if companies actually did share 5 numbers with each piece of clothing (notice that that actually wouldn’t work since each piece of clothing is a bit different since they’re still largely hand-sown and measuring each piece of clothing is unpayably expensive) it would lead to a bureaucracy hell. businesses in europe already complain about too much bureaucracy, because they have to document a lot of things, and this would make the outcry a lot worse.

on top of that most customers wouldn’t actually bother reading a datasheet of 5 numbers and instead just try them on. so it’s not even a big advantage.

Could you please put a short summary of the article in the post body?

Something like:

Porn sites that ignore age-check laws are getting a flood of traffic - The Washington Post

The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides, including bursts of traffic to seedy parts of the web. August 31, 2025 at 7:05 a.m. EDT

Sothat users don’t have to click the article to get a quick overview of what it’s about. Saves you 5 clicks - open article, figure out it’s behind a paywall, go to archive.is, paste the article link, read article.

where it ends up making the clothes fit poorly

a.k.a makes the clothes fit anything but skin-tight because the pockets need space so the clothes have to be wider-cut

I suppose one of the many reasons why there are no consistent clothing sizes is because it’s so difficult to agree on a way to measure things. What parts do you measure? The lower leg thickness? the upper leg thickness? the waist circumference? The leg’s length? What if these numbers are all independent of each other and can’t be reduced to a single number?

saying “bluetooth alternatives are far better these days” ignores the uses cases for cable.

i have a phone for less than $200 and it works fine.

now while at first view, your sentiment is understandable, i actually kinda differ.

when you buy any product at any store, i believe that there has to be a legal entity behind the store that sells you this product, and the legal entity needs to be identifiable. i.e. if you run a shop and give packages to people, you need to show ID to open up that shop. i believe it is the same for charity organizations which give away packages for free.

now, why would it be different for apps? apps are software packages, and if they’re given away, there should be a legal entity behind it that is identifiable. this isn’t to surveil or suppress people, it’s just how business has always been done, and for good reason so. businesses need legal representatives to operate, even if it’s a charity, because otherwise there’s nobody to “talk to” when there’s issues, and also imposters would have an easy game.

that doesn’t mean that you can’t donate packages away on the streets. just put it in front of your front door and wait until somebody passes by and takes it, or give it directly into the hands of your friends, you don’t need to open a business for that. just, if you do it regularly, interacting with people you don’t personally know, there is a legal entity that represents that recurring activity, like a business or charity.

If i understand it correctly, even with the new changes, what can be done is that open software distribution sites like F-Droid can sign the packages instead of the original developers and therefore circumvent the identification of the original developers, and also you can still install unsigned third-party apps if you enter a command on the command line to disable ID certificate checking. it’s just an extra step, not a block-all.

not every android phone’s hardware even allows installing custom ROMs, as far as i’m aware of. and even if the phone technically does allow it, that doesn’t mean that any good custom ROMs are even available for it. so the issue is a bit more difficult than that.

them bringing it up again and again is a very significant problem. Imagine you’re spending time with a girl and asking her to have sex with you. She says “no”, and you simply keep asking her daily until she says “yes” once, probably because she’s just not paying attention to your actual question on that day. Such a behavior would be recognized by most people as being improper, immoral and not in the spirit of “consent”.

Now, the same is happening on the EU. They keep asking the same question after they already got an explicit answer, and such a behavior should be illegal by itself. No means No.

don’t worry :P

the US and Israel are the actual terrorists, the people from the middle east are just fighting for their right to self-determination.

ah yes, the whole universe is the true human body, and the market is the heart.

now that’s a well-worded response :)

also yes, i can see that point. i guess i’m just used to adapting my language to those around me to get better audience reception.

what you’re describing is called a “technical standard”, it allows things to work together instead of each company shipping its own, private implementation.

talking out of your ass here. satellites don’t typically just run out of fuel. they don’t really need fuel once they’re in orbit. the reason why spacex satellites fall down after like 5 years or sth is because they’re in an intentionally low orbit, where atmospheric friction is still relevant.

this is the first time that i’ve ever heard this and it’s kinda hilarious.

Nazism is […] a spectrum

lol, just L.O.L. do you want a little genocide with your 3pm tea or a bit more? How many brown dead children do there have to be to make it worthwhile? (/s)

i think that you might have a point, but you really gotta work on your verbalization and presentation. saying “nazism is a spectrum” is not gonna resonate with anyone.

i’ve heard the term “neoliberal”, but not the term “neoconservative” before. mind explaining what that refers to?

considering it’s Peter Thiel doing this, nothing good can come from this.

uhm, i’m not sure how to respond to that. let me think about it for a long while.

i don’t use ad-blocker, instead i just avoid websites if they’re too ad-ridden, like youtube.