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American Airlines flight 5342 (CRJ) collides with Army UH-60 at DCA.
Gil Bang replied to UnivTex34's topic in Daily Texan
yeah, we really needed a fireball there. -
where y'all buying your contact lenses?
Gil Bang replied to Gil Bang's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
not at my age. If I got lasik, I'd still need reading glasses. My contacts work just fine for me. My kid got Lasik a few years back, courtesy of Uncle Sam. He's got perfect vision, as required by his occupation (military pilot) -
Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Gil Bang replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
If Liucci looks at this board, you can expect an invitation for fisticuffs in the Texas.com parking lot. -
I like Lenny Kravitz. He's good, and he's got a really cool look. I always assumed his name was just a cool made-up stage name. Nope. Lenny and Mr. Kravitz
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Negative Recruiting Your Own School: The aggy Screenshot Megathread
Gil Bang replied to texifornia's topic in 🤫$9.95🤫
"Chad patiently explained to me that they put that TruCoat on at the factory" -
went down a YouTube rabbit hole the other night and watched the official video for "If I should Fall Behind". Nils is such a fantastic musician. A pro's pro, and the guy can do anything. I respect the shit out of that guy, and as far as I can tell, so does every musician that he's ever worked with. But he's a goofy-looking motherfucker.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
Gil Bang replied to UTPhil2006's topic in Business and Markets
within an hour of each other, two of my investor clients called me and told me to stop searching for them; they are holding off any further investments and hoarding cash. 4 million worth of cash buyers gone in a poof. Thanks, Obama? -
where y'all buying your contact lenses?
Gil Bang replied to Gil Bang's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
Yeah, I ended up at Costco. Not the cheapest, but a good price. I ordered on a Thursday and they were in my mailbox the following tuesday. -
oh for fuck's sake The siege on self-gratification rages on in the 89th Texas Legislature. A new Senate bill, filed by North Texas Sen. Angela Paxton, Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton's other half, would require online shoppers to submit photo identification before purchasing a sex toy. Check the date, this is not an April Fool's joke. Like the sex-focused bills that have come before, Senate Bill 3003 claims to home in on the protection of minors by regulating the online sale of “obscene devices” to those under 18. According to the Texas Penal Code, an obscene device is qualified as “a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs.” The bill would make selling and distributing sex toys to a minor or failing to implement an age-verification process at the point of sale a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of $4,000. The bill also imposes a $5,000 civil penalty per offense. Acceptable age-verification processes include submitting government-issued photographic identification, utilizing third-party verification services that access public records to verify age and limiting sales to payment methods only available to those 18 and up. While the bill does not prohibit the online sale of sex toys, it does create barriers for individuals wanting to indulge in healthy onanism by introducing identification submission. “Requiring ID to purchase a sex toy sends the message that pleasure is something to be policed and surveilled,” said Dr. Shamyra Howard, a licensed clinical social worker sex educator for We-Vibe, a couples’ sexual wellness brand. “It pathologizes something that is completely normal and turns a private, healthy act into something shameful. This kind of legislation doesn’t protect people; it embarrasses them. It creates unnecessary barriers and reinforces harmful stigmas that many of us have spent years trying to dismantle.” This isn't the first time the state has tried to limit sex toy sales and ownership. Texas has had laws restricting the devices since 1973 when the Texas obscenity statute was first introduced. Originally, the law banned the sale of sex toys. The statute was amended in 2003 and limited the possession of sex toys to six devices. Following the 2004 arrest of Joanne Webb, a Burleson woman charged with obscenity after hosting multi-level marketing sales parties for dildos, a U.S. district judge ruled the law unconstitutional and unenforceable, but it remains in the Texas Penal Code. But Senate Bill 3003 ignores an immutable truth, Howard said. Texans use sex toys for a plethora of pleasureful purposes. According to a research study conducted by We-Vibe, only 34% of Texans own a sex toy, but 77.6% masturbate to relieve stress and 15.5% partake to relieve menstrual pain. “What’s often overlooked is that sex toys are not just about pleasure. They’re also part of comprehensive sexual wellness,” Howard said. “Men use them too, both for pleasure and to manage erectile issues, neuropathy from diabetes and poor blood flow related to high blood pressure. There are devices designed to support pain management, pelvic floor health, sex toys even help people manage mental health issues through stress relief and help to re-establish intimacy after medical procedures or trauma.” The legislative attack on sex is the next chapter for dampening women’s rights, says Howard. “These restrictions absolutely function as a proxy attack on women’s sexual autonomy,” she said. “Sex toys are tools of empowerment. They allow people, especially women, to explore their pleasure, address sexual concerns, and experience intimacy on their own terms. That challenges traditional gender roles that often expect women to be passive participants in their own pleasure.” Privacy Risks The helicoptering of sex toy sales through online age verification processes brings with it concerns about data collection and privacy violations, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). The EFF has been vocal about its disapproval of existing age verification laws in Texas that limit access to porn sites. "Texas’ age verification law robs internet users of anonymity, exposes them to privacy and security risks, and blocks some adults entirely from accessing sexual content that’s protected under the First Amendment,” said EFF Staff Attorney Lisa Femia said in a press release. “Applying longstanding Supreme Court precedents, other courts have consistently held that similar age verification laws are unconstitutional.” In May of 2024, France passed a law requiring age verification to access porn sites, and Olivier Blazy, a computer scientist and professor, developed a verification process that includes a screen, blocking websites from collecting identifying information, and also preventing third-party verifiers from seeing what websites the surfer is accessing. Blazy told Scientific American that his system is better than the unregulated alternatives that could be used to catalog sensitive biometric information. "The