I get what you’re saying. However, I don’t think that the solution to that is hiding identities online, but rather killing the politicians.

I knew that it was controversial as I typed it. You right,

Yep. Thanks for checking.

I know that anonymity is the way it is and don’t think that me changing my display does anything about one way or the other. I definitely shit post, because I can. There is literally no consequence. If I somehow hit the right combination of words and someone commits suicide, I would never know. If I share something that someone looks views at their workplace and then gets fired, I would never know. The entire thing is just people collectively shrugging responsibility for their behavior and that has a net negative effect on society.

I’m not going to change my name over to my real name, although that is generic enough that would not be identifying, but I am going to point out that people do shitty things with anonymity and that the world would be better off without it.

That was dope. Thank you for sharing that!

I would be honored.

Divorced man, mid-forties, job pays well but not great, tried to get into old interests to stave off depression but collecting action figures didn’t do it and he couldn’t remember how to play the ukulele, which is like the one thing that made him interesting in high school. So, he turned to those early college years when he and his friends, whom he hasn’t talked to in ages, would stay up all night smashing Jägermeister and having heady though naive conversations about the world and how things ought to be. Night after night he sat on his balcony, looking at a world that would be better if only it listened to him, ignoring his broken instrument, smashed in frustration, and occasionally espousing his philosophy 101 understanding of nihilism to his last remaining friend, the Batman, until one late night, after finishing a nice piss, the pain became too great and, in a drunken stupor, he slowly allowed himself to fall over the balcony into the sweet release of death. He left behind only unanswered emails and texts from his worried adult children. A pitiful end to a pitiful life so completely devoid of significance that the character doesn’t even warrant a name.

So he had a meeting with a soccer player then?

… wait … what?

I’m more concerned by the presence of the camera and less concerned about whether or not my taint pictures can be acquired by third parties. I don’t want a second party involved.

Okay. Imagine if there were no anonymous internet handles. If you just had to use your name and stand by what you said. That is more what I am talking about. Regarding the assessment of idiocy, I suppose I would base it on the quality of their posted content.

I’m not banning the content, I’m just making sure that when someone tells you something on the internet, you can tell that they are actually a fucking moron.

I’m prepared for my downvotes.

I have often joked that in the not-too-distant-future people will look back upon the early days of the internet like we look upon the 1950s view of smoking.

What do you mean kids shouldn’t do it? It’s fine. You know how it is, watch a kids cartoon, look at some memes, two girls 1 cup, email the fam, those two Mexican dudes who had their heads cut off with a chainsaw, research Ghana for a school project, sneak in some porn after the parents go to bed, and cap it off with some chat room conversations about Picard’s superiority to Kirk while some kid across the country goes on about shooting his brains out because mom and dad either don’t love him enough or love him too much. Maybe download some credit card spoofers and Diablo hacks for online play if you aren’t quite ready for bed.

The early internet, and even the internet now, is a fucking wild concept. Take everything that people think, not just what we know, but what we fucking think about while we are taking a shit, and make it available for anyone look at without guidance or context. We can even watch police shootings in real time and pretend to be detectives during terrorist events, consequences to real people be damned.

Should parents know better? Sure. Is the internet an effective babysitter while they grind out a living? You bet.

If we restrict this dumpster fire behind age-verification and eliminate anonymity through tagged identification, the effect on privacy and anonymous online activism will be severe. However, CinnamonRingCumGlaze86 will be significantly less able to use their 6th grade reading level to convince people that modern medicine is bad because Pre-Historical Witches didn’t have AIDS bro. #flatearth #zoroastrianismwasasteptoofar #onceagaintherealproblemiscapitalismandwearelookingatthewrongthingbecauseofmanufactured-outrageandobfuscationcreatedbytheoligarchy #worldofwarcraftclassic

This is a completely different thought.

5 here … I just recently learned that mind’s eye actually meant an image.

Dope.

I had a 9th grade student who didn’t believe that men washed their own asses because it was gay. Yes, he was retarded, but in that behavior classroom kind of way.

We, the students and I, could not convince him otherwise.

They said animals, not limiting the number to cattle.

This Article provides a breakdown of the 2022 numbers for slaughtered animals based on this source from the United Nations.

So, in this case, the person to whom you are responding is correct.

The fuck is g**r?

Let’s not disparage Garfield.

God dammit.