> You make an unregulated product that is much cheaper but has massive negative externalities or long-term risks that a regular person can’t oversee > everyone buys your product > people start dying because of your product > people agree that the regulation is now mandatory and ban your product.

You can pretend that “in a free market” the citizens will refuse to buy bad products, stores will refuse to sell bad products and manufacturers will refuse to create bad products. But then why is it different when a democratic government refuses to allow bad products?

But if it was growing in Europe at that time, wouldn’t it be all over the place and be in books in the Middle Ages? Unless the Bronze Agers somehow smoked all of it.

I just started Sanda this week and I still have to catch up, but it’s already my sleeper hit of the year. What science are they doing at Science Saru to make Dandadan and this back to back?

I’m just disappointed in the AMZN subtitles and no fansubbers picked this up, so now I’m learning how to use Aegisub. For myself, initially, because it’s a bit late to retime the full season at this point.

Though if I figure out how to do signs and karaoke, it could still be worth doing a batch release for… next Christmas? (If no better groups pick it up before then. I’m just a single amateur with a grudge against badly timed subs.)

Help, at one point I was younger than Shinji, but I am older than Misato now. But seriously, 30 is too young to be a cougar right?? She’s a young woman, an older sister to Shinji and Asuka.

You’re still getting Lineage updates for the S4?! That one maintainer keeping your phone alive:

You could make it single-use tokens and rate limit individual users when they request too many tokens in a short time. Someone could still share their tokens with a friend, but it doesn’t scale to where thousands are verifying with some stranger’s id.

6 years is post-cave diver. He bought it after Elon went crazy.

Do you then check those historical details against trusted sources? If so, how often do they need correction?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/70xaqa/a_they_live_adblocker_details_in_comments/

This uses Catblock with a custom image set, but Catblock hasn’t been updated in 6 years, so I don’t know how well it still works. Anyway, if Catblock won’t work, we have to find a blocker that allows for some customization and then fit those “They Live” images in.

(I’m trying to get Catblock to work, but somehow I can’t find any pages that even load ads? I think the pihole is blocking the scripts that would load the ads.)

I don’t quite understand what you mean in that first paragraph. Are you talking about people who justify clearly bad behavior with religion? Or the opposite, people who are uncertain about good behavior because it contradicts their religion? Or both at the same time, people who give up trying to define good and bad and just do whatever, because God will forgive them anyway?

I worry about being good though, not for spiritual reasons, but because the world is created by the tiny choices we make each day and I worry about making the world worse out of complacency.

Vocaloids aren’t AI, they’re digital instruments.

Fuck, I failed the test. I have to wonder if they’re full unsupervised generation though, because one of them had a recurring motif that I know an algo would have a hard time to keep track of. None of it was really my genre anyway, but it still got me good.

They added an OS check to a website? What’s next, checking if your desk is sturdy enough to carry the weight of their javascript?

Community links:

!asexual@lemmy.world

!asexual@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Both could use some more activity. (Like an asexual’s sex life amirite?)

I wonder how the police even got involved. The article says the NCMEC reported him? But was he streaming the game? Did somebody on Steam or Discord see his game activity and ratted on him to the NCMEC?

Anyway, I don’t see why the National Council for Missing and Exploited Children should concern themselves with drawings of fictional characters. Nor the police, nor the law.

Reminds me of this cutie.

Sharks - Sweetness & Lightning

Are they birds? Frank is such a bird name

Yeah, I guess, but I figured the mistake was obvious and no one cared enough about Nltimes’ reputation to defend them.

Nltimes is an English-only website targeting expats/immigrants who want to read Dutch news. They have literally one job, which is translating Dutch news articles into English for their English-speaking audience. I expect a certain level of care, especially when this translation error makes it seem like the banner was part of the vandalism and not the target of the vandalism, completely reversing the meaning of the act:

the building’s facade, entrance door, and sidewalk were smeared with white and blue paint, and a banner displayed the message, “End the genocide now.”

But Parool opens the article with “the banner was smeared with paint” and “MSF placed the banner after consulting with Joods Cultureel Kwartier” (which I assume is a Jewish organisation).

You’re all talking about this as if he’s gay, but he clearly says his wife is the one having orgasms during gay sex.