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Miner Wars 2081 has similarities. Same people who made Space Engineers.

You know you’re in the right communities when Hulk Hogan dies and everyone says “fuck that guy”.

Ancient GenX slang for “just kidding”. Zoomers, don’t let GenX make fun of you for “rizz” or whatever. They were doing shit like that long before you were born.

I don’t think OnlyFans had to do much of anything in the end. There was just enough media stink about it to make it go away.

Credit card companies don’t have to make a consistently applied set of rules the way a government of laws does. They can make it all up for each individual site if they wish. Capitalism can create a censorship regime that’s stronger than nominally democratic governments are willing to do.

Capitalism is creating a level of censorship that exceeded what the US government was ever able to do after the Warren court. Parts of this have been there for a long time. You can drop f-bombs on cable TV all you like; the FCC can’t do anything about it since it’s not over public airwaves. They generally don’t do that, because advertisers don’t like it. Capitalism set the rule, not the government.

YouTube has put this idea into overdrive. You can’t make a straightforward, monetized video about the Holocaust anymore, because the language you would have to use would violate YouTube’s written and unwritten rules. Meanwhile, actual fucking Nazis have had little issue using YouTube to spread their bullshit.

Credit card companies have had issues with porn sites in terms of fraud reporting. Not necessarily because of actual fraud–if the site you use is under CCbill, it’s fine–but because some guy’s spouse sees the card transactions, asks what this particular line is for, and he lies and says it’s probably fraud and he’ll call it in. Get more than a few of those, and the processor will always be flagged for review.

They do outright stop some of the more fringe porn. Bree Mills (of Adulttime) has said that they get limited by the credit card industry far more than the government. All the faux-incest videos go out of their way to mention in dialog that everyone is a step family and over 18. You won’t find scat on Kink.com, again because their payment processor won’t allow it.

That’s been the situation for a few decades, but it has gone beyond that in the last few years. They tried it on OnlyFans, and the company maneuvered things to show why that’s an incredibly bad idea, and then the card companies backed down. But they’re trying again elsewhere, and they’re starting to be successful. I severely doubt they had any significant fraud issues on Steam or itch.io, NSFW items or otherwise.

Ultimately, this stuff is a tiny slice of their revenue. If they want to shut it all down on a moral crusade, they will barely notice the hit to their numbers.

On a side note, I’d like the advocate that you should pay for porn if it’s within your means. You’ll often find better quality stuff at sites that properly run their sets with consent. If you like queer porn or unconventional body types, there are a lot of sites for that which just don’t show up on PornHub.

If JD manages to become President, it’ll be two weeks before an intern finds him sobbing in a closet.

There is way, way more to it than that.

Attack of the PETSCII Robots. Been ported to a ridiculous number of retro computers.

The way starfighter combat works is definitely WW2. There’s some hand wavy explanations in-universe for why it works that way, but it clearly comes from WW2 fighter and bomber turret footage.

Politically, the empire is pretty clearly Nazi-coded, but I don’t think Lucas ever had more than a surface level understanding of fascism.

In aircraft and boats, the more maneuverable craft has the responsibility to evade. Since this flight was going to a small airport in North Dakota, I’m guessing it’s a small commuter plane that’s much smaller than a B-52.

Valens said on her stream that she was paid $30 an article; a contributor to the previous iteration of Waypoint, Nick Capozzoli, said rates used to be at least $300.

Holy shit.

I’ve dabbled a bit in writing tech articles. I was published in a print magazine >20 years ago, and I think I got around $300 for it. More recently, a few articles I did for a niche tech website went for $100 each.

$30/article? For a site that has Vice behind it? Yeah, pretty easy to walk away from that money.

He should do what Conan did and bring back the Bugatti Veyron Mouse.

He does need them, though he may not think so. Support isn’t just for voting. His narcissism needs people to like him, and his entire personality can collapse without it (possibly to suicidal levels). They support him in more tangible ways, as well, such as counter protest actions.

Just in general, fascism needs to maintain the illusion of widespread, inevitable “populist” support. That’s one reason why big public protests are important even if they don’t have tangible results right away.

The quality of tankies has really gone down. This one started tried to make a really big deal about the difference between annexation and settler colonialism, as if that matters at all. I’m only disappointed that most replies fell into the obvious trap.

A very important distinction that is clearly not just splitting hairs.

Unlike the Soviets and Kaliningrad. Wait…