PHOTO ID verification, to be clear.
I think that every looks-centric social media app like Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok should require users to be at least 18 years old and should require ID verification to create an account the same way that some online investment apps do because:
- Exposure to face-tuned images on Instagram leads kids to internalize unrealistic beauty standards and seeing their own faces face-tuned and filtered to 'perfection' on Snapchat and Instagram is giving a generation body dysmorphia. When I discovered 'thinspo' online at the age of 11 back in the early 2000s I had no idea that all of that crap was photoshopped. While kids today are probably more aware of the fact that everything they see is manipulated since filters and facetune are so ubiquitous, they are clearly still internalizing those images-- just look at all the teenagers who are injecting their faces with unnecessary filler. The average age of plastic surgery patients keeps getting younger and younger. While plastic surgery isn't inherently bad, the demand for trendy surgeries has led to a thriving cosmetic surgery black market. Take a look at r/botchedsurgeries and you'll see a heartbreaking number of teenagers and people in their early 20s who have become disfigured because of often dangerous 'trendy' procedures.
- Looks-centric social media apps contribute to the sexualization of children. Kids as recently as 10 to 15 years ago were allowed to look like KIDS and now every 12-year-old girl is pressured to look like a 20-something. Google the "13-year-olds then vs now" meme if you don't believe me. I know that every generation in the past has thought that 'kids these days' were growing up too fast and dressing too provocatively, but past generations didn't have their inappropriate pictures splashed all over the internet for strangers to see and message them about.
- Even worse than that, social media provides predators with easy access to insecure kids they can groom and worse.
- Social media companies are able to get away with advertising shady diet supplements and cosmetic procedures to minors, whereas even if TV will rot kids' brains I can't imagine the Disney Channel running ads for lip-filler and shit-your-guts-out tea or diet pills that will give kids heart attacks. 'Pop up beauty clinics' and 'health spas' without a single physician on staff are well... popping up everywhere and they advertise heavily on Instagram, sometimes with the testimon
As someone who enjoys fantasy storylines, I just cannot fathom why so much of the genre is hung up on long and tiresome characterizations and descriptions about the setting etc. Why do authors think I'm more interested in how a castle looks like or how many generations there are to some lord than the actual plot?
I find that many authors are obsessed with small details that can take up 100+ pages that have no actual bearing on the plot.
Why?
A piece of legendary gear, that’s getting sunset anyway shouldn’t require a ascendant shard to fully masterwork.
Edit: holy moly woke up to this. Thanks so much for awards.
Edit 2: to add to the point for the people who say it should be aspirational. The gear should be the aspirational content not the materials to upgrade said gear.
Edit 3: why is having more people worth more masterworked armor a bad thing?
Baffles me There is so much you can do wrong, health, education etc. And it's not like it's important to give kids the fair chance of having a good upbringing.
Edit:I am not saying the government should control reproduction, they can't and they won't. Also didn't know that such a dumb question of mine would blow up lol
Why YSK: when I was a child I used to have a headache almost everyday during my last hours of school at around 5pm. This was 10 years ago. Since then I’ve been tested for cancers, aneurisms and other possible causes with no results. A few months ago though, I was prescribed glasses as a precaution for driving, I don’t have very bad eyesight and can usually read without glasses. Since then my headaches are gone. What has been a problem of mine for years has been resolved by something so little.
Mayo Clinic called bad eyesight one of the most common symptoms for headaches. Especially around your forehead, the overuse of the muscles in your eye that focus and sharpen can cause headaches. Regularly squinting your eyes is also be a cause of such an headache, additionally it probably also means that your eyesight is the problem.
I hope I can save some of you time from pain and a lot of money from CT scans and other medical expenses.
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Remember, for a government to keep you safe, you pay with your liberty. Good luck getting that back in full once the crisis passes. Do you think your government really give a fuck about your Grandma passing from this virus?
Too many jobs today expect their employees to use their personal cellphones for work. I was once told by a business that it was required since they did "all their scheduling" through an app.
Amy job that requires the use of your phone and your data should also be required to pay your phone bill..
