With verification on service level, I can simply not use that service if their implementation isn’t privacy-oriented.
Or skip the verification if I don’t need to access adult content.

With government-mandated verification on the OS level, I have no choice.
I have to provide my ID just to use my computer online.

At least read the top comment before you write the exact same thing.

Thank you for the advice! Which sadly came a day too late, but I’ll keep that in mind.
I reinstalled cause I chanced upon a new, bigger SSD, and am now back on Plasma, the only DE that never gave me grief with Steam and games. I’m trying out Kröhnkite for tiling now.

There’s a political movement that gained steam in the EU to make social media companies responsible for the content they deliver.
This would have meant they’d have to implement robust age verification on their platforms to comply with EU youth protection laws (including fines per child that could access unsuitable content).
So they lobbied for delegating the age verification to the OS level instead.
That way they can continue to push harmful, addictive slop to children without being legally responsible.
They can just say “we check the age provided by the OS”.

The answer to the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything is 42.
But what is the question?

“You can’t.”

“What the meaning of life is.”

“It’s complicated.”

What is the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe and Everything?

Then they should have written that, instead of “Antifa only existed after Trump won”.

not any actual “antifa members” because they don’t exist.

Well, I guess that explains how easy it was to establish fascism in the US.

“Could you DuckDuckGo that for me?” just doesn’t work the same.

Linopodes

There are two main characters who are gay but this is not a huge plot point. They just mention it in passing.

Additionally, there was a perk in Fallout 3 which gave you extra speech options for characters of the opposite sex.
In FNV they made it two perks, one that gave you extra speech for men and another for women. Essentially allowing you to roll play as a gay or bi character of either sex.

So it was pretty progressive for a 2010 AAA game.

And then there was the streamer who loaded up an old save from long before her transition, and her character looked like her post-transition:

He posted the “whispering girls” meme with 14-year-old Emma Watson and a text about slapping balls during sex with old men. It got removed after I reported it.

I have them tagged as “posts underage erotica”.

Same, but I’ll make an exception for this.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=W9A9MJ-Z40U

Only those using Arabic numerals.
Personally, I use the base 💩 numbering system.

No, it’s trying to give people ammo to counter when others frame the statistic in a xenophobic way.
You’re right, the effect is more general, it leads to the Vatican having the highest crime rate in the world by far (<800 residents, millions of visitors).
But you don’t often hear right wing agitators try to claim that tourism is bad.

Oh I’d LOVE to work as executioner at Microsoft!