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I agree.

At the same time, I can see this as being a useful tool for saving lives.

It's funny I'm seeing this actually. I'm actually on kratom right now, I bought some earlier today. I didn't really want to, I don't want to be on kratom because it's opiod like and expensive and can cause dependence. But I was getting so down that I was seriously worried I was going to kill myself, so I took it as an antidepressant.

I suffer from treatment resistant depression. Part of it is genetic (depression runs in my family) and I'm sure a lot of it is environmental (being minor attracted in our current society fills me with feelings of self-loathing and worthlessness) After trying a bunch of different SSRIs and SNRIs, I finally found a treatment that worked: Ketamine. I went to a clinic and got infusions, then was given take-home troches. It was amazing. Every time I started to get depressed (every few weeks), I would take a troche and abort that cycle of depression. My friends couldn't believe it. That combined with self-practiced CBT has really helped.

However I recently moved and no clinic in my area will offer prescription ketamine due to concerns about abuse. Okay, whatever...I could go in and get infusions. But every infusion costs ~$500 per session. Ketamine is prescribed off-label for depression, so insurance does not cover it. That's because nobody has funded the clinical trials necessary for the FDA to approve ketamine for depression. Despite the fact that everybody knows it's one of the best treatments for depression, it's generic, so drug companies have no profit incentive. There's esketmaine, but I've heard mixed reviews and popular opinion seems to point that it isn't nearly as effective.

I wonder how many millions and millions of people, including people who are using opiods as an antidepressant, would benefit if some group (maybe the government) would just pay to get ketamine on-label for depression, and thus covered by insurance. I feel like that would do more to lower opioid abuse than a million high school DARE presentations...

Are you saying that legislation that prevents children from accessing porn, or legislation that prevents children from creating and distributing pornography of themselves, violates the first amendment?

What treatment regiment are you using, out of curiosity?

Personally, I found Dexedrine to be a cheap and effective treatment for me. I think a lot of people, myself included, are turned off by stimulants. But when I finally got around to trying a small dosage, I found it vastly improved my life.

Although you may have already tried those sort of first-line treatments.

Does Discord count as social media what about the Hacker News comment section?

I understand your point, but I don't share the same interpretation of the author's point.

I don't think the author is claiming that he wants the /only/ face of the culture to be the most disabled members of society. I think the point is that those people are increasingly being pushed to the side-lines.

What do you guys think about the claim that no alternative energy source can really compete with fossil fuels?

Isn't there a surge in green energy production right now?

At least in the United States fictional depictions of children having sex, without the involvement of actual children, are legal.

Can anybody tell me which terminal is next to cool-retro-term (on the right) in this image? https://ta180m.exozy.me/images/bloated-kde.webp

If you are as upset as I am, I recommend you hit 'contact us' and voice your opinion. Let the company know they are making a mistake: https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us?return_to=%2Fhc%2Fre...

But these aren't additional services, they were services already provided. Screen sharing is not a cloud-based service. 8GB of cloud storage is not something I would expect to have to pay for.

Wow...I hope the hacking community can re-implement some of these features.

I really can't believe they're doing this, the writing recognition sucks already, now they want new users to pay for it?

I am speechless.

I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, it's hard to tell over the internet. But if it's not, out of curiosity, how did you make the connection between anime and child pornography?

I must disagree, personally. Everything can be a laughing matter. At times, everything /should/ be a laughing matter.

There's no way I would have made it this far if I couldn't occasionally laugh in the face of the darkest parts of life. Jokes about a loved ones' recent suicide, my best friend's child sexual abuse, and my own struggles with depression, have all made me and the person I was talking to feel better.

It's hard to feel bad when you're laughing.

I'm not sure this has been demonstrated academically. https://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+selec...

"Most significantly, they found that the number of reported cases of child sex abuse dropped markedly immediately after the ban on sexually explicit materials was lifted in 1989. In both Denmark and Japan, the situation is similar: Child sex abuse was much lower than it was when availability of child pornography was restricted."

(I must admit I haven't looked into it much however, you will have to decide for yourself how much you trust Diamond M et al).

However, anecdotally, after I masturbate to pornography my desire to engage in real-life sexual activity markedly goes down. That is the point of masturbating to pornography, isn't it?

This article has no right to be as well written as it is.

I find this article fascinating. Does anyone here (who knows more about the subject than me) have any comments / criticisms about it?

Does anybody know if/how Ecosia tackles long-term viability of their trees?

Edit: From their site: "Of course, not all trees survive; that never happens. Ecosia therefore only counts trees that will survive for more than three years – a time when they’re robust enough to face most natural threats.

