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atomheartbevo

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  1. $350. Or $3,500. You know some Musk fanboi will pony up for it. Shit. Everybody needs to be looking for stuff in their garage that even remotely resembles hardware that could be on a rocket, that they can sell on eBay.
  2. It’s been a boon for the people preying on the olds who are seeking out sites that don’t require verification. Lots of malware out there. Half these sites are probably owned by companies that make pop-up blockers that the olds pay for to block the pop-ups they created.
  3. This article mentions he would have had to spend hundreds of hours playing between Dec. 6 (game came out) and January 7. Given how much he tweets at all hours of the day, maybe he locked himself in for a week of non-stop playing, https://www.si.com/esports/news/elon-musk-boosting-allegations-explained-path-of-exile-2
  4. My elderly uncle who could never figure out how to turn on the VPN I installed for him maybe pleased and I won’t have to clean up his computer as much from going to the smaller shady sites. https://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-scotus-age-verification-law-20036407.php Nielson didn't have a good answer. He tried to make a case that biometric scanning, one proposed way to verify age (and one endorsed by the age verification industry, which has submitted a brief supporting Texas), was not as burdensome to adults as showing a physical ID at a store. But when I show my ID to a bartender, he doesn't also take a photo of my face on his iPhone and upload it to the cloud. It's two different standards, and you could hear him sweating as Nielson's reliance on Ginsberg annoyed pretty much every single justice. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was particularly incensed with Texas and repeatedly reminded Nielson that Ginsberg did not create a constitutional pass for age verification laws, only that it found that minors had no right to access content that adults may find obscene. ——- Only Alito seemed to agree with Texas' argument that the court should rule in favor of the law on a rational basis, the lowest form of scrutiny which only requires the government to demonstrate a "legitimate interest" in restricting a fundamental right. It's an extreme proposal that would have disastrous implications for free speech since rational basis is incredibly permissive. While somewhat sympathetic to Texas, Alito's colleagues still stopped short of his radical proposal. Barrett said she wanted to "take rational basis off the table," throwing cold water on Texas' argument and instead suggested "intermediate scrutiny," a weaker but still skeptical standard, to look at age verification laws. Jackson argued that if Alito's test was applied, the government could say adults must provide a signed statement from their parents before watching porn. Nobody was ready to destroy First Amendment protections for porn with Alito, but it was clear that a majority was interested in splitting the difference between very protective speech standards that exist now and flexible standards proposed by Texas. Who should apply that new standard was unclear. The justices have the option to send the case back to the lower court to apply a different standard, which they seem inclined to do. A decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is expected in early July when the court typically hands down opinions. No matter what the justices end up deciding, however, they showed that the future of online porn has probably changed forever. —————— The article has all of the technical stuff and various comments which I left out here. Surly law dogs, it almost sounds like the ID verification might get ditched, but not sure what they would replace it with to satisfy Texas. Only dumbasses want to upload their government IDs online to view porn, and it’s only a matter of time until one of the databases gets Ashley Madisoned and we find out who all is looking at what porn sites, I need to look around and see if VPNs came up.
  5. Trump: “Leon, what’s this I hear about people saying you are pushing for too many cuts on this service? There are people in Congress calling me and asking me to tell you to stop pressuring them on Twitter” Musk: *tapping away on phone* Trump: “LEON!” Musk: “Hold on, this 14 year-old said something about me on X and I’m trying to get all of their information so I can dox them” Trump: “if you’re gonna talk to 14 year-olds on a porn site and dox them, whatever that is, wait do you have to pay her extra for that? Anyways, don’t do that in the White House.” Musk: “No, it’s a 14 year-old boy, and X is what the uninformed call Twitter, it’s not a porn site” Trump: “Doesn’t Twitter have a lot of porn on it?” Musk: “*sighs* yes but it’s a free speech public square and forum, not a porn site” Trump: “I don’t know, if people use it for porn, it’s a porn site to them. Why are you talking to 14 year-olds anyways?” Musk: ”Because they challenged my skillz” Trump: *stares blankly at Leon*
  6. Bezos has rode in his own spacecraft, has Musk?
  7. Yeah, some of my favorite movies. If you told me he was Henry's dad or brother, I might have believed it. Some of those ancient people gave us The Right Stuff
  8. Yeah, him responding with some Diablo IV footage made things so much worse. On the one hand, he has the perfect excuse to ignore it with the White House stuff, but on the other hand, his personality won't let him ignore it, because he's been called out on his own platform. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.
