• Routhinator@startrek.websiteEnglish
    45·
    4 hours ago

    Guilty Canadian Admission:

    In my teens I lived in Brockville Ontario near Ogdensburg New York and watched a lot of US channels. The Star Spangled Banner came on at the beginning of the broadcast day for some channels.

    For many years, I thought the first line was “Jose can you see”

    • sanpedropeddler
      27·
      3 hours ago

      When I was a kid I thought the “for which it stands” in the national anthem was in reference to a country called “witchistan”, which was presumably full of witches.

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      Hey the cum can be anywhere. It doesn’t say “only” a picture of your face.

      For example, why not put a mirror on a table. Put your ID next to the mirror. Look down into the mirror and ready your camera. Then, slap your dick right on the table next to the ID. Finally, banana for size.

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
    7313·
    6 hours ago

    That’s what you voted for. You want republican rule taking away your freedoms. Well now you Floridains have what you wanted and voted for. Don’t be mad you made your bed and dont like the sheets.

    • شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
      171·
      3 hours ago

      Given how close most elections are and the low turnout, I would say at least 40% of voters and 50% of the population didn’t vote for this without even having to look at the election results.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        43 minutes ago

        By US standards it was a pretty high turnout.

        However, more people didn’t vote than voted for Trump.

      • TheSlad
        85·
        2 hours ago

        Not voting is the same as voting for whichever party wins.

        • WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world
          101·
          1 hour ago

          There is so much voter suppression in the US. I didn’t realize some of the more subtle ways it was suppressed until I moved to a state that has way less of it.

          The US needs to end voter suppression. There are several ways of doing this but the top items: Mandate all election days (even those just at the state level) be paid holidays, automatically register all citizens to vote as soon as they turn 18, and make voting compulsory (not with punitive measures)

          In Texas, the following is routine suppression other than the common nationwide suppression: -People are often purged from voter registration even if they’re an active voter and voted in the last election. If you don’t check your registration months before the election, you’ll think you’re fine because you just voted but may show up and be told you’re no longer registered.
          -Voting registration is cut off 30 days before the election. This is on the high end of the cutoff and further increases chances you get purged, don’t realize it in time, and then can’t re-register.
          -Voting registration is mail in only. You have to physically print off the form and mail it in. This takes substantially more time when the post office is no longer a common trip for most people. It could easily be an online form like it is in many states.
          -Rotating polling locations and hours for early voting. If you try to vote early on a day off for instance, you may get to the polling location and realize it’s only open on certain days of the week while other locations are open the full week or it has arbitrarily reduced hours on certain days. Other locations may then be much farther from that location.
          -Polling locations far way from you. You may have to drive 30 minutes to 1 hour away to vote even in a city or if you don’t have a car, public transit may take prohibitively long (2+ hours one way) to get to the polling location. -Attacking mail in ballots as fraudulent and often throwing them out. Based on 2022 data, 6-20% are thrown out depending on the county.

          There are so many more little things which all add up to the purpose of preventing people from voting. No wonder people don’t vote or attempt to vote, can’t, get discouraged or don’t have more time off to vote, and give up

        • Somewhiteguy@infosec.pub
          1·
          15 minutes ago

          I would love to agree here, but I live in an area where they do such a piss-poor job of announcing when people need to vote, that even I have a hard time knowing all of the things and when they happen. I signed up for email/text alerts and they only go out a few days before voting day. For some people, that is not enough time to plan to be off and be at the polling place.

          The system is broken.

    • smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world
      3320·
      5 hours ago

      You know damn well not all Floridians voted for this shit. This is the same kind of out-group bullshit red hat shit bags do. You’re just being intentionally divisive.

        • smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world
          123·
          4 hours ago

          Most people assume politicians don’t lie. I know it’s absurd to think about but even people of middling intelligence still deserve rights.

          • khornechips
            32·
            3 hours ago

            They do, but how many times do you need to stop someone from touching a hot stove before you let them learn their lesson the hard way?

        • smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world
          314·
          4 hours ago

          So all Americans deserve the bullshit?

          Edit: I knew commenting was going to ruin my morning. You guys act like compassion is part of your moral code but when the “right” people are getting hurt you cheer it. It’s grossly hypocritical. This is people having their rights trampled on and you look down your nose at them telling them they deserve it.

          • ace_of_basedEnglish
            1·
            13 minutes ago

            Endlessly being told “you don’t understand” by commenters who only use tv-friendly and repeatable povs and barely try to mask their hate towards their fellow citizens gets awful tiring huh? I left R-town to get away from the bloodlust but .world be too damn infested wit reddit 2.0 types fr

          • Serinus@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 hour ago

            Pretty sure if it were up to these people, the law would have never passed. And it would be repealed now.