privacy concerns come from questions of 'What kind of data do you collect to do this age verification? And what are you going to do with them?'" Blazy told Scientific American. "The worst example would be if you directly collected people’s name and the type of website they’re trying to access. Then someone could establish a list of who follows certain content—which could be used to target groups such as LGBTQ+ people. That would be terrible." The Politicization of Sex While Texans may be wary of uploading their government-issued identification to an unknown portal regulated by a third party in hopes of purchasing a phallic device and overnight shipping it to their doorstep, their sex-toy-buying options may be drying up. If House Bill 1549 passes, grocery and convenience stores would be prohibited from selling sex toys. The author of HB 1549, Rep. Hillary Hickland, said she pre-filed her sex toy bill also with the intent of protecting children. “Children have the right to grow up free from premature exposure to explicit materials, and as lawmakers, it’s our responsibility to uphold that right,” Hickland wrote in an email sent to the Observer in December. The two bills would limit shoppers who are opposed to uploading their personal information to an internet retail site to making their purchases from brick-and-mortar sex shops. “In Texas, we’re seeing a pattern of proposed legislation that reflects a discomfort with pleasure, intimacy and personal agency,” said Howard. “Especially when it comes to women and marginalized communities. These attacks aren’t about protection; they’re about control.” The Paxtons, collectively, are heading the age-verification for explicit materials movement. An age-verification law that requires porn sites to collect identification from their visitors is currently being defended by the attorney general at the Supreme Court. Porn industry leaders claim the law violates the First Amendment rights of porn perusers. “As you may know, your elected officials in Texas are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website,” reads Pornhub’s site. “Not only does this impinge on the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.” The Supreme Court has not issued a ruling on the case. Wasting Legislative Minutes Dallas state Sen. Nathan Johnson told the Observer in December, following the filing of Hickland's bill, that bills like it and SB 3003 garner lots of attention because they aim to fix something that is not broken while wasting crucial legislative time. “This is silly,” he said. “If you want to be serious, let's be serious about something more serious.” According to Johnson, even if these bills fail to gain traction, that doesn't mean they've not been a distraction. “This is such a grotesque display of misplaced priorities that it is disheartening,” Johnson said. “I hope we get over this stuff real fast because the voters, including Republican primary voters, Democratic primary voters, every voter, really need us to perform our job.” The Supreme Court has not issued a ruling on the case. Wasting Legislative Minutes Dallas state Sen. Nathan Johnson told the Observer in December, following the filing of Hickland's bill, that bills like it and SB 3003 garner lots of attention because they aim to fix something that is not broken while wasting crucial legislative time. “This is silly,” he said. “If you want to be serious, let's be serious about something more serious.” According to Johnson, even if these bills fail to gain traction, that doesn't mean they've not been a distraction. “This is such a grotesque display of misplaced priorities that it is disheartening,” Johnson said. “I hope we get over this stuff real fast because the voters, including Republican primary voters, Democratic primary voters, every voter, really need us to perform our job.”
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All things Apple, the tech not the fruit
Gil Bang replied to sachick's topic in Business and Markets
shit. I see the tmobile people at costco everytime I go. -
WTF happened here? It's like Houston had some sort of bad-luck charm in the building. Wonder what that could have been?
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Carpetbagging weasel faced smarmy little bitch, Ted Cruz
Gil Bang replied to Grade of D as in David's topic in Cloak Room
guess who went to the game tonight? Guess whether the team from Texas won or lost. -
shohei a double short of "the cycle". Meanwhile, "the cycle" is fucking dumb.
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Also Dave Allen, the bass player from Gang of Four.
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Amazon Return Question- Disassembly?
Gil Bang replied to statsman's topic in Can You Help Me With This?
what kind of whiskey ya' drinkin'? -
All things Apple, the tech not the fruit
Gil Bang replied to sachick's topic in Business and Markets
turbo fucked my iphone 12 doing home maintenance yesterday. Absolutely, positively had to have a phone for today and the repair shops were all closed yesterday at 5. T mobile store open 'til 6. Welp...$1200 later, I'm the proud owner of a 16 pro max. I hadn't planned on the purchase, but it's a pretty substantial upgrade and I figure the prices are going to jump like a motherfucker very soon, so meh, I'm at peace with it. -
you can't stay drunk all day unless you start early.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Gil Bang replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
I haven't noticed, but I pretty much stick to r/buttholesharpies -
Tahoe brought donuts. But seriously...you have never contributed to any campaign? Act Blue is a godsend for Dem candidates. So much so that the GOP did their own version, "Win Red". All the infrastructure is already in place, and the money goes right to the campaign. Sure, the website will ask for an optional "tip", just as imma does on this board. Servers and bandwidth isn't free.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Gil Bang replied to Seasick Sailor's topic in Music
she's not that hot. She looks to me like a pain in the fucking ass. -
I have a client that's an AA flight attendant, and she won't bid LHR any longer because the last few trips have been a beating for the crew.
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Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Body in Congress? Oh you mean Marjorie!
Gil Bang replied to Pancho's topic in Cloak Room
fucking sporkfoot trying to get her kid a DUI -
I just donated to Mike Levin. My district is competitive, and his GOP opponent swallows every drop of Trump's load.
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Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Gil Bang replied to Seasick Sailor's topic in Music
also, Jason did "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross. I haven't listened yet. -
Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Stapleton, and Other Good Stuff
Gil Bang replied to Seasick Sailor's topic in Music
So Anna is taking a leave from the 400 Unit. Annie Clements is stepping in.
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