Interesting. Maybe we would have shorter working hours one day? 
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This is simply an argument in favor of smarter liars, cheaters, frauds, and assorted criminals of a much worse stripe. It provokes two questions: (1) Is there something new in this idea, and (2) do we really want that?
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Or when surfing anywhere maybe!
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Even we got alert in Taiwan (but pretty mild here)
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海嘯編號：114005
Not sure whether it’s common practice but I find it funny how they put a serial number to a tsunami
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The first part of the three digits is the ROC calendar year (2025 is the year 114), and the last three digits dictate the number of tsunami warning reported globally this year (this is the 5th one).
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Meanwhile in Australia…
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I’ve seen some “Brainrot” videos on youtube (probably AI generated) that I find seriously frightening, yet they seem like they are targetted at children.
I’m thankful if governments are making an effort to protect young people on the internet, even if that requires censorship.
I am not sure that this case is exactly censorship, since it applied to young people who are, by definition, legally age restricted from a lot of things anyway (e.g. drinking, driving, voting, etc…), and reasonably so.
There are three levels to this, as far as I can tell.
Level 1:
The platform continues to work normally, but there is an age restriction to the content that kids and teenagers under a certain age can view/access.
Level 2:
The platform totally bans people under a certain age because they shouldn’t be there.
Level 3:
The government, the payment processors, social groups or the platform itself, will censor what is on the platform or not, thus affecting everyone, regardless of age.
I do not think that anyone can argue that level 1 and level 2 are reasonable and parts of what responsible parenting entails, most of the time. That the government replaces the parents (exposing their ineptitute or lack of time to parent their children) is a totally different social issue.
The only censorship, in the way most people understand the word happens, on level 3, where you are an adult and the government or some social group curtails the amounts of choices available to you.
This, of course, has a lot of precedents in many facets of life (e.g. asbestos is not “available to you” as a building material or certain chemicals are not available to be used in food and so forth), so it is also an idea that many people wouldn’t mind on an array of content that are obviously illegal and harmful (e.g. instructions on how to 3D print illegal arms or substances), but draw the line on whether there will be a restriction on what you can read, think and enjoy, as an adult.
That is where the breach of trust occurs. A lot of people would trust the government if it where to ban DDT or some harmful pesticide which they do not understand anyway, but will worry about giving the ability to “move the line” on what an adult can or cannot do, view, enjoy and think.
If the governments and social groups and processors had stuck with level 1 and level 2, most people not only wouldn’t mind, but would probably be very much in favor of such bans for non-adults.
The effort to move to level 3 willy-nilly will cause friction which might affect even the reasonable ideas of the previous levels. 
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It started with censorship, then moved on to correct idealism for youth, and then to indoctrination and “youth group”. Control what the next generation can see and think, and you can easily control the mess in the future.
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There is much more about it. It’s about internet freedom of speech, data’s security, anonymous and IDs…
At the origin it was a tool for science so all this wasn’t really a problem. But internet became more for everybody and problems emerged. I dunno how the next steps will be.
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List of largest earthquakes by magnitude of 21st-century:
| Rank | Magnitude | Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9.2–9.3 | 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake |  Indonesia, Sumatra, Indian Ocean, |
December 26, 2004 |
| 2 | 9.0–9.1 | 2011 Tōhoku earthquake |  Japan, Tōhoku, Pacific Ocean |
March 11, 2011 |
| 3 | 8.8 | 2010 Chile earthquake |  Chile, Maule |
February 27, 2010 |
| 4 | 8.8 | 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula earthquake |  Russia, Kamchatka |
July 30, 2025 |
| 5 | 8.6 | 2005 Nias–Simeulue earthquake | Indonesia, Sumatra |
March 28, 2005 |
| 5 | 8.6 | 2012 Indian Ocean earthquakes | Indonesia, Sumatra |
April 11, 2012 |
| 7 | 8.5 | 2007 Bengkulu earthquakes | Indonesia, Sumatra |
September 12, 2007 |
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I meant to double check how the date comes up and what the prediction is but
Not too far off
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Interesting…
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So we’ll continue to pollute our organs with microplastics. SE Asia is particularly affected
but all food sources in the world are contaminated. The next generations will not thank us.
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I am beggining to worry that soon there might not be enough food sources for them, contaminated or otherwise, so…
…if this keeps up the expected age of those generations is going to collapse, so at least they won’t be around for too much and won’t suffer for too long… silver lining, eh? 
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