spankmonkey
@spankmonkey@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 6 hours ago:
Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.
This sounds like trying to have their cake and eat it too. Steam wouldn’t have delisted that many games without a significant threat of retaliation from the payment processors for possibly publishing something that broke whatever criteria they count as an unlawful purchase.
One case I can think of is the ease of using a VPN to purchase content that is illegal where the person resides but legal elsewhere. Stopping purchases through VPNs would be one thing that valve has no realistic way to address, but if the payment processor insisted that they must avoid that kind of unlawful purchase or cut off all payments then I could see the end result of just removing all of the content.
Not saying it is that exact thing, just an example of something unrealistic that can still be described as a card being used for ‘unlawful purchases’.
- Comment on trolling 6 hours ago:
Same issue for me at lemmy.world in a web browser, thumbnail shows but broken image when I try to expand it. I get the same thing when I go to the poster’s profile and view any of their posts.
- Comment on Yeah 9 hours ago:
Project.new.new.final.2
- Comment on Fake Currency with High Authenticity ,Undetectable Euro Currency 9 hours ago:
📧 Email: faithinthelord848
This reads like a punchline.
- Comment on Plants vs. Zombies Coming Back With Classic Chaos & New Features 9 hours ago:
With more ads too!
- Comment on Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises 21 hours ago:
because it rarely understands context
It never understands context.
- Comment on Are there any AI services that don't work on stolen data? 1 day ago:
If the real world data it is based on was stolen then using the synthetic version still counts as stolen.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 day ago:
The last time I checked the piefed layout options weren’t my thing, but I’ll give it another shot.
- Comment on Uber Eats is adding AI to menus, food photos, and reviews 1 day ago:
Once an order has been received, merchants can then initiate real-time communications to clarify any special requests, check dietary or allergy requirements, or inform them of out-of-stock items to discuss alternatives.
They won’t though.
- Comment on Be nice 1 day ago:
Free Parking so that the game can drag out indefinitely.
- Comment on Lemmy User Feedback and Improvement Thread: Share Your Complaints, Suggestions, and Ideas 1 day ago:
Personal labels/tags or whatever they are called for both users and communities would be awesome to have in the standard lemmy front end. I think some apps or other formats might have them, but I do like the default lemmy interface and they would be extremely handy to have saved by an account for personal reminders.
Some examples would be the ability to set personal reminders for uncommon rules on specific communities or who has good takes on some random topic. There are just so many of both and it can be hard to keep similarly named things straight.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Wow, just wow.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Saying that white men oppress people is racist?
Holy shit, that’s comedy gold!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
My only qualm is that you added white to a sentence about gender oppression.
Goddess you know what I meant to write, guess asking me to explain was a waste of time!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Women need safe spaces because men historically oppressed them, and that is true all around the world, in almost all communities.
You decided to add white to a sentence that didn’t need it.
Are you implying that minorities aren’t oppressed and don’t need safe spaces? Because it seems like your questions are focused entirely on why I included both women and minorities in the same sentence, which I assert is true in the vast majority of the world where English (the language we are speaking) is the primary language for the country. Heck, it is also true for most European countries where English isn’t the primary language.
Women need safe spaces because men historically oppressed them, and that is true all around the world, in almost all communities.
If you want any statement to be true for literally the entire world, then your expectations are unreasonable.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
The whole critique is based on a malicious reading leading to inferring meaning that isn’t there instead of taking the words literally.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Thinking maliciously
Maybe stop doing that.
- Comment on Gotta look for the eye flashes 2 days ago:
I can relate to this pattern of thinking due to a lifetime of avoiding deer and other wildlife. Garbage men travel in small groups to collect garbage bins, not solitary predators, so expecting more to follow makes sense.
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 days ago:
Except this is fhe one role Jack plays calm and serious, which is totally off putting.
- Comment on Get ready to be embarrassed: YouTube will start using your view history to guess if you're an adult 2 days ago:
Hopefully my frequent playing of 90s music playlists works out!
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
What a horribly stupid question to ask.
Women and minority only spaces exist because white men as a group have historically discriminated against them, including by having men only and even whites only spaces. That kind of history never goes away really, because bigotry is frequently handed down from generation to generation even if some people are able to break the trend.
Source: am white man who can acknowledge reality without feeling guilty for being part of the group that does those things
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
That was literally what you were saying.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Don’t have to when old boy’s clubs exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
You are the kind of person that makes a no men rule necessary.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I wouldn’ assume the person who made the joke was cis when their accoubt is at blahaj.zone…
- Comment on Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop 3 days ago:
Thinking of picking it up a month after release?
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 3 days ago:
“This thing we did because some whiny group was wasting out time is costing us more time from the complaints.” is a business reason to reverse a decision.
- Comment on I choose to believe, what I was programmed to believe! 3 days ago:
Workout regimen checks out.
- Comment on This is why brexit happened 3 days ago:
This made me very happy, thank you.
- Comment on Anal probing doesn't seem that bad 3 days ago:
Totally ghosted.
I thought we were talking about aliens…