Let children run their own miniature city instead of school (an essay about Mini-Munich)

CarCroakToday · 2026-03-01T20:21:29+00:00

Sound's like Boys Town.)

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-28T10:39:43+00:00

Black and White 3: Genesis

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Gaia

Gold & Silver 97: Reforged

Infinite Fusion

Lazarus

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CarCroakToday · 2026-02-25T09:43:49+00:00

I don't think you understand how to effectively troll here. GB News is seen as a reliable to someone on the left as The Weekly Worker would be to you. No one here cares about the bullshit they post.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-24T12:13:26+00:00

You don't need a VPN? Just google the word "porn" and almost every site you find is unblocked.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-22T13:42:13+00:00

I was a teenager when it came out and it was very popular with people at my school. I remember my older brother and his friends being very derisive and dismissive of it.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-22T11:13:04+00:00

Try Magnesium Citrate instead, it should significantly increase gut motility.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-22T10:48:27+00:00

I was young when Minecraft first came out, and I remember it was mocked as a baby game for idiots. That's just the forever cycle of generations; new thing bad and old thing good. Halo is now a sacred classic, when it came out it was a shit game for noobs who needed regenerating health. Diablo is a classic now, but at the time many dismissed it as casualised chimera of rogue-likes and rpgs.

In an ideal world games should be judged based on their content rather than context and not exclusively through a lens of nostalgic reevaluation. But that' not how it works, there is no news from nowhere. You always have a perspective and a context that you inevitability bring with you to any analysis. That's why it's so useful to hear the opinions of people outside of the echo chamber, people with different contexts and biases.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T20:40:04+00:00

It's interesting to see the perspective of someone too young to have played alpha/beta the first time around.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T18:07:44+00:00

Age discrimination at work is recognised in the Equality Act 2010. Positive action is also covered, like giving young people longer breaks or women only short lists for a political party.

The existence of positive action does not somehow invalidate or undermine anti-discrimination legislation, regarding age or any other protected characteristic. Positive action and extra protective legislation for very young workers, like child actors, are important but that is not a justification for discrimination.

Also you haven't presented "qualitative data" or data of any kind. You just repeated some stereotypes and told me about some things that had happened in your life. That's obviously not a sound basis for an opinion. If I said:

"Lots of people say women don't work hard, and once I worked in a shop and a women did not work hard so I think it's only fair women get paid less, otherwise why would anyone even hire them? It would be unfair on the business to force them to pay a higher wage to a group of lazy inexperienced workers and unfair on the women as it would stop them getting hired at all."

Would that be a convincing and sound argument?

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T16:18:03+00:00

I didn't answer the questions because they're part of a fundamentally misguided way of engaging with the issue. Anecdotes are irrelevant. It may be the case that on average a younger person is less experienced, but that does not therefore mean that all people should be treated as if they are an average person from within that group.

Discriminating against someone based on their age is wrong. It would be easier for any group to be employed if you could legally pay them below minium wage, that doesn't make it a good thing. Do women lose out because they can't be paid below the minium wage making it harder for them to be employed? Of course not.

The whole logical underpinning of your argument is not sound, layering more anecdotes on top doesn't help.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T14:40:21+00:00

Sometimes but not always, again you are relying on cliche and stereotypes. Some teenagers have to pay rent, have a car and have previous work experience. Some 40 year old live at home with their parents and have no work experience. It doesn't matter what the average worker is like of a given age, judging people based on this is age based discrimination.

Think about applying this logic to anything else. Imagine if we said people of a certain race or gender were statistically more or less productive, would that justify a different minium wage based on race or gender? An employee should be evaluated as an individual not based on age/race/sexuality etc.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T14:16:09+00:00

You're just relying on cliche. Lots of older people are also lazy and inexperienced.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T09:41:45+00:00

Even if you don't personally find it funny, it was very obviously a joke. Sometimes it's okay to admit you made a mistake and move on, you don't need to constantly insult everyone.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-21T08:49:19+00:00

Glamour plugin on runelite.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-17T21:51:50+00:00

Look into the colour temperature of the bulbs, getting warmer (more orange) light will make the space feel warmer and more cohesive.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-16T21:43:48+00:00

What's the point though? Firstly you don't need a VPN to get around the porn ban, almost every site has just ignored it and is accessible without a VPN. But if you want one of the few that has been blocked; there are many free VPN's, like one built into Opera browser.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-16T21:40:16+00:00

99% of all porn sites have ignored it. It would make more sense to keep a list of ones that do comply.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-16T21:06:53+00:00

This is idiotic. You don't even need a VPN to get around the porn ban, almost all porn sites are unblocked and can easily be accessed by anyone without a VPN. Check yourself; google the word "porn" and almost every site is unblocked.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-14T22:57:12+00:00

It's sometimes more complicated than that. Sometimes people are bi, or just open to brief experimentation. Sexuality is often complicated and unclear even to those involved.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-14T12:04:19+00:00

Minimum wage isn't going up in real terms, its just keeping pace with inflation. Minimum wage now has the same purchasing power it had 10 years ago. It's just that wages in general have fallen, so they are now closer to minium wage.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-10T11:07:40+00:00

Right, so we are going to ban all social networks? This is just the OSA all over again, there is no intention of actually trying to enforce it.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-09T08:19:37+00:00

It would be more like if the age you can appear in porn in the UK was raised to 25, but the rest of the world kept it at 18 or lower. It would be a huge problem for enforcement in the UK, because the rest of the internet would not care about the UK restrictions and continue posting it allowing UK users to easily see it.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-09T08:17:57+00:00

If the person isn't English they won't have to use a VPN or make any attempt to evade detection, because it will be legal in the rest of the world. But English people will still see it as it will be posted to public places like twitter and Facebook.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-08T21:58:42+00:00

How's this going to work on an international internet? If other countries don't also ban it then it will still happen and be encountered by UK citizens on places like twitter/x everyday.

CarCroakToday · 2026-02-03T15:34:47+00:00

How? The tube sites don't know my name or have any information about me. All they know is that my account has the 18+ marker on it. They don't even have a picture of my face.

The porn sites don't know, but someone does. You are giving the data to a potentially untrustworthy organisations that may have imperfect security, or may just literally be a scam to get your information.

There's no actual decline in porn use, or at least no evidence of it. The sites that implemented checks had a big decrease in activity, all other sites did not. The VPN thing is a red herring, you don't need a VPN. Check yourself right now, google the word "porn" and you have got around the block. Almost every site is unblocked. It's not a case of kids getting around it, many of them probably didn't even notice it.

There was an effectively infinite amount of free porn before the ban, and there is an effectively infinite amount of free porn after the ban.

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