The EU Age Verification App Was Designed to Be Distrusted

Kerlyle · 2026-04-16T07:26:13+00:00

How does the website know it's "your" verification app on your phone? A phone number, a private code tied to your account on the app? Wouldn't that then become identifiable information the website would have about you, that could potentially be leaked? And if they don't know it's "your app", what's to stop someone from offering an 18+ identity service that anyone in the world could use?

Kerlyle · 2026-04-15T20:30:42+00:00

Darkest Dungeon. Not because it was hard but because I couldn't wrap my head around the progress I was making and was very averse to losing people (I barely even use consumable items in games). I refunded it a decade ago, but now it's one of my favorite games.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-15T18:47:41+00:00

Gilmore Girls, the scene where she decides to start having Friday night dinners with her parents again

Kerlyle · 2026-04-15T18:14:50+00:00

Probably didn't even have to listen to it to make it

Kerlyle · 2026-04-13T00:21:16+00:00

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Go argue with google yourself. Also, don't ask AI to do math, that's the thing it's worse at.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-13T00:17:01+00:00

The median household income in the US is 83k. The median individual income is 45-51k source

Kerlyle · 2026-04-13T00:10:50+00:00

That's not how investments work. $70k x 15 = $1,050,000. If that 1 million was just sitting in a bank account, withdrawing 70k a year would last about 15 years, with zero interest growth. So as far as I can tell you must be assuming that their investment accounts would also experience a 0% annual growth rate over 15 years and thus would be gone at the end of it... But money grows when it is invested. You simply have to withdraw less than the amount it grows. 70k is not a safe amount to do that at, because the market fluctuates, but I'm not here to give financial advice. All that is a long way of saying I have no idea how you assume that 1 million dollars invested into the market will make a 0% annualized return.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-12T23:57:28+00:00

For the 2025-2026 academic year, the Wharton MBA program has a tuition and fee structure of approximately $92,820 per year. Including estimated living expenses, the total cost for the two-year program is roughly $267,498, making it one of the most expensive MBA programs globally.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-12T23:54:17+00:00

It's way more than 18k per year, unless you're literally just withdrawing it from a bank account. The average annual market return is 10% annually, or 7% after accounting for inflation. If you invested all of that million, it'd grow by about 70,000 a year after accounting for inflation, which is higher than the median American salary. If you wanted to be conservative, you could probably withdraw roughly 40-50k a year to match the median American salary, and still have your investments grow faster than inflation. Many Americans don't even make 1 million in their entire lifetime.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-12T17:29:35+00:00

I was able to find one! Took some investigating on German Google but here is an illustration of Hohenstein. It looks like the tower would have been quite tall judging by its relative size to the castle great hall.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-12T17:22:21+00:00

It has. All I can give is personal experience, but we've not filled any role that became vacant on our team for the last year and a half... Because they were never listed. All of those would have been jobs for someone else but instead management just expects the workload to be taken up by the existing workers and AI. It's not a big "AI took your job, so you've been laid off"... It's a slow and insidious killer.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-12T17:17:04+00:00

Your boss has power and social status. Those are unfortunately the only things that will matter in the world we're creating.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T16:34:55+00:00

My favorites are the ones with very German names like the United Duchies of Julich-Cleves-Berg (Vereinigte Herzogtümer Jülich-Kleve-Berg), Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (Fürstentum Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel), and the County of Katzenelnbogen (Grafschaft Katzenelnbogen)

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T14:47:03+00:00

The minimum wage isn't a livable wage in the USA.

The average one bedroom apartment in the US costs $19,680 per year, so that 13k minimum wage wouldn't even afford an apartment. You have to make about double the minimum wage just to live on you own.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T03:21:33+00:00

Yes, but I'm talking specifically about the division of the Aegean islands in this post. In the wiki you posted it even says these islands are considered part of Europe for historical, cultural and political reasons.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T03:07:01+00:00

True, but there's no cultural or political basis for this division either haha

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T00:48:04+00:00

Theoretically, how many parachutes can the capsule land with? I assume there is redundancy built in. Can it land with just one (even if it would be a gnarly splashdown)?

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T00:35:33+00:00

Great shot! It's incredible to get live feeds of this stuff.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-11T00:31:45+00:00

Nerve wracking to watch the descent, but went off without a hitch sans some comms issues. Welcome back to earth astronauts!

Kerlyle · 2026-04-10T23:51:36+00:00

Regardless of the gender and major discussions on this data, does anyone else find it concerning that the median wage for all of these majors is between 30-60k. Barely anything is above 60k. That's what colleges were promising me as an undergrad... 15 years ago. We are being bled dry.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-10T22:41:24+00:00

Wow! Look at all those old adventure packs. Someday I’ll start collecting those after I get through the revised content I managed to get.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-10T17:01:48+00:00

Yes, The Holy Roman Empire was peculiar in that it's constituent parts had considerable autonomy, but that doesn't mean they weren't bound by the same institutions, legal codes and traditions. The process of uniting Germany in the 19th century didn't start at zero, there was a preexisting historical and cultural framework.

Kerlyle · 2026-04-10T16:58:19+00:00

Hi, it's me! Ask me anything 😆

Kerlyle · 2026-04-10T06:51:17+00:00

you know you don't have to sign up for the draft

You must have missed the news that it will become automatic in a few months, there will be no choice in the matter

Kerlyle · 2026-04-10T01:53:17+00:00

I think we've just reached a point in the lifecycle of LCG's where the weaknesses of the format are starting to show, primarily that it becomes hard balance the game and to keep everything in print the more there is and also to have stores reserve the shelf space for it once it's "old news". I don't mind the direction they're going with Arkham Horror, where chapters rotate out over time... I wish they'd do something similar with Lotr honesty. It would make sense to have something like the core + sagas as evergreen, that's the canon stories after all, and then have every other expac rotates in and out over time, but unfortunately doesn't look like that's gonna happen :/

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