For instance, if we plant 1000 trees and know from experience that the mortality rate in this area is 25%, we’ll only add 750 trees to our tree counter. We continually measure the survival rate of the trees we plant, through inventories and satellite technology, and adjust our tree counter accordingly."

(https://blog.ecosia.org/how-do-ecosia-trees-survive-cut-down...)

I don't mean to be that guy, but I think if you are selling a product the production values on the video should be higher.

I am interested in the product, but I found the distorted audio to be distracting. I would recommend removing the twitch-like view of the narrator and focusing more on the product, with a higher quality mic.

If the narrator is going to be shown, I would recommend cutting directly to them, while preferring voice-overs, as again I think the product itself should be the the focus.

I would also recommend using less jittery transitions, and avoiding green screen when showing the live action narrators, rather I would recommend showing the room they are in as well as the product, so we can see them use the keyboard early in the video. Lighting and camera stabilization would be important here.

(Disclaimer: I am not a professional in any capacity and my words should be taken with a grain of salt. In fact I would highly recommend hiring a professional to assist with marketing and PR videos like this one.)

'“A lot of this, I believe, is a hesitancy about the vaccine, and so that’s a separate issue than a religious exemption,” he said.'

Shouldn't that be the issue worth addressing then?

Where is part III?!

Yes, that is true. The Animatrix is a great film, and The Second Renaissance is in my opinion the single greatest piece of animation to have ever been created.

I am of the opinion that The Matrix probably shouldn't have had a sequel. While parts of the later films were interesting, they depend on retconning Neo from having the ability to re-write the Matrix at its core to basically becoming Goku.

I was really hoping the new movie would be a reboot, as the over-the-top fight scenes and CGI wasn't what made me interested in the series.

Still, could be a fun popcorn move with friends.

This is an interesting site but perhaps the title of the link should be updated? When I clicked on it I thought it would direct me to an article arguing against the existence of copyright law.

There is none. But even though the term 'pedophile' refers to a psychiatric condition involving children as objects of sexual attraction, most lay people refer to child molesters as pedophiles.

I once had a therapist (with a degree in psychology and a history of treating sex offenders, not that I am one) who didn't realize that 'pedophile' just referred to an attraction. When I told him I was a pedophile he incorrectly assumed I was a sex offender and asked me about the nature of my crime. We had a debate about it until the next session where he said he looked it up and yes, pedophile just referred to the sexual orientation.

If someone who works as a psychologist makes that mistake, it's safe to assume that calling yourself a 'pedophile' makes you a target for every would vigilante out there regardless of what you have or haven't done.

Most people who are pedophiles don't refer to themselves as such, even in communities there are filled with pedophiles, like Inkbunny, because of the negative connotations. They call themselves 'cubfurs' or 'cublovers' or 'shotacons' or things like that. And my close friends and I have our own terminology.

Hence some people have started to refer to as pedophiles as 'pedosexuals' or MAPs (Minor Attracted Persons) as a more neutral term. But I never liked the term myself because it feels too much like the beginning of a euphemism treadmill and I figured I might has well bite the bullet and call myself what I am regardless of if it makes people uncomfortable. (Which I'm sure it does, my apologies in advance.)

I'm skeptical about innate shifts in sexual orientation being caused by porn consumption, can you cite any research about it?

After all, I've developed a few kinks over the years, but I've never had the experience of not being able to obtain orgasm otherwise. And I'm especially skeptical of the claim that someone who's "half-pedophile" would be unable to get off on adults otherwise. I don't think that's been documented with shotacon or lolicon.

If someone who's bisexual masturbates to too much female porn do they lose their attraction to men?

You could also make synthetic child pornography "prescription-only" as a part of a treatment plan.

And all these concerns have to be weighed against perpetuating the sexual exploitation of children. People seem willing to forfeit their privacy for such a worthy cause, maybe this isn't so far off.

I'm not 'tortured by temptation'. I'm not a ticking time bomb waiting to go off.

Is this what people see us as? That we're a constant threat that needs to be managed?

I don't need to take possibly dangerous medication to kill my libido, because I can satisfy my libido through furry cub porn and having sex with adults.

Yes, it pisses me off sometimes that I can't have sex with people I'm actually attracted to. But in truth, being a pedophile doesn't really affect my day to day life. In fact, usually I only think about it when some asshole talks about how "all peodphiles deserve the death penalty" or when some article comes up talking about "pedophiles" (not child molesters mind you) in the context of crime.

You know all my friends in real life and online know I'm a pedophile. My family too. They aren't perverts. They're normal, sometimes religious, mostly straight people. They just know me and know I'm not a threat to anyone.

