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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The guy is straight up insane. He’s obsessed with the letter X.

But I don’t care. X is the symbol of death eyes on a smiley. Guess the bird is dead.

Doesn’t it literally mean “whore-son” (huren-sohn)?

My German is poor.

No kidding.

I’m feeling eerily nostalgic for the (objectively terrible) Bush-era doctrine: “You’re either with us, or we’ll declare your nation a state-sponsor of terrorism”

Former RiFfer here on Connect.

Gives me similar vibes.

It’s a clear EEE attack. Do not federate!

RiF fanatic here. Neither mirrors directly. But Jerboa wasn’t bad. And I find I like Connect the best.

I was all for “giving it a shot” just to see what the hub bub was about.

Other lemmings point out just how many permissions I have to give Meta. So, I’ve lost interest. Never was a big tweeter anyway.

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It’s the difference between a mom and pop restaurant and McDonald’s.

We don’t need everybody to go to the mom and pop restaurant. Just enough of us to keep it afloat.