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And archive.is joins their users into botnets I’ll take the cookies
got any reference for that claim?
Wikipedia has deprecated them as a result
Half-expecting a comment from him here on HN
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Man, in the UK you can’t even get a frigging cat without having several inspections of your home and interviews to confirm that you will be a fit “parent”. I mean, I’m all for safeguarding in principle - but it evidently doesn’t bloody work. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y0xz424v1o
Individual examples of the process not working doesn't mean it's overall a bad process. If you expect perfection, no adoption would ever occur.
> Not everything has been easy. When he was a teenager, he had a lot of questions about his birth mother. He wanted to put up posters in the subway, and we would notice him looking at strangers’ faces to see if they looked like him. He’s made peace with the situation now, though. Felt this deeply.
I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America? Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to pr…
In Canada, my family knew a couple who tried to adopt a child in the decades ago because of infertility. The vetting process and the paperwork from the government agency was "audacious". They said the amount of red tape was so much to the point that the fertile couples would not adopt locally.
Back in the day, adopting a child from China and Romania was easier than adopting locally.
I find this story slightly odd. I'm not trying to suggest it's not true, I have trust in the Guardian not to print falsehoods; but do they really offer abandoned babies to just anyone in America? Here in the UK, I used to work with a guy many years ago who was trying to adopt. He and his wife had to go through months and months of vetting and paperwork to be allowed to become adopted parents. You basically have to pr…
https://nypost.com/2025/07/04/us-news/nycs-famous-subway-bab... > The process actually ended up being surprisingly quick, thanks to a short-lived pilot program that was meant to cut through red tape and quickly place healthy, abandoned infants in permanent homes.
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Individual examples of the process not working doesn't mean it's overall a bad process. If you expect perfection, no adoption would ever occur.
I’d say raping your adopted kid is not just a little slip up, and to brush that with “nobody’s perfect” is… well, you do you.
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I’d say raping your adopted kid is not just a little slip up, and to brush that with “nobody’s perfect” is… well, you do you.
How do you prove with absolute certainty that a given person will never rape anyone?
You could also have at home unscheduled social worker visits. Intrusive, sure, but it’s a) something you’d be knowingly opting into through adoption and b) likely mostly focussed on early years.