We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos.

projection. they want a monopoly on skeezing on the kiddos.

for some reason people will bend themselves into pretzels to give religious people a pass on buggery. here in washington state, we passed a law mandating the reporting of abused children. conservatives and religious types want to keep these children in their abuse.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/18/judge-blocks-wa-requirement-for-priests-to-report-child-abuse-disclosed-in-confession/

so far the only legit critique I’ve seen is the uncertainty of what this will mean to indie devs - will they be forced to sign with publishers who can assist with compliance etc., what will compliance actually look like to small shops, etc.

I will say this: the vast majority of game devs feel the same way and want to be able to play the games we paid for as well. there’s just a bit of fear of the unknown for small devs.

you’re the one kicking him, aren’t you?

I missed this somehow. Donated to them repeatedly because of the wayback machine, which they created. TY for the deets!

but I’m still pissed off at their stupidity.

? what did I miss?

lol, you saying forensics is unreliable. you’re underthinking, or simply ignorant.

overthink it, that’s a problem where you come from huh? you don’t refute shit, you just say something pithy and consider that equivalent. what a mental failure.

The big deal is intentional homicides, which we have at a higher rate than most industrialized nations. The US used to have a rate comparable to slavic, post-eastern block countries but they’ve gotten worse and the US is catching up to Russia.

citation requested as I can’t find stats that back this up.

Similarly, US suicide rates.

similarly, see gun accessibility. our suicide success rate is so high because we provide one-way tickets anyone can get easily.

The US would solve the majority of its crime problem (based on harm: death, destruction, cost) by investigating and prosecuting white collar crime (and mandating businesses / government pay amble restitution to survivors)

this makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. white collar crime isn’t violent crime involving death and destruction - don’t get me wrong, I think wage theft should be prosecuted at a higher rate than shoplifting, but your premise is all over the place.

Regarding petty crime (including intentional homicide) most of those would be solved with welfare programs and drug rehab.

no disagreement on that one. it would save us tons of money. But it wouldn’t help the for-profit industrial prison complex that keeps conservatives in power, so good luck with that.

There will still be serial killers, but they’ll be rare enough that we can write true-crime books about the handful in a given era.

who was talking about serial killers? they’re an aberration in the stats, speaking holistically. I didn’t bring this up.

More murderers haven’t been caught than have.

this is a shit way to describe things. more criminals of all types haven’t been caught. saying therefore there’s no rational foundation for forensics is ridiculous.

Look I’m all for calling out bad experts and pseudoscience all day. Lie Detectors? fuck 'em.

But you’re not going to convince me forensic pathology - like finding someone’s DNA under a victim’s finger nails - is bunk.

And you’re casting a wide fuckin’ net there.

how terrible the level of crime is

yeah it’s not nearly as bad as conservatives would have you believe. other than gun crimes, which obviously we’re leading the world in because… merica

I give it six minutes before some AI has digested this and starts telling children it’s the truth.

finally a decent reason to lose weight. longer life? pfft? have you seen this shit? and there’s no amount of weight I can lose to look better lol.

I think we should pay for airfare by the pound. Honestly.

shaving is gonna be an adventure

frigid poultry.

times are shitty indeed.

I wonder how actual nazis see this kind of shit: do they feel validated and think “haha they were always criminals” or are they pissed because (so far at least) israel can bomb kids and camps and hospitals and schools and food lines over and over and over again, angry that nazis faced consequences for their crimes, eventually?

if it was inadvertent you’d think someone at the receiving address would have spoken up…

Never read about SK or China (just not familiar, not to say it doesn’t exist) doing this but Thailand went all in.

https://www.foodrepublic.com/1318428/how-gastrodiplomacy-brought-thai-food-world-stage/

I couldn’t stomach it.

THIS IS ZOMBO COM

the os

spin up 5 projects. hire devs from all over the world, make them work on site in person. people upend their entire lives for a chance at a stock option.

cancel 2 after 10 months.

cut the teams on two of the others.

cut the teams again.

and again.

oh wait hire like crazy and overcorrect so we can

cut the teams again.

Then cancel 1d3 of remaining projects, announce <OLD IP>REMASTERED

All devs cut never neared their stock vestment, all shares returned to the mothership, start to consider spinning up 5 more new projects.