Remember the 6,000,000 aliens.

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People are saying it's great, and it may be, but 40 chapters in six years is just too slow for me.

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Some sights were not meant to be seen.

I feel like I've gradually lost interest in this manga.

I don't know, I think the US was one of the timeliest responders in the world. We shut down travel to and from China in January 2020 right at the very start of the spread. Then Operation Warp Speed was launched just a couple of months later cutting all vaccine red tape to get the clotshot to market inside of a year which was historically unprecedented. Then there was the CARES Act, PPP loans, field hospitals, unbelievably fast sequencing and test trials for breakthroughs, and so on.

Covid 19 is a bad example because in the entire history of pandemics no one has responded more aggressively or timelier than the US did.

Normally I hate flashback filler episodes, but damn if this one didn't hit straight in the feels.

Lowkey become one of the releases I look forward to the most.

Been awhile since I've seen someone unironically use boomer logic online outside of like Facebook. And certainly not on a pirate manga site.
"wowww you're complaining about getting minimum wage? some people don't even have a job!"

Why not just release a single panel a week at this rate?

Kind of kept hoping that the hero would find some deus ex machina to come back. On the one hand, I'm glad he didn't. It means there are actual stakes in named, big characters can permanently die. On the other, I really liked him.

Maybe that earlier chapter where Ed was referenced as being a beggar when the game was beat was someone else who had unsuccessfully changed his life after an isekai?

Or maybe his villainous Cthulhu-worshiping father is a liar.

Absolute nonsense, but fine, let's simplify it: Do you think minors should be able to access adult-only sexually explicit spaces on a platform used by kids, yes or no?

Because that’s all this is. Discord isn't a porn site. It's a mixed-age platform adding a barrier to 18+ areas. Same reason kids can't walk into a sex shop or buy alcohol. They need to show an ID to get access there, Discord is proposing they need to show an ID to get access at their location too. They're not asking for platform-wide identification, just the parts that are harmful to children.

Now, if your answer is 'no, they shouldn't have access,' then you need some kind of barrier, and this is about as minimal as it gets. I can't imagine a less invasive barrier, can you? And if you can, I'd love to hear what it is.

And if your answer is 'yes, kids should have unlimited access to sexual content and adults who want to share it with children’ then at least be honest about the position you're defending.

All of this used to be the legal standard, you know. COPA back in the late 90s said websites HAD to gate material to protect children. But literal pornographers and pedophiles took up arms arguing against it using your exact rhetoric here to get it overturned. As a result we have a generation of children coming of age with a crippling pornography addiction and all the ailments and social ills that lie downstream of that which is devastating society on a global scale.

So, as you're sitting there fighting to make sure children have access to their molesters and groomers, take a look around at the people standing at the picket line with you and ask yourself if this is the hill you're proud to be dying on.

You're here bitching about Discord. Reread your posts. Every time I point it out you move the goalposts about totally unrelated laws and policies that not only have nothing to do with Discord, they have nothing to do with their proposed porn-gating. You want to throw a fit about government overreach in a situation where it actually is the government and they actually are overreaching? Fine. I'd probably agree with you too.

But this isn't it. You didn't start this comment chain complaining about the NSA or government acts stripping privacy being pushed. You opened complaining that a private company was enacting a privacy policy to block literal children from accessing pornography and sexual contact with adults.

So you're upset about government overreach in general, and you're blasting it at a private platform policy about adult content. Those aren't the same thing. I can understand being upset by legal overreach by the government. But that isn't this. You're not complaining about Section 702 surveillance and how loopholes allow it for warrantless search of American data. You're complaining that the porn servers on Discord will be age-gated. It's not even apples and oranges, it's apples and soccer balls.

When you go into hysterics about ANY level of age-verification because it's under the broad umbrella of privacy concerns, you weaken the overall issue. The next time people argue about the NSA overstepping Constitutional protections, they just need to reference bad actors like you defending little children being groomed on social platforms to poison the well. Discord age-verification for pornography is sensible. Quit conflating it with issues that aren't.

"Meta funded something somewhere" isn't evidence that Discord verifying age to gatekeep minors from sexual exploitation somehow leads to you being politically persecuted. Slippery slopes only work when you can evidence an actual slope. Right now you're arguing "this could someday something become something worse maybe" which applies to literally EVERY policy about every subject ever.

1. It's not a law, it's a private company's internal policy. Like "no shoes, no shirt, no service."
2. It only applies to adult servers. If you're not using Discord for age-restricted adult content (ie- porn) it doesn't apply to you.

Your controversial political takes on political boards remain just as anonymous as they always were.

Or, again, quit using a kid's app for porn if you feel your privacy is compromised there.

First, Discord explicitly does not sell your personal information. They sell aggregate anonymous data, IE- how many people are interacting with Roblox servers, and which dumb quests people participate in. The government has no need to purchase how many people think they're a Walter White in the latest Breaking Bad server quiz. And if they need your browsing history, your ISP is more than capable and familiar with handing all that over.

Second, why are you going to the porn servers to grandstand your political opinions? The politic servers aren't getting age verification, just the adult ones. I bet your fellow gooners will welcome the radio silence in their faps without you telling them your thoughts on Trump with every new porn clip.

Finally, platforms like Discord, Reddit, Facebook and the like that host a huge amount of children and also pornographic content should absolutely be going that extra mile to protect kids. Parents might know to block pornhub, but they might not realize that their kids' Bluey sub is two clicks away from a hardcore fetish sub. If age verification on a platform for children is such a dealbreaker, the answer isn't to just give up protecting kids because you don't think it makes them safer, it's to take any of the 10-35 million explicitly pornographic websites and use them instead of the kid app.

...you know Discord isn't a government agency, right? It's a private policy by a private company and it only applies to adult content servers. If you REALLY need porn, does it have to be on a platform children use? And if it has to be on a child's platform, do you really need the age of the people you're sharing sexual content with to possibly include literal children?

Normal people: No.
Groomers: Yes!