By that measure shouldn’t Disney be considered a Tech company too? Or I guess banks and insurance companies.

Yeah, in the same way that every company that uses a phone is a phone company.

The age of consent in many developed countries is 16.

consent is often a factor in the severity of the penalty

If there’s no consent, it’s sexual assault at a minimum and more likely rape.

Teenagers fucking is without consent. Their brains, on the average, are not capable of making that level of decision.

What an absolute crock.

That’s the theory behind the law, OK, but the notion that someone is incapable of consent the day before their 18th birthday, but fully capable the following day, is manifestly stupid. I’ve raised three kids to adulthood. All of them had sexual relations before they were 18 and there’s nothing wrong with any of them. Don’t let religious nuts and the pathologically undersexed make your laws, it won’t work out.

Vigilantism is just a sign that government has become too corrupt

There was a lot of vigilantism during Reconstruction because the government was NOT corrupt.

But if you’re a victim under that corrupt government, it’s the only solution you have, so its hard not to cheer. No one is shedding tears for torched tesla’s in dealerships or the dead ceo Saint Luigi was framed for killing.

When the political and judicial systems are riddled with corruption, rough justice might be the only justice for some kinds of crime.

Its just harder to trust and justify clout chasers

If they’re paid by the click, they’re part of the problem, not the solution.

Yeah, many normal, healthy people (even Americans) started having sex long before they were 18.

Pretty solid way to identify the right person.

And that’s why entrapment is a legally sanctioned investigation strategy for law enforcement.

Oh, wait, it isn’t, because of all the abuses that resulted from its use.

I could imagine Kiedis trying to roger an elephant seal.

Only in the best of times.

So I’m just wondering if this is really any new information for anyone.

It’s never wise to underestimate most people’s ignorance.

Having someone sneak in and blow up a few troll farms would be more measured and proportionate.

if good FOSS software is being built by enthusiasts

LibreOffice is forked long ago from the extremely corporate OpenOffice effort, which in turn originated from the non-open-source Star Office. Not all FOSS comes from enthusiasts.

If you had your tantrum offline, nobody else would have to see it.

The market will fix it for you when gasoline prices quadruple. If demand drops (and it will), the fossil fuel oligopolies will try to maintain profits by price-gouging, since demand for fuel for cars is pretty inelastic.

Almost all people can walk a mile. The remainder have special mobility needs.

When he suggested PayPal convert its data centers from Linux to Microsoft Server, I knew he was a wrong’un. That was one of the reasons he got booted out of PayPal, by the way. Even the other bullshitter tech bros knew how stupid that idea was.

I also know a 93-year-old lady who has loudly talked about taking a few of the bastards with her. The sentiment may be more widespread than we think.

Suicide bombers on mobility scooters. Be very afraid.

They’ll have backups. And those backups and associated restore processes would never have been properly tested.

I’ve come to places where that happened and there were very few remaining IT ops people after the mass firing that followed.

I’d be fine with the Musk in prison part. Launching him into the sun in one of his own rockets would be cooler, though.