> If they think that UK law doesn't apply to them (which seems very credible) why react at all?

If I get a speeding ticket in the mail from another state I've never been to, I'm not going to ignore it, I'm going to explain to the court why it's invalid. Ignoring legal notices, even from other jurisdictions than one's own, is generally unwise (with some exceptions). So is responding with insults instead of concrete legal justification for why this is inapplicable.

The response is effectively that, but with a framing much more amenable to their own future defense on both legal and political fronts, if ever required.

ISPs blocking it will mostly work, I think. Most people can't be bothered with a VPN so if 4chan is inaccessible they'll just read/watch something else instead.

In the days following the enforcement of age verification legislation, VPNs were trending in the UK app store charts, above age verification apps.

Even today NordVPN is in the #5 spot, above Uber and Google.

I think you can't post on 4chan if you're using a VPN.

you can if you buy a 4chan pass with crypto

I think you severely underestimate the tech savviness and community-seeking of 4chan users. They'll figure it out.

An alternative approach (less powerful but simpler) might be to reversibly convert the binary files into a mergeable text-like form before committing them.

I've never done exactly that but I have occasionally decided how information will be represented in a data file with merging in mind.

Thanks for that example. Would a Chinese person ever write the tone in pinyin when writing something for themselves?

Not when doing fragments in obvious context like that. For one, tone doesn't disambiguate anyways. There's 10+ common characters with pinyin 'dan', and only 4 (5) tones in Mandarin.

But also when the context is super obvious there, there's no need.

If you're doing an exam in China or Japan, do you write on paper, or use a computer?

Not the question you asked; but something that actually surprised me, as someone who has taken multiple language tests in the EU:

The (semi-official) Japanese language tests do not test language production in _any_ way, even on the highest levels.

You don't need to speak a single word, nor write a single character to pass the exam, it's all single-choice answers.

AFAICT, the equivalent exams for Chinese and Koreans do include writing, at least on the higher levels; but still don't have a speaking portion.

> The (semi-official) Japanese language tests do not test language production in _any_ way, even on the highest levels.

This is simply not true. The Kanji Kentei is probably the most popular Japanese language test Japanese people might take outside of school, and it tests writing heavily.

If you're talking about the JLPT, that's a test meant only for non-native speakers.

> all single-choice answers.

Not even multiple choices? Maybe they should reconsider that one.

>This is simply not true. The Kanji Kentei is probably the most popular Japanese language test Japanese people might take outside of school, and it tests writing heavily.

I would not qualify Kanji Kentei as a "language test" any more I would qualify a Spelling Bee as one; though I can see how someone might.

In any case; I thought that it was relatively clear from the context that I was using "language tests" as a shorthand to "tests for non-native speakers of that language"; but I did not explicitly mention that, you're right.

>Not even multiple choices? Maybe they should reconsider that one.

Is that not how these are called in English?

Where I'm from, there's a distinction for tests where given a list of answers, there can be only one valid one ("single choice") and where there can be multiple valid ones ("multiple choice").

Quick googling on my end indicated that _is_ how they're referred to in English, but the websites were quite AI-sloppy, so if I was mistaken, I'd love for you to let me know what the more widely understood terms are.

Since you used the phrase "highest levels", that made it sound to me like you were talking about native tests.

I apologize for misunderstanding.

Non-native japanese language tests do not ever go to a high level as far as I'm aware (N1 definitely doesn't classify as a high level, it's around "can read the newspaper very slowly and with greater than 50% comprehension", which is well below even the least-studious native-speaking adults).

> Is [single choice answer] not how these are called in English?

It's an unusual term to my american-english ears. I've only heard them called "multiple choice questions" regardless of how many answers you can select. It's unusual enough that it conjures to the mind a multiple-choice test where each question has only a single answer, say "a", and you just circle "a" for every answer.

I have recently had the experience of Labguage School in Japan and they also realy heavily lean into having just circle the correct parts or do somethign like insert correct Particle here.

While I have tremendous respect for the Japanese Language and people. The Japanese in all my exposure to it do not know how ot tech languages. Be it their own to people that do not know it or English to their own people.

Almost always paper. The people who forget are adults who don't write anything by hand anymore except the occasional form or sticky note.

In Japan, paper

In China, paper

To be honest, the term "capitalism" has accumulated a lot of baggage and people don't always have a clear understanding of what is meant by it so it might be helpful to use a different term with a clear definition.

While that is true, I believe part of trying to establish a better system is spreading an understanding that the current system is broken - you do that by naming it as such and not leaving the field to competing definitions.

No, you just restated the premise. If I said like Yoda, "capitalism broken is" doesn't make it spherical.

Yoda would say "broken, capitalism is"

Leaving criminal stuff to the police and courts sounds sensible but "misconduct" isn't usually criminal.

EDIT: Though I'm not suggesting people should sign letters about people they don't know based on allegations by other people they don't know.

Most women are not interested in penis size. (Though some are, obviously.)

At a normal nude beach, with all age groups represented, people don't show off an erect penis. (Though there are beaches where that happens.)

Median erect penis length is about 13-14 cm and I don't think there's credible evidence for the median varying much between countries of Europe and North America. (Though there is some evidence for a smaller or larger median in some places outside Europe and North America.)

Does that help? (I'm not an expert but I think I know enough to write what I have just written.)

It does to some extent. At least your data is similar to what I've read.

I think the problem is that even if I was one standard deviation above the mean, that's still only about the 68% percentile. So it's expected that 3 of every 10 dudes would be better endowded than me, and I'm sure nude beaches bias in sample towards the more well endowed. So likely I won't be laughed at but won't be a genetic prize, and I'm not sure I'm confident enough (or ever will be) to accept that as public knowledge.

It's only the advertising-funded sites that go out of business and a lot of those sites were in any case just scraping other sites. What proportion of reliable online information is only available from a web site that is funded by advertising? It's not zero, but it's not a very big number, either, I suspect, so it might be sustainable.

That comparison makes no sense because the ICE car is releasing carbon taken (mostly) from petroleum while the human is releasing carbon taken (mostly) from the atmosphere via plants and animals.

Well, years ago, I was running my indirectly injected diesel straight off sunflower oil, so that was plant based too.

But your point is valid. Comparison is still useful for getting a grasp of the quantities involved.