Theoretically possible? Sure. Though I don’t trust the US government with this information either.

Then there a completely different problem to be concerned with: https://chinamediaproject.org/2025/06/04/chinas-slow-march-toward-cyber-ids/

Lmao. Yeah, the government is going to implement this? Assuming it is actually secure, when do you expect this to release? A decade from now?

How do you verify someone is 18 without your information?

age restrictions *done properly (ie securely and privately)* are long overdue.

This does not exist.

It is claimed to exist, but you can’t name a single technology that guarantees security and privacy from the user to the source of the verification.

Are you willing to trust pornhub with your personal information? Xhamster? Kink.com? Motherless? Draft porn? PervertTube? And on, and on, and on.

You trust that every, single, individual, porn site is going to have both the know how, and scruples, to keep this data 100% secure and private?

Because I don’t even trust that a site can keep my credit card information private and secure, as has been shown to be a good bet over and over again despite there being a plethora of laws on how to handle such information.

So it’s a scale problem for you? What number is acceptable?

Why does scale matter? If it was only 50k kids daily would it change your mind?

I know it’s the point but god damn these get annoying.

USB C has a (soon to be) max power delivery of 240 watts. Shorting that onto a data pin would be catastrophic.

You can kinda work around that, but honestly the easiest way is to just not present the opportunity.

I can’t think of the proper words so I apologize for how untechnical this is: If you look inside the connector you’ll see a thin line jutting out. That’s the actual thing that USB-C connects with. You can’t make that round. The reason the outer part of the plug is an “oval” is just to make plugging it in easier. It could be a rectangle and still work.

<.< I can’t tell if this is a joke or not.

My point was that we know of no other organic beings beyond our planet, so all known life is born on earth.

if you’re a human.

You can leave this out, unless we are considering fission “born”. Even experiments like ant colonies in orbit are arguably within the confines of earth. Unless we want to start defining “on” in which case I posit that a baby born in an airplane is not born a citizen of earth.

If we just assume the government is always watching everything we do, there will be no crime! Let’s install cameras everywhere, including in your home, and we can get to 0% crime! What could go wrong?

They time traveled?

There are rapid forms of dementia. In extreme cases it can present in a matter of weeks.

Wait seriously?

Cheaper than Walmart? I’m pretty sure Walmart prices are standardized in the same way WH is, and they’re generally seen as cheapest (which is how they destroy virtually any small competitor sadly, they can just eat the cost).

My god it threw me for such a loop

You son of a bitch you made me check.

How would this work out in a rtl language? Because the reader would be used to parsing language in the opposite direction. Does that mean the same equation has two objectively correct answers?