and I live in a country that seems determined to reclaim our place as the top polluter

If you mean the Trumps policy “Drill Baby Drill”, then let me tell you this: Trump is pissing against the wind. Oil extraction will only get more expensive while solar power will only get cheaper.

No matter what he does, the economy will push towards cheaper energy source.

Moving 5% of fossil energy to renewables in a year is absolutely massive

If you look at Wikipedia articles about photovoltaics growth, you’ll see 25-27% growth per year. Compounding. This is insane rate.

I doubt that. The reason is that global economy phases out fossil fuels in favour of renewable energy sources

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.COMM.FO.ZS?end=2023&start=1990&view=chart

Then they’ll use TOR. What the fuck even is this?

Yes it would be. You’re wearing it with clear intent of damaging equipment.

You’re missing the point. If your location is outside of UK YouTube and others don’t ask for age verification. Noo need to send your child pics to some creepy middle man

I think UK government has no idea what they’re doing. First the stupid age verification which will eventually result in massive leak of private information, now this.

If they wanted to save the environment they should push for mix of nuclear and renewable energy sources. But that requires effort…

Nope. Server farms are by design made with energy efficiency in mind. You can’t push them any further with regulation

Also super long term archives are stored on magnetic tapes, they consume virtually 0 energy

Don’t know how this works in UK - In Poland there are other ways of signing into/registering in banking.

Another rule: Don’t let your kid share his face. Ever. For any reason.

If YouTube wants his face, just buy VPN so your kid can browse safely