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pnut027 posted...

And its not now, even if adult-oriented content is hosted on it.

And there's no reason for youtube to be a place to host adult content. You have dedicated sites for it, use those.

People keep acting like this is an issue with right or left leaving views but it's more that adult content comes with risk of high levels of chargebacks.

pnut027 posted...

And you want a kid-friendly site, you have kid friendly sites you can visit.

You do know youtube wasn't an adult site first.

pnut027 posted...

And a kid that is that resourceful wont be stopped by YouTube if theyre actively looking for porn.

So why does it need to be on YouTube?

If you want adult content, you have adult sites you can visit. YouTube is not an adult focused site nor should it try to be.

YouTube Premium is $14/month.

Listed Features:
No Ads, Download Videos, Play in background or lock screen on mobile app, stream music ad free.

2 of those features are kind of redundant. YouTube mobile apps allows you to play videos while not focus on app as long as it's not music without premium.

Plus there are means to download videos and block ads without playing $14/month.

It's certainly a service many would deemed over priced for what it provides.

LightningThief posted...

If YouTube is going the OF route, then it needs to lock such content behind an age consent wall. Advertising also needs to be regulated because again, people talk "watching your kids" as if it's the 90s.

Channels that are set as kids channels, don't make ad revenue. So many of these channels mark themselves as not for kids while making kid focus content and throw in adult jokes and themes into their content so youtube doesn't set them as a kids channel.

People are blatantly abusing youtube's system to make money off of kids.

This whole "parents need to be watching their what their kids watch" sounds good in theory, but often parents have their own stuff they need to do and can't spend every waking moment making sure the videos a kid is watching is friendly when people are going through such lengths to skirt around systems in place to protect children in the first place.

Plus sites do exist for the kind of content people clearly want, youtube does not have to be a space for it as well.

Why do you want child abuse to be cool?

People bringing up YouTube kids already forgetting about the whole ElsaGate.

FinalBraveNUT posted...

Finally a glimmer of hope for our children to go outside again!

Banning tiktok won't get children outside again.

Society has made outside hostile for people. 3rd places are largely gone as well. Not to mention children are barely allowed anywhere without an adult

Engage's story was pretty bland and forgettable. Fates may not have good writting, but it at least had some memorable moments.

Also Engage had a problem where it just kind of dragged on the story near the end and I know I lost a lot of drive to finish the game at one point.

From another news source:
https://abc7ny.com/man-apparently-sets-himself-on-fire-outside-nyc-courthouse-where-trump-is-trial/14695794/

The man was carrying pamphlets about lots of different subjects that said things like said things like "NYU is a mob front" and "Abolish our criminal government and replace it with one that serves all."

Smashingpmkns posted...

True crime docs are just slop entertainment for the most part so the people behind them don't really give a shit about ethics. The fact that this took quite a few steps to implement and no one at any point said "hey, maybe this is unethical" says a lot.

Speaking of ethics in true crime. There was a youtuber true crime channel that paid for discovery documents with included autopsy photos of an 11 year old child and released them to her patron supporters.

A party of 7 lvl 13 characters can easily take on a Demlich in their own lair. Most ancient dragons wouldn't even be a real threat to them.

I don't think this homebrew boss is that overtuned for the strength level the party could output.

DEX is stronger than STR in DnD 5e due to affecting Initiative, AC, Hit/Damage with Ranged & Finesse weapons, and boosting stealth/acrobatics (since acrobatics is used to contest grapples).

STR affects carry weight, but that almost never comes up due to items like the Bag of Holding, Jump distance which also doesn't come up very often and with spells like Fly you don't really need to jump either, performing grapples which have confusing rules around them, and hit/damage with Melee Weapons.

Plus in 5e, Dex Saves are far more common than Str Saves.

nekrodev posted...

well liked and good aren't the same. popular music is usually pretty shit.

Not personally liking popular music is fine, but popular music is popular for a reason. There's plenty of bad examples you could pick from modern papa roach, so it's just weird to pick Scars. It's also weird to be hung up over a band that's not really that relevant anymore.

nekrodev posted...

they've only gotten worse since, that's part of the issue.

You've could of picked a more recent song, because Scars itself is a pretty liked song as well.

Scars was released in 2004. You're a bit late.

Nemu posted...

Does that have much impact on self-defense? If a guy says "I really want to kill robbers" and then goes out to shady areas to wait to get mugged, would that change anything? I think it was fairly obvious he was always a narcissistic, deluded piece of shit, but do disgusting thoughts change a legit self-defense scenario?

If you intentionally put yourself in harms way just so you can kill people, that's not self defense.

DrizztLink posted...

Of the type combinations you could have sex with, I feel like Fire/Poison has to be one of if not the absolute worst you could pick.

It's lore is that it forms a harem of it's pre-evolution with pheromones.

What I gathered is it's fine for someone to kill others over thought crime.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-has-urged-ukraine-halt-strikes-russian-energy-infrastructure-ft-reports-2024-03-22/

March 22 (Reuters) - The United States has urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, warning that drone strikes risk provoking retaliation and driving up global oil prices, the Financial Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

The attacks helped boost oil prices that have risen nearly 4% so far since March 12, when Ukraine first started targeting Russia's energy infrastructure. A further rally in gasoline prices in the United States would weaken President Joe Biden ratings and undermine his re-election chances.

Russia and Ukraine have both used drones to strike critical infrastructure, military installations and troop concentrations in their more than two-year war, with Kyiv hitting Russian refineries and energy facilities in recent months.

Really a take that it's more important for oil prices to not increase during a US election year than it is to stop an invading army.

BucketCat posted...

i like how he's trying to sell himself as a right wing tough guy, but all I've seen him do is cry and throw temper tantrums.

