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Illinois has long been a sanctuary state, but this is getting ridiculous. Yesterday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) pledged to protect dozens of Texas lawmakers fleeing their state to shut down the …
"What struck me most was the broad cross-section of people I saw making their way to the protest. All ages, different backgrounds, but a shared grievance. And that was on just one train line." view.mc.austcommunitymedia.com… @palestine
While Republicans redraw the battlefield, Democrats draft press releases. This isn’t politics; it’s an ambush. And if they don’t act now, democracy dies in committee.
Exactly. I see what's happened in the UK and that's why I'm sure as shit not going to sit silently while the "center-left" party here does the same thing they did over there. RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mf5dz…
The Netherlands has said it will contribute €500m ($578m/£500m) to buy US military equipment for Ukraine, becoming the first Nato country to contribute to a
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Israeli police violently dispersed demonstrators in Tel Aviv on Sunday as families of captives held in Gaza protested against regime’s refusal to reach a deal for their release, amid reports of an impending military escalation in th…
While Republicans redraw the battlefield, Democrats draft press releases. This isn’t politics; it’s an ambush. And if they don’t act now, democracy dies in committee.
There is a war on ideas in the Pentagon, according to a new report from The Atlantic.The news site noted on Monday that many top defense leaders and generals were headed to the Aspen Security Forum when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put a stop to it…
President Donald Trump lashed out at Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) as she slammed him in a CNBC interview for firing Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) administrator Erika McEntarfer over a poor jobs report.
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Trump’s attorneys helped deliver a massive victory for freedom and more in an antitrust victory in Texas. Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner discusses... Opinion he...
China's fifth-generation J-20 stealth fighter is a growing threat to US air superiority. Recent events, such as a J-20 flying undetected through a highly monitored Tsushima Strait, and its performance in a regional conflict, suggest its quality and quantity are surpassing US capabilities.
this is quite interesting and worth a listen. (it's long)
i've had suspicions that the oct 7 attack on israel was staged on some level but there's more circumstantial evidence supporting this than i was aware of
I watched Bryan Lunduke's video where he defends real ID on the Internet. One thing in the video that I don't see talked about is that he offers an alternative solution that is just *SLIGHTLY* better.
Basically, you could have cards with serial numbers that you can purchase at a 7/11 or something. Kind of like an Amazon or eBay gift card, and you can enter that serial number when signing up for a website to prove your over 18 or that you are not a bot. It sounds better but I see potential problems with it:
1. There are too many random variables that make it less than anonymous. Does the cashier scan your ID or does he just look at it? Can you buy the card with cash or only with debit/credit? Are there facial recognition cameras in the store? The company/organization providing the cards might even require all retailers to not accept cash and to have the customer's driver's license scanned and have all that data report back to them. 2. Cards obviously cost money to produce and ship so one can make the argument that it is cheaper and more efficient to just have users provide ID on whatever website they are trying to access. 3. Opponents to such proposal could point out that an adult could buy a bunch of cards and give/sell them to minors just like we see with alcohol/tobacco.
Obviously, I would rather not have any of this verification crap at all and just stick to the honor system we have now. I don't even think this store-bought card system would be considered because there clearly are people who want to end anonymity online and age verification provides the perfect stepping stone.
these theoretical serial cards would probably just be treated the same as alcohol/cigarettes, or anything else for that matter. you need to provide your ID for r-rated movies, m-rated games, things like that too. we've just gotten used to not having to use our ID on the internet because we've never had to. the other problem is of course that instead of someone just looking at your ID and saying "yup it's good" we have to worry about there being a database that stores it permanently or whatever. if it were actually illegal to retain that information then i think it might help ease the transition a lot.
that's part of why AI might be a good fit for this. it's not even a person looking at your shit, it's a robot that checks it and then discards it and just sets an 18+ flag on your account or something.
to be honest, if we're either going to go the route of sanitizing the entire internet or needing to provide ID to see stuff that isn't sanitized, i'd rather have the latter. especially if we can reverse some of the sanitization that's already happened. but yeah it would have to go through some really good encryption or just be checked and then erased.
there are actually states in the US that let parents buy alcohol and then let their kids drink it within their own home, btw. i didn't actually know that until recently.
@beardalaxy It's tradition for some parents to let kids drink alcohol on New Year's Eve. I always thought it was some illegal thing, but apparently not.
The whole reason companies are against this shit is the Ashley Madison leak and its aftereffects.
There were powerful people named in the leak, along with plenty of people who in said leak were in family/social situations where being a cheater or porn addict means there is a real chance of suicide, shunning, and never being able to shake that image. It's the same reason why revenge porn and sextortion laws exist.
I've noticed that pornhub and the like are against age verification laws where it's required to be in house. Pornhub has no problem with the UK law as opposed to what some US states want because even a "credit card check" is okay as per OFCOM and they don't need to worry about themselves getting hacked and losing all the info. help.pornhub.com/hc/en-us/arti…
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@beardalaxy Unless you have physical access to the scanners or servers, there is no way to prove that the data is erased after verification. Of course the government could make storing that data illegal, but they could also be storing the data themselves through mandated backdoors.
