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A passenger’s smartphone caught fire on the Yamanote Line, four passengers who escaped to the tracks were injured and transported to hospital… All lines resumed operation
Around 4:10 p.m. on July 20, a smartphone or mobile battery caught fire on a JR Yamanote Line train between Shin-Okubo and Shinjuku stations. Some passengersBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Vice: Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims [update in post text body]
Original link which seems to have been taken down: vice.com/en/article/group-behi…
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Staten Island featured on NPR's All Of It, highlighting borough's attractions
https://www.silive.com/entertainment/2025/07/i-shared-my-staten-island-restaurant-secrets-on-npr-from-the-food-editor.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I shared my Staten Island restaurant secrets on NPR | From the food editor
The Netflix-famous "Nonna's" restaurant is just the beginning of what this overlooked NYC borough has to offer food lovers and history buffs.Pamela Silvestri | silvestri@siadvance.com (silive)
Trump Administration Loses Challenge to Radio Free Europe Funding Cuts but CPB Gutting Holds
President Trump’s determination to halt the use of government funding to support public broadcasting, which he sees as leftist, suffered a setback on FridayBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
"Kernkraft zählt zu den CO-armen Energiequellen. Umstritten sind AKW vor allem wegen der hohen Risiken."
Nein. Sie sind nicht "umstritten", sie sind objektiv auch unter wirtschaftlichen Aspekten nicht vertretbar.
Außerdem sind das Hauptargument der AKW-Gegner immer noch die Ewigkeitskosten und -aufwände, sowie die Praxis, diese Kosten auf die Allgemeinheit umzulegen, während die Gewinne der Kraftwerke in den Händen der meist privaten Betreiber verbleiben.
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EU-Kommission: Milliarden für Ausbau der Atomkraft notwendig
Deutschland hat der Atomkraft den Rücken gekehrt, andere setzen weiter darauf. Die EU-Kommission hält Kernkraft ebenfalls für nötig und schaut aufs Geld.dpa (heise online)
💀 Dragon man is a Denisovan
Cranium assigned Homo longi has 3 Denisovan derived amino acid variants and clusters with Denisova 3, suggesting Harbin individual belongs to a Denisovan population.
The proteome of the late Middle Pleistocene Harbin individual
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EU justice chief ‘determined’ to crack down on sale of illegal goods on Temu, Shein – POLITICO
Platforms like Temu and Shein specialize in selling cheap products through small parcels — millions of which enter the EU each day.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Experiential tourism key to driving inbound spending in Japan
The consumption patterns of visitors to Japan have been shifting as their enthusiasm for purchasing luxury items appears to be waning.The Japan Times
Texas legislature to address flood relief — and redrawing the state's congressional map
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/20/nx-s1-5464939/texas-legislature-to-address-flood-relief-and-redrawing-the-states-congressional-map?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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NATO Can Take Kaliningrad Down Faster Than Ever, US General Donahue Says — UNITED24 Media
The US Army and NATO allies have launched a new defense initiative called the "Eastern Flank Deterrence Line." The plan aims to enhance NATO’s ground-basedBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
The image features two animated characters from the "Wallace & Gromit" series. On the left is a bald man with large round glasses, wearing a green vest over a white shirt with a red tie. He has a wide smile and is looking directly at the viewer. On the right is a dog named Gromit, with large eyes and a black nose, wearing a black collar with a gold bell. The background shows a kitchen with green wallpaper, a window with red curtains, and various kitchen items on shelves. The man is speaking, with a speech bubble that reads "Cracking tits, Gromit!" The text "Gregg Wallace & Gromit" is displayed at the bottom of the image.
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This Hidden Kitchen Spot Gets Filthy, but There's a Quick Hack to Fix It
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This Hidden Kitchen Spot Gets Filthy, but There's a Quick Hack to Fix It
Keep that pesky stove and counter gap crumb-free with this one tool.Macy Meyer (CNET)
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Politics chat: Trump gives Putin a ceasefire ultimatum, DOJ reverses course on Epstein
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Iran reaffirms opposition to geopolitical changes in region
Ali-Akbar Ahmadian, the Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, emphasized that the Islamic Republic of Iran’s policy remains firm against anyBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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in reply to misk • • •Ah, I thought it was strange for the payment processing companies to come out of nowhere.
