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Revelation34 posted...

No Australian politician has any sway in America.

Translation: I've been proven wrong, repeatedly, and the only answer I can come up with is sticking my fingers in my ears and saying "lalala I can't hear you".

Questionmarktarius posted...

what makes you think they aren't?

We know damn well they aren't, since shows like Game of Thrones are still available. A game containing the same content would have been removed for containing quite a lot of their "harmful content".

Kallainanna posted...

...and what's the standard of living there like? Because it's not good.

Better than if you were trying to live in LA on the same income, though.

I get your game, though. Any place I point out that people can and do live on under $40k you're just going to call a shithole. You can't be proven wrong because you've defined the terms such that even proof that you're wrong you can take as "proof" that you're right.

I sometimes scratch my back with a flyswatter.

Kallainanna posted...

At 40 hours a week that's ~$31,200 dollars/yr. Which isn't much, though maybe there are a handful of places and situations where you could *theoretically* make ends meet with it I suspect mostly the places where people don't typically live, which is a whole 'nother can of worms, but when you consider the type of job that pays minimum wage also generally offers no/subpar benefits...
It's a pittance. People are worth a hell of a lot more than that.

There are states where the median individual income isn't much higher than that. Half of the workers in Mississippi make less than $37,500 a year. That's not rural Mississippi, that's for the entire state.

Revelation34 posted...

The group that was responsible is Australian.

And what do you think the two biggest credit card companies in Australia are? Banking doesn't end at the border, and frequently politics doesn't stop there either.

Revelation34 posted...

What do politicians in Australia have to do with American payment processing companies?

You think there aren't rabid sex-negative feminists in the US for the Australian Karens to make common cause with?

Revelation34 posted...

They could have ignored them if they had wanted to.

Given the political leanings of some of their larger investors I'm not so sure they could have.

Revelation34 posted...

Lawsuits that would be thrown out by a judge right away since they would have no merit?

At that scale, even getting a lawsuit thrown out can cost 6 or 7 figures in legal fees. And if you have to do that every second Tuesday, that adds up to real money.

None in my grade, but one a couple years younger. I was also in a smaller school; my HS graduating class was 64.

Revelation34 posted...

Why would a credit card company want to be forced to do business with people they don't want to?

They were completely willing to do business with them up to a few weeks ago, weren't they? They'd likely want to be in a position where a few hysterical activists can't dictate who they do business with.

ooger posted...

And I should care about this because?

The post you were responding to wasn't specifically about you, was it? That a particular statement is not relevant to you does not make that statement inaccurate. You don't have to care, but you not caring does not make post #143 wrong.

Ew, I had to defend something Revelation34 posted because you were being even more disagreeable than he was. I feel icky now. I'm going to go take a long hot shower, but I may never feel clean again.

ooger posted...

I can complain on here without twitter.

Okay, let's revise it to "it's the only active place to complain where more than a few dozen people will see it". And lol BlueSky is dying off pretty rapidly. It spiked hard in November but 2/3rds of its registered users haven't logged on in the past 90 days.

sull56ivan2010 posted...

You ever get any weird looks or reactions when you say you don't like The Beatles? I don't care much for them either.

Not really, or if I do they understand once I say it's the musical ability rather than the songs themselves. Lennon's talent lay in writing, not performing, and from a performance standard they were all pretty mid.

sull56ivan2010 posted...

She ain't even close to being the Lennon of this generation. Even for pop standards, she ain't as creative as others before her.

That's a valid opinion. While the Beatles did have some good songs, it was mixed in with some utter crap that is correctly all but forgotten today. Hindsight has an extreme survivor bias; people remember the highlights and ignore the mediocrity those highlights originally came mixed with.

Googling around a bit shows the numerical output to be similar. The Beatles put out 217 individual tracks in 8 years; Swift has put out 211 tracks, ignoring re-releases, over 19 years. I don't know if that is relevant at all, but I thought that the similarity in track count vs the huge difference in years active was interesting.

I don't particularly think she's the greatest of all time, but overall I have to agree that she falls in the same category as the Beatles, Beyonce, and Bon Jovi and agree with the Bon Jovi box set title: 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong

adjl posted...

Hey guys did you know that Muscles doesn't like modern pop music?

