they are… gin by itself just tastes like plant water though

Do people not already reply then block to get the last word? (genuine question, I do not use twitter, but I know people do this on Reddit a ton)

The only hoop you have to jump through is using a Nitter instance. And the most dangerous abusers are most likely going to be determined enough to where doing this or creating a new account is not a deterrent.

False security is worse than no security. If people trust that the block function is reliable at stopping people from seeing your posts, and then those people post things publicly that they wouldn’t share otherwise, that is leaving more people vulnerable than having no way to stop people from seeing your posts.

that’s penalizing it, though, unless I’m misunderstanding something?

If we’re talking about FTL, might as well mention Multiverse: https://subsetgames.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35332

I’m pretty sure this outright has more new content than the base game did.

I remember looking over those at the time, at that time the images both seemed a bit beyond then-current image generation technology and there never really seemed to be a compelling explanation over why “some RFA source went through great effort to fabricate images for this story” is more likely of an explanation than “some RFA source is misrepresenting pictures of what is actually mostly just boring normal prison stuff”.

Case by case is the only reasonable answer.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say that Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood is bad to watch dubbed, the dub as far as I can tell even has adjustments to preserve wordplay without it being awkward (think of how often “trump card” is used in anime) which is one of the hardest things to do with translation work. There’s some where both have merits, like early seasons of Jojo, part 2 was great dubbed but both part 1 and part 2 have tons of memes that are mostly from random English phrases in the original. Later seasons definitely sub only, literally what is the point of watching part 3 without ZA WARUDO? Why is there no Italian dub of Golden Wind? Also there’s very special cases like Ghost Stories.

Just something that I feel like I have to remind people of whenever it comes up: mainstream psychology does not recognize porn addiction as a real thing, based on the lack of evidence/lack of consensus to support a consistent diagnostic criteria. The only actually recognized related condition is compulsive sexual behavior disorder, which is not using an addiction model.

I’m quite sure that there has to be at least someone who has problematic pornography use habits which aren’t just a symptom of another issue, but without anyone being able to pin down a consistent set of diagnostic criteria, then there’s barely any way to identify who those people are separately from people who report it but whose distress is coming from something else. One study done on self-reported pornography addiction found that the strongest predictor was moral objection to pornography, not amount of porn use. Another two studies found that antagonistic narcissism is an even better predictor (might read it when it isn’t 3AM). Your analysis is actually touching on this somewhat – a narcissist’s interest in “addressing their pornography addiction” is mostly that they think that it will elevate them above the porn addicts, or whatever other target.

don’t forget the absolutely inexplicable platform-specific bugs:

there are some wonderfully salty threads on /r/neoliberal about this

Honestly, if I was trying to manipulate online discourse to deliberately cause as much political turmoil as possible, not only would I do agitprop for the far left and far right to anger the other side, I would also make sure to post a large amount of centrist propaganda that is callously dismissive of legitimate issues and suggest that foreign manipulation is part of it. That would both piss off at least one side (depending on the issue) and cast doubt on the idea that foreign manipulation is actually even happening in the first place.

They’re fine as long as they’re not in my house. I have grown up with large black flying roaches and cannot stand them, if I spot one I will literally not be able to relax at all until it is dead.

At least in my experiences it hasn’t been that bad here compared to other places? We’re not passing Project 2025 shit at the same rate that Texas or Florida are, for instance, probably partially because there’s no concern at all that we will become a swing state any time soon and therefore not nearly as much urgency to do things to try to drive people who would likely vote for Dems out of the state.

I think you forgot to include the part where he thinks this needs to be done so that we can, essentially, kill all of the dumb people who would get tricked by a rising superintelligent AI.

There are so many cranks in “AI safety” stuff to the point where it is legitimately difficult to talk about what should be done that isn’t very obviously slanted for some industry’s benefit. You’ve got people like this, you’ve also got people like Gladstone that are LITERALLY EX-PENTAGON PEOPLE SPONSORED BY LOCKHEED MARTIN (who I am sure are very concerned about AI safety – the only way I could be more convinced is if it was Boeing), who have suspicious demands that the publication of open-source models should be made illegal (probably out of concerns about China, as if half of the papers I read on new developments aren’t already from them or the Noah’s Ark lab in Moscow). There is no well that is unpoisoned here.

that person’s comment history has it all. 821 mentions of the words “woman” or “women” (they insist they are done with dating), a bunch of posts in r/europe r/england and r/AskAnAmerican (they’re probably american i think), and futurology posts. what an interesting and well-adjusted person.

If you go further down the thread, he is arguing back and forth with someone, and is basically proposing historical racism as an alternative to historical materialism.

deservedly so, there’s enough Loona shit out there that I very regularly see people complain about there being too much of it. I think there’s more stuff of her than of any other single character relative to the age of the source media.

basically this: https://www.theonion.com/hell-now-a-thriving-epicenter-of-gay-culture-1819575618

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ben garrison is obviously hiding an alt account where he posts fetish art