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Should be a wild four years.

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"30 Days to Slow the spread", and you want these same people to regulate the internet / video games, whatever modern tech is having issues due to you either "not feeling safe", or "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN".

What the fuck happened to personal responsibility and the responsibility of raising your own little hellspawn?
They won't learn their lesson until the boot is already on their neck, if that.

 
I've always been of the opinion that as soon as someone pulls the Mrs. Lovejoy "think of the children" card, they're a retard (because that's almost the OG lol fuck your freedom card). But it's an increasingly tricky/slippery slope with how fucking retarded everything has been getting. They're getting around the curve and will be right sooner or later, due to fucktards not wrangling their own spawn properly. Then will come the day when everyone shouts told ya so, and everyone will be pissed for various reasons. It's a bit of a headscratcher to say the least.

Fuck's sake. Even growing up in the 90s, as dumb as I was as a kid, I was at least smart enough to not overshare too much of yourself online due to how many fucking weirdos there were populating chat servers. Kids these days don't have that natural wariness towards strangers, and have this incessant need to overshare literally fucking EVERYTHING online.

"O. M. G. Sherry, you got robbed."
"I know. After I posted I was going out of town on Facebook for a week for vaca."
"...........you what now?"
 
It’s Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software and there’s a free pdf. It won’t so much teach you how to code as answer that nagging question—how did we take electricity and turn it into this. Maybe it’s weird but I don’t think Terry was so crazy for seeing God in the machine.
Similar to God, computers can be great or they can be destructive in unimaginable ways.

Long read but if you like technical stuff this is a must read for understanding the interplay between software safety systems, government regulations and corporations.

https://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~csturner/courses/508w10/Readings/Therac-25.pdf

TL;DR
Code problems led one of the earlier radiation therapy machines (Therac-25) that moved off of physical safety controls to software to accidentally overdose radiation and literally disintegrate people from the inside out.
 
How many meth dealers standing on the street corner outside your house constantly pushing their product in peoples faces does it take for someone to think that maybe the meth epidemic isn't 110% on parents not telling their kids that meth is bad hard enough and maybe the meth dealers are at least partially culpable in how bad things have gotten
That and not giving drug dealers the death penalty as a matter of course. Oh, you were caught with a pound of marijuana and enough fent to sedate a heard of elephants? That's a crucifixion buddy! Even when a heavy pusher is caught, they'll at best do a dime in federal and then retire on all the money they hid from the Feds in a Panamanian bank account. Fast tracking them to a good Ole fashioned public hanging would do way more as a deterrent.
 
Reminds me of when he showed President South Africa that video and the first thing a journo brings up is the Qatari plane.
I wonder if individual journalists ever get sick of being personally swatted on the nose like that for being a prick. I know the industry itself gets smug and cocky whenever it happens (they treat it as a "gotcha" even when they look retarded for doing it), but do you think the imbecile who did this, surrounded by peers and also by very powerful people who all think he's a cunt now, felt even a pang of embarrassment, guilt or shame?

Or is journoscum training so effective that all humanity is scrubbed from its acolytes?
 
This is your mind on porn. First they came for the porn. And I didn't speak up. Now they came for the Kiwi Fruit Fourm. It's ridiculous. And we would fight in court retard.
The site hosts onlyfans leaks, revenge porn, doxes, and other things. There is no real argument why they shouldn't also block this site.
 
Same. They're nice (almost too nice) and they're not dumb, but it's almost like they were specifically taught/trained to parrot dumb shit, to their detriment. If you can break through to them, they're great. I just worry the wall gets thicker each generation. (arguably this could be argued across every generational divide, insert your favorite Socrates quote here).
My company was all boomers and GenX. We had a revolving door of millennials for a while who never stuck around. Now we got few a Zoomers and its been very positive. For awhile I thought the company was going to be in trouble because we could just not get good help and the average age was like 60.
Anything tech and software related they pick right up like its second nature. Even our legacy systems which where built before they where even born. I give a general outline on how something works and they google, AI, or what ever and solve the problem on their own.

And then I deal with boomers who have to physically drive me out USB stick because a project file is to "big to email" and they just cant figure out how to share a file on our network.. And when I open the USB stick its just a shortcut to the file on their desktop back at the office.