Of course he doesn't. Too many people like it for it to have any sort of merit. He makes himself sound like the sort of hipster that hates any music that more than six people have heard of.

jellyweebtrash posted...

her music gives me the runs

Way to stick it to the Big Laxative industry! We need more home remedies to keep our money out of their greedy little hands.

Monopoman posted...

So the notion that if they did implement a $15 per hour minimum wage across the USA it would cause massive price spikes is just bullshit.

Nationally? Not so much. Locally, where minimum wage is significantly less than that? Depends on the industry. Nursing homes, daycare, and other industries where labor is the highest proportion of overall costs would see a pretty big spike.

Monopoman posted...

Americans also are some of the hardest workers, over time we have seen productivity in America only go up.

Again, depends on the industry, but mostly productivity gains come from the capital side rather than the labor side. A guy with a shovel can be the hardest worker on the planet but he's not going to be more productive than a guy with a backhoe. A guy with an abacus is never going to be more productive than a guy with Excel.

Muscles posted...

They're both extremely overrated, but at least Lennon had a few good songs with the Beatles, swift hasn't released a single good song ever. Hell, I would go as far to say she hasn't released anything even listenable ever, her lyrics are trash, the music is trash and her voice is ok I guess, not good enough to carry her awful music though.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

Then again I dislike Beatles music so who am I to judge. Their songs are pretty good but as musicians they left much to be desired. The only way I can listen to their music is in cover form.

VioletZer0 posted...

Hopefully this time with less domestic abuse.

I would have gone with "Hopefully this time without a violent death at an early age."

Roachmeat posted...

An ID for what? Are there some Baldur's Gate 3 guides around here that aren't kid friendly? The best summer wear for Shadowheart and Lae'zel as chosen by Minthara (yeah, it would be strings).

Two, Gamefaqs could already do the math for how long I've been here, then laugh, and not need to know my age.

Three, Gamefaqs could just ask me what 'Tales from the Crypt' is, and once again they would know my age without carding.

Apparently people in the UK are now getting age verification prompts to... checks notes... update their video drivers. It was never about porn.

Yes, I left a package of ham once. Went back about 2 hours later and picked it up without any trouble even after they'd reshelved it. It probably helped that I worked there and everyone knew me.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

The UK has been using facial recognition software. Which you can apparently beat just by showing it random photos of celebrities' faces.

Or some video game faces, which is why I expect more "robust" methods to be introduced eventually unless hopefully the British people literally revolt over it.

Questionmarktarius posted...

What's keeping a kid from "borrowing" dad's ID?
This is all somehow less secure than a liquor store, which doesn't even keep a copy.

inb4 thumbprint scanners (which don't work for me most of the time)

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If GameFAQs introduced it the site would be dead in about a week. I can't imagine anyone here views the site as such a necessity that they'd be willing to "reregister" and give any sort of elaborate personal info confirmation.

But also...

This would be a pretty huge factor.

It was one of the things mentioned when YouTube was talking about unleashing an AI to spy on people's viewing patterns and arbitrarily decide if it thinks they're secretly underage and then automatically curate their experience. One of the factors the AI would supposedly look at is whether or not you're using an account to browse, and if so, how old the account is.

Basically, if you've got an account that's 20+ years old, odds are you presumably aren't a child. Unless an adult gave you their account for some reason, or you managed to steal it somehow.

Or you just never log out and a child happens to use that computer. That's why all the "robust" age verification going on right now means you'll eventually have to do some sort of age verification every single time you visit a site, because one-time verification is going to fail.

That, and the Tea app fiasco should be raising all sorts of red flags as to why NO ONE should be willing to do any sort of "robust" ID verification of any sort.

Only when their account is involuntarily set to read-only purgatory.

adjl posted...

It happens, but it's generally because their education has put too much emphasis on mindless recitation and not enough on contextualizing the letters and how they're used. An updated song may help prevent them from thinking "elemeno" is a letter with no other changes, but it won't make a meaningful difference to their literacy in most cases.

Is that a serious concern if the song is presented with a visual of the letters being presented as individual letters?

hockey7318 posted...

I mean, can't you admit that the fact you have to say femcel to indicate a female incel and you don't have to say mancel or some shit to indicate a male means that incel is pretty much understood to be male-specific?

Apply the same logic to the words "actor" and "actress". While the option to use "actress" exists, you don't necessarily have to use it to refer to a female actor, and a mixed group of male and female actors are called "actors" rather than "actors and actresses".

