I did find a lot of news articles saying that (for example) iPhones are excluded, though none of them had a clear source. Maybe mine is outdated too, I guess we’ll just have to see when they announce the new models.

The Delegated Act I found says the exception is for

(a) appliances, including wearable devices, specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable

So I don’t think it applies to mobile phones. Or did it get changed again?

Especially since there’s a billion better ways to address this. Like, it’s literal cardboard, just print more.

Maybe I’m getting into tinfoil hat territory, but I feel like they intentionally want to capitalize on scalpers and are afraid that without scarcity they’d end up selling less.

And don’t tell me it’s because you copy pasted the title of the source article or something.

Well yeah, it’s usually good practice not to change the source article’s title.

Do I think the “black communities” part was necessary in the title? Not really. But if the author decided to frame it like that, and OP wanted to repost it as-is, I see no issue with that.

Just have glasses with clear visual (possibly even auditory) indicators that they’re recording, and store the footage in an SD card, easy. Of course though, they won’t sell nearly as much because people won’t be able to use them to showcase le epic pickup skillz.

They are not used for good. Pretty sure it’s been proven a lot of individuals that have access to the footage disproportionately search through the database, likely not for law enforcement reasons.

Did you mean “despise”? …though in hindsight, “dispose” would probably be better

Erm, ackshually, Rule 34 is “if it exists, there is porn of it”.

Which means somewhere, there’s pics OF sexy anthropomorphic meta glasses. Maybe not even anthropomorphic.

Eh, even the guy in the video mentions the distribution being a factor in the hype dying down. I think with a bigger distribution they could’ve worked better, the main issue with the Meta ones is that they’re basically made to record stuff inconspicuously and that’s freaking creepy.

Oh no no, they clearly want to protect children, don’t you see how hard they’re working to persecute the evil LGBT pedophiles?

On a serious note, yes there’s probably a disgusting amount of pedophiles in that party, but they’ve never campaigned on that because they know they have to keep up the facade of “the family party” and whatnot. None of them is probably even interested in legalizing it when they can just… do it and no one will prosecute them anyway.

Though yeah, I should’ve specified “legalizing sex with children party”, if it’s “just” doing it unfortunately we do have enough people that voted it (and it’s still a symptom of a bigger issue in either case).

Maybe they want to make sex with children legal…

Maybe. But are there enough people like that to make the “having sex with children party” win the elections? If there are, I’d say we have a bigger issue, and it’s not because of people in prison.

That got enshittified too, anything marked as NSFW is not accessible without an account right now.

And from personal experience (might be just me being dumb though), old Reddit doesn’t work anymore if you’re not logged in, so you’re stuck with the new interface which auto-translates stuff and makes comment chains impossible to browse through on mobile.

Also, the library is still out there. You still can ignore the rent-seeking middle men and use it directly with your own natural neural network.

…but you have to jump between a billion hoops to get there because now it’s all buried between AI results and SEO crap.

Assuming it’s even still there and accessible in the same way, if its site was enshittified (did someone say Reddit?) you might need to go through additional hoops even after you actually find it.

I very much suspect he’s going to run for President in my lifetime and win.

Isn’t he born in Uganda, disqualifying him from being a candidate for President?

Unfortunately, these are all young people with a vast following of young people. Not to mention Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate…

Young people skew left and that’s a fact, it’s not a supermajority like it might seem on places like this.

It shouldn’t be treated as absolute truth but that doesn’t mean it’s not news or newsworthy. The title should’ve been less clickbaity though, sure.

I mean… I get your sentiment (and admittedly, I’m not really knowledgeable about the situation over there), but if the cartels’ influence is really as pervasive as you say… is there even anything that can be realistically done to address the problem directly? Has any candidate (even minor ones) proposed a plan to deal with them and they got messed with? Or is everyone just too disillusioned to even try?

Genuinely asking, because the way you described it, it sounds even worse than the Mafia situation in the nineties in Italy, and that was really bleak.

I generally hate the principle of subscriptions + ads + paywalling stuff to viewers but not to crawlers, it’s pretty much double-dipping while baiting people for SEO.

On the other hand, I understand that in this day and age keeping a news outlet afloat without “outside influence” requires doing stuff like this. It’s a hard thing to balance but in either case I appreciate the insight from your comment, I admit I didn’t look them up and I figured they were just another money-hungry megacorp-owned outlet.

Unfortunately it seems like the donator specified the usage in this case as well, but the courts are straight up ignoring it.

On July 7, 1999, Bland’s descendants granted 87.97 acres of land to the “Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation, a Texas non-profit corporation, to be held in trust for future use as parkland by Williamson County, Texas,” according to a copy of the deed reviewed by 404 Media.

Not a lawyer either, but the article explicitly says “sold”, so I assume it’s not just leasing

In 2003, the Texas Parks and Recreation Foundation granted the land to another non-profit called the Williamson County Park Foundation. A month later, that non-profit gave the land to the City of Taylor. Five years later, in 2008, the city of Taylor sold the land to the Taylor Economic Development Corporation (TEDC) for $15,000. In 2025, TEDC sold the land to Blueprint, the data center developers, for $10 million.