Turns out, if you have a website and you think of the browser as a way to navigate documents — rather than a runtime to execute arbitrary code and fetch, compile, and present them — things can be a lot simpler than our tools often prime us to make them.

Age checks are widely perceived by children as easy to bypass[…] 46% of children believe age checks are easy to bypass, while only 17% say it is difficult[…] In focus groups, children demonstrated a clear awareness of how to bypass age checks, either through their own experiences or by hearing about methods from others. Methods ranged from simple approaches, such as entering a different birthday, to more sophisticated methods[…] One technique brought up was children drawing facial hair on themselves so that the tools verifying them would think they were older, which was reported as working in multiple instances.

The text of the Constitution clearly gives Congress the power to handle racial discrimination and voting, and when it came up to the court in 2013 in Shelby County, the court simply made up a new doctrine—state sovereignty, [that] all states have to be treated equally—in order to undermine a provision that subjected states with histories of voting discrimination to stricter scrutiny by the federal government. When the court wanted to protect its special boy, Donald Trump, from criminal prosecution, it invented a doctrine of criminal immunity for core duties found nowhere in the Constitution and frankly contradicted by the text, history, and theory behind the Constitution. More recently, rather than just shutting down Trump’s efforts to unravel birthright citizenship, the court has taken them seriously despite the clear text and history of the 14^th Amendment. Where the text interferes with partisan political goals, this Supreme Court says to Hell with the text.