Even a newish word like incel follows the general English rule of using a masculine form of the word to refer to mixed groups or an individual of unknown gender.

captpackrat posted...

According to Wikipedia: The southern segment, which stretches from Parkfield in Monterey County all the way to the Salton Sea, is capable of an 8.1-magnitude earthquake. At its closest, this fault passes about 35 miles (56 km) to the northeast of Los Angeles. Such a large earthquake on this southern segment would kill thousands of people in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, and surrounding areas, and cause hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.

Magnitude 8.8 is approximately 5 times stronger than an 8.1. (Earthquake magnitudes are based on logarithms, so an increase of 1 magnitude is 10 times larger.)

Based on the source D_U posted

The Northern San Andreas Fault with its potential to produce an M7.9 ruptures and doesnt stop at the creeping section
Instead, it flows through to meet with the Southern San Andreas Fault (or visa versa) with its potential to produce an M7.8.

Several other sources agree with that, so this may be a case of "don't trust wikipedia".

Damn_Underscore posted...

I was looking into this stuff recently. If there is a big earthquake from the Cascadia Fault it could still affect California. It could also cause the San Andreas fault line to rupture

https://survivingcascadia.com/part-1-cascadias-impact-area/

Not so much could as will cause a San Andreas quake, but it would most likely result in something below 8.0 - possibly two separate earthquakes in the 7.0-8.0 range if the north and south ends slip separately. The San Andreas hasn't generated an 8.0 earthquake in recorded history, which when you consider the Great San Francisco Earthquake was "only" 7.8 should tell you something about how bad a potential 8.5-9.0 earthquake near Seattle might be.

we_dey posted...

I had a BB gun in my closet

I have a toy crossbow that shoots suction cup darts, and a blowgun for the same darts.

SoreChasm posted...

When's the last time California had an 8.8 magnitude quake?

Since he won't answer: Not in recorded history and probably not for the past several million years at least. No fault in California is likely even capable of generating that magnitude of earthquake, as the San Andreas fault complex is a strike-slip fault and high magnitude earthquakes are generally the result of the subducting plate megathrust type faults.

adjl posted...

If they couldn't tell whether it was real or fantasy rape, they were policing it on the basis of not being able to verify the consent of the participants, not on the content. The content just drew attention to that inability.

Actually, they were policing it on whether the participants consented to the content being posted which is why mostly amateur stuff was hit hardest. IIRC the ban wave went through in response to a new revenge pron law passing in California, so if they couldn't verify whether all parties in the video consented to it being uploaded it got axed.

adjl posted...

It's a frozen foreskin. How could I not?

(And because I'm sure Sunny will go after me for this, yes, I understand that cryogenically preserving cells does not just consist of throwing a foreskin in the freezer)

Hey, as an undergrad I ran breast milk samples through a GC-MS. I understand the power of irresistable urges to make crude jokes.

man101 posted...

Because I refuse to install Tik Tok and don't much use social media but I still need my 21st century mandated minimum level of internet brain rot and this is as good a place as any. Been coming here too long to just leave it. GameFAQs is like that friend who you grew apart from a long time ago but proximity and familiarity and longevity just keep it on life support.

This, but mostly this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpJAmlnBxoA

Only if you consider 100+ miles "near".

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

No.

All I've ever worked at was the local newspaper, Wal-Mart and my current company has been around since 1924.

I've never been part of a merger/acquisition but I did bail from a company about 6 months before it went under. And I don't mean "it went bankrupt and had to close" I mean "the owner skipped town overnight and there were dozens of illegal workers who hadn't been paid in a month left protesting outside one location". To my knowledge they never did get paid.

Revelation34 posted...

I assume the removed content also applies to actual porn sites too. Like what site was mentioned in this thread earlier.

This restriction seems to be solely on games at present. For example you can use Visa on OF or streaming services that have shows that contain live action depictions of the sort of content that is now forbidden in games. If TV was being held to the same standard as games are by Visa/MC, you wouldn't be able to pay for any service that has Game of Thrones on it, for example.

Questionmarktarius posted...

nobody ever bothers to define what it actually means.

It's generally assumed to mean "tax them enough so MY taxes go down".

GameLard113 can clog your arteries from 113 yards away.

Damn_Chunderscore projectile vomits on random people in public places.

PoreChasm sells medication that causes horrific acne scars.

adjl posted...

