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I’m like 60% sarcasm and 40% shill

It’s not that I think people should be ashamed of those things if they do it with consenting adults in private, it’s when it’s broadcast and easily available that it becomes something shameful IMHO. I’m not advocating for the banning of so-called kinks, just the easy access to (and I suppose the normalization/mainstreaming of) those kinks.

When a 12 year old can access any of these extreme sex videos easier than they access a NYTimes article, then something has to change.

There is no shame in your naked body. Is there shame in a 18 year old participating in a 10 person gangbang? Is there shame in sex between step-siblings or step-parents? Is there shame in anonymous unprotected sex with multiple strangers? Is there shame in a Black woman having oral sex until she vomits into a dog bowl for a “Ghetto Gaggers” scene? How about rough anal sex until the bottom “prolapses”?

I apologize for being graphic, but I’m making a point. Those extreme examples are much more prevalent on these sites than someone who is just embracing their own naked body.

> Wouldn't those things be the same for people that have very frequent sex?

I don’t know, do you have a source to answer that or just trying to muddy the waters? Absolutely no one will ever be able to have as much frequent sex as there are sources of increasingly extreme pornography.

> Also, none of these effects are serious enough on a societal level to want to ban it.

If users become dependent on more extreme porn to get aroused, how long until they need the more extreme porn in existence. How is the presence of that porn, and the victims it requires, not serious enough on a societal level?

If some men report their concentration and well-being are negatively impacted by porn, and about 98% of men view pornography[1]…how can you not see how that will be bad for society?

[1] https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/experimentations/201...

1. On their site under the “MORE THAN A REVERSE IMAGE SEARCH” heading:

> PimEyes uses a reverse image search mechanism and enhances it by face recognition technology to allow you to find your face on the Internet (but only the open web, excluding social media and video platforms).

> Lots of people enjoy it and it doesn't harm anyone.

- Researchers have found that repeated porn use "wears out" the dopamine reward system in the brain.

- A German study shows that some porn users become dependent on new, surprising, or more extreme porn to get aroused.

- Some men report that their level of concentration and emotional well-being have been negatively affected by porn use.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/hero/201603/is-porn-...

Truly bad porn is already underground. If legal porn sites didn’t exist, law enforcement could target their resources to stop the truly bad stuff.

I guess “sex acts to be broadcast for someone else’s viewing”?

All the Saudis just drive over the bridge to party and drink in Bahrain.

Years ago I would disagree with this, but seeing how easy it is for anyone of any age to access these sites, I think it would just be better for society to ban it as well. Young kids, pre-teens, are getting their first introductions to sexuality from the most extreme and depraved pornography ever made available - often before parents even have “the talk”. Even if you’re on top of it as a parent, it only takes one of their friends with a phone to show them. How are we OK with this? Everyone of these sites is full of videos of step-siblings, step-parents, etc., engaged in sex. “Water sports” is apparently mainstream now. None of this beneficial to society.

It’s also strange that in the era of MeToo, where even seemingly routine situations of consensual adult sex can be retroactively classified as acts of sexual violence, that we are accepting of these extreme and violent depictions of sex being normalized and widely available. The whole “sex work is work” push isn’t helping, as it’s only encouraging young people to embrace and participate in this type of content. How many young girls are waiting until they hit 18 so they can finally open an OnlyFans? We would all be ashamed at how low our society has fallen if we still had the capacity to feel shame.

I would absolutely pay for this, but only if it could work with web applications built in React. React generates CSS class/ID names, some of which are duplicates. This requires determining convoluted XPATHs which can very easily, and often do, change in ways that immediately break the pre-defined locators. I’m aware of using unique attributes to make elements easier to locate, but that often requires someone else’s buy-in which isn’t always a guarantee. Even having a way to run the application in a headless browser and generating the POM programmatically would be great.

PimEyes doesn’t scrape social media, just the rest of public photos. Unless you are plastered all around the web, you probably don’t have to worry about it returning your photo. It appears to mostly just be reverse image search so a recent photo may others that are relatively current, but it doesn’t seem to find older pictures when your face may be thinner or with/without facial hair, etc. It returns a lot of NSFW false positives btw. Of course the NYT employees who have pictures all over the web will think it’s accurate.

