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Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable

Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.

Who could have predicted?

Oh, right.

Bonica used to have to analyze data to show this kind of pattern, but now they just come out and say it

#TomNicholsDoesNotUnderstandSelectionBias

You're engaging in pure projection. I answered your question directly & forthrightly; that you're sneering at my direct, forthright answer indicates that _you_ asked _your_ question in bad faith. As does your "maybe ignoring reality is bad" sneer, coming after you called the Biden economy "amazing".

I think the biggest difference between The Internet Then and The Internet Now is how Being Mad Online used to be the one thing you could never admit to, under pain of death, and now, Being Mad Online is a whole career path with a skill tree and an ever-expanding variety of debuffs.

Moderation here has been an ongoing embarrassment dating back to when the head of T&S banned a user who made a (perfectly legal) bot that caught them faving teen porn

my suggestion, take moderation power away from thin skinned, vindictive devs

a moderator deleted a post that pointed out the old pre-Singal approved ToS, and i called them a coward and suddenly this label appeared on my account. i’ve successfully appealed this three times, let’s see if @moderation.bsky.app wants to die on this hill

pig with poop on balls

Mullally’s name was passed to Downing Street by the Crown Nominations Commission, chaired by Lord Evans of Weardale, a former director general of MI5, after months of deliberation by the 20-member panel, of which 17 are voting members and 12 must agree. After agreement, a name by tradition is given to the prime minister – in this case Keir Starmer – and then passed to the monarch.

The former director general of the domestic secret service chairing the panel that choses the head of the state religion is one of those fun “very normal” things that happens in the UK.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Do you notice how Britain’s horrible right wing press are trying to heap blame and hatred on the government, and the government are scrambling to placate them and divert all that blame and hate onto the antiwar left, and that all of this is sick, weird and demeaning

I want to know if it's true.

Least-predictable (though still somewhat predictable) subgroup difference in this poll might be men (56% approval) v. women (55% disapproval).

In which case Stancil should've written "food at home", not simply "food". His claim remains simply false as stated by himself.

_I_ don't, I lack the political power.

But politicians do, by deciding to raise government spending on social services.

No, that's incorrect.

You've got me wondering now how much time Stancil's spent in paid employment in retail/food service/hospitality.

You literally claimed "teachers are not 'working class' by any coherent definition".

Hey now, sometimes he makes a hasty, ill-informed attempt to dismiss inconvenient facts rather than simply ignoring them.

Slightly daring of you to try to lord quantitative measurements of the economy over the rest of us, hours after you tried to spurn the Supplementary Poverty Measure for being too responsive to policy.

And hours after I busted you falsely claiming "the REAL cost of food has not risen".

Quoted thread was really rather good up until this blueskeet (really! Click through and check it out), it is too late in the day to still be doing this neither-left-nor-right-but-a- secret-third-thing stuff. #GoSocialistOrGoHome

...are spuriously presuming is necessarily entailed by this mode of empirical analysis.

You're trying, very hamfistedly, to scare me away from publicly recognizing a body of fact by casting such recognition as a threat to (what you impute to be) my political project. It won't work. It's projection.

It's not an "easily foreseeable consequence" of recognizing the legitimacy of the metric, that's kinda my point. Paul Krugman, OWS, and Thomas Piketty drawing attention to lower reaches of the income distribution in the '00s/'10s did not mechanically lead top the doleful change in policy you...

if Mother Jones or the New Republic published an article calling for "disproportionate violent action" against the ppl who ACTUALLY control our political & legal systems how do you imagine that would play out right now, genuinely

Deaths of despair, I would think. Compared to any of the 2000s or 2010s.

Emphasis on the "might". You're _speculating_ about what I -- pardon me, "someone" -- would endorse as political strategy, in lieu of mounting a frontal attack on my actual assertions (that Stancil misrepresented food inflation as below general inflation, resorted to circular reasoning, etc.).

Well, no, that's a non sequitur: one can't derive the conclusion "make relief not temporary" just from the premise that the 10th percentile of economic wellbeing is a legitimate index of economic health, not without furnishing (making up) your own supplementary premises.

For "undeserving" read "under-serving"

Eh? The "economy" is just an umbrella term for the population providing itself goods & services; if it's undeserving 10% of the population it's perfectly fair to characterize that as the economy being "bad" in a significant way.

Alright, you've bargained me down to 3D chess. Anyway, do you disagree with the substantive point that we should focus on figuring out where the evidence points before worrying about how politicians might react to it?