I don't know about more "right wing" but the Z's are definitely more edgy and thick skinned when it comes to office banter. The gamer generation.
 
What the fuck happened to personal responsibility and the responsibility of raising your own little hellspawn?
Instant-access mobile internet. That's what happened.

People didn't suddenly just become lazy and retarded for no reason. Strictly monitoring and controlling everything your child consumes was a lot easier and less helicopter parent-y when the only thing people consumed was cable TV and PS1 games hooked up to the one TV sitting in the family living room.

"Just be a better parent dood" is a very lovely idea, but much like every utopian political systems ideals it falls apart when you introduce the human factor. Either everyone in society simultaneously agrees to make this change or it doesn't happen and things get worse.

My nothing ever happens stocks have never been higher on that front.
 
Heads up, some Supreme Court decisions are coming tomorrow that will probably make or break Trump's entire second term
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"BREATHE, NIGGER, BREATHE! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT FUCKING OVER, YOU HEAR ME @Fatpacks?! YOU'RE GONNA WIN ONE DAY, YOU FUCKING HEAR ME?!"

"Sir, Trump is issuing a statement about birthright citizenship"

*pulse drops*

"GODDAMNIT, DON'T YOU FUCKING DIE ON ME! THE FAGS AND NIGGERS CAN STILL COME BACK FROM THIS! THAT COMMIE MUSLIM IN NEW YORK CAN STILL WIN! FUCKING HANG IN THERE!"

"There's incoming news about porn ID laws!"

*patient flatlines*

"SUNOFABITCH! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! WHAT ABOUT THE HULKSTER?! HE FUCKING NEEDS YOU! MOSSAD NEEDS YOU! YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE!"

"... sir, Bannon just recommended regime change in Israel"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

@Fatpacks soul (leaving his body)
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Kiwifarms Pizza-Chuds (celebrating)
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The biggest mistake ever made by the White Man was the British pussying out on buck breaking Hinduism. After the Sepoy Rebellion they actively protected Hindooism and Islam from proselytizing activity. They should have hung every thakir they could get their hands on. It's a beastly religion and is the main thing to blame for the godless, civilization-less state of India. For all its faults, the post-Spanish world have at least a shred of Christendom in them to save them from going full Aztec.
 
Because we aren't a porn site. We are a gossip forum. Until I see a law targeting Reddit, and thus, us, I'm not that shook up bro.
A satellite could fall on my house, but it also sends me internet and GPS. I'm not afraid of the satellite, just as I'm not afraid of this law.
Ultimately be glad the current enemies of the site are fucking retarded because it wouldn't be particularly hard to convince a politician of either side to enforce the same thing on this site.
There is nothing remotely sympathetic about this site to the political class or any activist group.
 
What's the latest on the "Leaks" stating the bombings on Iran were basically ineffective nothingburgers? Was it a legit leak? Bad information?
 
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"BREATHE, NIGGER, BREATHE! IT'S NOT OVER YET! IT'S NOT FUCKING OVER, YOU HEAR ME @Fatpacks?! YOU'RE GONNA WIN ONE DAY, YOU FUCKING HEAR ME?!"

"Sir, Trump is issuing a statement about birthright citizenship"

*pulse drops*

"GODDAMNIT, DON'T YOU FUCKING DIE ON ME! THE FAGS AND NIGGERS CAN STILL COME BACK FROM THIS! THAT COMMIE MUSLIM IN NEW YORK CAN STILL WIN! FUCKING HANG IN THERE!"

"There's incoming news about porn ID laws!"

*patient flatlines*

"SUNOFABITCH! YOU CAN'T DO THIS! WHAT ABOUT THE HULKSTER?! HE FUCKING NEEDS YOU! MOSSAD NEEDS YOU! YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE!"

"... sir, Bannon just recommended regime change in Israel"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

@Fatpacks soul (leaving his body)
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Words to avoid the janny stick.
 
Yes, because no law has ever been inconsistently applied, in a draconian manner against a disfavored party.
the government knows everything you do online, there is no escape. if It decides it wants to fuck you and everything else up it's going to do it regardless of if there's a law about you having to show ID to view an explicitly Pornographic site or not.
 
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