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EatMan posted...

So let me get it straight.

Free speech endangers children so the government decides to step in to protect them by limiting free speech.

Also:

Gun violence endangers children but the government can't step in to protect them because that would limit the right to bear arms.

Gotcha.

Strictly speaking, TX passed a law that required adult content sites to validate ID's for TX residents and PornHub opted to just block TX rather than comply. I don't really see that as a free speech violation as it is a massive privacy violation. I also see it as being a largely meaningless law for all the other reasons stated in this thread.

adjl posted...

Or if not VPNs, to be active in enough online communities to find sites that don't have age verification and/or have not blocked Texas. It'll cut down a bit on kids accessing porn, but if they want to find it, they're going to, and the government won't be able to do anything to circumvent that until they make a genuine effort to understand what options are available to verify users' ages securely and without introducing major privacy concerns.

Of course, the actual best course of action would be to accept that it's inevitable that kids that want to see porn are going to access it, and from there develop sex ed curricula that include candid discussions about what porn is, isn't, and the harms it can do if misused, but somehow I don't think Texan voters would get behind that.

I mean, it was hard enough to keep kids from porn even before the internet. Now it is just a hopeless endeavour, especially with sites hosted in countries that aren't really going to care about Texas trying to fine them.

GranTurismo posted...

Never heard it called that, thought it might be some wording workaround......

Never heard which? Snapdragon?

Dikitain posted...

I think it is more a matter of "would the NFL allow a new team period". Only one team has been added in the 21st century, and only 11 teams have been added since the NFL and AFL merged (2 of those being AFL teams that got in a few years after).

The only way I could see it happening is if one of the existing teams were sold to a city, which would never happen.

I think the NFL's focus on expansion now is outside the US, given the increasing number of international games each year. Overall though I was focusing more on the financial viability of that kind of ownership rather than the likelihood.

slacker03150 posted...

If memory serves, it is also how a lot of European football teams are handled. I think it would be doable. The question would be would the NFL allow a new team like that to enter the league.

I don't think the NFL would care, they get their cut regardless, I'm just not sure you could raise the billions of dollars needed for an NFL team through, what is effectively, crowd-sourcing. The costs associated to running a team have greatly out-paced inflation.

Smallville posted...

oh, cool. Any downside to this method or way of doing it, like packers people have said it is to the traditional method?

I have no idea if it would even be viable today. They did this back in the 1920's in a relatively new league, the amount of money you'd need to raise today would probably make it substantially more challenging.

A joke I didn't get as a kid watching that show.

Smallville posted...

what is their arrangement though? have vaguely heard of it. So they don't have a billionaire owner?

"The Packers are the only community-owned franchise in North America's four traditional major leagues. Rather than being the property of an individual, partnership, or corporate entity, they are held by stockholders, more than 537,000 in total as of 2022. No one is allowed to hold more than 200,000 shares."

I haven't played anything related to Doom since it was a new game.

joemodda posted...

Lmao who gives a shit what a bunch of fucking New Yorkers think

I mean, depending on what you are selling, a lot of people, but for this particular topic I don't think very many people are going to care because it is meaningless data.

faramir77 posted...

I'm not a big fan of the fact that if you aren't at full health the game becomes WAY harder due to losing the ability to shoot sword beams

Yeah, this was from the era where arcade games were still a major influence on game mechanics so it didn't really feel weird then but it does stand out as an odd choice now.

adjl posted...

I don't even know what this is, nor does a video of accosting random strangers and asking their opinions on a picture tell me much.

Yeah, it is a very silly method to go about getting opinions on a video game. You could probably show any video game to a random sample of people on the street and get similar kinds of responses.

Lokarin posted...

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/tech/vpn-searches-spike-texas-pornhub/index.html

I'm fairly certain the existence of VPN's factored heavily into Pornhub's willingness to block states.

JoeDangIt posted...

North Carolina has apparently passed similar laws but my Internet thinks I'm in Tennessee.

Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia and now Texas are all states that have age verification laws and have been blocked by PH. Of course, VPN's exist so this is largely a symbolic gesture.

