The US las varies by state, but in some cases only the boy goes to jail. In other both go to jail.

Even your proposal of

Why would you not make exceptions for kids under the age of 15 to have sex with kids under 15 and kids over 15 but under 18 to have sex with kids over 15 but under 18?

Has issues. For example, if two teens were already having sex at 14 but one turns 15, although legal before, it’s suddenly illegal, even if consenting.

Same with 17 to 18.

That’s why your statement of “underage automatically does not equal consent” doesn’t legally work.

What I think would work better than a simple lower limit age ban would be to also include an upper limit age ban as well. I think perhaps of 2 years for 13 and under and 3 years for 14-18.

That way, if say a 17 year old has a partner that turns 18 or 19, there’s no issues. But if an adult that’s 22 (or older) does something with a 17 year old it’s illegal.

This gives room for consent, because teens are able to consent - they should just be able to do so safely with their peers, rather than because they are targeted by older, more experienced/manipulative adults.

I get that you want to separate sex by force from sex by free will but when it comes to kids there can never be consent and it defaults to rape.

The issue with that definition, legally, is if two 12 year olds have sex with each other, they would now both end up in jail.

Things like that have happened in the USA btw because the law is set that way.

The problem isn’t whether they can or can’t consent at that age - humans don’t magically gain some universal phenomena of consent at some arbitrary number.

It’s the lack of foresight and knowledge of consequences, as well as the physical and mental health risks for young girls who get pregnant. That’s why it’s bad.

That’s also why the best defense against pedophilia is education about sex. And why the right wing globally usually is against sex education.

If they know what it is and what it can cause, it’ll be much harder for them to be convinced or tricked by an adult.

I agree it’s not that simple, but it’s just a proposed possible beginning to a solution. We could refine it further and then give the vet refined idea as a charter for a lawyer to them draft up as a proper proposal that could then be present to a relative governmental body to consider.

But few people like to put in that work. Even politicians don’t - that’s why corporations get so much of what they want - they do that and pay people to do that for them.

That said, view count isn’t the same as membership. This solution wouldn’t be perfect.

But it would be better than nothing at all, especially now with the advent of AI turning the firehouse of lies into the tsunami of lies. Currently one side only grows stronger in their opportunity for causing havoc and mischief while the other, quite literally, does nothing and sometimes advocates for doing nothing. You could say it’s a reflection of the tolerance paradox that we’re seeing today.

Proton isn’t social media.

If you can’t understand why big = bad in terms of the dissemination of misinformation, then clearly we’re already at an impass on further discussion of possible numbers and usage of statistics and other variables in determining potential regulations.

Just make the law so it only affects things with x-amount of millions of users or x-percent of the population number minimum. You could even have regulation tiers toed to amount of active users, so those over the billion mark are regulated the strictest, like Facebook.

That’ll leave smaller networks, forums, and businesses alone while finally giving some actually needed regulations to the large corporations messing with things.

Does that mean you need help? Since you have yet to come up with one here

Oh would you look at that, the little corporate stooge still didn’t offer a better idea and continued licking boots, how surpriiiising

Can you?

Or is boot licking the only trick you got?

The irony is lost on you.

Guess you’re just a free corporate hoe after all. I feel sorry for you. Not even getting paid to lick those boots clean.

We get it, you’re paid by Apple.

Or, I hope someone sucking corporate cock like you do is getting paid at least,.

The problem he had is the same problem some scientists face today - forgetting to / being unable to also invent a way to mass produce it.

Pressure doors for example used way more resources and labor than today’s automatic doors.

Vending machines were limited on what they could vend and again, weren’t ready to build.

Not to mention all this type of information back then had to be hand copied, as blueprints &tc didn’t exist either, so any scribe errors would hinder spread further.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMszu_VgMfY

For those who want to hear the song

They’ve always been the weird ones

Yes but you have to find the now kinda rare used NVLink ideally

And somehow also more impressive than one Zeus per minute

Thanks for everyone’s help. Figured out I didn’t need the second Switch, just needed a router that had at least 2 LAN connections.

Thanks everyone. I tried ZimaOS (since apparently that’s what CasaOS is now?) but had issues figuring out the -arr services.

Currently trying YunoHost now, though for some reason it says my GMKtec G9 has a MMC/Micro SD?

I’ve seen the chart, but the problem is I don’t understand the point of some of the things in the chart. The installation instructions are also kind of lacking since I don’t understand Docker well, but it just says to install Cosmos via Docker. I could take a couple of days to learn all this and sacrifice my limited family time, for something I think has a potential benefit, or I could just install one of the other two.

If those features are extremely useful and important, then yes, I’ll have to learn it and I guess that makes Cosmos the best choice. If they’re not really needed, then I guess I should pick one of the other two.

Mostly I’ll be running Jellyfish, file storage and retrieval, and eventually probably something for Valetudo in the future. Also considering putting Waydroid in there somehow to run Stube on the TV as well. But would all those features be incredibly important to have something like Cosmos then?

Nahhh, but if you are worried about that stuff, you should look into NordVPN and use the Opera web browser. I think you can even play Raid: Shadow Legends on it.

(/S)

Ah, now computers can be infected with fungi along with worms and viruses.