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Schadrach

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  • ...and most of the people who agree with that notion would also consider reading Lemmy to be "trawling dark waters" because it's not a major site run by a massive corporation actively working to maintain advertiser friendliness to maximize profits. Hell, Matrix is practically Lemmy-adjacent in terms of the tech.

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  • eventually they want to move on to the real thing, as porn is not satisfying them anymore.

    Isn't this basically the same argument as arguing violent media creates killers?

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  • They have to deal with old men masturbating to them getting raped online.

    The moment it was posted to wherever they were going to have to deal with that forever. It's not like they can ever know for certain that every copy of it ever made has been deleted.

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  • it says “this hidden site”, meaning it was a site on the dark web.

    Not just on the dark web (which technically is anything not indexed by search engines) but hidden sites are specifically a TOR thing (though Freenet/Hyphanet has something similar but it's called something else). Usually a TOR hidden site has a URL that ends in .onion and the TOR protocol has a structure for routing .onion addresses.

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  • Even then, a common bit you'll hear from people actually defending pedophilia is that the damage caused is a result of how society reacts to it or the way it's done because of the taboo against it rather than something inherent to the act itself, which would be even harder to do research on than researching pedophilia outside a criminal context already is to begin with. For starters, you'd need to find some culture that openly engaged in adult sex with children in some social context and was willing to be examined to see if the same (or different or any) damages show themselves.

    And that's before you get into the question of defining where exactly you draw the age line before it "counts" as child sexual abuse, which doesn't have a single, coherent answer. The US alone has at least three different answers to how old someone has to be before having sex with them is not illegal based on their age alone (16-18, with 16 being most common), with many having exceptions that go lower (one if the partners are close "enough" in age are pretty common). For example in my state, the age of consent is 16 with an exception if the parties are less than 4 years difference in age. For California in comparison if two 17 year olds have sex they've both committed a misdemeanor unless they are married.

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  • It also likely gives you the best $ spent/children protected rate, because you know the producers have children they are abusing which may or may not be the case for a viewer.

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  • I don’t think pesticides or ultra processed foods make kids transgender.

    Of course not. That requires being infected by a trans first - they work under vampire rules which is why we need to keep trans and children away from each other! /s

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  • To an engineer, pi is 3

    No, to an engineer pi is 22/7, 355/113 if your tolerances are really tight. 3 is pi to a theologist, because that's what the Bible uses.

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    FL wants more child labor

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  • No. Or any other kind of break.

    I thought there was a federal requirement for shifts over a certain length to get a break of a certain minimum length? It's not much, it's not remotely good, but I'm pretty sure it exists.

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  • Got clips? I'm assuming one is the bit about Elon being "good" with vote counting computers and that's how they won Pennsylvania in a landslide, but I'm not familiar with the other time he he stated on camera that the election was rigged in his favor.

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  • I do agree with your “averaging machine” argument. It makes a lot of sense given how LLMs are trained as essentially massive statistical models.

    For image generation models I think a good analogy is to say it's not drawing, but rather sculpting - it starts with a big block of white noise and then takes away all the parts that don't look like the prompt. Iterate a few times until the result is mostly stable (that is it can't make the input look much more like the prompt than it already does). It's why you can get radically different images from the same prompt - the starting block of white noise is different, so which parts of that noise look most prompt-like and so get emphasized are going to be different.

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  • People shit on Hossenfelder but she has a point. Academia partially brought this on themselves.

    Somehow I briefly got her and Pluckrose reversed in my mind, and was still kinda nodding along.

    If you don't know who I mean, Pluckrose and two others produced a bunch of hoax papers (likening themselves to the Sokal affair) of which 4 were published and 3 were accepted but hadn't been published, 4 were told to revise and resubmit and one was under review at the point they were revealed. 9 were rejected, a bit less than half the total (which included both the papers on autoethnography). The idea was to float papers that were either absurd or kinda horrible like a study supporting reducing homophobia and transphobia in straight cis men by pegging them (was published in Sexuality & Culture) or one that was just a rewrite of a section of Mein Kampf as a feminist text (was accepted by Affilia but not yet published when the hoax was revealed).

    My personal favorite of the accepted papers was "When the Joke Is on You: A Feminist Perspective on How Positionality Influences Satire" just because of how ballsy it is to spell out what you are doing so obviously in the title. It was accepted by Hypatia but hadn't been published yet when the hoax was revealed.

  • Tech leaders are turning on Trump and Musk: 'Everyone is annoyed'

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  • Specifically to have that conversation - there is no connection whatsoever between "earned their money" and "has views I agree with" or even "has non-harmful views." At least Notch doesn't do worse than occasionally tweet what he thinks.

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  • You grossly underestimate just how shitty people can be. Which is wild given what's going on in gestures wildly.

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  • I mean there is a difference between "earned their money rather than being born into it" and "has all the correct politics".

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  • I have witnessed not one single rich person earn fucking shit!

    I mean there are a handful that created some kind of creative work that became wildly popular and their wealth is ultimately derived primarily from that creation that you could argue earned it. Like Notch or JK Rowling.

  • YSK that if you lose your Social Security Card (USA) more than 10 times, the Social Security Administration will have to, by law, refuse to issue anymore replacement cards, for the rest of your life.

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  • Any random 9-digit number can be a valid SSN.

    Not true - there are whole ranges that specifically aren't in use (mostly specific values for the first three digits that are intentionally not used). Outside those ranges though, yeah, basically any 9 digit number. Add one to the last digit of your SSN and if you were born before 2014 you likely get someone born in the same hospital on the same day.

  • Couple sentenced to hundreds of years in prison for forcing adopted Black children to work as 'slaves'

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  • That's Maine, Maine is a blue state and it costs him and his little electoral capital to attack a Dem politician in a blue state.

    WV is red, extremely red. Trying to fuck with WV like that is attacking a strongly red state, and risks making the other red states realize that maybe, just maybe the leopard might eat their faces too. We're not far enough down the "and then they came for..." list for that to be a safe move, yet.

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  • He could do that, but it would become very public very quickly and that's more a problem for your side politically when you do it to a state where your side is in power in general.

    He can threaten Maine and Maines governor like that because they're a blue state and turning on them doesn't make his base realize he could do the same to them in the same way because they're the other team. Doing the same to WV would read as a betrayal to his own followers precisely because they're solid red and we're not far enough down the "and then they came for..." list for that to be a safe move politically yet.