I live in the UK, and just tried it with a debit card. It doesn't allow me to access adult games, it still says:

"Under the UK Online Safety Act, Valve is required to verify that you are 18 or older before accessing mature sexual content. If you wish to do so, please add a valid UK credit card to your account and afterwards update the Mature Content Preferences."

I don't have a credit card, so can't try using one. An odd scenario is that my Steam account is from 2008, so will itself will be 18 next year, and I didn't set it up when I was a year old.

https://news.slashdot.org/stor...

https://science.slashdot.org/s...

Looks like it's just the writer of the article, Emily Dreibelbis, who drew the fake gold conclusion. The post referencing Mansa Musa in the thread she directly links to doesn't mention anything about fake gold.

Maybe she had an AI poorly summarise the thread for her?

Are all of your posts on this topic hypotheticals? From your posts about how the British caused the locals impoverishment so as to take their artefacts (conspiracy?), to how they would defeat the locals in war and genocide and then trade with them, to them (representatively) seizing people's homes to send to the British museum? Do you have any actual examples of any of these? Or are you perhaps buying in to hysteria of what you believe they were like?

There's a summary, but I don't see any link to any article at all. There's a link some mage space website, but the summary says: " samleecole shares a report from 404 Media, a new independent media company founded by technology journalists Jason Koebler, Emanuel Maiberg, Samantha Cole, and Joseph Cox: " Well, where's this report from 404 Media?

Not seen much about this case, the guy was sentenced to 30 years
https://ktar.com/story/5490359...
The justice gov website doesn't mention abduction at all, though there was clearly a 28 years adult man with the 14 years girl in a probable sexual relationship.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-e...

Classic pulling up the ladder after themselves behaviour.

This is the second time in the topic you've called copyright infringement stealing, but this time you've sarcastically corrected yourself. What's your issue with copyright infringement not being the same as stealing? Do you not understand why they are different things? With copyright infringement, I'd be making an unathorised copy of something. This could be me copying out a copyrighted book by hand, or it could be me using a computer to copy a copyrighted set of 1s and 0s. As long as I'm not removing a copy from an owner, it's not stealing.

Truss lowered taxes and increased spending, which was to be funded by borrowing. She U-turned on these when the pound collapsed as a result.

The editorial contains 5 links to twitter users saying something similar to each other, is that news now?

What an awful website. Can't even scroll the page without allowing it to run javascript. Can't highlight or select text. At least it works in reader mode.

How many times did they make Spotify? Why should they expect to keep getting money from that?

Clearer and fully version of that video, including where they call the WHO guy back
https://twitter.com/HKWORLDCIT...