I’m but a mere mortal neckbeard on the internet so I could be wrong here but…

…it’s enforcement mechanism is sort of like the Texas abortion law. Please understand, I don’t want to risk trivializing the cruelty of Texas’ law by comparing it to porn, but it’s enforcement mechanism seems well-known at this point for me to use as an example.

They’re relying on residents of Virginia to enforce the law by enabling citizens to sue porn sites if the porn site doesn’t use a commercial service to verify IDs. The state itself cannot sue an organization under this law. But nothing is stopping some political organization from bankrolling a few lawsuits from “concerned Virginians”.

Some sites like Pornhub have decided to just block access to IPs geolocated in Virginia so that they can say they aren’t serving content to Virginians.

This law does not force ISPs to block content, nor does it prohibit individual people from accessing porn. It puts the responsibility on the site hosting content.

Now the ultra-terrifying thing that nobody has been talking about: Virginia has a LOT of datacenters – odds are if you’re hitting almost anything on the internet, you’re hitting a service that has servers in Virginia or depends on servers in Virginia. I’m afraid that Virginia lawmakers may try to start legislating based on this.

I’ve been joking with friends that porn sites just need to start mandating uploading 2-3 foot pics for every nsfw bit of content.

Imagine the hilarity of seeing someone argue that feet can be NSFW in court.

The law makes it so a person can sue a website operator for making explicit content available without using a commercial ID verification service. This law applies if the site’s contents contain > 33% of whatever-the-legal-term-for-basically-porn is.

It was made because a legislator is unable to figure out how to set up content filters for their kids: https://wtop.com/virginia/2023/07/why-am-i-getting-threats-seriously-your-porn-va-state-senator-sparks-outrage-with-age-verification-law/

This author really needs to take a step back to reality.

The average person who’s already technically knowledgeable enough to download Ubuntu and burn a DVD or make a USB stick is already aware of the App Store on Mac and whatever the Windows App Store is called.

Can you show me where I stated a F350 was the only suitable vehicle? I have stated that it can be a more viable vehicle than larger alternative vehicles.

So if you aren’t going to present yourself as a hypocrite, what alternatives should one use for the usecases I have provided?

You should take a moment and reflect on your activity on Lemmy. You spend hours on Lemmy rambling at people without wanting to engage productively with others.

That said, any practical usecase is going to be towing — be it moving livestock trailers, vehicle trailers hauling several cars, moving farm equipment, plowing snow.

You’re welcome to unreasonable but it’s not helping any point you’re wanting to make.

So towing certain loads should just skip straight to an even-larger semi truck?

Uhm……

How is this sad cope? It’s the way it is.

As a resident in the area, it is far more than just the reps and their staff. I’d wager they’re a tiny blip if anything.

Defense/defense contracting is a huge source of generally decent paid employment — though I’d bet the management of these companies are taking in bank 😅

Your average person isn’t engaged in insider trading.

A lot of it is because the area is generally economically stable because of the government and there’s decent sized segments of generally-higher-paying jobs like tech.

Eh, Lemmy has the issue where the activity is low enough that the substantial number of low effort comments and comments that regurgitate the same bland sentiment are overwhelming.

These comments were annoying on Reddit and was my primary reason for leaving.

Hackernews manages a better balance. It is not as active as Reddit but there are a lot of insightful comments that balance out the low-effort contributions.

As an example: I’d happily happily throw a block party the day Elon Musk launches himself into the sun. I don’t need to see an article every time he takes a dump and the corresponding 50 comments about “elon is a menace”

Or anything Threads. The amount of exaggerated and irrational commentary about that was incredibly offputting.

I’ve used Linux primarily as my OS for 11 of the last 16 years.

Linux has gotten much better in this time.

But no, I would not actively convince anyone to switch if they didn’t want to. I have too many other things going on to be tech support 😉

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edit: forgot a west

That this mechanism of vigilante enforcement is legal and continues to be upheld is extremely concerning. The lawsuit was thrown out because the court has decided this can’t be a first amendment issue over the enforcement mechanism.

Dismissing their lawsuit on Tuesday, he instead said they couldn’t sue Utah officials because of how the law calls for age verification to be enforced. The law doesn’t direct the state to pursue or prosecute adult websites and instead gives Utah residents the power to sue them and collect damages if they don’t take precautions to verify their users’ ages.

I guess this being done on porn is a litmus test to see if this mechanism can be used for more than abortion. Whatever this is, we’re in for some dark times ahead.

Well yes… That other way is donating.

“Hey! You know all those things that make unprotected bike lanes dangerous? Let’s amp it up a notch with trial-by-vehicular-merge”

Has there been any public analysis on this yet or is this speculation/conjecture?

I’m hoping they found a way to nail energy efficiency. My concern with a lot of trucks being announced is that the size is an excuse to hide an absolutely ginormous battery.

I’m looking at you, GM.