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- Comment on The world is only about me 18 hours ago:
While it is bad they parked in a spot for the disabled, it’s a nice reminder this bike commonly drives around exactly as many people as a car fit for this space.
- Comment on Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science 20 hours ago:
Fair!
- Comment on UN Database WIPO ALERT Helps to Facilitate Globalized Pirate Site Blocking 21 hours ago:
You know what to do. Raise the black flag.
- Comment on but what happened to logsday? 1 day ago:
Hey, FBI!
For those who don’t know, Logsday is the fourth day of the week, right between Wednesday and Thursday. They took it from us in January 2003, and did everything so we would forget it existed in the first place. God knows what Machiavellian things they made it for.
- Comment on Inside arXiv—the Most Transformative Platform in All of Science 1 day ago:
The most transformative is probably SciHub. If we ever lose it, scientific progress in most fields will grind to a halt.
arXiv is great, but the fact it only covers physics/math and, well, the fact it’s preprints significantly affects its scope.
Should we at least have it cover all of academia, it would already be more viable.
- Comment on Please dont feed the creatures 🪱 1 day ago:
I see, could be misunderstanding on my end. Glad to be on the same page here!
- Comment on Please dont feed the creatures 🪱 2 days ago:
Small yes and big no.
Sure, there is an element of social panic that harms a lot of people in weird ways and may even worsen the trauma of CSA survivors. We need to come to a more balanced view on that particular issue.
But that’s not the primary reason such acts are harmful. Sexual abuse of minors is treated this way because of a simple thing: adults hold systematic power and are in the position of authority over children (which must happen, otherwise parenthood and upbringing will break).
Thus, children do not feel free to reject the interaction, even if they are not directly forced. This leads to inability to predict whether the consent was given in good consciousness or under pressure, and children are normally not interested in sexual exploration outside basic curiosity for anything at all. As a result, they get involved in highly intimate and potentially very gross activity without adequate means and power to reject it immediately, which is potentially deeply traumatic.
As per cultures, there’s a lot of stuff that went on in different places and ages. Greece had pederasty, it also had slavery and complete patriarchy. Japanese culture is very sexually extreme and explores a lot of non-consensual sexual violence, and women are commonly targeted by perverts of all kinds etc. etc.
Just because it was or is active somewhere doesn’t mean we should do it too.
- Comment on Please dont feed the creatures 🪱 2 days ago:
Many are afraid indeed, but others are brave enough.
Besides, many of such forums allow Tor users.
- Comment on fair treatment 3 days ago:
Someone who clearly got shot but decided to play like they didn’t. Since airsoft ammo are not painted like paintball, they don’t leave visual marks confirming to everyone that someone was shot. It is left to the honesty of those catching a bullet.
- Comment on Please dont feed the creatures 🪱 3 days ago:
In all seriousness though, therapy is available for all paraphilias, including pedophilia.
If you, reader, are one, get help. Life isn’t over and you’re not inherently a danger.
If you can’t get professional help, mutual support online communities are available as well.
You’re worthy as you are, just don’t cross this particular line and don’t become an offender.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
It’s a typical nationalist-authoritarian pipeline that can sadly happen to any country - but it’s only now that people get to realize their islands of democracy are no exception.
You either get vigilant early on - or get to reap the consequences. This machine doesn’t show its head before it is already too late to alter this route.
- Comment on The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst 5 days ago:
Nice of you to assume there are no underage players of GTA V
- Comment on Nicole endgame 6 days ago:
Both completely empty
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Might actually be good in some ways - less options to hide ill-gotten gains, or to award people wildly different salaries based on what they’re ready to settle for.
I believe in Sweden, for example, the information on income should legally be public for everyone.
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Fr
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Yes. Bitcoin, as most cryptocurrencies, has an open ledger, meaning all transactions (and, by extension, wallet amounts) in the network are public. Everyone can see any transactions associated with any wallet.
Thereby, if someone knows a certain person is an owner of a given wallet (and the effort is to associate those two things by introducing identity verification on all major exchanges), they can know every transaction you have ever made. In fact, there are several analytical companies (for example, Chainalysis) that process this very information in bulk to help authorities combat criminal activity.
There are cryptocurrencies in which this data is encrypted, like Monero. There, you cannot view transactions associated with the wallet address unless you got a special key only the wallet owner can give to you.
There are also cryptocurrencies like Zcash, in which you can choose whether to encrypt your transactions or not.
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Sure, my bad. Sorry, Nicole!
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Sure, dropped in your DMs
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Yep, those who’s been there said there were quite some Nazis in there, but I didn’t go down this rabbit hole myself, so won’t claim anything.
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Yep, those who’s been there said there were quite some Nazis in there, but I didn’t go down this rabbit hole myself, so won’t claim anything.
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
I’d love to see a crypto scam that would send money back with the message along the lines of “okay, you shouldn’t have done this. Here’s your money, don’t fall for that stuff again”
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Many folks on the Fediverse got random messages from “Nicole” always starting with the string how she’s a 29yo Polish girl from Toronto and inviting people over to her socials.
They come from various throwaway accounts. I personally got about 6 or 7 of those.
As Fediverse doesn’t currently have a robust framework for combating such behavior, this poses a new challenge for the devs. In the meanwhile, this has become a local meme
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Yeah, that though crossed my mind as well. But this pic was not seen before, so I tend to believe it’s the OG Nicole
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
Just ping me and I will
- Comment on Nicole endgame 1 week ago:
A grand total of 0.
Both wallets are empty
- Comment on "You should probably just throw it away" 1 week ago:
Welcome! Switched 2 years ago, never looked back
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- Comment on Anti-acknowlegements 1 week ago:
What I read was “don’t let these bastards stop you”, as in “whatever they do, you have your place in science”.
It doesn’t mean “no change needs to be made”. Rachel didn’t give up, and was right about it, and it’s good she spoke up.
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 1 week ago:
Those are two real medical diagnoses - Swyer syndrome or XY gonadal dysgenesis for XY women (occurs in about 1:100000 women) and de la Chapelle syndrome or XX male syndrome for XX men (occurs in about 1:20000 to 1:30000 men)
Here is a NORD report on Swyer syndrome, as well as the original article on de la Chapelle syndrome: 1.https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/swyer-syndrome/ 2.https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1762158/
- Comment on Sci-fi and fantasy are at odds in Split Fiction, which makes no sense 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think the game wanted to paint an “unbridgeable gap” here, as the author says. The way Mio and Zoe get more into each other’s stories is exactly the testament to the way this gap can be closed through a unique shared experience, and to the way one genre can enrich the other.
I play Split Fiction with my girlfriend, and she is a fantasy fangirl, while I am very sci-fi, so the characters land just perfectly. And I can’t help but notice that, as Mio and Zoe get more open-minded and try to look into the root of how those two preferences formed, me and my girlfriend also get more passionate for each other’s interests.
And that’s one of the most powerful things about the game. It helps to deconstruct our notions and perceptions about both genres, and become more open to each other’s vision.
