I’ll let swing my three points of heresy:
1) Every time I hear people talk about how generations are different than each other, I remind them that the old white guys we complain about were the first generation to repel against their parents. They went to Woodstock and fought against the war in Vietnam. As for Donald, if he is as healthy as he claimed, why didn’t he serve in Vietnam. As for Thomas, we can blame Biden for his treatment of Anita Hill and Thomas’s favors from wealthy donors for his final degree of success.
2) Many of the people making laws in states are trying to ensure they can’t be voted on in the state, because they can’t be passed when the population is against it. I stress that porn drove adoption of the internet. My bosses had me sit down and review Sex and Stock-Quotes, and while we may think there is a gay backlash, I think Straight Men 18-34 outnumber their gay counterparts and will storm the capital themselves.
3) Several of us have discussed the disenchantment with apps. I know of 1 guy with 10 profiles on NKP and several others who use A4A and NKP for scamming, blackmailing, theft and they use fake IDs and multiple Google numbers. People want face pics and Verification that people are real. I’m tired of telling websites when people steal, blackmail or make threats. Some major company needs to be the clearing house and Europe is more likely to get it right first, but Elon Musk is going to have a bigger problem than some other sites because “X” is rife with porn and he’s dug a hole as he’s made the site a pre-screen for OnlyFans.The industry should have cleaned this up before so it couldn’t get to this level of debate.I don’t want BZ to change, but we should have the same safeguards that are making all the other sites such a problem.