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I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.
Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.
Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.
When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?
The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.
Move ZIG for great justice!
What possible benefit does this offer to Netflix? Are they trying to avoid paying licensing fee or something?
The constant underlying risk of global thermonuclear holocaust.
The average pay for an ATC is $100,810. The recent shutdown lasted 43 days or 344 hours assuming 8 hours a day maximum allowed by the FAA.
$100,810 / 26 weeks = $3,877/two weeks $3,877 / 80 hours = $48.46/hour $48.46 * 344 = $16,670.24 gross pay, without overtime.
While all controllers should eventually be disbursed their back pay (Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019), only 776 controllers will receive this bonus.
Russel Vought, Christian Nationalist architect of P2025, and now director of the Office of Management and Budget, wants to traumatize the federal workforce to strong-arm his fascist theocracy into power and this is the result.
If Russel Vought believes you’ll go to heaven or hell based on your political affiliations, doesn’t it kind of make twisted accelerationist sense for him to try and kill you in an engineered airline disaster?
sigh yes… and also porn. So, so much porn.
Humanity invented the assembly line and the first thing we did was have a huge war with the rest of humanity.
Humanity invented the atomic bomb, and the first thing we did was drop it on humanity, twice.
Humanity invented the Internet, and the first thing we did was figure out how to censor humanity.
Now humanity has invented AI, a queryable sum of all human knowledge, and the first thing we do is try to manipulate humanity with it.
“It’s much harder to grow vegetables in your backyard, but some people still do it because they like growing vegetables,” Musk added.
The world’s richest man, ladies and gentlemen.
YOU GOTTA FIGHT!
FOR YOUR RIGHT!
TO VEEEEEEEGAMIIIIITE!
Sounds like someone needs some Monday Night Rehabilitation
How long before you can’t turn this off or uninstall it, just like Edge, or Bitlocker, or TPM, or mandatory Microsoft accounts?
Trust me, this guy’s life is over. He will probably never fly again, or be hired to do anything else as a convicted felon except scrub toilets or sell timeshares. He owes $60,000 in restitution just to the airline, not counting the cost of lawyers. He was technically sentenced to 50 days, which has been served during the court process. The federal prosecutor being as strict as they come, only wanted a year in prison.
He’ll live as a recovering alcoholic who will forever carry the shame and weight of this mistake for the rest of his life, fully known to his friends, family, his entire former workplace, and most of the general public. And his best friend is dead.
Rest assured, I think he’s been punished quite severely.
To power the magnetic coils that provide plasma containment for an experimental fusion reactor, in order to research how to create a self-sustaining fusion reaction.
Such an achievement would be a watershed moment in human history, and most likely would usher in a new technological age of energy production.
If a software monopoly that is too large and important to society to be dismantled or avoided, and it uses that power to abuse its users and defy regulation, shouldn’t that company be nationalized?
They know it’s addictive, and they’ve designed it that way on purpose.
What a colossal waste of time and energy this is.