I agree, but to be fair, this is not a new problem, nor is it one limited to the US.

I’m from Austria, and during the London riots (IIRC, that was in 2010 or 2011) I lived in the UK.

My parents frequently sent me news articles and snippets from TV news about things happening in the UK, and it was constant horror stories, almost apocalyptic. They claimed that all of UK was in riot and specifically also mentioned the area where I lived in.

In fact, all that I noticed of the riots was one peaceful demonstration on one afternoon and that was it.

Yeah, that’s not a job I’d be comfortable doing.

Deploy broken code straight to prod?

Infinite scroll amplifies the “I’m never going to find that again” problem. That’s the thing I hate most about it.

I uninstalled Discord yesterday.

What they can likely do is the same as with porn sites: require law-abiding, trusted and well-known VPN providers to do age verification, thus pushing people to more obscure and risky providers who don’t care about the law instead.