Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.
Gilead? The Pharma company??
This is why some of us love crypto currencies so much despite the hate it gets from so many who claim there is no intrinsic value, it’s a scam, etc.
Stay away from shit coins, no doubt, but the intrinsic value is that you can side step all of the bullshit and spend your money as you choose. No need to get permission first. It’s looking to be a much better path forward, and payment processors inserting their own rules will only drive more acceptance of alternative payment methods.
I mean this is a false dichotomy. You can have a payment system that isn’t a shit show like crypto or a duopoly like Visa and Mastercard.
Tupã bless Brazil’s pix.
At least I can still buy porn from local furry artists.
what even is the point of this cyberpunk dystopia if there won’t even be good porn to wank to?
That’s my thought exactly. Boring dystopia indeed.
I wonder how long this will last. The NSFW industry is insanely huge. If the current payment processors cut it off, that leaves a giant gap in the market just waiting to get filled (😏).
If they hold firm on this, it might just be a rare opportunity for a new (and hopefully better) payment processor to enter the market.
Or maybe just wider crypto adoption, idk.
I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?
Collective Shout happened, an australian organisation decided to wage global war on anything NSFW in games (so far), their key talking points are allegedly being feminist and anti-exploitation of women.
i wonder if they asked the women they’re saying they’re protecting if they want that “protection”, or if they’re imagining that women just don’t make NSFW art
Why would they ask? They know what’s best for everyone. All people. All around the world.
/s
Their (collective shout) open letter to these companies has a headline like “you are profiting from exploitation” basically, but worse. I guess the card networks were thinking about their stock price or something when they made the decision.
Bad press?
Doubt it, how else will Onlyfans funnel money … elsewhere?
Now imagine someone who is not the last person in Europe, but the last person in the world lol…
Sex art is art
I don’t get it. Will they also ban sex shops, adult cinemas and every other offline adult entertainment thing that exist?
Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.
two steps forward ten steps back, eh?
Man. I remember being a kid and dreaming about a world where puritans got laughed out of existence. Then we had the “woke” era which shocked me sideways. I never dreamed that progressive thinking people would get hung up on regressive shit like policing language, it reminded me of being in church as a kid and hearing about those dreaded, awful, naughty words. But hey, at least their goals were well meaning and driven by empathy and concern for how other people have it in this world.
Who did they piss off though? The fucking puritans. The very people who policed language all of my childhood. It turns out that nothing ever meant anything to them, they just wanted to control people. “Don’t tell me I can’t call a little person a midget! Bad words is fuck and shit! Not me making fun of people!!!” One group said, “if it’s fun it’s bad.” The other group said, “if anyone is hurt by it, it’s bad.”
Now the puritans have gone full fascist because they felt like they were losing some culture war, so they want it all, and they scream loud enough to be heard.
It’s like this tug of war that is just going to end with regular people who don’t raise hell when they get upset being shoved into the dirt by a loud crybaby minority of people.
Before I had any grasp of history, I just assumed that people were always heading toward being more liberal in how they deal with the world.
Nope, this is what we do. We have cycles of enlightenment and cycles of assholes responding to said enlightenment. Somebody always has to be morally superior, fighting some ugly enemy. If we ran out of reasons to fight tomorrow, we’d just argue over some other dumb shit.
I’m drunk, so please don’t take me too seriously. I’ll probably wake up tomorrow and argue with myself about deleting this comment haha.
Whatever happens, I really hope we have freedom at the end of the day. I don’t care what it costs. Maybe we aren’t meant to have it. Maybe our nature is just too ugly.
Yeah, that’s literally what these people want.
Imagine how many more “Thomas Matthew Crooks” are gonna come out of their basements if you ban their porn. Conservatives secretly love their porn. Might wanna rethink the ban.
Or not, I don’t mind watching a IRL live movie about a rebellion instigated by…
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…banning porn 🤦♂️🤣
They supposedly love their children too.
My God… All the “pro life” movements make so much more sense now! They actually don’t care about the women, they only want the children around. And worse off the children, the better for them!
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I’m not a cryptobro but these things make me want to hodl on some
cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client’s money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?
Easy. Agree on the price in a more stable currency, and pay the equivalent in crypto when the work is done.
Could use a stablecoin that’s pegged to USD or EUR.
USDC seems relatively safe given how much traditional investment is tied up in Coinbase and Circle.
Or what happens when governments ban crypo exchanges?
I think the real answer is for us (the electorate) to start electing officials who aren’t puritanical twats. Way way harder to do tough.
Is this a serious question? Crypto is inherently decentralised and anonymous, from the base technology of the blockchain. The existence of crypto exchanges is directly opposed to its entire thesis as a digital currency, and only exist because people now treat it like a speculative asset and not like money.
Yes it’s decentralized and very hard to stop to parties from making a crypto transaction. But what about cases where you need to convert your crypto to say euros because the person/business you need to pay doesn’t accept crypto? Don’t you need an exchange for that?
How easy/ widely accepted is it to pay for things using crypto (gas, rent, mortgage etc.)?
The point I was trying to make is that if paying for stuff in crypto isn’t ubiquitous, it’s far less practical as a form of currency.
Not agreeing or disagreeing, but just a note that the alternstive to exchanges is peer to peer trading of cash/crypto where two individuals agree to swap. Obviously a lot more tedious and hard to do that, but with the right tools and mass adoption it could be feesible.
If the government wants to ban crypto all together though, i doubt any solution could exist.
Would make it difficult to on/off-ramp though. Though I guess, theoretically, it wouldn’t be necessary if you can use it for payment.
Speed running the porn companies making their own payment processor
AFAIK there’s pay processing business that will do nsfw transactions but they ask for extra money.
I’d open a KinkPay account, when offered.
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This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?
Worse, it was when Twitter banned Trump. This is just like when the Savage John asked to be exiled from the World State but the Controller forces him to engage in society to torture him.
There was a reddit sub where they take in unfunny comics (usually sexist) and then edit them to be funny. That’s how this actually became a meme.
I think that was r/bonehurtingjuice
Nah, I’m pretty sure it was r/comedynecromancy. They took unfunny comics/memes and made them funny. They were an offshoot of r/comedycemetary, they just reposted unfunny comics/memes to poke fun at.
Could be a case of parallel evolution.
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Undoing all the gains made during the sexual revolution. Conservatives taking us back to the puritanical dark ages.
It’s not even conservative any more. It’s regressive.
Always has been
These conservatives are old, so they are trying to “conserve” ideals that were out of touch in their own time
No. Conservatism has always only been about conserving aristocratic/oligarchic socio-economic power structures and establishing them where absent. Those are the only ideals they’ve ever had. All of the test was just a facade to pretend that their ideology has any place in a free, open, and equitable society.
