There was this Supreme Court case in 1973 "Miller v. California, during which the Supreme Court basically decided that it has to be obscene in order to be considered pornography, and then the question became, “What is legally considered to be obscene?” From that case we derive something called the “Miller Test”, which has three criteria:

1. Whether “the average person, applying contemporary community standards”, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.

2. Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct or excretory functions specifically defined by applicable state law.

3. Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

For a something to be considered pornographic, it must be ALL THREE criteria, with the first two criteria being left in the hands of local ordinances and governments, and the last being left sort of up to interpretation depending on a locality’s culture and values.

The definition of pornography has changed over time. Caligula might have been considered pornography AT THE TIME, but by modern legal definitions, I don’t think it passes. Even the extended version with penetration, because the film isn’t “intended to arouse” and also does not “lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value”.

It WOULD be pretty cool if the protesters improved drainage. Just sayin

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That WOULD be ideal, yes

Good. Now have HBO Max put a LOOOONG disclaimer before each movie plays

You can install custom firmware on the wyze cameras, and disconnect them from the cloud completely!

I usually try to figure out what the weather and temperature are going to be for the duration of time I’m going to be out, plus a little more just in case, and then dress accordingly. So it’s not always about the weather RIGHT NOW, per se

Oh hell yeah!

They may! Or maybe you could just get a close group of friends together to start, and put a little aside for maintenance. You could also find a local company (bike shop?) to sponsor you and throw their advertising on the side of it. That way it’s at least partially self-sustainable

$0. I would not have any it if I didn’t pirate it. I was never going to spend any money.

You should throw a little fundraiser party at a local event space, invite some local cyclists, pool some money together, and just start doing it. They cost around $4500, from my research, which is really steep but probably doable with a large enough group of people.

You don’t need to wait for your government to do things for you. A great example of this in action is PARC who started patching potholes in Portland, OR when the government wouldn’t.

This is genuinely not true. Same goes for 2016. Non-voting democrats tend to skew conservative. You’re just trying to start a fight with the left. That’s not helpful to our current situation; it literally only helps the fascists.

You have big “tipping the waitress a penny for bad service” energy

Up here in Minnesota it’s roughly March-June, but when I lived in Oklahoma for a little while it seemed like it was Mid Summer

Here here

Good praxis. Everybody should do a little more of this kind of thing at work

Still alive!

Well, yeah, but this is a specific act of genocide. Can you imagine if all the headlines just said “Israel continues genocide” with absolutely no context? It’s worth getting specific, even if the outlet still refuses to call it what it is.

As someone who lives in the Midwest, let me tell you, there absolutely IS a tornado season. We’re actually in the tail end of it right now.