Opponents of voter ID never seem to address the fact that Americans need a valid drivers license or state ID to do virtually anything as an adult in America. Including, but not at all limited to:

- Opening/accessing a bank account

- Driving a vehicle

- Requesting government assistance

- Renting or buying a home

- Getting married

- Buying tobacco/alcohol/cannabis

- Registering children for school

- Getting a hotel room

- Getting a cell phone

Where are these mythical minorities who want to participate in absolutely nothing else in American life except for voting?

You could just cover the hole with a piece of scotch tape and voila, writeable!

Pad keeping AOL and apparently LJ alive, nice! This has been a dream side project of mine for a long time just to bring back the golden years of the Internet so happy to see it’s been done.

Finally Thailand can drop it’s anglicized name and be known by it’s true name of “Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Piman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit”

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/bangkoks-f...

As an East Coaster, I 100% support your calls for California secession!

Easiest way to trigger an ET? Tell them it’s pronounced “mil-tim-it-er”

I have the same issue and am really struggling to resolve it. I’m the sole income and have young kids. I’m constantly interrupted by the kids who want to come see me. I try not to turn them away because the advantage of WFH, or so I believe, is that we don’t miss all the things our kids do while we’re slaving away at an office. However, this requires me to push things to later in the day. Then there are appointments and things that my wife usually has covered, but with another adult in the house “can you take the baby for a couple minutes”. I tried explaining the concept of context switching but so think I just come off like an uncaring jerk. I’m looking for a 1-2 time a week space away from my home office because I can’t keep looking at these same four walls day in and day out. I used to be so much more productive in the office, but felt like a terrible father. I’m really trying to come up with a way to have my cake and eat it too.

For decades the US Navy used the OBA[1], or Oxygen Breathing Apparatus, for fire-fighting, which also worked using a sodium chlorate candle. I had only ever used them in boot camp, as when I got to the fleet they were starting to switch over to SCBAs — what actual fire-fighters use on land. I was always terrified of the thought of having to use one in because I vaguely recall something about them potentially exploding if they got too wet which seemed almost guaranteed being on a ship in the ocean.

A few years ago, maybe 2015 or so, I was walking through base on my way home and saw a moored tugboat was on fire. The two guys on board were in OBAs trying to put it out while waiting for the base FD to show up, so I suppose they’re still used in some places.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen_breathing_apparatus

Most certainly looking for a payout. Has anyone been to a thrift store recently? About 30% of people are in need/want of inexpensive secondhand items, while the rest of the crowd — smartphones in hand — are trying to see what can be resold for profit on EBay. This whole “side hustle” economy is killing the thrift store as an source for people in need to find inexpensive goods.

The word “mother” is already considered obscene because it is not inclusive of uh “men who give birth”.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-budget-proposa...

It’s pretty easy for my family to use Plex just like any other streaming service. The not easy part was my responsibility.

Same

“You really want to avoid censorship on social networks? Here is the solution:

Stop arguing. Play nice. The catch: everyone has to do it at once.

I guarantee you, if you do that, there will be NO CENSORSHIP OF ANY TOPIC on any social network.”

This is a great idea. If all countries just stopped fighting there’d be no more war!

Was this using master AOL/star tool and invoking an FDO token that generated the modal?

I think it was the same exploit which used free.aol.com. They had a 3-step sign up process with the first step letting you choose a name. It would validate the name was >= 3 chars in length, started with a letter, and didn’t contain banned words. Once validated, the name was stored in a hidden input value in the source of the second page. Someone saved the webpage offline so you could replace the sn variable with any name not on use on AOL. Then open it locally and go right to step 3 where you enter credit details. This let you creat indents, 2chars, banned words, and steal AIMs.

They were usually RAR files, so you would use WinRAR to reassemble them into one archive.

The MMers allowed you to specify chat commands, but the default was usually /list or /listme

I hated ccoms. Just flooded chat. Eventually chats would just be everyone shuffling through their list of 10K songs downloaded from Napster.