>to be honest, if we're either going to go the route of sanitizing the entire internet or needing to provide ID to see stuff that isn't sanitized, i'd rather have the latter. especially if we can reverse some of the sanitization that's already happened. but yeah it would have to go through some really good encryption or just be checked and then erased.
I would also have the latter, but I don't want the Internet to be the next HAM radio where you have to jump through a bunch of state mandated hoops just to use the damn thing or at least a certain layer of it.
Honestly, the real ID thing reminds me of Ender's Game. The book was written before the Internet went public, but the book featured an Internet like network called "the nets" and unlike the Internet we have, most of it is invite-only and heavily moderated, and I remember that users would have to buy passports from the government in order to use it. However, the ironic thing is is that there is a subplot where two kids use pseudonyms to publish essays on the nets to influence people in order to set up a world government, which wouldn't happen in real-life as the government could just link the passports to the usernames and tell everyone "these are a bunch of kids, don't listen to them."
i dont know how to say many of the things im seeing lately without feeling insulting. so ill just be insulting i guess...
lately, watching interactions between people, it seems like there are chronic, increasing levels of disconnected LARP mind. I also think this is emphasized from spending so much time outside, working with my hands, growing food, listening to topical podcasts, reading books, writing, and thinking. Im not claiming any kind of superiority here. rather i am commenting on the fruit of choices. I think what i am trying to say, is it seems like people who spend all their time online, on mainstream social media, playing video games, and interacting with AI, are losing a grounded connection to reality. In conversations, their connection to base level real seems shaky. It kinda has me concerned on the one hand, and on the other hand I am feeling even more conviction to become more grounded, more simple, more health, more sovreign.
@Immahnoob @LolikingSama @Yako @poopernova https://ylvapedia.wiki/wiki/Elin:Creating/Alchemy These are the alchemy recipes available at the moment. It'll probably take some time before alchemy is f...
@Yako @Ronnie21093 @LolikingSama @poopernova Do we have alchemy yet? The only reason I'm not playing with you guys is because I want it to be feature complete (it'll take ages, lmao).
@Yako @LolikingSama @poopernova Did you select regular identification or artifact identification? If you selected artifact and he still couldn't identify it, then holy shit.
@Yako @LolikingSama @poopernova You can see it with the home board. Also, it isn't true. Something like that would require making an alternate sprite for every recruitable NPC and put panties on them
@Yako @LolikingSama @poopernova Ah. The thing with crops is that most of them are only harvestable once, so you need to choose between harvesting them or turning them into seeds.
@Yako @LolikingSama @poopernova Are there other plants on the map? Generally speaking, ALL plants reduce fertility, not just crops. Though tbh, crops should still grow in low or negative fertility, it is just that they'll give you less or no crops when harvested
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coconut oil, they will not contact skin with coco oil on it. When I'm clearing overgrowth, I oil up, the neck and ears, into the scalp, armpits and other crooks and cranies, along with the gut area. I had a nasty bite earlier on my hip, I think it came in on my clothes and got me at night.
@Henhouse_Cockerel Thats a good tip. Is it all oil or are there properties in the coconut oil. I already use coconut oil on my my perpetually dry skin and now that I know this I will use it more often. Hate a fucking tick
CostCo oil, 100%. Coconut oil has all kinds of magical compounds in it, I dont know though if thats why or if they just do not like the slick surface. Or both. I do know it works though.
RT spoke with José Gama, an Angola-based journalist. Reports say 22 people have been killed and another 1,000 detained amid clashes between protesters and police in Angola.
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AIPAC has lost its stranglehold on at least some American politicians.
It's about fucking time.
I'm Jewish, by the way.
The shameful, disgusting blatant racism of the fascist right extremist Israeli government morphed into gross genocide that no one can deny. After decades of abuse of innocent civilians, these fuckers finally noticed.
Netanyahu, Likud, Shas, Kach, the alphabet soup of religious lunatics and deranged violent settlers should be dragged to The Hague and locked up. Forever.
In my lifetime. When I was a kid, HIV was beyond "scary". It was the red claw of Death himself. Every queer kid back then knew someone infected or dead from HIV, if they weren't positive themselves.
We would have cheerfully committed many crimes to have this back then.
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.
In my lifetime. When I was a kid, HIV was beyond "scary". It was the red claw of Death himself. Every queer kid back then knew someone infected or dead from HIV, if they weren't positive themselves.
We would have cheerfully committed many crimes to have this back then.
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.
In the year 2000, an unknown German postdoc set the world of physics on fire. This is the rise of Jan Hendrik Schön. Part 1 of 3.Part 2: https://youtu.be/Rii...
Dear family. Though a couple of you are woke-pains-in-the-ass, I do appreciate a familial culture that can embrace beers-and-Paprika-Potato-Chips for breakfast.
You drift over to a table set a distance away from women folk, light up the cigars, and swap who-knows-what kind of trash talk that make you all guffaw, chortle, and snicker with meanings known only to you.
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