figure out what you love

I'm continually surprised by people's ability to actually do this. I've never loved doing something for more than about a week, if that, so the idea of having a passion like you describe seems like fiction. I know it happens to other people, but nothing in my own experience leads me to think anything like this is out there for me. Thus I'm left with coping/mitigating, neither of which are particularly satisfying ways to spend your time.

If truth is your goal, why are you choosing to ignore things that are true in favor of the narrative you've chosen?

I know hating religion is like your thing right now, but the bigger question is why did anyone make tons of money during the pandemic? Singling out one organization is a pretty convenient way to have to discuss any systemic issues with the way our economy works.

Exactly. The idea that there is anything unique about the Mormons in this case seems bogus.

The Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, etc., could quickly pivot to a consumer model....

Why on Earth would they do that, when they could be held liable for every site they host?

That's the no-brainer first step in stemming the tide of illegal content: make an individual responsible for every account, and what that account uploads.

But that's the point -- this is always the argument used to justify actual censorship. Just look at the paramedic in NYC who was having to do an OnlyFans to make ends meet, only to shut it down out of fear of backlash from her employer once her identity was made public. And if you think the information PornHub stores is going to remain private, a website called Ashley Madison would like a word. It's basically kink-shaming on a massive scale.

Meanwhile, it may stop some jilted boyfriend from uploading revenge porn (and even that remains to be seen), but it's not going to do anything to stop anyone with some resources at their disposal.

It's strange that all the focus is on whether this is a good decision, but no one is looking at why it happened. PornHub did this solely because they were set to lose a lot of money, and so they are not heroes.

But it also raises major questions about how much power payment processors hold. It's always unpopular speech that is targeted first.

Self-righteousness is a hell of a drug.

So your defense is that you're being a bigot, but it's okay, because you're not as bigoted as some of the people you're bigoted towards?

Funny, they'd probably say the same thing about a gay person. But that's ok because you're doing it for a good reason, right?

People said the same thing about Roberts and Gorsuch too.

You really need to climb off your high horse. Or did you forget your using a full-on slur regarding your straw religious people in a private message to me recently?

I couldn't have said it better. I've been spending time on leftist Discord, which has helped me learn a lot of things from a new perspective, but also to help commiserate about how ugly things have gotten.

Democrats have no problem putting out policies, but a terrible record on actually getting anything done. On climate change, we need drastic action, and I don't think that a Biden administration will do more than eat around the edges (especially since the Green New Deal was specifically excluded from the Democratic platform earlier this year). The Democrats have fucked around for too many years for me to have any real faith that they'll do anything real.

Yes, he definitely managed to clear those very low bars.

I mentioned this to a transgender Mexican woman I know on Discord, and her response was:

get fucked royal academy, we don't have to follow your rules, and your spanish sucks

So take that for what it's worth :D

Haha yes, although I'd replace that with "the audacity to think they can control a language." Spain does still technically have a king, after all, and the RAE has a long enough history as such I can't really blame them for not giving it up.

Sorry, somehow the notification for this didn't pop up until now.

What you're describing is one of the big debates in terms of statutory interpretation. My own somewhat uninformed take is that judges are always conscious of policy motive in some way shape or form (how could you not be?), although they try to avoid hanging their hat on it. Sometimes they go too far IMO: most of the caselaw dealing with racial discrimination, for example, says that you have to show disparate intent, not just disparate impact.

That should be doable for me!

Whoops, I didn't see this until this morning (Monday the 21st). Hopefully next time!

I'm glad we've (indirectly) convinced you, and I hope you enjoy it as much as we do!

"Yikes" doesn't really encompass it.

I had seen some pictures from the area (including some BR2049 references), but that's just eerie. Strangely beautiful, though.

I showed it to my wife the other day, who's never read the books (at least not all the way through), but her reaction was similar.

For the company, I'm sure it's the hope that it will be profitable. For the director:

...a longstanding dream of mine is to adapt Dune.

Kitboga is amazing, and I really enjoy the highlight reels (the actual streams can take a loooong time).

"Remarkable" probably not, but he fits for beginning-of-the-book Paul just fine.

America died some time ago. It's just only now starting to affect most of us which is why there's all this angst all of a sudden. But I also don't think American Authoritarianism will take the same form as previous regimes, simply because it's never had to and likely never will.

Fair enough, but I don't see how what you're proposing will change that. How is having fewer visible commenters going to make discussion more diverse?