Imagine that, people make up bullshit that isn't grounded in reality. Who would have thought!
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Imagine that, people make up bullshit that isn't grounded in reality. Who would have thought!
Blood pressure medication comes to mind.
You aren't going to stop teenagers from watching porn if you have the internet.
All this would do is change the websites that teenagers are using.
It strikes me as just political grandstanding since the people putting forth this idea must know it is completely pointless.
Not to mention, a website is vastly different than a physical store.
I was into 90s cyberpunk and the problem was the ideas were basically all wrong about the internet. Or maybe we could have gone in another direction with the internet but didn't.
The main difference overall though is in the past life was incredibly boring. It was so boring people had to invent all these cultural activities to escape the disconnected, mind numbing boredom of existence.
Life today is just much more interesting regardless of finances so there isn't the motivation to hang out at goth bar once a week.
The steam-powered loom was not good for the luddites either. Good for society at large in the long term but all the negative points that a 40 year old knitter in 1810 could make against the steam-powered loom would have been perfectly reasonable and accurate judged on that individual's perspective.
Once you figure out the work flow, Claude Code is just insane.