I legit remember laughing about this scene, imagining this, and having a very startling realization about myself in a very public setting.

What’s, uh… what’s the pink bit at the bottom of the third panel, there?

Jesus, this was both hard to read and hard to stop reading. Really, I was just hard the whole way through. It was. Not I.

No, only eaten copious amounts of ass. 🥰

That’s what I was thinking. I’m curious what the intended meaning is because I’m super hung up on “people sell apples/other fruit/produce”.

I think, in this case, they mean insane to be ‘a ridiculously large sum’ not a comment about their mental state.

:3

Comedy is often a banger for depressed people.

I picked up on the reddit reference, but I had no idea how any of the fediverse stuff worked in relation to that. That’s really cool that you can link that way, honestly. So presumably I’m just missing out on exactly what instance and community people are talking about when they say stuff like that?

This is the second /c/ reference I’ve seen tonight. What’s that?

I don’t want an app. I want weed and cock

tfw no weed, no cock 😔

casually searches for the catgirl distro to completely upend my life for a weekend

Doubly true because the children yearn for the mines.

Seems pretty reasonable to use it as a grammar checker. As long as it’s not changing content, just form or readability, that seems like a pretty decent use for it, at least with a purely educational resource like Wikipedia.

Yeah, honestly, companies that aren’t publicly traded and just do their own thing tend to be fine to okay-ish. I like Valve. Their software works for me, they were fine to work with, and I like some of the projects they’ve helped advance.

I hesitate to say that they ‘get a free pass’. I don’t think any company should get that unless they like… cured aging and gave it away for free or something, but for the time being, they’re decent.

I’d also suggest the folks at GoG are pretty good, too.

I see Linux being more and more widely adopted in Europe, for one. I imagine there will be an ‘EU standardized’ distro forked to prevent any issues of interoperability between government systems. Hopefully, such a widespread adoption for PCs encourages more development for Linux from software devs.

It hurts and it takes a while (at least on my face), and it costs a fair bit depending on where you’re at… but when it finally starts kicking in, I would STILL say it’s worth it.

The latter part of your points is what really scares me as well. It’s only a matter of time until “protecting the children” becomes “defining what adult content is” and policing gender, sexuality, and politically inconvenient ideas under the guise of morality.

Call me a cynic, but I absolutely do not believe that companies “know that the days where they can just shrug off child predators using their products is coming to and end”. I don’t believe they give a fuck at all. In fact, if somehow a case made it to court and the court laid the blame at the foot of, say, Facebook, or whatever company, for a child being harmed, they still wouldn’t care because the money they make simply existing as is so wildly outstrips any fine they could possibly be levied that it doesn’t make economic sense to do anything differently.

There is real damage being done now and no one seems to care enough to stop it. Why go through all this negative PR about privacy violations if you can just keep doing the same thing?

Now, I can’t claim to know what the “real reason” these laws are being passed is, but if I had to hazard a guess, it would be because it gives more accurate data on users to sell and it is cheaper to advertise to your users when they directly tell you their age. Now, you can freely show pornographic ads, gambling ads, whatever, to your adults without ever having to worry about buying user data to know who will receive it. If a kid sees porn, well, you shouldn’t have let them on an adult account.