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  • Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube

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  • I don't agree with a total ban, but the writers of the article downplaying the harmful content on YouTube I think have forgotten the multiple times YouTube has gotten in trouble with advertisers for shit like "elsagate" where they were showing mutilation etc. of Disney characters targeted at children.

    There needed to be some kind of regulation, but an outright ban is a bit much.

    This feels like they're trying to drive a tack with a sledgehammer.

  • Trump says he plans to put a 100% tariff on computer chips, likely pushing up cost of electronics

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  • I guess that means those cheap SoC boxes we've been seeing all over are gonna double in price.

  • 17 heat records broken in Japan

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  • I have like a 10 minute walk from the station to where I live and every day it drains like half a liter of sweat from me in that time period.

    Hoping somebody invents still suits soon.

  • Always remember what's important

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  • Hey, Guix user here, I...if you want we... We could recommend to each other...

  • Smithsonian says Trump impeachments will be restored to exhibit

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  • Sure, but they just get replaced by a sycophant then it won't make much of a difference

  • Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content

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  • I don't think that's accurate because they asked Dlsite before them to restrict their content based on American Law. They tried to remove access to content from outside Japan that Visa was complaining about and Visa still told them to remove the content (I guess cause people were using VPNs) so they had to remove the ability to pay with visa and Mastercard entirely.

  • Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content

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  • "Unlawful" based on what? American law?

    These are global payment companies, they can't just have a "we don't allow payment for illegal content" cause that varies by country (and by state even).

    What an absolutely nothing statement.

  • Graham: Israel should ‘do in Gaza what we did in Tokyo and Berlin’

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  • Oh good he's obviously talking about the Marshall Plan. I look forward to the US shipping millions of tons of food and goods to Gaza post haste. /sad sarcasm

  • EU admits it can’t guarantee $600B promise to Trump

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  • After the trump admin said it had "secured" 600B from Japan when the finance minister that negotiated it himself said nothing was finalized I knew the EU deal was also likely mostly hot air.

  • Meta pirated and seeded porn for years to train AI, lawsuit says

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  • Well, Stable Diffusion 3 supposedly purposefully removed all porn from their training and negatively trained the model on porn and it apparently destroyed the model's ability to generate proper anatomy.

    Regardless, image generation models need some porn in training to at least know what porn is so that they know what porn is not.

    It's part of a process called regularization, or preventing any particular computational model from over-fitting.

  • Lauren Boebert’s son charged with child abuse in case she called ‘miscommunication’

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  • Not necessarily, but I've had acquaintances with criminal records have an innocent situation like that get blown out of proportion by the police because of the record.

    At this point I'm kind of assuming she is both lying and the situation was worse than what she's saying, and yet it likely still didn't warrant an arrest for criminal negligence and the police are blowing it out of proportion, if that makes sense.

  • Lauren Boebert’s son charged with child abuse in case she called ‘miscommunication’

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  • I don't want to defend fucking Boebert or her ilk but to be fair:

    "miscommunication on monitoring my young grandson that recently led to him getting out of the house."

    Assuming this is true, kids after three getting out of the house one time and scaring their parents half to death is a pretty often occurrence. Kids get real clever real quick when they get to 3, 4, and 5 and that's usually when parents suddenly have to re-evaluate the locks on the doors after a jailbreak.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • It's funny because I was thinking the exact same thing of you, lol. I've lived here for 10 years, 3 of that in Tokyo.

    Had the police pull me over one time in Tokyo and they checked my bike and didn't say anything about insurance.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • You mean to cover the inspection fee? The inspection sticker doesn't have an annual fee.

    You don't need anything else other than the inspection sticker.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • Are you talking about the TS-mark? You get it when your bike is registered and inspected. If your bike is registered and inspected the inspection fee covers the TS-Mark, you don't need anything else.

    I don't know who sold you that crap but it sounds like you got scammed.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • There are very few bike lanes in Japan, big reason is the edit I made a minute ago.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • Actually, yea, kinda.

    One of the things you're taught early on in driving school in Japan is to "close the gap" and pull to the side that you're turning into in order to prevent bicycles and mopeds from fitting between the sidewalk and your car and tboning you if you pull into a right or left turn.

    If you pull into a left turn (left handed driving so similar to a US right turn) without checking that a cyclist is coming up behind you on your left side and they slam into your car you are 100% at fault.

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    The thing you gotta know about japanese roads and the law is that all roads unless explicitly marked otherwise are primarily for pedestrians and cyclists. As a car driver you are borrowing their roads. The law explicitly states that you are not allowed, while operating a motor vehicle, under any circumstances to impede the progress of pedestrians or cyclists.

    The only time the law says otherwise is on highways and roads marked exclusively for motor vehicles.

    Old lady walks in the middle of a four-lane street, shutting down traffic? Yea man too bad, you gotta wait, the most the police will do is set up a road barrier to help her cross easier and ask her nicely to use the pedestrian crosswalk.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • No, that's covered by the "TS Mark" that you get when you buy and register the bike.

  • New York City has sent over 6000 cyclists to criminal court. Some say they are being treated unfairly.

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  • The general traffic rule is that unless indicated otherwise, roads are primarily for pedestrians and cyclists, so you're the one borrowing their roads, not the other way around.