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Other way around:

Sites that COMPLY with laws and exit the state leave behind sites that do not comply.

The sites you CAN reach in Texas are more likely to have trafficking victims and underage participants -- because those sites clearly don't give a hoot about laws.

Texas drove away the wrong sites!

Yes. They want "small government" when the law affects them, but "law and order" when it punishes someone else who annoys them.

It's childishness we've come to be accustomed to, thanks to lead-brained 70-year-olds who are falling into legit cognitive decline... but still have the numbers to be a formidable opponent at the polls on election day.

Also, their dicks don't work anymore without a blue pill, so they may as well take away the consensual naked fun of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z (18+) people right?

What's worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.

The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.

If they truly cared about protecting minors, they'd see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.

This law is a step toward the latter.

At this point, it's just a temper tantrum.

Democrats/scientists/experts/youth are the "annoying older brother" and anything they want is "stupid."

Lead poisoning (gasoline) really ruined a generation.

Wait until they see "Smoke Hub" in Bakersfield, CA.

It's literally the porn hub logo.

Yep. Disney+ (for now).

Netflix, HBO, and Hulu gradually cancelled over the last few years.

What's stupid of them is that if they'd stayed around $8-10/mo each (ad-free), I probably would have stayed subscribed forever. Now they each get nothing.

I don't mind Spotify increasing.

Inflation is real. And nobody wants to see the service turn into a Little Caesars "$5 Hot N Ready" pizza that erodes in quality, rather than gradually price increase with inflation.

The advantage we have with music streamers is that nearly ALL the content is on ALL the services. So, if one service goes bananas with pricing, we can jump ship to a cheaper one.

But TV is siloed into mini monopolies. The only source of capitalism competition they face is use choosing to do without. And frankly, if I'm gonna be forced-fed ads, I choose to do it on YouTube which costs me $0 and not $7.99 a month.

Netflix is gone. And as someone who leaves The Simpsons running 24/7 on Disney+, I'm frankly getting thiiiiiiiiiis close to dumping their asses, too!

Former RiFfer here. Although I'm playing with Sync at the moment as I type this, I've gravitated toward Connect quite a lot. It's not Rif but it feels familiar.

I dream that one day there is a RiF for Lemmy. But alas, he's building an app for tildes.

Connect for Lemmy has been really good so far, too.

But it's not.

This isn't intentional. Florida's politicians want an educated, wealthy population and to fight a meaningless culture war with Disney and young people (to keep Boomers happy).

They are too dumb to see they can't have their cake and eat it too! This will be one expensive culture war.

Quality universities create quality employees and quality (tax paying) companies. By the end of the decade, and the region will stagnate and you'll see a "new" Republican going full panic mode to fix the damage (while somehow blaming it on Democrats).

In short: There is NO plan. They're just THAT shortsighted! (Everything you see can be, once again, explained by simple Boomer overindulgence)

Now we can doomscroll Lemmy!

Yep. Would have gladly paid $10 a month for Gold had it included API access for RiF (only fair, since I'm skipping the ads).

But noooooooo. Reddit didn't want my money, evidently. So, after 11 years of a VERY active account (made or commented on 10-15k posts over that time), I deleted and left.

It's fine. Lemmy stretches that itch to "scroll" something. And I can use whatever damn app I want.

How does a lockdown HELP the economy exactly?

Work still has to be accomplished. Otherwise it's money chasing NO product. Which is what we're still recovering from.

Sometimes doing the right thing (lockdown) has COSTS. Serious economic costs. A "have our cake and eat it" mindset is, sadly, a fallacy.

In fairness, it was either or:

• Take COVID seriously
• Not destroy the economy

Early lockdowns probably saved a million lives. But the supply chain issues we've faced since are the ripple effect from those two/three months. Countries like China that took the pandemic more seriously faced worse economic fallout.

Additionally, the previous administration signed off on Congress sending each us of unemployment, PPP, and thousand dollar checks. All of that helped enormously.

I hate the previous president personally, and feel he's the most unqualified man to ever hold the office, and feel he's the closest we've ever had to a fascist coup. But that does not mean every decision of that administration was automatically wrong.

Or, as a market-based solution: TurboTax raised the price for small business returns to about the same as hiring and accountant. So, now I just hire an accountant.

Thank you! Simply attacking a mode without weighing the number of users using that mode gives us a chart that shows the most-used mode.

Similar to a map of heart attack deaths that shows most happen in New York, California, and Texas.

GIF was ancient in the YTMND.com days. And nowadays, YTMND is like two decades old. Back when my life had hope.

Exactly. How are exactly actors support to "share in failure" as their nonsense quote suggests?

I'd complain, except it hasn't gone up in a decade.

Prices needs to go up a little bit every year to reflect CPI and inflation.