The reasoning here is specious and anecdotal. If extreme porno causes sex crimes, wouldn’t you expect to see an accompanying rise in SA, incest, and rape? Why does it lead to the thing that the algorithm won’t show you? Because the article admits that you have to go elsewhere for the offending media.

This highlighted the fact that most people – around eight out of 10 – caught with images of children being sexually abused are not jailed.

What can this mean other than most of the defendants are adjudicated not to be a threat to children?

And if you think I’m being permissive, this article’s whole thesis is that internet porn turns normal dudes into pedos. Thus the offenders are not fully responsible.

after contact, the company acknowledged the problem and removed the accounts

Meta is outsourcing content moderation to journalists.

I consider his transformation into a double-Christian to be a confession that all the accusations are true. The biggest pieces of dogshit always face consequence mumbling prayers and missives.

Since this service is free, I expect Az is taxing the retailers somehow. Perhaps it’s something like the Honey scam.

I’ll bet you can’t pay with an Az giftcard or credit balance.

Even though a purple State, Georgia’s literal political map is designed to keep State power from the citizens of Atlanta. Rural voters and reactionary politics like ‘tough on crime’, have been dominant there since the failure of Reconstruction.

For 2022, TX is indeed the leader in abuse/neglect deaths, but as an absolute number (176), not by population.

No2 is CA so they’re statistically just as dangerous, maybe a little more than TX, but what shocked me was GA! Georgia is in competition with TX and CA despite having a quarter the population. At the same time they’re blowing past states like NY and FL. So the real question is WTF is going on in the Peach State?

Achievements have made games worse.

I discovered this after buying a steam game that I had pirated. All of a sudden I’m doing boring and repetitive stuff that I don’t enjoy, just to unlock some dumb trophy.

Any enjoyment for the players and creativity by developers has been long eclipsed by the lazy paint-by-numbers boring achievements who’s only function is to artificially extend “engagement”.

They should just sell the platinum trophies.

Protectionism and isolationism have a robust tradition in American left politics. But even so, Unions have their own interests and American history is full of examples where Unions have opposed progressive policy. They are one of the biggest obstacles to universal healthcare for example.

It’s so gratifying to hear from people on the internet who are older than I am. And this article reads like it bounced off a Listserv to a yahoo email address.

Some people just need to learn to keep their sex lives at home

JD Vance

Ima keep this in my back pocket for when chuds ask: “why do we need black history”?

These devices are a great help to the elderly and disabled, and Amazon’s offerings are the least expensive. My buddies Mom can call emergency services from anywhere in her home with just her voice. I don’t think that’s foolish at all.

It’s always been this way for the cheap speakers. They’ve no processing power on-board and need the cloud just to tell you the time.

I can predict the fist step of TSMCs plan for American companies: layoffs.

i had to SSH in to the pi-hole to update it

You make it sound like a chore instead of a delight. Curious.

The money in AI is going to be the wages of the people it replaces. Those tech billionaires call it a revolution because getting labor without wages is the promised land for cunt billionaires.

The AI revolution is here because that’s what the owners want. If you think they’ll wait until the AI is as good as humans to replace humans I’ll point out that self-checkout already exists.

the safety of the actual car is good enough for consumers

This is a revealing statement.

There should be a warning label on any establishment or product that requires a smartphone to use.

There is no market solution to capitalism. Something, something, tools of the master.