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if I see one more "why age verification is bad" post that doesn't even bother to mention that locking young people out of huge sections of the public sphere - literally the stated goal and primary impact of this shit - is wrong in and of itself I will simply start hitting people with bricks

dragon-in-a-fez

yes yes biometric data privacy blah blah adults can hypothetically by harmed by this too. what about the immediate and deliberate and not at all hypothetical harm to youth. why are you acting like a potential data leak about what your face looks like, which if it ever happened would at least be generally recognised as a problem, is a more serious issue than cutting millions of people off from information and community and public expression which is happening right now in the open with large scale support

dragon-in-a-fez

it's got the stench of fucking "banned books week" on it. thousands of adults congratulating themselves for reading books literally no one is trying to stop them from reading while doing nothing to improve access for the young people who are the ones actually having those books made off-limits to them.

dragon-in-a-fez

[normal person voice] as we all know, the public sphere consists largely of strip clubs and pools of glowing green acid

o-craven-canto

Alternate timeline in which all Greek and Latin roots are swapped:

catastrophe -> contraverse cephalopod -> capitoped chlorophyll -> viridofolia democracy -> populimpery homicide -> anthropoctony homosexual -> equigamic kilometer -> millimensure interregnum -> mesarchy magnanimous -> megapsychic manuscript -> chirography motorcycle -> ergatorote microscope -> parvovisor oxygen -> acidofex polyamory -> multierasty television -> remotoscope universe -> monostrophe

o-craven-canto

amphibious -> ambivivent automobile -> ipsokinete autopsy -> ipsovision circumcision -> cyclotomy conspiracy -> synpnoea epilogue -> supraverb homosexual -> idemphilic [thanks to @dative-ciceroni-pizza2h] menstruation -> selenosis [looser] Mesopotamia -> Medioflumina pornography -> lupascript scissor -> schizotron [?] troglodyte -> cavernicole tyrannosaur -> dictatoreptile

(honorable mention: carnivore <-> sarcophage)

nazmazh

Okay, a lot of these have actually a pretty good feel to them, like, to say out loud as words.

Honestly though, this is an absolutely brilliant idea for a minor "this world is different from our own" touch if you're writing some sort of fantasy or especially an alternate history story.

Heck, I'm pretty sure I've seen "sarcophage" as part of an SCP, if I'm not mistaken.

boybeetles

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

boybeetles

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

yetanothergreyjedi

shower-thoughts-last-responder

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I'm glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don't ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don't ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

headspace-hotel

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

nazmazh

So, to tie it back to that original meme, it really looks like you only have to be a little concerned about potentially causing yourself major problems if you hit F8 at a pretty specific time, and then have utterly no clue what you're doing wrt the boot menu.

And, like, can't read the instructions it provides you. Which generally includes a very straightforward "Exit and boot normally" option.

(Though I will concede accidentally bumping F11 on a browser can be a little jarring/frustrating. And F12, at least in Firefox, might be a little scary with the dashboard-thing that pops up. There again though, very easy to just see the X in the corner and dismiss it)