Zorque

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[Discussion] How do you feel about age verification on Porn sites? (lemmings.world)

Porn sites Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat face stricter requirements to verify the ages of their users after being officially designated as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs) under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA)....

Zorque,

I think its the regulatory body's responsibility to provide a safe and secure service that can verify age requirements if they want to force that.

If they can't provide that service, they shouldn't require it, especially with such sensitive information.

Zorque,

I think you confuse yourself with your own wording. Monetary value is justification in a capitalist system. It is how everyone is judged. If you can not make that money, you are considered a burden, no matter how much non-monetary value you may provide.

The system doesn't really care how you do it. That is the realm of human bias.

Yes, but there is intentional scarcity in a capitalist system.

We have more than enough technological development to solve most scarcity issues in the world... the problem is theyre not economically viable. Which is to say, they're not profitable enough. You don't (immediately) get more out of it than you put in. All you get is the safety and well being of the people in the system. Which is not the primary concern in a capitalist system.

Zorque,

Bruce Maddox, is that you?

Zorque,

There is still an issue of human bias, though. A thought is not accepted unless it's widely accepted. Even much of our established science was once a pipe dream, even with reproducible proof, until it was accepted on a wider scale.

It's not as simple as just providing proof and letting people accept it, you have to appeal to them. Which is exactly what politicians do.

Zorque,

I guess you get your daily dose of iron, and then some...

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🎶The slimiest Cola in the Galaxy🎶

Zorque,

Would a straight man bring a disruptor to their first date with a woman?

Where Are All The Bicycles?? (startrek.website)

I have an issue in general with scifi totally ignoring the existence of bicycles, but star trek is particularly fun to think about since in so many situations beaming down in an away team with electric mountain bicycles would be incredibly useful in a basic utilitarian sense. Like shuttles, bicycles could be treated as...

Zorque,

We love hoverbikes!

Zorque,

I wouldn't call her cruel. Misguided? Sure. Megalomaniacal? To a degree. But not cruel. As you say, she considered it a kindness.

Zorque,

Yours, more so ;)

Zorque,

I do not think that word means what you think k it means.

Zorque,

Right, they're inferring that their opinion was universal. There was a lot of controversy @urrounding the movie, but it had little to do with the quality and a lot to do with peoples inability to remove personal biases from their viewing experience.

Zorque,

I mean, Ben Affleck was da bomb in Phantoms, yo.

Zorque,

It's not terrible, it's just incredibly underwhelming. It's a movie where occasionally things happen. Sometimes fantasy things happen. But somehow in the most boring way possible. Eventually the movie ended.

Zorque,

TOS and TNG also had the voice over stating the Starfleet modus operandi.

Sometimes things are just different.

Zorque,

I'm imagine if it was a different class of ship, it would also have different jeffries tubes. I think the Enterprise, Defiant, and Voyager tubes are all styled differently, but consistently with their ship. Not to mention the DS9 tubes would have to be different because they were designed by Cardassians (and built by Bajoran slave labor).

Zorque,

It's swiss? With a huge air bubble in the middle?

Zorque,

Oh, well, that makes sense then.

Zorque,

psst, its a joke, kind of like the comic

Zorque,

As far as I know, cause nothing else is bringing me any kind of happiness. So It must be, right?

Zorque,

I'm getting more Studio Laika vibes than Disney from this.

Zorque,

It helps if they're already pretty authoritarian to begin with.

Zorque,

At least once. There's a difference.

Zorque,

A laser is like a turbolaser but less turbo.

Zorque,

Thats the intention, but a lot of buildings are getting half-finished, then sold when they lose funding... just to be demolished so they can start all over again.

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