There was a push… way back in the 90s, to implement a regulation on the internet in which “adult” material would register itself under the “.xxx” domain. And then you could do whatever horny shit you wanted under that heading, in the same way you could drop F-bombs and racial slurs on Satellite Radio or Cable TV. If someone didn’t want their kids to watch certain material, they could very easily block the content by censoring everything from the “.xxx” domain. And ISPs could even offer “child-friendly” connections by automatically refusing to serve that content to opt-out customers.

The plan died in committee, because conservative politicians considered it unfriendly to businesses.

Similar pitches - broadcast frequencies that could be blocked with special chips in TVs, registries that businesses could add themselves to in order to let systems auto-filter there material, HTML metadata tags, FCC rules updates, state funded industry managed ratings agencies - all got the axe under a political class that insisted it was too hostile to the interests focused on making money.

And so now we don’t have any kind of tagging or sorting or filtering option native to content. It’s all just a mass of generic data. Which is good if you want to engage in traffic quietly under the radar. But awful if you want to be an above board commercial enterprise with normal customers.

This reads like stand up from the 80s

The democracy +capitalism combo is just the least worst setup we figured out so far.

That’s what the state propagandists tell us, anyway.

Were the Egyptian pyramids built by slaves?

The labourers would have been enticed by the mix of high-quality food and the opportunity to work on such a prestigious project. Today, many of the highly experienced archaeological workmen at the pyramids come from the same region, though they are paid in hard currency, rather than prime beef and accolades.

The Pharaohs were large plantation owners with enormous surplus foodstuffs, including livestock and garlic (which was highly prized for its medicinal value). And the workers were, in many ways, members of an enormous enthusiastic cult community that rewarded the construction of these mega-projects both economically and socially.

So, not all that far off from capitalism in the modern sense.

Ever since the “Nobody knows how to fix a car computer except a Boomer Millennial” memes started trending, we’ve surrendered our “Better than that” card to GenZ.

Millennials are as vulnerable to this crap as anyone else.

• Boomer: I miss being young

• GenX: I miss being young

• Millennial: I miss being young

• GenZ / Alpha: I was told young people had more money 20 years ago and I wish I had more money

Now, in fairness, if I was driving 90-120m, I’d kill myself. But at least I’d do so listening to the Wheel of Time audiobook.

I’ve never had trouble listening to audiobooks on the train (assuming I knew the route well enough).

And on those rare occasions I get dragged out of my home wearing a suit, I do so belligerently. I’m done showing up 20-30m early, I get there when I get there. And I gotta leave early now too.

Which is fine.

But I’ve found a lot of merit in the personal collaborations with coworkers that only really happen in an office setting. I’m in office hybrid - three days a week - and I mentor new hires, grab lunch with senior managers, get tipped off on problems from people I pass in the hallway, and occasionally just shoot the shit with people I’d never otherwise know existed if I wasn’t in the building.

I value my Work from Home, but also get a lot of mileage from a communal office.

Someone is above trump.

Trump aims to woo pro-Israel donors at Aipac despite their lingering worries: Republican frontrunner reportedly consults with prominent GOP fundraisers for help with crafting remarks

Genuinely a testament to the American Mind that conservatives managed to convince people Hillary Clinton had Jeffery Epstein murdered while Donald Trump was the sitting President.

Significantly more productive than anyone forced to commute by car.

What gets me is that we’ve already had an orgy of evidence regarding Epstein and his various partnerships.

And yet the various administrative and state DOJs - from Bush in '05 to Obama to Trump to Biden to Trump again to the Florida and NY and even the fucking Virgin Islands - had more than enough to start making sweeping indictments and arrests. And yet, nobody seems interested in pulling the trigger (or, when someone does, they’re fired).

Everyone associated with Epstein - left, right, and center (excepting Gislane Maxwell) - is walking away scott free.

And yet we keep hearing about “The Hidden Files” that someone or other is keeping secret. The extra double-plus super dooper extra special evidence that can finally start indicting people. As though the witness testimonies and flight logs and transfer payments and real estate deals and extensive misuse of Les Wexner’s Victoria Secret company resources just aren’t enough to press charges on anyone.

You should have entire cell blocks full of people convicted for human trafficking and serial sexual assault based on any given litany of newspaper headlines. But here we are, still just waiting on the “Real” information to be released at last.

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Worse ways to get rolled.

Wait a second. You got banned from Reddit two years ago. Then you got onto lemm.ee and then immediately started shitposting in hexbear. Got banned, went back to lemm.ee, tanked that community through abuse and neglect. And had to migrate to… cracypeople.online?

And the problem is with… everyone else?

But the moral of the story from the episode was that they were both necessary. Vital sub-components of one complete terminally online poster. You can’t really have one without the other.

Really says more about the disdain for western public transportation.

I’ll take coach seats on the Shinkansen over the driver’s seat of a Ferrari.

The difference between “believable” and “logical” is as wide as a cardboard box with a cat in it.

I’ve yet to see evidence to this effect

Yes, but all of these are bound by fundamental physical laws. Cause and effect. You are a deterministic machine.

You are a meat mech that operates on congruent biological principles. Therefore, everything you do is de facto “logical”.