            But it’s not. This is what the people of Florida voted for.

            • smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world
              2·
              1 hour ago

              I didn’t vote for it, I didn’t want it, and just like the country I’m stuck with it. It’s acceptable to be an American and hate Trump and what he’s doing without being told you deserve it, but it’s not the same thing when it comes to Florida for some reason.

          • towerful@programming.dev
            114·
            4 hours ago

            You have my sympathy, but not my compassion.

            My compassion ran out when America continued to embrace - even celebrate - right wing rule

            • smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world
              121·
              4 hours ago

              Yea that’s fair. We are an embarrassment to the world right now but for us to fix it we need to be working together instead of carving ourselves up into more little tribes.

      • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
        14·
        3 hours ago

        It’s impossible to ban all VPNs. And even if they somehow do it, you can get a VPS(virtual private server) from one of the cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) and host your own vpn service (OpenVPN, Algo, Vultr). You don’t need to know a lot about it, there are step-by-step guides for it.

      • iowagneiss@midwest.socialEnglish
        6·
        4 hours ago

        They’ll ultimately just have to cut off the US Internet from the rest of the world, right? As long as we can access other countries with more freedom, we can enjoy that level of freedom on the Internet. Or am I not understanding how the Internet works (entirely possible)?

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
          15·
          4 hours ago

          If it makes you feel any better, you can rest assured that Capitol Hill doesn’t know how the Internet works either.

        • the_crotch
          11·
          3 hours ago

          What you’re not understanding is that Florida is just a single state out of 50

          • RamenJunkie@midwest.socialEnglish
            6·
            1 hour ago

            The people pushing these laws are hoping it will have the “California Effect.”

            Like when California says “Cars need to meet X emissions standards” so far makers just make cars everywhere meet those standards.

            They are hoping that by making age verification a thing in a few states, it will become a thing everywhere.

            This fails to realize that one, it’s easy to geofence a state online (VPNs being anwork around). And Two, companies generally comply with California laws because, on the whole, California passes mostly positive limitations. It only makes the cars and world better if they all meet the better emissions standards. Blocking porn like this, is a net negative.

            Also, on the subject of kids accessing porn. They are going to do it anyway, anyone thinking otherwise is oblivious to the world, and two, it’s not up to the state to nanny this shit, it’s up to the parents.

            • the_crotch
              1·
              47 minutes ago

              I agree with all of that. What I don’t agree with is blaming the entirety of the US for this policy. This is one dumbass state, doing a dumbass thing. The UK passed a similar law and I’d be just as wrong if I shit talked the rest of Europe for it.

              • skulblaka
                1·
                29 minutes ago

                As of January 2025:

                While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in these 17 states, a Pornhub representative confirmed to Mashable:

                Alabama

                Arkansas

                Florida

                Idaho

                Indiana

                Kansas

                Kentucky

                Mississippi

                Montana

                Nebraska

                North Carolina

                Oklahoma

                South Carolina

                Tennessee

                Texas

                Utah

                Virginia

                In Louisiana, where users must submit ID to view Pornhub, the site has seen traffic decline by around 80 per cent, Aylo (Pornhub’s parent company) told Mashable.

                This is not just “Oh Florida is just being quirky again” this is systematic.

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    114·
    10 hours ago

    This is pretense to intrude on other things and more importantly remove the ability to browse pornography anonymously, which is dangerous. I would never use an account to browse a porn site because why would I ever want that data linked back to me? Look at the government right now. You watch a gay or trans porn video and in a few years that could be grounds for never being able to have certain types of jobs or worse, being deemed a “miscreant”

    If this was truly about protecting children they would encourage open dialogue on sex in homes and increase inclusive sex education. This is evidence based. It would still be necessary even with this nonsense because obviously vpns exist, as well as amateur run sites, sites run from outside of the USA, torrents, etc that don’t give a shit about us laws requiring age verification and will show all kinds of obscenely hardcore videos

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
      295·
      8 hours ago

      It must be real inconvenient to have to turn on a VPN, it’s like a whole button that they have to click, Libs totally owned. Meanwhile the actual weird idiots that voted for this can barely operate a mouse and so they actually do have to suffer the consequences of their own decisions.

        • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          5 hours ago

          Then there’s “normal” websites that use cloudflare and blocks vpn access for no good reason (looking at you Home Depot and Lowe’s), or worse yet, they redirect you to a country-specific website based on the ip location.

          • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            You mean like Reddit? Reddit folded to OpenAI btw. Open AI was co-founded by Elon Musk. You can just tell they are not on the good side of history.

            • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 hours ago

              Like a lot of websites. I also forgot to mention how Google has to verify you’re human because you’re on VPN.