Personally, as a European, I would be pro this happening if Canada wants to join and the EU is willing to let them join.

I get that geographically it wouldn't make much sense, but culture is also important. Geographically, Belarus for example should join the EU instead of Canada, but I think most of us can agree that Belarus should not.

Elon Musk being against the social media ban on under 16-year-olds is him basically reaching a good conclusion from the wrong equation, because he's not doing it out of privacy concerns about how everyone would probably have to verify themselves to prove that they're older than 16 years old. He's doing it because it would not be good for his business.

I'm not sure how they could implement this without requiring ID verification on every single internet user. I guess I'm not familiar with the topic enough to say if there is another way that they could pursue, but even if there is, at the same time, I'm not too confident in the governments opting for the other options. I'm from neither Spain nor Greece, so I guess I can't speak on this, but I'm just referring to governments as a general group. And because a lot of different countries are trying to do this at the same time, I'm also not too confident about my own country not doing this at some point, sooner or later.

I feel like this will end up being a cycle. The AI companies are pushing for AI summaries, which then leads to younger Gen Z and the new Gen Alpha being familiar with and preferring AI summaries. This, in turn, leads to other companies implementing AI summaries because they see that's what the new generations are using, which leads to the new generations being even more accustomed to those summaries, which leads to more companies implementing them, and it's just an endless cycle.

I'm not who you were replying to, but I agree and disagree with your comment.

I'm not saying someone can't be happy single. But society makes it hard to be when the world revolves around relationships, being a virgin is used as an insult, etc.

But I do agree with you that not everyone needs to have a partner. I don't see myself ever getting into a relationship, and to some extent I'm often close to making peace with that, until I see a post, a comment, a video, etc, that makes me feel inferior due to it.

I do appreciate, though, the fact that you admit not everyone needs to have a relationship and that not everyone will have one. I'll take this approach every day of the week over the "Naaah, I'm sure you will be in a relationship soon cause everyone does!", followed by moving the goalpost (it's always "soon" regardless of how many years have passed).

I'm probably applying too much logic here which Reddit admins don't seem to like, but... how can defending oneself if something happens (not even preemptively, but after the fact) be threatening violence, while Trump repeatedly saying they're gonna own Greenland one way or another is not threatening violence?

Woah, I haven't heard about this. Are those temp bans on specific subreddits or a site-wide ban for not being pro-Trump?

Monkey's Paw.

Just took a quick look, haven't watched anything in full yet, but this seems to have a lot of interesting stuff. Thanks for the recommendation!

EDIT: I just saw that some videos are apparently not available unless you confirm with your ID that you are over 16 or over 18 years old depending on the video. I haven't ran into anything requiring verification yet but I would really rather not do that. What kind of videos require ID and is that often or is it just like one video here and there?

This is why I cannot dislike the 67 meme. I don't actively like it or anything but we have our own funny number and there were 42 as well and 21 for a while.

There are definitely things to criticize about the new generation, I am not denying that, but finding a number amusing is too inoffensive for me to care.

Yeah, I don't miss the pandemic itself and the risks involved, but I must admit I did like my weirdness essentially becoming commonplace and encouraged haha.

I've been playing EU4 since around 2018-2019 (on and off, to be fair, not consistently), and still don't know a lot of stuff about the game.

It probably doesn't help that I'm playing it on and off because I keep having to relearn things I used to know.

"Damn, Conversations suck since the latest update, they changed the entire gameplay", except they were just playing it wrong the entire time and the update just patched a bug.