sleepundertheleaves

And if you doubt that, remember half the country still believes Haitian refugees are stealing and eating people's pets.

How does the line go? A lie can run around the world before the truth has its boots on?

Yeah, because you know who I trust to legislate the complex intersection of online privacy, free speech, and public safety?Bereaved parents.

I sympathize with their grief, but anecdotal claims that TikTok drove someone's child to suicide are not the basis for good public policy.

And although the article blames the failure of the bill on an astroturf NRA gun lobby group, there are many good reasons to oppose age verification bills like this one.

Or, in this case, "their authoritarian surveillance state" versus "our common sense age verification to protect our children".

Cash money. In use for more than four thousand years and still the best financial technology out there.

At least Russians can use cryptocurrency for private digital transactions oh wait no it's illegal to buy things with crypto in Russia.