This is like 'solving' underage drinking by banning Budweiser...

darkknight109 posted...

I have met many people over the years who I wouldn't consider "smart" or "intelligent", but most of them still aren't complete idiots in every single category. Rare is the person who is an absolute moron in every single field of life. Hell, I knew one guy who was obviously pretty "slow" (later found out he was actually considered legally disabled by the government because he had an I.Q. below 80), but he could sail a boat better than I ever will.

So I don't necessarily think that "not a mindless buffoon" should be our minimum qualifier to call someone "smart".

Anyways, no, I don't think Elon is smart; I think he had the good sense to surround himself with smart people and take credit for their accomplishments, but like all narcissists he eventually fell for his own propaganda and deluded himself into thinking that it was his genius, rather than his money, that was the reason for where he was. From what I understand, Tesla had multiple people whose full-time job was managing Musk and ensuring that his ridiculous ideas never got to see the light of day (and the absence of those people at Twitter was what caused a lot of the problems following the takeover) - that's not usually something you associate with legitimately intelligent people.

Or, as someone on Twitter succinctly put it after the takeover (not an exact quote, but I don't have the original source on hand), "I heard a lot of people call Musk a genius for his SpaceX stuff; I don't know anything about rocket science, so I thought he must be a genius. Then I heard a lot of people call Musk a genius for his Tesla stuff; I don't know anything about electric cars, so I thought he must be a genius. Then I saw his opinions about computer science; I know a lot about computers and I can safely say the shit he's saying is some of the most moronic stuff I've ever heard anyone say, and now I'm wondering about just how much of a 'genius' he really was in the other two companies."

Self-driving cars was the first thing I can really remember him talking about where I remember thinking "This guy is kind of an idiot."

He paid $40 billion dollars for Twitter and then changed it's name to X, thus discarding what was probably the single most valuable asset left in the company...so no, no I do not think he is intelligent.

Not much to make a judgement about the woman, but the guy who posted it is a jackass.

Entity13 posted...

One can only hope no one slips anything into Tyson's system to make him go berserk. That would be tragic.

I'm hoping that somewhere Tyson is going through some Rocky-esque training montage so that he is absolutely jacked when he goes into the fight.

Weird, his cause of death is given as acute subdural hematoma and that is generally caused by some kind of blow to the head but there is no mention of any kind of accident.

Edit: Doubly weird that he died on March 1st and we are just hearing about it now.

SinisterSlay posted...

I expect it was expensive.

Well they were also effectively trying to sell Mythbusters, except with a more limited scope, at a time where Mythbusters popularity was already declining.

Devil_May_Cry posted...

Jake is going to get fucked up. This is going to be like watching a dumpster fire I cant watch.

Iron Mike is going to win for sure. I feel bad for Jake Paul even though he has terrible associations (I think his brother disrespected the dead)

Why would you feel bad for him, it isn't like someone is forcing him to do this, he literally went out of his way to make this happen. Jake Paul isn't just terrible by association, he's as big a jackass as his brother.

slacker03150 posted...

Is that the guy who said black people owe white people reparations for making them slaves and rescuing them from Africa?

I can't find a specific reference to it, but it might be the only stupid thing he hasn't said.

Not my governor thankfully.

Dear god no.

Yellow posted...

I don't think there's a single thing I like about Jake Paul. He's like Elon, he just embarrasses himself over and over for being hatable.

Maybe the two of them could have a death match to be the first person to die on Mars.

It would have been interesting if this was the late 80's/early 90's but now its just kind of sad. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Tyson could still clean his clock if he actually cared to try, but I just don't see him putting in that kind of work when he can just show up and cash an easy paycheck.

He'd make a fortune on the live stream.

Humble_Novice posted...

Who will take over the development of the RWBY series?

Considering they were owned by Warner Bros./Discovery you'll be lucky if they don't wipe it out for a tax writeoff.

I enjoyed the first one, I think they got progressively worse though.

Lokarin posted...

Are they the same group as the Tennessee Nazis (unrelated to the Illinois Nazis)

I hate Illinois Nazis

Dikitain posted...