Yep. I think part of that is just the question of having alternatives, though. If we could have played on our own 15" TVs back in the day instead of making do with a 7.5" corner of it, we would have wanted to do that. Now we can play on our own 50" TV, so even though making do with a 25" corner of it would have been plenty by previous standards, we'd prefer to have it all.

There is a degree of interactivity lost when you can't see the other players' screens just by looking at different corners of the screen, both in cooperative and competitive play.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

if it can't do that, then it automatically fails. therefore, it will have an alternative for people who don't want a gps installed into their vehicle that doesn't have that capability.

You're stating as fact something that is absolutely untrue. As written, at least one non-GPS method must be evaluated. That does not in any way mean a non-GPS method would be judged acceptable for adoption.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

all sb1938 does, with regards to a road tax, is establish the pilot program. it does not actually create any road tax.

It does create that road tax for the people in the pilot program, and there are provisions in the bill to evaluate and potentially reimburse participants for their double taxation (either gas tax or the increased registration cost of electric vehicles).

You know what is also missing from the bill? Any means of reducing the tax for any driving done out of state - unless it would be based on GPS data, which you swear isn't being done.

And as I said, the bill is completely dead on arrival, as in already killed without even getting a committee to take the time to laugh it into the trash bin. So you can stop defending it so dishonestly.

Revelation34 posted...

They tried to force choke Costco?

https://youtu.be/3D8TEJtQRhw?si=TlVQe6H9Q6YusPeD&t=10

Bat178 posted...

Speaking of Online Safety Acts, how is the UK's one going? Oh, right, it's complete ass and a petition against it already has triple the signatures needed to get Parliament talking about it.

But on the plus side (from the government's perspective), protests against the government are considered "adult content" and blocked from users by default.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

to reiterate: you claimed that illinois road tax would require a gps

it doesn't, as written in the bill

To meet the stated purpose of the bill will require GPS. Yes, they may be "evaluating" alternatives but no practical alternatives can possibly meet the evaluation criteria.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

you claimed that said bill would also apply congestion pricing

it also doesn't. it'll evaluate if it's even possible to do that. not that it will do that. that would require a completely separate bill.

It's pretty dishonest to say that one of the required criteria for evaluating tracking technology is how well it can "vary pricing based on the time of driving and type of public highway" but also say the bill isn't intended to be used to apply congestion pricing. That's literally one of the stated goals.

Another evaluation criterion is stated as:

provide special consideration for privacy, including:
(A) collecting a minimum amount of personal information, including location tracking information, necessary to implement the pilot program; and
(B) ensuring that processes for collecting, managing, storing, transmitting, and destroying data are in place to protect the integrity of the data and safeguard the privacy of drivers.

On the plus side, the bill died on arrival just like its predecessor so it will in fact be doing absolutely nothing except hopefully ending the career of the guy who sponsored it.

sull56ivan2010 posted...

That's rich of you to think I'm one of those Karens of the world. I don't have a side on this situation, but Steam can put all sorts of security and features and it still wouldn't make a difference. Maybe you should look at what Nintendo is doing right now in terms of curbing NSFW type stuff for Switch 2. You don't need to be a Karen to understand why the House of Mario has changed their guidelines.

sull56ivan2010 posted...

Disabled or enabled, those NSFW games continued to exist.

Yes, you're absolutely one of those Karens.

Blue_Thunder posted...

You can. Check your Advanced Settings.

https://i.imgur.com/vm8FWbv.png

Hot damn. Thanks.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

you can just admit that i was right and you were wrong lmfao

You are not correct and are fully aware you are not correct, yet still you post. Strange.

wwinterj25 posted...

No if someone quotes someone who has blocked you then you can see that users post....or just log out then log back in.

I can see this post but cannot see #78 without logging out. If someone has you blocked you cannot see any posts from them, nor can you see any post that contains a quote of their posts. Presumably it also means they cannot see any posts of mine or any posts that quote mine. I've never tested whether the blocking user being tagged in a post would result in that post being hidden from the blocked account.

Not that I was missing much but it's still mildly annoying. If nothing else they need to show a (message blocked) line like they do (message deleted) so missing posts are more obvious.

ConfusedTorchic posted...

I'm concluding the trolling option, then. Good day.

captpackrat posted...

Which is really weird since they used to ONLY accept Amex.

They had an exclusivity deal with AmEx, then AmEx tried to pull a Vader on them and Costco blacklisted them.