Price increases on streaming services you mean?

If so, a magical alternative exists on the high seas, or so I’ve heard

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Yeah fair points on the cigarettes / cigars, I guess that was so long ago that I just take it for granted. Maybe social media will be the same… as for Pornhub, I think that is more about Christofascism than any actual concern for protecting children, and if social media is banned, it will be because TikTok especially (but social media in general) shattered the pro-Israel narrative promoted by the US government. They need to control the narrative, and the internet makes that hard. Free speech may make it too hard to take that away from adults, but they have an excuse if they make it about the safety of children.

Even with those good points on your end though, I’d still be surprised if anything actually happens to meaningfully restrict social media companies.

lmao I’m on PC and that gif takes up the entire screen in my notifications. Beautiful.

As much as I love the elegance of guillotines though, I do believe that we should use something a little more emblematic of the American working class… and which permits a feet-first approach:

You know what they aren’t beyond?

I doubt it. Nothing contrary to the interests of corporations ever happens in America.

UK is a very different story

instagram will […] add age-verification

Judge Bryan Biedscheid is slated to hold a trial without a jury on the state’s claims that Meta created a public nuisance that harmed state residents’ health and safety. The state will ask Biedscheid to direct Meta

Listen, I cannot wait for the day that everyone stops using Meta products and Mark Zuckerberg is turned into longpork wagyu in his stolen-land Hawaiian bunker, but the latter statement does not seem to support the initial claim.

I wouldn’t hold my breath for any changes which will meaningfully impact the profitability of Meta.

As a regular of the old-internet, including hellsites such as VampireFreaks dot com, I promise it takes more than that for the government to care. VF was the site of two? vampire-inspired teenage murderers and a few other horrors, including one of the admins defending the presence of a convicted pedophile who was banned from using Facebook.

As for why, my assumption is that you cannot fine an entity which is barely profitable. I mean you can but you won’t get anything, so they’re unlikely to bother.

Phrased in another way, it’s equivalent to if you had $1,618 in the bank and were fined $0.30.

Relying on it otherwise is stupid and just proves instantly that you are incompetent.

Relying on it in any circumstances (though medical stuff is understandable if you’re simply too poor or don’t have access) while it is exhausting water supplies and polluting the planet is stupid and instantly proves that you are stupid and inconsiderate.

Better to be surveilled by a foreign entity than a domestic one. Otherwise all those tax dollars going to ““defense”” are being wasted.

What the fuck do you think they’re gonna recommend?

Nuclear war, it’s gonna recommend nuclear war. Or at least threatening it at a bare minimum.

[REDACTED] all billionaires.

All AI is for losers.

If you have to use any, like ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO for some reason, then use Deepseek. Glory to the CCP robot.

I only have a desktop right now, but I’m leaning towards buying an actual PC for gaming and video editing, keeping that on Windows just for simplicity’s sake, then switching my desktop to Linux and using that for all non-gaming and non-editing purposes.

But you can just lie lol

That’s what I always did as a kid. Maybe some good reasons not to do that, but that’s still the reality of it.

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require “commercially reasonable” verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.

I hate Newsom but this seems like a non-issue.

Motorola gets a little bit of love from me because they were (maybe still are?) the only ones who allowed me to shout “COMRADE MOTO!” to wake my phone up

I will not say “Hey Google” in a million years. I refuse.