Most people want the "expected talking points", and especially so here. If you ask the bigger questions, and people collectively lose their shit. I removed the text from other posts because people have comprehension problems, and resort to personal attacks.

There's a whole slew of questions here, to of which its just "hate ai" is the expected response.

1. Why the double standard of women's (not men's) nipples equated to porn? [sex equality concerns]

2. Is this even porn? Even SCOTUS has the position of "I'll know it when I see it". Contrast this with non-sexual nudity, which too is a thing.

3. Is a privacy policy/clickthrough account creation adequate for consent? https://www.walottery.com/Privacy/

4. Why is the Washington Lottery (government org) using AI at all in the facilitation of gambling?

5. What other AI generated content is Washington Lottery saving, as per Washington State Public Records Act, chapter 42.56 RCW ?

> All the decriminalize crap is pushed by rich liberal types. They live in luxury apartments or out in the burbs.

And they're doing those same drugs they want decriminalized.

> Ask any poor or working class person. They don’t want this crap. Drugs ravage their communities. They have to deal with these problems.

Again, the drugs are the escape. Escape from what? Poverty.

Poverty is the actual thing ravaging communities. And in inner cities, it is definitely a zero-sum game, or likely negative-sum.

Rich people do drugs as an experience with friends. Its a whole different mindset than "i want to do drugs to escape the fact I dont have enough food and my tooth hurts and avoiding the gunshot sounds outside".

> Same thing with the defund the police and other non sense.

Again, rich liberal types usually don't worry about petty theft or simple vandalism. They dont see it, and so they want to defund it.

Ive had a unique life, where I'm now middle class, went through living on the streets in poverty, and been the guest to some of the rich liberal class. You can try to make fun of me for my experiences. Try to understand whats going on, and why. And the rich are being honest in what they ask, but not what they say.

And in all my experiences, poverty and extreme income disparity is the actual elephant in the room. Drugs? They don't cause near the problem.

Ive been to the rich liberal types' parties. You know how some of them go? Like this:

You'll have a retreat to the den. The host will either send someone out to get "supplies" or they'll already have it. And they'll pull out a few eight-balls, and they'll put up a few hundreds around the room, and everyone will enjoy a few lines.

They'll then retreat to the in-house pool or hot tub, and enjoy.

I also had a friend who was a retired record exec, and it was routine that during lunchtime, they'd gather money to go down to the street and buy coke.

Just because they're rich, doesnt mean they don't do drugs. They likely do, just not on the streets. They do from their mansions.

(And its also the middle class who're scared shitless about drugs. My guess is because they don't have the money to hire a lawyer to keep a drug rap off.)

We can make the same exact argument about sugar and HFCS. Either of those substances can make people feel extremely hungry even with a full stomach, thus make terrible decisions and damage their bodies.

Alcohol's much worse. Yet we tried banning that. Remind me how that went again? Oh thats right, we had federal agents poisoning alcohol to intentionally kill drinkers. Wonderful times.

> For example cannabis can be mostly safe for adults, but children or teens who use too much of it can develop neurological defects like short-term memory impairment, depending on the frequency and duration of use.

Again, most drugs aren't that bad, regardless what DARE propagandized you into believing. Id advise anyone actually wanting to understand what a drug is like, to go to https://www.erowid.org/ and read up about experiences.

I've been on damn near every painkiller up to fentanyl. My fav is morphine. Feels like a glowing warmth and "home". I could easily see me doing a small amount on a friday evening after work's done. Id keep it down enough that I wouldn't get a tolerance, and I'd be "sobered" up by next morning.

Ive also been on amphetamines, and threw' em away. Made me feel TERRIBLE.

The 3 biggest scourge drugs we have are alcohol, tobacco, and sugar. And, when did bans actually accomplish the ban goal?

The USG is Linux-hostile, with exceptions like the NSA doing SELinux, Gidra, and other toolchains.

