** The banking industry, hiding in the corner looking sheepish **

does he ? when did this happen ?

That would be covered by the

and we sure as hell don’t appreciate pre-compliance to the demands of increasingly fascistic states.

part.

That's actually an interesting question...is grass political ?

By touching it, would we be signalling some sort of political stance ?

Something to ponder.

Failing to do your best to deal with it.

A small difference, but important.

Human interaction is all politics to varying degrees.

Unless you are an extreme outlier someone at some point will need to interact with someone outside of the business to get the things the business needs.

Unless you are a dictatorship of a business, coming to a consensus on what the business needs is going to require dealing with people.

I agree that politics for personal gain or CV juice is bullshit though.

Being competent should be enough, unfortunately that's not generally how it works, which is also bullshit.

Pointing out potential hypocrisy isn't homophobic, that you think it is, says a lot more about you than them.

So porn involves copyright, a legally distinct category of activity.

Which i did in fact already know, i didn't realise you were referencing something that you hadn't mentioned in your reply.

I'll assume you don't actually have a basis for claiming that prostitution involves copyright then.

I get that it sounds like splitting hairs, but we are commenting on something with a legal context, the legal distinctions are relevant.

Taking a step back: this is c/declineintocensorship not c/piracy. The fact that these are copyrighted means these pictures had even more protections than if not, legally speaking. Even ignoring the sensitive nature of these pictures, it is reasonable for the owner of content (the actresses and or producers) to enforce their copyright protections on these.

Indeed, as seems to be the case here.

Depends on how debilitating it is, if its bad enough, therapy might be a useful option.

Body dysmorphia about weight might need a bit more help than you can give as an individual.

It might not meet the criteria for that, but worth consideration.

Edit: to clarify, dysmorphia like this is where the brain refuses to acknowledge the relatively objective reality of a "normal" weight.

It's often one of the underlying causes of bulimia/anorexia and the converse.

It's somewhat of a catch, that's generally how monopolistic moats work but you really shouldn't be relying on google as a backup service for obscure videos you wish to keep.

I've no idea of the amount of lectures, guides, documentaries and other non-entertainment media that is available exclusively on youtube, but again it isn't an archiving service.

They can, will and have deleted whole channels for various reasons, most of which were bullshit, if you find something you absolutely have to keep, download it.

That being said, the process of downloading, archiving and curating content on anything more than a trivial scale can be much more involved than it seems, especially if you want backups/redundancy.

I've never been a big youtube user so my opinion on this is coloured by the fact that i don't have that much invested in the platform.

TIL

Also levels for fecal matter in most things that come from agriculture.

Milk is weird, I don't disagree, but governmental regulations on levels of "safe contamination" isn't a milk only thing.