arcterus

This was my first thought lol. Like, there are flattering photos of Hegseth? At best he looks smarmy.

“cheap old ten years old low-end laptop”

Pretty sure they’re actually a bot given that they nearly instantly reply and they’ve replied to almost every top-level comment in this thread.

If not, they’re just a total shithead tbh given that they talk about homosexuality being a choice elsewhere.

I guess you’d be fine if everyone treated you as a lizard and required you to live and act like a lizard. It’s all good because you know you’re not, right?

People can be wrong about literally anything. That is not an excuse to say “fuck everyone else in this group.”

If you extend this argument, we shouldn’t believe what anyone tells us about absolutely anything because they might have made a mistake. Truly a great basis for human society.

The amount of people who detransition is incredibly small compared to the overall trans population, and even then most people detransition because society didn’t accept them and battered them down until they gave up.

I listened to some of the “music.” I’m not sure wtf is going on in his head at this point, and I’m glad I don’t understand.

Anna Paulina Luna is a (usually nuts, as is now standard) Republican, so it’s def about something other than Trump.

Her tweet is from like Feb 13th apparently. Maybe she was referring to Ghislaine Maxwell wanting clemency in exchange for providing info? Not really sure tbh.

He’s a democrat (looked it up to make sure), so I’m pretty sure that was intentional.

Ain’t no way I’m taking my shoes off in the office unless I know for a fact that the floor is clean AF.

Among them, “entering houses without permission to use the bathroom,” “break-ins,” “littering,” and people “defecating in private yards” and “complaining when residents catch them.”

I really don’t understand how a tourist can think any of this makes sense. Like, would they do this in their country too?

Matrix is fragmented too, but it’s generally less fragmented in my experience (if you use a relatively well developed client). Part of this is because most people just use Synapse for their server. With XMPP, server implementations support random combinations of XEPs, and specific servers often are missing random XEPs because they’re not enabled by default and so on (thinking about ejabberd for instance here, the default config probably isn’t what most people want). I also routinely have random compatibility problems between clients pop up with XMPP. As a basic example, retracting messages is very haphazard.

Anyway, yeah, if they standardize on server and client setup for all govt instances, it’d be fine either way probably. The clients may be somewhat janky, but they can probably fix those issues more easily when they’re only focused on one client (although unless it’s like FluffyChat and cross-platform, they may need to standardize multiple clients) and server.

I think there have been some attempts to do so, but they’re just not good enough (and/or end up dead after a while).

The biggest problem with XMPP is what various servers and clients implement is kind of all over the place. For instance, most clients support an older version of OMEMO, but some clients support newer versions, and the different versions are incompatible.

The other issue is some platforms (iOS in particular) have pretty shitty XMPP apps filled with bugs.

I still generally like XMPP more than Matrix since ATM Matrix clients are also filled with bugs/laggy, Synapse (the main server implementation) is very resource heavy, and message syncing is kind of shit if the client doesn’t implement sliding sync (like FluffyChat). I personally think the UI for both XMPP and Matrix clients generally kind of suck, which isn’t great for convincing non-techy people to use them.

I will just put it this way: the author of hentai/ecchi content featuring children had to sit down and decide “yes, I’m going to draw a child being sexually assaulted and expect it to be viewed positively.” If you think this is acceptable, I don’t know what to say.

Therefore you loathe furries as well? As big part of it is anthropomorphized animals in a sexual way.

If a furry gets off when they see an animal or something meant to look like an actual animal, then yes. If the furry just finds other adults in fursuits sexually appealing or whatever, I don’t care. The suits aren’t really meant to look like an actual animal (unlike a drawing of a child that is actually meant to largely look like a human child). Frankly this is closer to sexual roleplay with an adult wearing a diaper and shit and acting like a baby (I have no idea what the name for this is, all I know is that it exists). I find this very weird, but it’s between adults, so again I don’t care (from what I understand it’s about differences in power and stuff, so I guess like BDSM). If the people involved get off seeing actual babies or things meant to seem like actual babies, then it’s no longer acceptable.

Child porn or adjacent shit in stuff like anime just normalizes it for people. A fucking ferris wheel was never made to represent a person. Just because some delusional person anthropomorphizes it doesn’t mean that’s the purpose behind its creation (and even that had consequences since the priest was forced to resign from the Catholic Church). Hentai + ecchi shit in anime featuring children is explicitly made to be viewed sexually.

So in your mind someone getting off to a scene depicting something like that is totally fine as long as it doesn’t look exactly like a real child? You realize it is meant to represent a human child, right? Is any sort of stylized drawing fine then because it doesn’t look indistinguishable from a real person? There’s hentai explicitly about minors (like, not even high schoolers, but like fucking middle school and younger…) being raped by old dudes.

Shit like this is why there used to be (and still is, although to a lesser degree) such stigmatization of anime.

I’ve largely given up trying to convince them of anything. My relatives believe everything about the files unless it’s about Trump. At this point I just send them stuff to vent.

“His prognosis is positive and he is grateful for the excellent care he is receiving,”

Damn it

If you draw a baby wearing an actual diaper and arbitrarily call it a 200 year old immortal vampire, is it fine in your mind to depict it being raped by some random dude? I literally do not understand your thought process. Although, frankly, given the “difference between what we think and what we do” part of your comment, I’m not inclined to look on your thoughts particularly charitably.