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- jagara1
Second time I've heard this being said (from a vegan, of course):
"Let's face it, the only things that make meat dishes taste delicious is the vegan ingredients, not the meat."
My child, come to the light. Come to steaks, cream and butter.
- Let's definitely face reality instead.jagara
- That said, vegan food these days has become very, very good.jagara
- It's entirely possible to have great vegan foods. The problem is vegans tend to be more concerned with identity than actual kitchenry.garbage
- it's seasoning the ingredients that make ingredients quote delishcanoe
- Meat and dairy has a taste of its own, I read somewhere.jagara
- you can't have a dish made of seasoningjagara
- Gardener15
2 years ago today I was DJ'ing on the main stage at a festival in Hertfordshire - my 1st warm up set is available, I put it up on Mixcloud hear here:
- YakuZoku3
I got hit up over the weekend by a broker trying to buy one of my AI domain names for their client for $800
domain: HandCrafted.ai
I'm going to counter for $500k because fuck you!
- NBQ00-1
Did Sheryl Crow finally have some fun?
- sarahfailin0
Went to Tineye to try to find this shirt and I get ZERO results. Multiple times I've tried to find image sources from stuff posted on QBN and I get bupkis. What's the deal?- didn't know where else to post this...sarahfailin
- a google search verbally describing it brought me to the right site. but how come tineye doesn't work?! https://worstshirts.…sarahfailin
- Did you try dropping the images into google image search? I stopped using tineye a looong time ago because I found google better than it.Nairn
- bainbridge0
All these people complaining about Sydney Sweeney ad campaign act like they've never seen an ad before.
- Also she does have good genesmonospaced
- these times are ridiculousYakuZoku
- Is creating controversy part of the ad campaign strategy? like a fall back if the initial release falls flat?BabySnakes
- gonna say it though, if she was a b-cup, no one would careautoflavour
- autoflavour-1
interesting take on the whole age verification movement currently sweeping the planet. I asked chatgpt given the current legal framework, where does that leave things like design forums or self made podcasts that might have swearing in it..
it didnt hold back
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Alright — here’s a plausible 5-year progression of how today’s porn/social-media ID rules could creep into much smaller sites like a design forum or a swearing-heavy podcast.
Year 1–2 (Now → Near Future)
Scope: Pornography, high-traffic social media, explicit adult services.Laws in certain countries require age/ID verification for sites with a majority of pornographic content.
Social media platforms with addictive features (TikTok, Instagram, etc.) must verify age to comply with “protect minors” laws.
Small forums & niche sites are unaffected unless they’re explicitly pornographic.
Indirection begins: Payment processors, ad networks, and app stores start requiring compliance for any explicit content.
Impact on a swearing podcast or design forum:
Zero legal obligation unless your jurisdiction has very broad “obscene content” laws. The bigger risk is demonetization if your payment provider adopts “ID verification for mature content” policies.Year 3
Scope Expansion: “Harmful to minors” redefinition.Lawmakers broaden definitions to include graphic language, drug use, self-harm discussions, gambling references, or violent imagery.
“Materially available to minors” becomes the legal test — not just explicit porn.
A new law might say: Any site knowingly hosting mature content without age gating is non-compliant.
Thresholds shrink from “large commercial site” to “sites with over 50,000 monthly visits” or a set annual revenue.
Impact:
If your podcast has regular profanity or explicit topics and gets flagged, you could need to add an age-gate with ID. Smaller design forums might be unaffected unless members post NSFW or violent content.Year 4
Infrastructure Normalization & Hosting Enforcement.Governments partner with identity-verification companies (GovID, BankID, Apple/Google ID) to make compliance cheap and “easy.”
Major hosting/CDN providers (Cloudflare, AWS, Squarespace, etc.) add “mature content compliance” clauses to ToS.
If your site is flagged as “mature” but not age-gated, hosts may suspend or require ID verification to keep your account.
Impact:
Even tiny hobby sites can get caught — not by direct government law, but because your host won’t take the risk. At this point, swearing in a podcast description might be enough to trip automated filters.Year 5
Universal Content Classification.Search engines, social media, and app directories require verified age-gating for any site or feed marked “Mature 17+” or “Explicit” in metadata.
Algorithms flag podcasts, videos, or blog posts with profanity, sexual jokes, or adult themes — automatically marking them as requiring ID checks before access.
Small sites without verification lose search indexing, hosting, or payment access.
Impact:
Your design forum could be affected if it allows explicit discussions, user-generated NSFW art, or mature humor.
Your podcast could be effectively hidden behind an ID wall even if the “mature” content is just swearing.Key Takeaway
Today: Only large adult/porn or social media sites are targeted.Mid-term: Broader “harmful to minors” definitions start catching mild-mature content.
Long-term: Enforcement shifts from direct law to platform policy, meaning size won’t matter — the infrastructure will be universal, and hosting/search/payment will do the filtering for the government.
- good thing we got rid of COTD..autoflavour
- Ban UK and Australia and you're good.grafician
- OBBTKN6
How are you doing, my fellow Europeans?
Is it hot? It's 35°C here right now.
Perfect for a bbq and some cider at night!
