I think there was a Backyard Burger in Waco around 2000 or so. I remember they also had a Panda Express either next door or in the same building, and it was the first time I had seen either of those chains.
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Originally Posted by wwmiv
At some point, the degeneracy in society has to end, right? Just like adult content stores can only be located in certain districts, any business name that contains adult content should be subject to the same restrictions because you should not be forced to explain to your child any sexual content before you and they are ready not be forced to sacrifice you (and your family’s) ability to go in public freely (to avoid seeing things that will force you to make such an explanation).
It doesn’t matter how good the burger is if the values behind the burger suck.
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For what it's worth, I sort of agree that naming a restaurant chain "Slutty Vegan" with a giant ass sign on a public road is trashy. I thought the same thing after seeing a place in Seattle called "Biscuit Bitch". Like really? I wonder what a court would rule if a city refused to grant a sign permit to one of these places because their name was vulgar. If it would pass the 1st amendment or not. Cities do have the ability to regulate sexually oriented businesses and by extension their signage which might be why there are no giant flashing neon dildos looming over the interstate, but on the other hand sign ordinances are hard for them to enforce and the supreme court has ruled in favor of all sorts of challenges. It's very hard to say, I am not a lawyer.
However, don't want to go on a tangent, but I disagree with your general "degeneracy in society" comment. Nobody sees it coming, but I think society is actually at risk of moving back in the opposite direction towards Puritanism/Victorian conformity as a result of the ability for modern tech to enforce it. Smart devices like phones that you have in your pocket right now can verify the identity of anyone at any time, and they can also use AI to identify and filter any kind of content. Right now there are a bunch of laws pending in congress/senate about regulating content minors can access on the internet. A lot of it is about porn that was always restricted, but some of these laws go way further. At the same time, I, a childless adult, have only sort of recently noticed how nearly everything that is relevant and entertaining including a lot of very tame things on Netflix and other platforms are rated MA. It's kind of unnecessary if you ask me, I suspect most parents ignore those ratings because they seem to have been assigned by people whose values are out of step with mainstream culture. But it's only a matter of time before parental controls are made mandatory unless you identify yourself as an adult, and it's only a matter of time before people's phones use AI to moderate their own communications and spy on them.
Where I am going with this, is that as a kid/teenager of the transitional era when the internet was just getting started, while porn was much less common or accessible and the general tone of society was far more conservative in dress, language, etc, there was also no mechanism to stop me from watching TV shows or R rated movies or having songs with explicit lyrics either, or having a picture of a woman in a bikini, or something like that. Or for teenagers from getting in trouble or whatever. And yet little to no harm ever came out of that. It was part of growing up and in retrospect may have served a purpose
But in the near future, TV's are going to use facial recognition, lidar, and AI to know if a 16 year old is trying watch such risque and dangerous adult content as....The Simpsons?... and AI is going to scan all their text messages so they better not be to the opposite sex, etc. It's going to be invasive in a way that is unnatural and weird even compared to eras like the 1950s. Thankfully I am now an adult, but still.
For people in countries like Malaysia or Russia it's going to suck even more. Even adults who have a sexy picture of their wife, well some guy with a cane is on his way right now. The morality police will surely get Microsoft to hand over what their Copilot AI scans in all their files, I bet you didn't realize that coming soon in Windows 11 an AI assistant is now summarizing and learning from anything you have saved on your device including photos, right? I hope you don't get any ideas about democracy in some of these countries...
Both the right and left are becoming more nanny-state friendly. I feel like the opinions along the lines of "mind your own business" or "personal freedoms" are seen less and less.
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