Back when I played Call of Duty Ghosts, I was kinda obsessed with Salamence thanks to using a Salamence during my first playthrough of any Pokémon game ever, that being Pokémon Sapphire on an emulator. So I made that my username. But I also got angry on that game a LOT, so I extended it to RagingSalamence. But then people started calling me Raging so I kinda disliked that and inverted it to SalamenceFury. Around the time I also started participating on the pokémon askblog community on Tumblr, so I made a pokémon sona to go with all of that, and changed my internet alias to be Sal.

Still going with this username and the previous iteration since then, but also sometimes I go with “DraconicSalad”.

Humans spent thousands of years without rulers. Also, look at all the grassroots organizations trying to stop fascism in America right now.

Leaders are dispensable AND disposable. We do not need them.

You know that anarchism doesn’t mean no rules right? It just means no rulers, but that’s not how it works on Lemmy or any social media of this type for that matter.

I actually posted about that like ten days ago LMAO

I’m being hyperbolic, but I do think every CEO of every company in America worth hundreds of billions should be arrested, have their companies broken up, and said CEOs sent to Supermax prisons for mass fraud.

If America was a serious country they would break up Amazon for this AND arrest Bezos and send him to a random Supermax for corporate blackmail, mass fraud, and unfair competition. But I fear they never were.

I find it hilarious she is a saint despite doing clearly not saintly things.

Messaging your reps actually works, though. If enough people flood the lines, the information will be passed to the rep and they don’t usually feel good about it. It can actually change their voting - if you look on Bluesky you’ll see various campaigns of line flooding that HAVE yielded results.

Your post is extremely suspicious because it feels like you’re actively trying to undermine and depress the voter into not doing something effective for some nefarious reason. No one without ulterior motives has ever tried to say calling or messaging your reps does nothing.

Ah, so a suburban white woman who would probably call the police on a black man jogging in front of her house?

Here’s a report by Malwarebytes about it. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed

Malwarebytes just reported on it.

Did you not read the Twitter thread? The facial verification is done by OpenAI and shared with Palantir, the DOJ, and ICE. Yes, including Roblox’s. What makes you think the DOJ would NOT try to build a profile on someone going through age verification who’s brown enough to be considered an “illegal” and possibly detain or deport them if they criticize ICE?

Because those parents are pushing for age verification stuff, that has already been confirmed by hackers to be sent straight to the DOJ and ICE to make a database and link people’s internet profiles to their real names. With possibly the intention to either arrest people for criticizing ICE, or deporting people they DEEM to be illegals.

It’s not a fallacy, you fucking idiot, IT IS LITERAL FUCKING REALITY. They got fucking CAUGHT RED HANDED by a bunch of hackers using OpenAI to give the IDs from Discord to ICE, to either silence critics or kidnap more people.

Get your head out of the damn sand. You’re not helping. Every single attempt to age check is the government simply trying to tie your online identity to your real identity to punish you eventually, and this administration does not give a rat’s ass about the constitution. At some point they WILL attempt to arrest or deport people for online speech.

EDIT: Malwarebytes just reported on this. https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed

That could work but I dunno if Roblox would even want to put on the effort (given that they banned a man exposing pedophiles in the platform), and also having moderators means they ARE a point of failure since there could be a groomer amongst them who just happens to not have criminal records. However, trying to childproof the internet in response to things like this is beyond stupid.

Seat belts are different because if someone is in a car is not wearing one and carrying passengers, that person will become a 200 pound pinball in case of a crash and crush everyone else to death. Do YOU want to sign away your ability to criticize Trump and ICE because some dipshit parent didn’t do what they’re supposed to fucking do and got their kid groomed?

You’re not allowed to take someone else’s rights because someone else is a fucking irresponsible idiot. That’s not how this works.

I think the point he’s trying to make is that parents are not teaching kids to be safe in the internet and instead are asking for daddy government to do their parenting for them, without being aware that what they’re doing is signing away the rights of LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE to criticize the government in the future without getting put on a fucking list (Discord’s age verification literally sends your info to Palantir and Peter Thiel and profiles the person, especially if they’re avid Trump or ICE critics). There were plenty of platforms for kids back in the day, they all had this problem (somewhat), but it was nowhere near as concerning as before because the kids in the 2000’s were warned multiple times by their parents to exercise caution when using the internet.

As much as I think this is all terrible and that Roblox SHOULD answer for some of this shit, the fact of the matter is, PARENTS ARE NOT TEACHING KIDS HOW TO BE SAFE IN THE INTERNET. They just throw a fucking tablet or phone or console or PC screen in front of their eyes and refuse to do ANYTHING resembling parenting, and when their kid inevitably gets groomed they blame the platform and ask for daddy government to do their parenting for them and ask for things like age verification, which at least on Discord is literally being used to profile people criticizing the Trump administration and ICE.

Set parental controls, teach kids to not trust strangers and give them basic internet safety tips, and none of this shit will ever happen. Don’t sign away the rights of other adults because you’re a terrible fucking parent.

The second amendment itself prevents ammunition from being marked out of people’s budget. Two, people could just reload their own bullets. Three, bullets are extremely cheap to manufacture and making them cost that much would be a scam on the levels of health insurance companies. Also, did you forget about what a certain bearded man said in 1898?