JohnEdwa

How would you propose I prove to you at a reasonable certainty that I am an adult, without showing you my ID, or showing it to someone else you trust to tell the truth?
And also somehow prove that the ID I gave was not fake without the government that issued it telling you that it's genuine?

Well, I actually could do it because I'm old enough that most of my accounts are already over 18 years old, but I don't think requiring every new Pornhub user to wait 18 years is a reasonable solution.

If there is exactly one global service that does all the checks for every single internet user, which every single website uses, and the information going through them is always known, then sure, they could certainly block stuff.
But it's quite clear by now "we aren't going to implement age verification on the internet" isn't going to happen, that verification is going to be implemented eventually, and in the rather near future. And places like the UK and many US states are extremely unlike to roll back the already implemented solutions.
So the question now is how it can be done with the least amount of invasion to privacy, and crucially, without the website needing your actual ID.

The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple "Is adult: yes/no" answer connected to a randomised ID from them.

Combine that with one additional hop between the website and processor and you eliminate the processor even knowing what websites you requested the check for, and therefore the risk of a data leak is minimal.

Game mechanics cannot be copyrighted

They can't, and that's why this was a patent case. And they certainly can be patented.

One of the most delicious food I've ever eaten was this meat stew my grandfather made with oxtail and tongue.
The meat was some of the most horrible stuff I've ever put in my mouth, but the vegetables and the stock was absolutely heavenly.

In this case a headcount before leaving could kinda have been feasible as the ship only had 120 passengers - often it isn't simply because modern cruise ships tend to be massive and have way too many passengers to keep track of - but from what I could understand they had an electronic system in place and for some reason she either wasn't marked as having left, or had somehow been mistakingly marked as returned.

She was noticed as missing when they did do a "headcount", during the evening dinner.

It's estimated russia spent $145 billion for the military in 2024, and the budget for 2026 is about the same - 2025 was around that as well. So that 200 billion pays for roughly 16 months of the currently 44 month war.

Gotta keep the investor money flowing.

"Trust me bro, I know x didn't work but y will, give me a few more billions bro, AI will make us rich bro"

And fittingly, both of those categories are pretty much a perfectly overlapping venn diagram because they are so overarchingly vague.
Drinking water can kill you, and if it's too hot, it causes cancer.

Therefore "drinking water" is something that can be found it both lists. And so is "not drinking water".

It's also the worlds most addictive chemical, and alarmingly nobody addicted to dihydrogen monoxide has ever been able to overcome that addiction, every dihydrogen monoxide addict dies with a 100% certainty within a few weeks if they stop taking it.

There actually is one under development.

And also one already on steam but it's from a russian dev team, so...

A single raspberry pi that draws maybe 3 watts, and fraction of a watt standby draw per device?

Also, 10w draw for a year is 87kWh. And you probably have more than just one light in your house.