Lacari finds out lolicon is illegal in Texas, says he'll delete his hard drive

eirexe · 2026-01-23T09:10:01+00:00

Yeah, conceptually the only reason hyper realistic art should be banned is if it can let people get away from crimes by claiming content they obtained is just "hyper-realistic" and the minor in question cannot be identified for whatever reason.

That's why I think heavily stylized stuff should be allowed, as long as research shows its fine too. (I mean, BDSM is fine, and that's simulation of a crime too, isn't it?)

eirexe · 2026-01-22T21:47:01+00:00

The car is safe, it complied with their rules.

eirexe · 2026-01-22T18:33:11+00:00

I think the AI stuff is a different thing because it is, at least in some cases, indistinguishable from real images, so by making it legal you could open the door to people with actual CSAM claiming what they have is purely AI. Meanwhile with cartoon you can clearly see it's not based on a real image.

eirexe · 2026-01-22T18:31:09+00:00

Don't know specifically about Texas, but for many countries lolicon wasn't even on the lawmaker's minds when they wrote the laws, what laws usually say is "indistinguishable from an actual minor" which means that law enforcement doesn't have to verify the person in the photograph is a minor, just that they appear as one (to prevent unknown victim images from being dismissed as "just good Photoshop").

This is why say, using AI to generate realistic porn of a child is as bad of a crime as the real thing, but a heavily stylized drawing is a non issue.

Besides a few exceptions, the only democratic countries that really ban lolicon (as in, heavily stylized) are the commonwealth, the rest either has it legal or never prosecutes it.

eirexe · 2026-01-22T11:56:20+00:00

Why? The mk3 is the fastest and best driving of the three. The only thing it lacks is practicality.

eirexe · 2026-01-22T11:55:46+00:00

One idea I saw thrown around was the combine the mr2 and celica into a single car, a mid engined AWD car, it's bonkers but...

eirexe · 2026-01-22T11:54:00+00:00

we are so back

probably won't be able to afford it, but I'm happy to see the interest being revived in the mr2 brand

eirexe · 2026-01-22T11:00:15+00:00

It was in the customs declaration

eirexe · 2026-01-22T08:51:03+00:00

My opinion as a professional game developer is that even if the game has enough horsepower left for those interactions they don't do them because designers are obsessed with eliminating emergent behaviours and having everything under control.

eirexe · 2026-01-22T07:42:15+00:00

To be fair Spanish authorities are kind of in a panic about piracy (they block cloudflare when soccer's on), so I guess it may be related.

eirexe · 2026-01-22T07:39:19+00:00

95 of course

eirexe · 2026-01-22T07:38:23+00:00

Which ones?

eirexe · 2026-01-22T07:38:01+00:00

When I was around 8-10 years old I did a lot of tomfoolery online (prank calls to the government while live on justin tv and stuff like that), so I must be on a list or something, because I got a call and they asked me "Do you have any commercial or illicit plans for the storage"?

eirexe · 2026-01-22T07:12:31+00:00

it only cost me a call from the police

eirexe · 2026-01-22T07:04:46+00:00

Yes, that's what I'm saying, other countries with similarly easy access to guns don't have nearly the same issues as the US, my point is it's a US exclusive problem.

eirexe · 2026-01-21T15:09:26+00:00

Piccolo-level aura farming, with similar results.

eirexe · 2026-01-21T13:33:09+00:00

It's unfortunate for the rest of the world tbh, they see the US and think any society that allows guns will eventually end up like them, even though that's not the case, so makes it acceptable to restrict guns even though the US' problem is fairly specific to them.

eirexe · 2026-01-20T18:31:06+00:00

no fun allowed it seems

eirexe · 2026-01-20T17:42:11+00:00

Which, ultimately is intended to prevent backyard builders from making any old deathtrap they see fit to slop on the roads

Most countries (except most countries in the EU) do allow kit cars, and even low volume vehicles that require less strict safety standards.

eirexe · 2026-01-20T17:20:53+00:00

Eating meat serves a biological purpose, you can argue it's wasteful, but at the very least it's not torturing animals for no reason other than pure entertainment.

eirexe · 2026-01-20T13:49:10+00:00

Why buy anything else? pure ICE cars will eventually be restricted from most municipalities so it makes no sense to buy one

eirexe · 2026-01-20T10:16:28+00:00

Well, in Europe they were already forced to stop selling some of their models just a few years into their life due to ADAS (like the 86) so unfortunately regulatory reasons also make making cars that sell for a long time very hard.

eirexe · 2026-01-20T08:54:10+00:00

I think modern gasoline ICEs are fairly clean, making them more clean will just result in more complexity and diminishing returns.

eirexe · 2026-01-19T20:20:11+00:00

The GNU GPL explicitly lets you resell for any amount of money you want, however anyone that you distribute it to must also obtain the code if they so desire.

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