Ours says "friends welcome, relatives by appointment" so we have a large chunk of vampiric grey area to wade through. With many edge cases.

I was today years old when I discovered what "the Dark Ages" is actually supposed to refer to, and now I'm slightly annoyed at all the things prior to now misleading me in both directions.

Oh it's absolutely that as well. Which unfortunately a lot of adults don't seem to understand because they're not personally affected.

I listened to that episode a week ago, it's an absolute banger.

I'm a firm believer that more people need to learn to say "I'm not the target audience for this" when they are, in fact, not the target audience, for related reasons.

You are not *supposed* to like everything, my dude (and it's very often dudes)! It's not all about you!

See, I thought "oh what a delightful set of pavers, that'll make a nice garden path". And then I realised they're supposed to be used vertically, and I stepped back real quick in case it falls on me.

Another third quite likes mash with texture, the last third won't eat such objectionable 'food' at all. These thirds are not consistent.

Oh, interesting. Any idea if there's a specific symbol for nonbinary people? Most people I've had to give diagram info to just shrug and use a triangle since they've not known what else to use.

Took me way too long, but only because that's what our family tree thing looks like when new medical professionals draw them out during the first appointment. I'm guessing they weren't assuming one of the gents is trans here, though.

...yep, that's about what I expected.

Oh goody, a new term I get to google and then stare off into the middle distance for a while once I've read the top search result!

(Don't worry, I'm aware this is a bad idea. It will not, however, stop me from accumulating Terrible Knowledge.)

Big Yikes. I hope that they stop being terrible soon, but it sounds like I'm being optimistic.

Ooooh, maybe if we get lucky then. 🤞

Oh yeah, absolutely. Hard agree there.

Uuuuuugh I was hoping they'd come to their senses on that one. YT Kids is one of the few things I straight up banned. It's not on Roblox's level but it's definitely in the same building of awfulness.

Oh lawd I hope they start turning up here. That sounds so much better than the cronuts thing.

Absolutely. The back and forth about which sites count, which don't, what the companies actually have to do to verify users, who gets bonked if an under age user gets through the net, etc has been mind bogglingly frustrating to try to keep on top of.

That's certainly part of it. I think there may have been other legislation being debated/political shenanigans occurring at the time that they wanted to pull some heat away from, as well, but honestly all the terrible government decisions of the last while have started to blur together.

I may have said this already, but thank you for all the hard work you've been putting in fighting these laws and educating people on why/how they're terrible. I wouldn't have been able to convince near as many people that this ban is fucked, and how, without your threads.