He is like the Minecraft guy, he made his money then got out of the business. I didn't really care about what he said, and I enjoyed Fez for the 3-4 hours it took me to beat it, but it wasn't anything I was aching for a sequel to. He can sit in his room with his millions and just stay out of society for all I care.

Notch was a slightly different case than Fish. Notch sold his company for a big pile of Microsoft money and decided he was done. Fish was actually working on another game and then had an online meltdown and decided he didn't want to deal with people.

Jen0125 posted...

Give me my $12 and give it to me NOW

$12 is pretty good for a class action, most of mine are like $1.25. Only people that get rich off class action suits are the lawyers.

Reagan getting shot by Hinckley.

He spent most of his presidency getting into fights on Twitter and about the only thing his supporters can point to as an accomplishment of his presidency was more a matter of timing than anything. (Overturning of Roe v. Wade via stacking the Supreme Court with conservatives.)

Lokarin posted...

package said 60lb

It's 60 kilos

That isn't a very mini-dishwasher, that would be 40ish pounds heavier than my full size dishwasher.

Cats.

BADoglick posted...

Between his age, Israel, and perceptions of the economy, I feel like he's the only Democrat that could lose to Trump.

Hillary Clinton?

Monopoman posted...

I will love the follow up story when this jackass is fired and can't find a job because he refuses to deliver to the most populated city by a huge margin in America. Also some in NYC do support Trump so this notion that everyone in NYC thinks Trump is the worst is a fucking joke.

The only way this guy keeps his job is if his trucking company would never send him to NYC anyways, like if his typical locations are all on the SE or something and he does 100% of his deliveries down there.

Or he is an independent trucker.

Oh and the guy that made the original tweet already changed his mind anyway https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/maga-trucker-does-180-trying-123056407.html

Muscles posted...

But how many sold?

Versus how many were just forcibly handed out to citizens in China.

Nichtcrawler-X posted...

As a true global phenomena? I would include Harry Potter as a contender.

I would agree, although the series as a whole does cross into the 21st century and that is also probably when it really took off as a global phenomena.

Muscles posted...

Catcher in the Rye

I hated that book immensely.

I used to go all the time as an adult, my wife and I got married in EPCOT, but that was also the last time we were there. Not only has it gotten more expensive, but the overall quality of the experience has declined over time. Now that is our opinion, my brother moved his family down there a couple years ago and they go to the parks all the time.

faramir77 posted...

Remember how they showed a title card for Elder Scrolls 6? Wasn't that like 6 years ago? It'll probably be at least another 6 years before it even launches, and it'll probably suck when it does.

E3 2018, so going on 6 years. Current rumors say 2026, but given that it is Bethesda we can expect that to slip a year or two.

adjl posted...

"here's a trailer for a game that might come out three years from now."

Or 8-10 years if you are Bethesda.

If I had a vehicle I could get under without having to jack it up I would probably do it, but jacking my car up to a height that I could get under it with room to work on my fairly uneven driveway isn't really something I'm interested in.

Yellow posted...

so it might just be worth getting robbed over if you actually have the money.

Largely this though. There are a number of things that I know how to do, but I'm generally more than happy to pay someone to do to save my time. I have a shop in walking distance of my house, so I can drop my car off in the morning, walk home and work and then walk back to pick it up later.

GranTurismo posted...

so you say it is def. much much worse now on avg?

No, I'm saying it could be much worse now but I have no way of knowing for certain. I also only worked in one store, a Gamestop back when at least half the store was still dedicated to productivity software, so someone else working in a different kind of store in the same time period may have had a much different experience.

You can in Australia. https://www.livewiremarkets.com/wires/is-water-investing-a-missed-opportunity

Honestly I dealt with relatively few bad customers in my brief retail stint, but it was also a LONG time ago before the rise of the Karens.

pionear posted...

https://twitter.com/Chicago1Ray/status/1759368369311006986

Think they will follow along? (Poll Question)

He changed his mind:
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/maga-trucker-does-180-trying-123056407.html