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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • I’ve seen these topics about this is valid or that is valid, and I don’t think I quite get it. Like I can tell you if a JSON file is valid, but what would I even check to see if a person is valid? Do people go around calling each other invalid? Does anyone have an example of an invalid person? I’m missing something.



  • The payments can become a legal liability for the processors. I believe there are federal laws that have penalties for anyone who facilitates transactions for certain prohibited goods or services. It’s the same reason cannabis shops have such a hard time getting payment and banking services.

    The payment processors have very little incentive to take risks here. As others have noted, there isn’t much competition pressure.

    EDIT: I went to find a source, and found the cannabis analogy isn’t right. Seems that Visa and MasterCard really are the primary censors of the porn industry. This archived FT article went in depth. https://archive.ph/zXKuD









  • I’m gonna disagree here. The impeachment resolution was a dumb idea, and should not have been introduced. It was never going to be successful. The more impeachment resolutions are introduced and fail, either in the house or Senate, the less likely they are to ever succeed. It looks more like boring partisan messaging, and less like an extraordinary situation. Introducing this resolution makes it less likely that Trump will be removed from office, not more.

    I’m not going to take a position on whether it was a good idea to vote against it, that’s more debatable, but as a message to their fellow Democrats they are right that the resolution was a terrible idea.