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by gs17 1y ago
They do it for the same reason cyclists do it. They value their safety and comfort over the pedestrians'. Riding in the road means cars, riding on the sidewalk means people who will jump out of your way.
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by gs17 1y ago
> Wonderful, and the least safety conscious cyclist in the world is still largely only a danger to himself. Pedestrians are people too, and we're often in danger from cyclists who think they have right of way with no speed limit on
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by gs17 1y ago
> And why isn't there a "Content-Rating: sex" or "Content-Rating: gambling" HTTP header? There kind of was one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_for_Internet_Content_...
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by gs17 1y ago
Huh, I expected this to go the other way despite the pre-colon phrase, getting more oil from oats to enable new uses for them, but it's about reducing the oil for easier milling.
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by gs17 1y ago
You can't look at gerrymandering at that scale. It exists on the scale of individual states. I'm in Tennessee, and Republicans gerrymandered the districts so that Nashville is divided across three, leading to the state only having
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by gs17 1y ago
Wouldn't surprise me, gotta follow the money.
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by gs17 1y ago
> the reality is that adult oriented businesses deal with massively higher rates of fraud and charge-backs This gets repeated, but it's not the real reason. If it were, Visa/MasterCard would be fine with a store like Steam offe
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by gs17 1y ago
Yeah, they have very little information. They say "20MW" once, but it's not clear what part of it is 20MW. They imply it can be scaled up or down but don't say much.
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by gs17 1y ago
Steam's storefront is actually policed somewhat, their rules are simply not the same as the ones you want them to have. > governments to step in and say all video games needed classification like films do. Valve and (I believe) Itch
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by gs17 1y ago
Yes, at least back in 2019, from the link: > However, worldwide fraud networks have recently shifted to using CS:GO keys to liquidate their gains. At this point, nearly all key purchases that end up being traded or sold on the marketplac
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by gs17 1y ago
> _before_ the law gets involved There's no law (as of now). If there was a law, Valve would happily de-list these things. For example, a recent custom map for Mount and Blade that was banned in South Korea: https://autom
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by gs17 1y ago
If it was about potential for money laundering, they'd have gone after the Steam item marketplace way before random adult games. Valve has had to take action against it in the past: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valv
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by gs17 1y ago
And it proves that it's not about these games having high risks of fraud and chargebacks.
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by gs17 1y ago
And ethanol plants, which I was surprised to find out is actually a big deal for rail (or rail is a big deal for ethanol?). I guess I never put much thought into how much of it was being produced and how it was being moved around. https:&#
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by gs17 1y ago
> Payment processors have to deal with significantly more problems due to the nature of porn games and chargebacks. This is commonly repeated, but doesn't hold up. Chargeback fees (especially for card-not-present transactions) are p
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by gs17 1y ago
It's a cool idea, but unfortunately their brochure has no details. It's just there to get you to fill out the contact form. One of the few numbers I could find on their site was: > Our standard frame 200MWh battery requires abo
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by gs17 1y ago
> LGBTQ+ interest topics are especially vulnerable to this, Exactly, the Heritage Foundation doesn't define porn the same way a reasonable person might. From Project 2025's Mandate for Leadership: "Pornography, manifested
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by gs17 1y ago
One thing that might be a possibility for attracting developers of non-banned games is focusing on having lower fees than Steam's 30% or Epic's 12%, but Itch.io already does that (you can choose the split from 0 to 100%).
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by gs17 1y ago
> Since when has protected speech required being valuable? For this specific topic in the US, it's necessary. The third prong of the Miller Test is "Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, politica
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by gs17 1y ago
> if they aren’t being pressured directly to remove the content. The problem is that they aren't being told "we won't let people buy this through us", they're told "this needs to go entirely or no more credi
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by gs17 1y ago
In theory, if you went "full crypto", there's probably options like Filecoin and web3 domains (I'm not in that space enough to know what the current versions of these are) that could make something "uncensorable&quo
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by gs17 1y ago
Detroit: Become Human has abuse as significant element to its story. It came under attack from the "National Association of People Abused in Childhood" when it came out, and also from Collective Shout.
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by gs17 1y ago
Based on their behavior. Nothing they do makes sense otherwise. > but avoids NSFW stuff because of legal and profitability concerns This, for example. They weren't enforcing a law, and there's no "profitability" issue
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by gs17 1y ago
That would be a valid point, except something like Steam isn't going under anytime soon over chargebacks, and they could demand larger reserves if they're afraid of that.
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by gs17 1y ago
I don't think the controls would be a big challenge or need to be wireless, Lego already has made buttons and wires. But it would need a lot of custom parts and would cost a lot more than a non-functional device.
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by gs17 1y ago
> I suspect that itch.io may consider working with somebody like CCBill to allow payments for adult content, and use a "normal" processor for everything else. That is what I would do, or at least attempt to do. Except AFAIK Vi
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by gs17 1y ago
I've had similar behavior through Github Copilot. It somehow messed up the diff format to make changes, left a mangled file, said "I'll simply delete the file and recreate it from memory", and then didn't have enoug
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by gs17 1y ago
Then Visa/MasterCard wouldn't need to be the ones to force it.
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by gs17 1y ago
But in Steam's case, it feels more likely fraud would be attached to CS weapons or something than random porn games.
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by gs17 1y ago
> And the payment processors aren’t “book burners.” They’re acting to restrict an unsavory market that potentially hurts their business. They're not book burners... they're just trying to eliminate certain media they find objec

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