I think more than anything the gold plate works in a similar way. He is not emotionally regulated enough to handle the stress of living in a space that doesn't look like home, so he is using gold plating as his transition object.

He needs his blankie, basically

Kids can still visit the sites, they just can't have an account.

Visiting these sites with an account would mean companies would have to make changes to protect kids, because the companies know their ages

This is about *looking* like the gov is doing something while letting companies off the hook.

This is why there is no contradiction with being 'pro-life' and 'anti-vaccine'.

In both instances it is about underscoring who owns the bodies in question. The state owns the bodies of women; parents own the bodies of their children.

I'm not a person with many "Libertarian" takes but the right of privacy and the right of self ownership is very big with me.

There are forces that want to diminish both. No one should let them.

The work you do is crazy important, especially with both sides of the government selling out everyone's safety as if COVID has gone away.

Everything made ten or more years before we were born seems so pure, so familiar yet so exotic (continues to flip through macrame book, which was itself a 1970s fad based on an 1890s fad, so we are due for a macrame revival in 2050)