Linux would be the absolute best, along with things like OpenOffice and other FLOSS tools. The difference is to take the money you pay to MS and redirect them to FLOSS devs.

But, that'll never happen.

That's a rental, not a sale.

And I'd argue that under FTC rule, that's illegal.

Basically, this person was born with the "wrong" genitalia. Frankly, it doesnt matter. But you have to go through mental health counseling for sex change operations. Which, given the changes it does to a human body, needs to make sure they understand it. I get this and it sounds reasonable and sane (this needs to be a well thought out change, and not just some whim).

But then, the FAA sees "mental health" listed, and they assume that you're wacko who's going to crash a plane full of people, or go full-on 9/11. Doesnt matter that its over a sex change to be in parity with what your brain is. You're a nutter.

They took 5 years getting the requisite "im not insane" paperwork from all the doctor etc. It was such a waste of time and money on everyone's part.

This whole debacle also is why pilots REFUSE to get mental health help, because getting it an lying is a federal crime. So the better answer is to never get it, go full burnout city, and hope nothing bad happens. Doubly so if you're a man - the FAA expects women to get mental health before a man does. If a man does, you're seen as suicidal/homicidal and defective. But to be fair, trans is viewed as even worse by the FAA.

Normalize mental health, for everyone. There's NOTHING bad about getting help. A little bit of help now solves a bigger problem later.

RPi used to be $25 or $35 , and then use equipment lying around.

Now it's $80, plus high performance power, case, active cooling, storage, etc.

RPi is no longer in it's own original category. And when you compare via cost, it's a loser these days.

The only way the RPI isn't a complete loser is inertia, pure and simple.

It's the similar way Ycombinator-sponsored crap has no commenting at all. A good portion of them are basically 'clone Uber and cut out bureaucracy illegally', 'we scan your eyeballs for shitcoin', and similar grift.... But you can never say anything about those.

Yes, bars have parking lots, and a lot of spaces.

The intent is to *drive* there, drink and maybe eat, and leave in some various state of drunkenness. Why else would the spacious parking lots be required?

Then it'll be some 'to gain access to your site you must agree....' crap.

I'm really hating what the Internet has turned into.

I could easily see a different, harsher, but more fair punishment...

1. All assets are sold off to pay victims

2. Prison for a few years. 5?

3. can only work jobs where nobody reports to them (no management, C levels, etc). Also cannot make companies.

4. Cannot own more than 2 properties, one of which is his place of residence.

5. Cannot rent out any property.

6. 25% of what he makes goes into restitution for the rest of his life.

7. Investments into any wealth instrument is to be confiscated, with exception to a 401k.

Basically, this person cannot be trusted with making money other than by working for someone else. This still allows him to make a life, but severely limits the similar path he used to defraud people.

Sending this guy to prison for 25 years is a waste for everyone involved.

We were never part of that 'scene'. Hell, I even tried to enter the VC scene locally. It was all about blatant lying and redoing Uber than actual innovative and crazy ideas. I even had a 'mentor' say that I should just lie about hockey stick growth, cause that's what everyone does.

It's not that hard to see the emperor is dearlng no clothes. But damn, don't say that if you want to deal with SV folks.

And I believe in "Never Again", in any holocaust, genocide, apartheid, and similar - they should never be done.

Israel's government is hellbent on all of those things pertaining to the Gaza strip and the Palestinians.

Again, I would have figured the descendants of "The Holocaust" would have recognized that even war has limitations, and would have actually held to the ideal of "Never Again". But it really was turned into "Never again to us".

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And to your "You're in a war. Famine and bombs are a war.".... There are indeed limitations, which Israel is grossly violating.

international humanitarian law prohibits the starvation of civilians as a method of warfare (API Art. 54, APII Art. 14

The use of white phosphorus may violate Protocol III (on the use of incendiary weapons) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCCW) in one specific instance: if it is used, on purpose, as an incendiary weapon directly against humans in a civilian setting.