This is eventually going to result in a new Black Panther or Guardian Angel group like the 60s/70s.

Will be interesting to see these masked pieces of shit face some actual competition brandishing fucking rifles.

And character is like a tree and reputation is a shadow of it, and it takes a hell of a lot less to bring it down than to grow it up.

I’ve watched this go down long enough in enough industries to know better than to believe their claim of not logging.

You’re being watched. Hell, your data’s probably being handed over to cops without your knowledge.

they’ve been conditioned to believe is evil.

Some of the truth is revealed.

Self-fulfilling prophecies are a thing. People struggle to grasp the alternative possibilities.

Knowing a company is watching me because it’s openly known, is to me better than paying a company to not watch me and likely risk them simply selling out eventually like they all do.

It’s funnier when you stupidly expected them to protect you, PAID them for it, and they don’t.

It’s like 23andme. Too fucking funny and everyone deserves it for their stupidity.

But also Valve will support it.

I bought one of those physical Steam Links nobody cared about. They didn’t do well and Valve ended it fairly quickly. 10 years later it still gets occasional updates from them and benefits from broader Steam Big Picture updates.

Steam Deck has been a huge success. Of course they’ll continue to support it.

VPNs are wild to me. “Hey! Pay some company to promise not to watch you so you can pretend to be private and not have some company watching you.”

It’s a targeted hate crime against LGBTQ. If you can’t see that, you’re part of the problem.

Lovely how so many of you are just settled that all kids are liars and all kids are ruined by the internet and all kids are exposed to porn.

Any other boomerisms from you? Sexist tropes? Bigoted stereotypes?

Fuck their policy and fuck their vision of ‘reasonable.’ All cops oughta drop fucking dead at this point considering everything we’ve seen.

What a r/nothingeverhappens crowd this sure is.

One of our kids friends also has zero fucking interest in TV, video games, or phones. Even when he has complete access, or his parents aren’t around. All he ever wants to do is go fishing or play outside. We SEE this happen in real time when they visit or at birthday parties.

Another one only ever wants to read and write books. Physical books. Rejected tablet reading.

Of course some kids we know play GTA. We talk with our kids and put context around things.

But you know, impossible that some of these kids today just aren’t all shitheads and might not have heard of some porn out there, and impossible that some anecdotes aren’t universal truths.

Mine have always been in public county schools. We’ve also moved. They’ve been in more than one. They have friends from school, from the neighborhood, from other events like sports.

Not everyone’s kids are the same. Not everyone kid wants to do or does the same shit.

Your first failure in this response is a presumption that everyone’s kids have unrelenting access to YouTube, memes, or social media. Especially presuming parents are not at all making time to give the kids context as things come up due to school or otherwise, or as we open doors and give more independence.

I know lots of neighborhood kids who are clearly parented much more closely and have no clue about this stuff. I also know some neighborhood kids that play GTA online every night.

Parenting and children are not monoliths, and anecdotes aren’t truths for everyone.

Because I’m actually involved in their lives? They also don’t have unrelenting access to shit like Instagram and twitch.

You can see the difference with the school or neighborhood kids who do (some, not all, they’re all different). We don’t necessarily restrict them from associating with those kids, but we frequently check in, ask about things, watch some of the interactions, and provide context as necessary. Always focusing on what it means for them. What is their gain/loss. Essentially avoid the “because I said so” and focus on why they care about something (it helps to think selfishly if you were in their shoes).

Without aggressively steering their lives (like my parents did), it is interesting to me how when they’re just basically supported like independent humans, with respect, and some decent but not overbearing guardrails, they basically have no interest in some of that stuff. That’ll eventually change, but the peer pressure just doesn’t seem to click the same as 30 years ago.

I think when you either don’t parent at all, or aggressively parent, you inadvertently push kids where they shouldn’t go. I would know cause I lived it. There’s a balance somewhere in there and I’m watching it happen IRL for years now.

And to be clear, I am NOT tooting any horns. That’s what my parents did. It was all about their success being parents. Fuck no. My job is to raise functional adults. They are not my property or trophy. This isn’t about me or my success. Before anyone attacks that shit as usual. I’m just speaking honestly.

22% of reported serious crimes led to arrests. 4% (of reported serious crimes) led to convictions

So what I’m reading is that police are wrong or bad at what they do 82% most of the time.

I take offense at the unwanted contact.

If I were to do this to someone, they would have me arrested for it in addition to restraining them. Therefore fuck these pigs. Why are they above that?

She has literally championed banning politicians from owning stocks. She is constantly fighting this stuff.

We are not religious in any way, for good reason. We also don’t necessarily shelter our kids. But my kids around this age don’t even know what Only Fans is. And them and their friend group never say or do anything even alluding to knowing or caring about these kinds of things.

These kids are being exposed to something and some kind of authority figures are failing them.

Shut it down … shut it all down.

This is why I always imagine it’d be funny to ask a cop “so how many murders got solved this week?” whenever they’re wasting time on mundane shit.

I’ve never had an interaction with a cop where they didn’t make it unnecessarily intense.