For the record, I’m willing to bet Apple and Google are training various AI models using photos on your phone, without your consent (or consent burried deep in a ToS.)

Didya really think Apple cared 'bout people having CSAM on their phones/icloud? (it does make an amazing excuse to scan every photograph you’ve ever taken or downloaded, though. any one who balks is immediately now protecting pedophiles. Apple, Google, they’re corporations. their ethics are dictated by the bottom line.) (they’ve since gone to on-device options that attempt to block or intervene if a child sends or receives things that are inappropriate, and offering to point them to an adult.)

I didn’t say I didn’t believe, but I felt context was necessary to the ‘hundreds of thousands’.

It’s not even a single percentage of people in the US. if we assume it’s only men, it’s barely half a percentage of men in the US.

I think this is a strong argument to legalize prostitution to provide legal recourse and protection for anyone in the profession who’s getting forced into the work.

I agree with this statement. Sex work should be legalized, not least of which for protecting everyone involved. However… something to keep in mind is that… hundreds of thousands… is not that large a percentage of men. Even if you assume it’s 900,000 men, the total number of people in the US is 350 million- meaning that 900k is 0.25%. granted, I’m blending men and women- there’s plenty of women who also buy trafficked slaves as well. but if you figure half the people in the use are men, and it’s only men doing it… that’ still…half a percent.

thinking about this…

you know how gaudy most trump towers are?

and how gaudy a lot of Saudi-rich-people-places are…?

Yeah. I wonder if… it’ll be extra gaudy, or just straight up… tacky.

If by “bet” you mean tripling down on massive bribes…. You betcha.

This isn’t entirely accurate.

First, just because they’re only slightly less accurate than most cops… doesn’t mean they’re not able to get lucky.

Secondly, I’m reminded of an incident I saw security recordings of, from a guy running across a light rail platform (warehouse district in Minneapolis,) dude was spraying behind him. While running.

Missed all of the people he was aiming at, killed 4 people all the same.

ACAB, so I’m not saying the cops didn’t fuck up. (Or even plant the damn pellet gun…) but yeah. There’s a reason that’s the narrative.

Yeah, there’s that.

They like changing definitions. Though, if we’re gonna talk about groomers, she’s more likely to be one than drag or LGBTQ, and it ain’t even close.

So, outa curiosity…. How many cans of Mountain Dew did Biden slam back?

People are awful. If there’s nothing that they can be mean about, they’ll make shit up. I suspect most of that was more because she was rich/famous/influential in her own right rather than being tied to a husband.

(though she’s married. I looked it up outta curiosity. He doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page…

I wonder if she knows that it’s already illegal?

Or is she just salty that priests are the ones being arrested?

pretty sure they’re okay with women getting boob implants, though.

It is. it’s a bit different in context though.

but the OC was trying to paint China as being innocent victims. which they are far from.

Pete Arredondo, the former chief of the school district police in Uvalde, Texas, has been indicted and arrested over his actions during the police response to the 2022 school shooting in which a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, the Uvalde County sheriff said on Thursday.

“Mr. Arredondo is currently in our custody,” the sheriff, Ruben Nolasco, said in a text message, adding that Mr. Arredondo was being held on the charge of “abandoning/endangering of a child.”

Good. Fuckwit deserves it. (also: archive link for people getting hit by paywall)

Because they’d send them there… to save a buck.

Or rather a whole lot of bucks.

It’s hilarious to me that you neglect to mention that the Chinese government is heavily subsidizing the vehicles specifically to undermine other automakers.

Not that the US are the good guys here, but this is just more of the trade war crap between China and basically everyone else.

I mean, why do you need a friend-cop?

Just a one night stand will do.

I would suggest 3/10 share their extremists ideology. (Well, the ideology of the majority,)

“Warriors are fine. Nerf warlocks.” -Me, a mage in Vanilla WoW.

Iirc, the hole does 2 things. The first is it acts like a sound hole in a guitar or violin and alters the tonal qualities of the speaker (the enclosure acts like a resonate chamber.)

Also, iirc, drivers have to work harder to move the membrane of the enclosure is totally sealed, since it’d have to compress the air inside/behind the membrane.

Of course, cheap speakers probably did it because they saw JBL and others do it on the expensive studio monitors.

As for spiders…. I think they’re cool, but only if they stay over …. There…. Jumping spiders can even be cute. But at a distance.

Same goes for the centipede with the creepy legs. I respect that they eat things I’m happy not deal with… just don’t come over here.

Honestly, spiders are pretty cool roommates.

I mean? They respect boundaries, they’re fairly clean and tidy, they help deal with pests. And they’re quiet.

Remember highest tipper gets to control the Domi.

Wait. I shouldn’t make that joke- sex work is way more honest.