Them being pressured by conservative prudish assholes masquerading as concerned feminists makes more sense.
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in reply to grue • • •It's weird, the link on the front page is still there, but it leads to a 404:
vice.com/en/article/group-behi…
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in reply to passepartout • • •archive.ph/x5cGQ
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in reply to grue • • •The author posted three articles involving Collective Shout. The only one that didn't get removed replaces most of the detailing on Collective Shout with narration of the now-endangered benefits of "we both roleplay as giant women who consume our viewers".
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Moral of the story: To avoid takedown, double down ~~and eat people~~
This VTuber Just Raised Over $780 for the ACLU. After Steam’s New Content Policies? Her Anti-Censorship Message Is Urgent
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in reply to misk • • •From Wikipedia about NCOSE
Doing the lords work by fucking up (lol) any discourse about sexuality.
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in reply to yermaw • • •1. You have six shotgun shells.
2. Connect to a random person.
3. If they ask "ASL", they're a Zombie. If you have a shotgun shell left, you shoot them and use up one shell. If not, they bite you and you die.
4. Ask "What is OP?". If they give the correct answer, they're a fellow survivor, and both of you refill your shotgun shells.
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in reply to passepartout • • •Ah yes, because if there is anything that will prevent exploitation it’s not being educated about sex.
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in reply to x00z • • •"campaigning AGAINST"
they're against that...
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in reply to misk • • •Is Detroit: Become Human on the list of removed titles (that's where the screenshot is from).
The game does deal with themes like child and spousal abuse, and has a part with a same sex couple, so it fits these fascists' MO.
If so, ridiculous. However, I kind of hope they do go after some bigger games so people get pissed.
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in reply to misk • • •Pika
in reply to mormund • • •Honestly valve mishandled this issue. This sounded like a solid opportunity to be like "Okay, AO and NSFW games are no longer able to be sold via third party merchants" and then disabled the ability on the payment page.
Like they already offer an ability to pay directly, just require funding to be from steam wallet, then the transaction records are only "add funds" or "wallet payment" or whatever they use for steam wallet funding. Or if it is just paypal, make it so it has to be a first(wallet) or a second(credit cards) party instead of a third party(paypal)
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in reply to Pika • • •Pika
in reply to Cethin • • •I was under the understanding that they cared only about their image and the fact that their service was being used to purchase those items. If that's the case, then they shouldn't have an Issue with it existing in the first place, just that people can associate their platform with those type of games. If Steam went out of their way to make it so you can't use third party(or even second party tbh) merchants with adult-only and NSFW style games, then consumers wouldn't be able to relate their service to those type of games.
If what you said is correct there, that's a massive overstep on the payment processors, but I don't think that's the case here.
For example, when visa stopped accepting advertisements on Pornhub, it was because it wasn't able to control whether or not it was being depicted next to CP, which is against its rules. They entire quote was as follows: "It is illegal, and Visa does not permit the use of our network for illegal activity. Our rules explicitly and unequivocally prohibit the use of our products to pay for content that depicts nonconsensual sexu
... show moreI was under the understanding that they cared only about their image and the fact that their service was being used to purchase those items. If that's the case, then they shouldn't have an Issue with it existing in the first place, just that people can associate their platform with those type of games. If Steam went out of their way to make it so you can't use third party(or even second party tbh) merchants with adult-only and NSFW style games, then consumers wouldn't be able to relate their service to those type of games.
If what you said is correct there, that's a massive overstep on the payment processors, but I don't think that's the case here.
For example, when visa stopped accepting advertisements on Pornhub, it was because it wasn't able to control whether or not it was being depicted next to CP, which is against its rules. They entire quote was as follows: "It is illegal, and Visa does not permit the use of our network for illegal activity. Our rules explicitly and unequivocally prohibit the use of our products to pay for content that depicts nonconsensual sexual behavior or child sexual abuse.”
If this is the same case, just disabling the payment processor's ability should more than suffice.
