The exact phrasing varies, but in most states, the details of the law are the same: Any “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” online can be held liable—meaning, tens of thousands of dollars in fines and/or private lawsuits—if it doesn’t “perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”
Sure seems like that would cover a lot of websites, including most news sites.
So idiotic I actually laughed reading that first paragraph.
I’m in northern OC. Along the route. I found this nursery, https://californianativeplants.com/, out on the Ortega Highway out of San Juan Capistrano and they have fantastic California natives and knowledgeable staff. They aren’t on the list, but they had the correct varieties last time I hit them up. I don’t own stock or anything, I just really like it, even though it’s a bit of a drive for me. They’ve set me straight on several things I had been doing wrong.
SoCal here too. A few years ago, the local nursery was giving out milkweed for people to plant in their gardens. We did that, then a couple of years later they apologized because they had given out the wrong type of milkweed, and it was actually worse than not having it at all. Pretty fucked up. Anyway, we used to see a ton of them come through, the last couple of years it seems like I see a couple dozen or so at best.
About time. He should have retired a couple cycles ago, but I think he’s like a lot of the geriatric politicians who don’t seem to have any other interests in life. I like Bernie. I love his political stances. I voted for him and actually donated to his campaign back when I was still working. His voice is important, but it just seems more and more that his is just one of the few rational voices screaming into the hurricane of oligarchical support and willful, ugly ignorance coming out of DC.
When I was a kid, I got pissed at my dad for something and reset all the stations, thinking it would throw him for a loop. He noticed what I had done almost immediately, fixed them all in about 5-10 seconds and looked at me like I was stupid.
If only voters actually felt that way too.
When I was a union rep there would be people that would bitch about the $70 bucks a month or whatever the dues were. I would explain that without the union their pay would be far, far less (not even bringing up the benefits of work hours, vacation days and whatnot). Like the “all taxes are theft” morons, the words often fell on deaf and willfully ignorant ears.
Freedom’s just another word
I used to love going to the theater. I would go almost every weekend, and often during the week. I watched almost everything. Then cell phones came along. At one point, many, many years ago, I swore if some mother fucker took out their fucking phone during the movie I was seeing, I would never set foot in a theater again. Some piece of shit mother fucker did, and I haven’t. It’s been all the open seas for me since. It also helped that affordable larger screens became available for home. I haven’t been to a movie in a theater in probably a decade, and I doubt I’ll ever go again.
Slow Horses is so freaking good.
I need to emigrate.
Step 1: Have discretionary money
Step 2: Invest
I guess I’m stuck at Step 0.5.
We (in the US) just elected a grifting, criminal “billionaire”. I don’t think the animosity so loudly and gleefully displayed in the reactions to the murder of this asshole insurance ghoul is representative of a newly heightened consciousness of wealth inequality. I hope that it is the start of something, but I’ve been disappointed in the public way too many times.
Having elected a treasonous insurrectionist, in direct violation of the 14th Amendment, made it as clear as day that we are not a nation of laws. If anyone really needed that clarity.
This is one of the dumber news articles I’ve seen recently. What a bunch of tools all around.
Are you talking about the same book?
It was fun to spell aloud when I was 7.
You are the first person I’ve seen say they like the look. But if we all liked the same thing, what a boring place this would be. Or more boring.