  9. Jeff is getting something from Lauren every day that he wants it, apparently on a big-ass yacht a lot of times, Musk is getting…*checks notes*…virtual high fives from 25 year-olds living in their mom’s basement.
  10. If you were worth just $40 million, the only thing you’d be doing on social media is posting photos of you and your spouse/significant other on some yacht in the Caribbean or Mediterranean.
  11. If it's not real, it's hilarious that Musk's own social media platform is being used to pass around disinformation about his own space company.
  12. Damn, Yeoh was 38 when she made Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. If the movie did extremely well, maybe they do a Section 31 series with other people. Maybe get the guy who played Short Round in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he’s probably not doing much these days. More likely they will shoehorn Section 31 into SNW and Tilly’s Starfleet Academy series.
  13. Pass this around to your out-of-state or East Texas relatives
  14. People are challenging Leon to livestream what he claims to have done. He’s not going to and everybody knows it.
  15. Lot of hate because it’s so far away from the optimism of Roddenberry’s Star Trek. Arguably DS9 started the peak behind the curtain at the dark stuff, but DS9 is beloved. The feeling is similar to the hate for the Zach Snyder Superman stuff where it seems like he was more concerned with Zod no matter how many innocents had to die, versus the Christopher Reece Superman.
  16. The incels take their gaming seriously. What Leon did is on par with their moms not emptying their piss bottle on time.
  17. Because BlueSky is open, somebody is coming out with a client that basically only shows photos and videos - a pseudo Instagram of sorts, “Flashes” https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/bluesky-is-getting-its-own-photo-sharing-app-flashes/
  18. Mario Kart 9?
  19. Some serious shit going around the schools in Austin. My friend’s kids’ school supposedly had almost 30% out, my oldest’s Kissel school had 100+ put. Seems like flu and some stomach bug.
  20. Some decent talent in front of and behind the camera. The most dangerous enemy is an old friend. #TheAltoKnights starring Robert De Niro – only in theaters March 21. From Warner Bros. Pictures, “The Alto Knights” stars Academy Award winner Robert De Niro in a dual role, directed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Barry Levinson. The film follows two of New York’s most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vito Genovese (De Niro), as they vie for control of the city’s streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever. “The Alto Knights” was written by Oscar nominee Nicholas Pileggi (“Goodfellas”) and produced by Oscar winner Irwin Winkler (“Rocky,” “Goodfellas”), Levinson, Jason Sosnoff, Charles Winkler and David Winkler, with Mike Drake executive producing. De Niro stars alongside Debra Messing (“Will & Grace”), Cosmo Jarvis (“Shōgun”), Kathrine Narducci (“The Irishman”), Michael Rispoli (“Billions”), Michael Adler (“Peppermint”), Ed Amatrudo (“Till,” “Nashville”), Joe Bacino (“Kick-Ass”), Anthony J. Gallo (“The Irishman”), Wallace Langham (“Ford v Ferrari”), Louis Mustillo (“Cooper’s Bar,” “Mike & Molly”), Frank Piccirillo, Matt Servitto (“Billions”) and Robert Uricola (“Raging Bull”). Joining Levinson (“Rainman,” “Dopesick”) behind the camera are Oscar-nominated director of photography Dante Spinotti (“The Insider,” “L.A. Confidential”), production designer Neil Spisak (the “Spider-Man” films, “Dopesick”), Oscar-nominated editor Douglas Crise (“Babel,” “Dopesick”), Oscar-nominated costume designer Jeffrey Kurland (“Bullets Over Broadway,” “Tenet”), award-winning casting director Ellen Chenoweth (“Past Lives”) and composer David Fleming (“Hillbilly Elegy,” “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”).
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