Bike thieves move fast, and a lot of time they are in cars, it’s not always some random guy on the street. I saw a brand new Lexus pull up to a bike at a red light in a fancy neighborhood, guy was actively in the road and parked blocking the lane, and stole the bike in literally 40seconds and was gone. No license plates. I called it in but I doubt they did anything about it. And I’ll never risk my life for a bike lol.

I more mean something organized like Reddit or Lemmy, with multiple aids for translating into other languages and disability access and allowing for an audio mode or text mode. Eg instead of going to my city’s Reddit, I’ll go to their actual official forum page. Instead of viewing my rep’s stupid Twitter, I can view their actual offical forum account.

And yeah it’ll be a fucking mess, legal nightmare, and expensive. But we need it as much as we need the post office and everything else.

Yes and again, your example is an action of directly and consensually helping kids. The kids directly get the hot dog you made. They consent to eating the hotdog. They aren’t forced to eat it. You aren’t giving the hotdog to a third person who will then eat it and then by extension later help a child in some other way. Which btw, they should be doing in the first place.

We needed a national online govt forum where we could sue for freedom of speech violations by mods etc. Unfortunately our government lacks leadership or progressives so

It’s more than that, they want to

1. limit who can post and make money off porn, and no, this isn’t to support small creators at all unfortunately
2. build massive blackmail networks
3. build massive sex work websites with curated AI models and videos

And yes, any time ANY ONE EVER says, “Do it for the kids, just think of the kids,” when it is not something DIRECTLY and CONSENSUALLY helping kids, but instead FORCING ADULTS TO DO THINGS, is being manipulative every time.

Terraria, a monument to indie games and the craft itself, gave tons of free content and still does, unlike the popular pay for expansion models on a half finished buggy game of their contemporaries

Also Journey and Flower for different reasons