Having said my main concern about all this is, currently steam is rolling over, but as people have said previously, steam is a large company. They could just decide full stop that you can only pay for video games with a steam wallet, which will make it so you have to add the funds to your wallet ahead of time. This also will remove quite a bit of protections that consumers have when using a credit card because at that point the service is Steam providing you money for your wallet instead of Steam providing you a functional game which means that any type of argument consumers would do with chargebacks of like this game isn't functioning on my system would be immediately thrown out because steam only charged you to add funds to your wallet instead of buying a game like it currently is.
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in reply to Cethin • • •a few ways to be honest.
They already have steam wallet cards at most electronic retail stores which operate the same as gift cards
but I was thinking more along the line of the payment processor is still there, but the goods being purchased is no longer the game itself, just adding currency on, which more-or-less removes the problem all together. Payment processors are no longer being used to buy NSFW content, its being used to purchase wallet funds. So the association is no longer valid.
Alternatively they could go the Mullvad approach as well, and allow for cash, check and wire transfer over if they really wanted to. Heck honestly like what PC said, with how big they are, they could even make a low transaction fee(seller side) savings card and could probably rival the companies themselves. I know a few people that would happily switch to said card if it meant ease of access buying games.
Additionally, a mix of these could be done, at some point card companies would fold because its threatening their bottom line. I personally think if they went the steam
... show morea few ways to be honest.
They already have steam wallet cards at most electronic retail stores which operate the same as gift cards
but I was thinking more along the line of the payment processor is still there, but the goods being purchased is no longer the game itself, just adding currency on, which more-or-less removes the problem all together. Payment processors are no longer being used to buy NSFW content, its being used to purchase wallet funds. So the association is no longer valid.
Alternatively they could go the Mullvad approach as well, and allow for cash, check and wire transfer over if they really wanted to. Heck honestly like what PC said, with how big they are, they could even make a low transaction fee(seller side) savings card and could probably rival the companies themselves. I know a few people that would happily switch to said card if it meant ease of access buying games.
Additionally, a mix of these could be done, at some point card companies would fold because its threatening their bottom line. I personally think if they went the steam wallet route, the companies wouldn't want to engage big stores such as walmart, as a good portion of their revenue is via the transaction fees those companies provide.
this is all hypotheticals though
Cethin
in reply to Pika • • •You can make that argument, sure. You could also make the other argument, that their services are being associated with this content by proxy, at minimum.
I don't agree with them. I'm just pointing out what their argument is.
I also agree Valve should make an alternative. They've got the resources and the reach to do it. They could probably even get other companies to use it and take a percentage of each transaction for another revenue stream. As it is, they're losing a percentage to these companies, and now they're fucking with their business too. They should be doing everything they can to get away from them.
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in reply to shani66 • • •Don't insult anti-humans.
Conservatives are anti-fun.
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in reply to misk • • •MentalEdge
in reply to misk • • •HuniePop is a comedic masterpiece I will actually be upset about if it's disappeared.
This group is nuts. Wanting to ban Detroit Become Human because it depicts child abuse is completely insane. That's like solving sex trafficking by making it illegal to mention it.
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in reply to MentalEdge • • •I mean, their leader is literally under fire for saying the Epstein files never existed and people should just stop talking about it. Making it illegal to even mention sex trafficking is the next logical step to protect the Dear Leader, because lord knows tackling the real issues wouldn't end well for him.
It's actually a more ideologically consistent position than most reactionary groups. They want to be able to keep diddling kids while everyone shuts up about it and the queers get shoved in concentration camps. Now that's a Good Traditional Christian Nation babyyyyyy
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in reply to misk • • •To be honest, when this story first appeared especially with Valve being the ones to announce the censorship, I thought it was sort of a nothing burger with Valve (Gave Newell having libertarian values) being pissed that someone has control over what they can sell on their store or not.
I also personally believe in the past 5-10 years that there is so much adult content and so much gateways to adult content in non adult content spaces that I personally feel something needs to be done about it.
But after seeing the group behind it, it's basically the opposite extreme. We should be able to talk about sex and sexuality, and have media that dives into these topics without some of the extreme fetishism that is on the internet (e.g. cuckoldry, gooning).
While I feel conflicted about these games being on an extremely popular pc gaming store, the people who are trying to get it removed aren't helping - they are the problem by being so extreme in their views of sex and sexuality themselves.
lmmarsano
in reply to blobchoice • • •What's wrong with those?
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