Or the government sets up an age verification service that doesn’t store logs and only reports numbers in aggregate. The restricted site sends you and a unique id off to the government service, you verify there and it hands back the id & a yes/no token to the site.

The government already has nearly all the tools to make this happen. They already have id verification services to use & web front ends to copy. Just build the public API and insist restricted sites use it.

Until intelligent life evolved, the universe itself had no idea it existed, intelligent life gives it momentary glimpses of itself. You are a vessel for giving the universe a brief glimpse of experience. Use your time to make the experiences the universe sees as interesting and joyous as possible. This means treating others and yourself with love. That’s basically my philosophy/spirituality. Personifying the universe as a whole.

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