It's not even a secret, I just don't talk about it all the time, on account of having interests outside of being a pedophile.

Let me tell you something, that I really want you to consider: If you think you don't know any pedophiles, you're almost certainly wrong. One thing I've realized by being mostly public about it is that some of the most unexpected people from my life have come up to me and admitted that they're partially or exclusively attracted to children, but they don't want to tell anyone for fear of retaliation, or being grouped into a box as 'dangerous'. I mean, Jesus, look at Inkbunny, you really think attraction to minors isn't popular?

Unfortunately many people discover I'm a pedophile and that's all they see. They ignore the other aspects of me: That I'm a writer and an artist, a skilled programmer, that I try to be honest and live my life ethically. That I've got opinions and hopes and dreams and plans for my life that have absolutely nothing to do with my sexual orientation.

But instead apparently I'm dangerously mentally ill because I've realized that kids can be sexy. Sometimes I see it as a blessing though. The really interesting people to get to know are the ones who can see past that. Because of this, all my friends are really interesting people.

But I think people would be less likely to do that if they could put on special glasses and see everyone's sexual orientation floating above their heads. They'd be less likely to demonize minor attracted persons if they realized they were talking about their siblings or loved ones. Their friends or coworkers. The people they meet on the street.

Because you are. We're everywhere. You just don't realize it all the time, because most of us aren't monsters.

My username is fucking awesome by the way.

Child pornography will always exist as long as there is a demand for it without any available substitutions. And there will always be a demand for it as long as pedophiles exist. And pedophiles have always existed and as far as we know always will exist and are probably a lot larger part of the population than most people expect.

Like the war on drugs, this is a battle that is never going to end.

I wish some government agency, maybe NCMEC or someone else, would realize this and try actually catering to pedophiles as citizens of their country rather than pretending they are vermin that can be stomped out.

Imagine if a government put their vast resources into creating artificial child pornography so that people who want to look at child pornography (or perhaps aren't pedophiles but are just curious) have an outlet that doesn't actually involve children.

There are a million ways to do this. You could train a GAN on actual CP images that produce new original images without any actual victims, or maybe with enough talented researchers create one that never involved children to begin with.

You could pay some very talented CGI companies to create realistic child pornography, maybe with the help with actors that already look underaged but are not.

Or maybe even just commission some shotacon artists or cub furs artists off Inkbunny (although the community is already doing this.)

"Hey, we realize that you're sexually attracted to children and like all people have sexual desires that need to be fulfilled in order to be happy. We know you're not a bad person and we're sorry we can't give you real children to have sex with, but here are some links to artificial child pornography we've made so that you can be less sexually frustrated without breaking the law."

I really don't understand why, if the goal is to prevent the sexual exploitation of children, any government hasn't tried making photo-realistic synthetic child pornography. It seems like such an obvious solution that would actually make gains in reducing the consumption of child pornography.

I suspect most pedophiles who do consume child pornography would stick with a realistic ethically-made artificial alternative, if only to avoid possible prosecution.

There is no treatment (that I know of) to convert someone's sexual orientation from one that is exclusive to children to one that does not include children.

A pedophile or minor attracted person does not however necessarily need to become a child molester. Not that this article makes a distinction, or anyone else...

I sure do appreciate do the oft repeated quip of 'get help', as if its my responsibility for being this way and if I just enroll in the appropriate treatment (and what decent person wouldn't?) I could get fixed and become a normal productive member of society like everyone else.

But it's probably easier to dehumanize me if you think that I'm such an evil person I willingly choose rather to remain exclusively attracted to a group of people I can never have a healthy fulfilling relationship with, that I'd choose perversion over my own happiness.

Source: Am a pedophile who doesn't rape children or look at CP.

I am very happy with my current setup after flashing my new One Plus 9 Pro with LineageOS for microG (https://lineage.microg.org/). It's LineageOS with application spoofing and comes pre-baked with microG.

I'm able to use all the standard apps (Uber, games, etc) without a Google account. I use Aurora instead of the Google Play Store, local maps as my GPS back-end, and my phone only contains the apps I actually used instead of pre-baked vendor bullshit. It's all super smooth and completely stable. I really can't say enough nice things about it.

If you're looking for the third option, I would really give aftermarket android roms a try.

Three people are dead over illegal images. Perhaps David Lee Huber believed that the possibility of dying in a shootout outweighed the punishment he would have received if he was convicted for collecting specific patterns of bits.

I'm not saying creation of child pornography should be legal, or even possession. But perhaps possession, without any involvement in production or distribution, should be downgraded to misdemeanor rather a life sentence on the sex offender list.