- This...
https://youtu.be/mV9…Morning_star - Around 30ª pretty chillgrafician
- 27° into our home now, 8:49 pm... No bbq, chicken and pork ribs at the air-fryer.
Sad :(OBBTKN - Ha! It rains now... I love how the near sea regulates our climaOBBTKN
- Every day temps here.utopian
- In Lanzarote on hols. Was hitting 40 on Sunday. Not built for it.mort_
- I'm dying!WallaWalla
- It's hotter than the sun.mort_
- Come to Mexico, I see your "heat" and raise you 100% humidityYakuZoku
- thank god mercedes is trying to roll back the car regulation emissions back in the EU...long live the combustion engine.... hodl..keep that shit on fire..neverscared
- It was hot but bearable.
32°C at its peak.milfhunter - 38c :/Chimp
- cool in CarnoustieGardener
- @moldy You have no idea how much I'd love to, humidity or no humidity. I want to eat my way through Mexico.Continuity
- 26 C in Copenhagen. Nice, pleasant. Was in Poland a month ago. 2 weeks of around 16 C and rain :-/jagara
- This...
- renderedred-1
fuck! 40 in Jerusalem. Hot as hell.
- "It's very hot in Jew-roosalem, the hottest ever." - TrumpNBQ00
- jagara0
My least favorite music era ever has been given a name. God I hated that shit with deep, burning passion. So happy nothing more than a dried up corpse of this utter garbage remains. I'd rather listen to non-stop AI pop country than this aaah
- At 49, I much, much prefer Gen Z music over this shit.jagara
- Gardener1
I've started production on my next Garden year mix, I wonder what year it will be? I have a Feelin' it's...
- doggydoggdog-3
Crazy that most people used to smoke all day, every day, everywhere.
- Planes, restaurants, lobbies, everywhere.monospaced
- Even the Flintstones smokedYakuZoku
- Jetsons never smokedcanoe
- The French still do apparently.NBQ00
- My pulmonologist when I was going to get tests for my asthma!OBBTKN
- Why is this down votes?WallaWalla
- It's true and completely bonkersWallaWalla
- smoking is greatdasohr
- genuine question.
how old are you?pango - torches of freedom ... how about that for corporate propaganda https://www.youtube.…neverscared
- Also French Canada_niko
- Isn’t smerkin on the up again?MrT
- My high school had a "smoking lounge" outside where students could have a smoke when changing classes.stoplying
- doggydoggdog-3
Do you have "good taste"?
- Laughs in John Waters.palimpsest
- The French still do apparentlymonospaced
- "The collapse of a society begins once people lose their standards and are proud of it."grafician
- like what good taste?dasohr
- Baconpalimpsest
- good taste and standards aren’t the same thingmonospaced
- dasohr0
Sometime I envision myself at 80 years old, sitting there in the old people home, jamming to all the tunes I've listened to when I was a young one. All that noise.
- pango3
crazy, there was a mummy shortage because ingesting mummy powder as magical medicine was so popular in 12-19 century in Europe, they didn't have enough mummies from Egypt to go around.
- Longcopylover0
Recently, every time I open the qbn homepage, I get a warning (with sound) that my IT administration does not support this application: yts.mx
@Admins: What is this? And why is it on qbn?
I don't want to ask my IT department – don't want to rock the boat...- kingsteven
- It's this post:
https://www.qbn.com/…
I can't see the image because of the firewall. No real threat.palimpsest - its just a torrent site.
and your admins suck...and you should browse private stuff on your mobile connection.uan - if you work at a school, its blocked because of the children.
if you are at some corp or gov, they are monitoring your browsinguan - Ah, thanks. Yes, I work big corp and know they are monitoring everything. But qbn is/should be a place where I get inspo, trends or just silly memes I have...Longcopylover
- ... to understand. So not only private surfing. So make qbn great again please.Longcopylover
- must be a post somewhere...also those sites are legal in switzerland :) your admins copied a blacklist from somewhere and didnt bother to make it localuan
- and check the site out. you‘ll find treasures. they post movies from all industries around the planet. stuff we don‘t even see at festivals.uan
- Thanks uan.
And hey my Admins, where are you now? UK or USA? Reveal yourselves, when you're reading this. :)Longcopylover
- neverscared5
i moved up to CD position... its huge amounts of moneys but not much to do... C'est la vie
- Congrats, enjoy and wait till they flood your calendar.Longcopylover
- Overwork the intern!bezoar
- If it goes bad it’s your fault. Congrats!monospaced
- thx.. i ll keep it humble and everyone relaxed.neverscared
- First world problem(s)!!!
Congrats bro.
: )ideaist - Compact disc?milfhunter
- Chicken dinner?futurefood
- cardinal dictator or chief douchebag .. time will tell.neverscared
- Was there a CD before?doggydoggdog
- Pretty sure it was Cassette tape before CDpango
- huge amounts of moneys like 190k/year and some company benefits huge amounts of moneys?_niko
- ^ wages haven't kept up with inflation at allmonNom
- congrats on the Cross Dressing.face_melter
- DVD level next?grafician
- NBQ000
What is Jamiroquai up to right now?
- Probably taking a shit on the toilet.pango
- ssshhh.
Let's not wake him up.Fax_Benson