Surprisingly, it’s entirely legal to carry a sword in public in California, as long as you are the wearer is not brandishing it or concealing it. In other words, if the sword is carried in a sheath suspended from the wearer’s waist, it is legal to have in public.

It goes on to say that county and city ordinances may override this, so make sure to check your local regulations before you cosplay a medieval knight!

It is also illegal to bring a sword into a federal government building, other than a federal court facility.

This made me laugh. Why can you carry a sword into a federal court? Is it an old exception for dueling or something?

In California, “nonconcealable firearms must be unloaded while they are being transported.” Handguns are further required to be locked, either in a case or in the trunk, but NOT the glove compartment of your vehicle.

It isn’t bad enough that we’re arming the genocide and the unchecked aggression against Israel’s neighbors? Now we’ve got to fucking participate in it?

SteamVR and ALVR are the only ones that I’ve gotten to work, no dice on standalone DCS though which was the whole reason I bought the damn headset a couple years ago

Yeah. The article explains whether the IANA rules come from, but this kind of thing happens so rarely that frankly it should be handled on a case by case basis, and in this case the .io domain should just be straight up reassigned to the people that it should always have been assigned to.

Holy shit that article has, like, every decent chocolate bar.

before… SCOTUS had been carving out exceptions to the fourth and fifth amendments

They’ve been doing that shit since the country was founded. The fourth and fifth amendments only exist if you’re a rich person and the cops need an excuse not to investigate you.

I’ve heard of card counters getting stopped by security when they try to walk into a casino, there are definitely ways to “make” someone’s car and put it in a database but the tech is still spotty afaik.

Eh, the cycle of collapse and consolidation will hit the streaming system exactly the same as it would any other industry. I feel like the system will stabilize around 3-5 big services - maybe amazon, hbo, and disney, with youtube premium and apple TV as the “also rans” - which will all have premium price points and ads, and the average person who subscribes to them will be paying about as much (after inflation) as they used to pay for cable.

My question is if it wasn’t required before and is required now, what changed? It’s not like Google has added a killer feature recently - this is almost certainly related to those shitty AI answers that are forcing your actual search results even further down the page than they were already.

The copyright office’s policy isn’t perfect, but denying copyright to AI slop is probably the best we can expect from the system as it currently exists.

Besides I’m pretty sure you can still use AI in the production of an image and still claim copyright on the final image, just not any of the raw generations.

you’ve got this idea in your head of who I am

It’s not in my head, it’s on the silicon. The evidence of you not knowing what you’re talking about and getting really mad about it is plain for everyone to see.

And I’m sure that if you actually engaged with feminism in good faith instead of blindly dismissing it off of out of context clips from “feminist OWNED” compilations, you would revise your opinion on it.

“All men are potential rapists” is a disgusting and extremely prevalent ideology

This is not a prevalent ideology. I’m sure some edgy teens on tumblr have expressed this opinion, but what you think is feminism is actually a phantom you have constructed in your mind.

Patriarchy absolutely teaches us that. It’s part of enforcing heteronormativity in men - if you find another man attractive or beautiful, you cannot express that without being accused of being gay, and this seeps into our self conception where not only do we have trouble viewing ourselves as capable of being beautiful, but we aggressively police men and boys around us who we perceive to be seeking beauty themselves.

There’s been movement on this in the younger generation, but it’s still the hegemonic attitude.

The capchas getting really bad on Mullvad almost made me give up on using a VPN. But then I learned about Buster.

This is my third post in a row shilling for this browser extension lol, it’s so good.

There’s a browser extension, but it uses an older technique of requesting the audio captcha and then parsing the words, which is probably more energy efficient anyway.

Same. That’s why Buster is my most recent must-have browser extension, alongside such greats as ublock and sponsorblock.

the majority of men’s bodies are shit to look at and nobody wants to look at them

You have been taught to believe this by the patriarchy. You should try to let go of this feeling.