Considering his way to fame was killing 2 people with a gun as a minor, he was never someone who was "tough"

runewalshPSiv posted...

The Gun Control Act does prohibit illegal immigrants from owning a firearm.

The 2A supersedes that according to the ruling this topic is about.

Otherwise, NY's handgun law would still be in effect.

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You wanted to bring up a discussion about non-citizens owning firearms.

I think part of this discussions is about non-citizens own firearms within the US

I then told you that there is nothing that prevents non-citizens from owning firearms.

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Owning a firearm isn't something that only US citizens are allowed to do and a non US citizen with a firearm in the US borders is protected from the government taking away their guns as per the 2A.

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You said

I'm not sure how or why we would even need to regulate an illegal immigrate possessing a firearm?

I'm just clarifying what the constitution and 2A represent for this ruling. This isn't about regulating illegal immigrants owning guns, this is about preventing the government from bypassing the protections granted in the constitution.

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The constitution isn't a document that only applies to citizens. It's a documents whose purpose to tell what the US government can and cannot do. If the Constitution states that via the 2A that the government cannot take away a person's guns then it applies to everyone.

This means that anyone is protected from the US government taking away their guns. Though realistically this only matters if you are within the borders of the US and its territories.

ROBANN_88 posted...

the constitution is a just 200 year old document
it's not divinely ordained

it can and should be changed when it has stuff that doesn't work anymore

if it still works fine, that's great but having the value of "uphold the constitution" just for the sake of upholding it is folly

The arguments against Gun Control have always resolved around it not being part of the constitution.

Bass posted...

Not sure why you care so much about my interpretation, dude. Chill out.

You are the one calling the country wild for upholding the values stated in the constitution. Do you not support upholding the 2A?

Bass posted...

I don't see the government using well regulated militias anymore.

I know this is a widely debated legal question, though.

That's not what the current interpretation of the 2A is. Do you not agree with upholding the values of the constitution?

Bass posted...

Lmao. This country is wild.

Do you not approve of upholding the 2A as it states in the constitution?

Prestoff posted...

This ruling is going to trigger a lot of Republicans.

If they aren't hypocrits they should love this ruling. The constitution applies to everyone within the borders and if the 2A is some infallible right then it applies to everyone within the borders of the US.

https://shorturl.at/qrEH9

Source: https://local21news.com/

CHICAGO (TND) A U.S. District Court judge ruled earlier this month that completely prohibiting illegal immigrants from possessing firearms is a violation of the Second Amendment.

The ruling, issued on March 8 by Obama-appointed District Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman, pertains to the case of illegal migrant Heriberto Carbajal-Flores. Carbajal-Flores was charged under Title 18 of U.S. Criminal Code, a measure preventing illegal migrants from possessing firearms.
Carbajal-Flores had no criminal history of improper use of a gun and therefore, according to the court, did not present a public danger when exercising his Second Amendment right in Chicago in 2020.

In her decision, Coleman cited the Supreme Court's ruling in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which found New York State could not constitutionally prevent anyone from carrying a pistol in public. The case, she said, established a framework for analyzing whether a challenged firearm regulation violates the Second Amendment.

Dark_Arbron posted...

I guess thats logical in theory, especially with a homeless issue.

It's important for unused land to be able to be claimed by new people. Leases, agreements, etc can all be lost over time and having a plot of land that no one can touch even though no one can prove they own it would have cascading issues if left unchecked.

Regardless of what media you consume, you're generally going to have characters you like more than others.

Not to mention Persona games are RPGs and you take the role as a fellow high school student. In Persona 5 in particular, you can even date your teacher which is something I find weirder than saying one of the girls on your team is your favorite character of the game.

Spending effort to tell people that they could get your product for free, but they shouldn't do that because reasons when your product is made intentionally non-user friendly really shouldn't be a surprisingly reveal that more people end up pirating it.

Modern game devs don't seem to compress game files. I guess when storage is cheap and you aren't limited to how much data can be stored on a single disc, optimizations take a backseat.

How times is this now?

Until the punishment for securities fraud is jail time, Elon is only going to keep committing it since a fine is just a cost to do the crime.

Elon has been posting about white replacement theory for a while now. Not really sure how this is where you conclude he's a white supremacist.

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Media is all about engagement for views and clicks. It's why I only quoted the most relevant details from the article, I just still sourced the original article.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/us-billionaire-drowns-tesla-after-rescuers-struggle-cars-strengthened-glass-1723876

Angela Chao, the billionaire sister-in-law of Sen. Mitch McConnell, tragically drowned in a pond at her Texas ranch. It is speculated that she may have accidentally put her Tesla in reverse while attempting a three-point turn.

The water called, it want its billionaires back.

Any app/site that you put payment information that doesn't require 2FA would be a concern. Considering most phones can accept text messages and you can hook up to your email account, I'm not sure why it's a big deal to get a 2nd code just to help prevent someone using your money to buy stuff.

Intelligence and being born into wealth are not mutually inclusive traits. The more money you start with the more you can fail before you succeed so even an idiot with enough wealth can become successful.

This may be confusing to Starfield and Elite Dangerous players, whove been able to do this since their games launched, but this is Star Citizen, and its actually a pretty big deal.

There's something funny about comparing Star Citizen to Starfield

No one can force you to break the ToS.

https://twitter.com/jam_etc_art/status/1762645906560586053

Oh no 1-2% will be lost. Won't we think of the CEOs that already make insanely way more than their underpaid workers.

The lack of Mordecai is upsetting.

ROBANN_88 posted...

I have a question that's more about grammar nitpicky

Why is it called Baldurs' Gate?
Doesn't that apostrophy turn it into "Baldur is Gate"?

Baulder was a person. Baulder's represents that the person Baulder owns the gate.