Don't know about age verification, but revolut and crypto likely require manual review. I can't imagine google relying on the same process and assuming it will help to deter malicious actors.

Quanta is a science rag. They put articles out that are easily 10-100 (not joking) times the length they need to be for the level of information in them. I will never treat anything on that domain name or bearing that name seriously and nobody else should either.

Well you're cranky, aintcha.

That is still beyond extremely optimistic

If I had nothin else going on I'd probably do it

A family member with no inherent moral compass or empathy, whose eyes, ears, thoughts and agency belong to teams of trained profit-seekers in a different country. I disapprove of this humanization of software.

They stopped sending to me when I replied that every text message after would cost them $500 each. That's an actual thing. They got scared.

Not a warzone. A protest. A protest where over twice as many reporters have been assaulted and/or shot than waymo cars have burned.