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@divVerent @Em0nM4stodon @dalias @edwiebe the crypto discussion misses the point.
no corporation has went down this way, and that's a deliberate choice of them. countries introduce ID requirements for social media instead of going after corpos for collecting kids' data, and that's a deliberate choice of them.
and they all treat a flat age limit as a solution, as if when someone's 16 and a day it's suddenly okay to hook them up on this digital drug, and that's a deliberate choice of them.
@dalias @edwiebe @divVerent @Em0nM4stodon
while that's true, it is possible to make such an attestation without destroying privacy (see https://soatok.blog/2025/07/31/age-verification-doesnt-need-to-be-a-privacy-footgun/).
however, even if you do that, it'll still be morally wrong in most cases.
and also, corporations are deliberately not going for the private solution, and governments are shifting the blame to users. the Czech government recently admitted social media is already illegal for teens (due to privacy laws), but they want new laws anyway.
@reillypascal i definitely have my own idiosyncracies in language. a few months ago i joked that once i write a book a lot of the editor's job is gonna be replacing the words "כי הרי" with synonyms to avoid repetition, an attached the following image as evidence.
and in texts with section titles i use them quite convesationally, the following is the most extreme example but i always do it to a lesser extent:
https://krem.tooot.im/yuvalne/let-me-tell-you-a-very-satisfying-ttrpg-story/edit
@_elena i suspect it's not just you, someone told me they had the same issue for a 3blue1brown video.
maybe YouTube infrastructure is just crumbling.
my writing style in Hebrew and English is so weird.
in Czech too but there it's understandable. in Hebrew and English it's entirely my fault (/positive)
why does it feel better to say "less than half a dozen" rather than "three to five"