• @tiny@midwest.social
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    165 months ago

    What are they going to do next? Make registry of dildos? Have a dildo buyback program? Regulate the length and girth?

    • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      85 months ago

      Home inspections would trigger lots of backlash. This will just regulate physical stores because the lawmakers are boomers. Also you can’t have a massively-multi-dildo display at home if you expect snitches to come over.

      Maybe they’ll use this as an excuse to monitor people’s online activity and/or mail. What if you’re buying dildos? Also lathes and 3D printers might become popular among sex shops for on-demand production. Invest!

  • @weew@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    What if they’re dildo shaped guns? Would Texas ever dare to ban those?

  • @robocall@lemmy.world
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    85 months ago

    Does this mean that independent sex shops will thrive in texas? It could be a good thing for small business.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      285 months ago

      Support small businesses, don’t get your dildos from Walmart

    • @Gerudo@lemm.ee
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      155 months ago

      You must not buy feminine products or condoms/lube at Walmart then lol.

    • KaRunChiy
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      125 months ago

      Yes you can! Except they’re usually locked in a display case and you have to go and get someone to help you get one

      • nocturne
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        105 months ago

        I always like to ask if they have anything bigger in the back.

  • partial_accumen
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    145 months ago

    I’m interested in seeing a judicial decision on whether a double ended dildo counts as one dildo or two dildos.

    If you create a religion with a dildo being recognized by your dogma as official iconography, could you unlock “unlimited dildos” based upon religious freedom exceptions?

    • nocturne
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      95 months ago

      Bonus points if the religion is a sect of christanity.

    • @Gerudo@lemm.ee
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      275 months ago

      So surprisingly a couple things have actually happened. Renewables are still showing explosive growth, it helped stave off as many rolling blackouts this summer. Also, they finally agreed to tie into the national grid.

      Now, did they actually winterize and help prevent what happened a few years ago? Who knows, we haven’t been told shit so probably not.

      • @ramble81@lemm.ee
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        105 months ago

        I was completed floored about the tying into the national grid part. I never thought I’d see that in my life.

        • @Gerudo@lemm.ee
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          Knowing them, it was probably just cheaper to tie in vs fixing anything. Also our explosive population growth would have made boosting our infrastructure almost impoosible…oh wait I meant cost them too much money.

    • Kalkaline
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      55 months ago

      We did fuck all and ERCOT is optimistic about the winter for some reason.

          • @dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
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            25 months ago

            I was gonna say: “Yes, but also, no.”

            This is basically why we abandoned the abstract “global warming” for the abstract-er “climate change”. Some places are just going to see amplified extremes throughout the year rather than fewer seasons.

  • Rose
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    65 months ago

    Will there be an official Office of Dildo Inspections? With Dildo Inspectors making rounds, carefully checking every household for staying within their allotted number of items? Will the billboards aside the vast highways advertise the government hotline for anonymous reporting of infractions?

    And if not, well, they’re clearly cowards. If you’re going to pass a law like that, you have to go all the way!

    Seriously though, I sometimes wonder how this period of time will be described in history books 50 years from now.

    • Flying Squid
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      55 months ago

      A Texas jobs program! You too can have a bright future as a state dildo inspector!

  • @testfactor@lemmy.world
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    275 months ago

    I don’t agree, but I’ve also literally never seen a sex toy for sale in Walmart. Like, is that a thing?

      • @Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        75 months ago

        Last time I looked (years ago, admittedly) you’d also have to know what you were looking for to find it. Like a plain box with no pictures that just says “personal massager”. You can find racier stuff in a Spencer’s.