’s like constrained writing.

Tiktok was pretty great while it was just silly videos.\ But it’s not short form anymore so it’s full of political essays and propaganda.

I kinda hope that loops is more like vine than tiktok or vertical YouTube. But it’ll probably be up to the instance to govern video length.

“you mean alligator egg”

No, I didn’t. And yet you still likely understand what I mean, or get close enough to what I mean that it doesn’t matter, unless you’re being intentionally obstinate.

And what do you think of the idea that the egg is simply a phase in the life of an animal, that the chicken is the egg it hatched from, not just the former inhabitant? In this case how can the egg be owned by the animal that laid it if it is itself an animal?
Like the caterpillar is the chrysalis is the butterfly, the chicken is the egg.

I’ll need to look into it a bit more, but I’m skeptical that this will work in practice:

How can they confirm that I’m the owner of the passport? How do you prevent them from selling the fields they requested, that have been uniquely linked to you? How do you prevent the government from keeping track of all the services you’re using?

I get that that’s the premise of the joke.
But that not the premise of the dilemma, which pretty clearly implies it’s a chicken egg.

The dilemma would have no meaning of it was “what came first? The chicken or the horseshoe crab egg?”

This is the best argument I’ve heard yet.

Someone could argue that the egg isn’t part of the animal, the “egg stage” just applies to when the animals was growing in the egg. But it’s a pretty difficult argument to make.

I feel like this kinda answer just shows you haven’t really thought about the problem in depth.

“chicken’s egg” is the owner of the egg the chicken inside it, or the one who laid it?
Likewise it’s not clear that “chicken egg” refers to the creator of the egg or the inhabitant of it.

Pretending for the sake of semantic argument that any of these scenarios were possible:
If an alligator laid an egg and a chicken came out, was that a chicken egg?
If a chicken laid an egg and an alligator came out, was that a chicken egg?

But now consider, you know what I mean by the following phrase:
“An alligator laid a chicken egg, and an alligator hatched out of it”

I always love to bring up that this boils down to an argument about definitions, given the assumption we’re talking about chicken eggs.

That depends on semantics.

Is a chicken egg an egg laid by a chicken, or an egg that hatches a chicken?

The answer to that question changes the answer to the original question

Ah, I suppose it is.

So I suppose I should direct my grievance at OP for being too narrowminded. There may not be a single solution for protecting the kids, but surely cast a wider net than this.

Also fwiw I think that the profit motive only makes an existing problem worse, it’s not the cause and therefore removing it isn’t the solution. It helps so we should still do it, but we have to be prepared that the job isn’t done.

Thats true for social media, but social media isn’t the only time you want to do age verification.

If you want to see porn or order (legal 😇) drugs for delivery.

And this is just times where the way to “protect kids” is age verification online. There are other times where you want to protect kids too, but doing so is invasive.

How would that work online? How would they confirm it’s your passport, and that it’s a real passport that was really scanned (instead of a browser plugin)?

Is it for downloading illegal content? i can’t tell

I assume some of it is related to torrenting, but I can’t tell which ones and how much. They can’t all be for torrenting, right???