Almost like the nominations were rigged and the media hated someone who would ruin the rich who own the media’s income.

I have edited the title from ID check to Age Verification check . It was not misleading on purpose, it was a mistake on my end from my day posting it was a bit wild.

I have edited the title to include “age verification checks” from “ID check”.

you oppose the ban I have to assume because you don’t know where to get menthol cigs anymore. I live in Oakland and can still find Newports. I quite smoking them over 25 years ago but know more than one place that sells them.

I don’t smoke period so I don’t mind it. I found the reasoning banning it was stupid, because the boomer voting base didn’t understand the reason for the Prop being drawn up.

this thread is about age verification. not sure why you think tobacco bans are remotely close.

Talking about a dumb law being passed, so I talked about a dumb law being passed. I said that a state of Democrat voters and Democrat Assembly members doesn’t mean they always pass the best/logical bills. Better than if the state was ran by Republicans, but so is every state.

Oh I know, but I’m hoping that Google can’t find another law that enables it. They have money for good lawyers for these things.

Hopefully you’re right, and the law doesn’t allow for an expansion of this to include “just give google your id bro”.

Well, we as a state voted to ban flavored tobacco products when like 10 kids were getting popcorn lung from black market THC oil carts.

And selling tobacco to minors here is highly illegal, as it should be. So I never understood why we banned flavored tobacco, when the kids were getting issues from black market THC carts, which they also shouldn’t have been sold/using.

Not even getting into how the law didn’t stop flavored alcohol, we can still buy bubblegum flavored vodka here.

So even in the 2nd most Democrat leaning state, we still push for the dumbest laws. This was a state wide vote, not something the Senate/Assembly voted on.

Yeah it’s so good damn vague, you can say a simple checkbox of “I am above the age of majority” would suffice, or a full actual ID check whenever you make an account at Microsoft.

I think Linux distros will have to either make a check/declaration on their website or just block IP addresses from California.

I don’t know how far this will go, or if it means anything different by the start of 2026, when make laws here go into effect.

I apologize for this being posted about 2 weeks after the bill was signed, was going through my usual methods of checking news and new laws and found this.

Now terminals will read: “GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law, and contains code known by the State of California to cause cancer or other reproductive harm.” /j

And then they never back it up.

A lie gets around the world before the truth puts on its pants.

I don’t think we’ll get any, she’s been asked before as hasn’t given any evidence before.

You have repeatedly made this claim but still haven’t given any proof after a few weeks.

Please demonstrate the users you believe are alts of .ml and other instances. Any and all of them.

Edit: After being asked 3 times, this time after 24 hours, still no response with any information. Good misinformation that .world allows to be spread.

Just pay for bad software! That solves all problems.

Why would we want to talk to MAGA assholes who want to eradicate most of the userbase?

They’re allowed to make an instance, the software can’t stop them. They’re not required to be federated with.

Just like how you can say anything you want, you’re not required to have someone listen to it, or not have someone speak their mind about it back to you.

So instead of fighting it they changed their profile picture. Might as well post “Down for this sort of thing, I hereby declare Facebook can’t steal my posts” and then never actually do anything to help stop it.

He would have tried to sell your data if he could have. Clippy would use Recall 24/7 if he could have.

How many millions of people have you reached about the importance of consumer rights?

Only my friends, but I don’t then move to CorpoLand, USA because muh free dumbs.

It’s basically saying he was the freedom for ye, not for thee. Texas is where you go when you want to have companies do what they want, as any restrictions on their actions hurts their bottom dollar.

The entire clippy thing baffles me.

Let’s use the mascot of Microsoft, a tech giant who invades every inch that they can, to say we don’t like tech giants!

I don’t think any company that uses AI or scrapes data gives two shits what your avatar is. It’s the equivalent of changing your twitter profile to show support for the victims of something, and then carrying on as usual.

Microsoft would kill for Clippy to be remembered as a friend. Because that just sanewashes their history as a company when clippy was a thing. Yes, please ignore the anti-trust busting in Congress. Please ignore how we made computers worse for the end user by restricting what you can do on your purchased computer.

“Clippy was your friend. Clippy didn’t want to steal your data. Clippy just wanted to help.”

Help infantize the masses with “It looks like you’re writing a document, do you want help with that? Yes, or maybe later?”

This entire clippy thing is just basically free whitewashing and advertising for Microsoft, one of the biggest players in the reasons why people use the avatar.

At least invent something new, if it’s about protecting artists, instead of copying a jpg from a 90s corporate milquetoast mascot.

The claim being made?

As we all know, after 2 bad seasons, fan service makes good show!