I don’t believe I’ve ever seen shape utilized in generated ASCII art
Ah, someone's never seen 8088 Corruption. The encoder was a brute-force comparison of source pixels with downscaled / blended characters in CGA's few available colors.
... wait, AAlib definitely uses shape. Is the author just new to ASCII art?
Cutting people off financially is the gentlest possible rebuke against in-person behavior. It's a big deal, and a due process nightmare - but it's as bloodless as state power can be. You wanna buy gas to do this again tomorrow? Ask nicely from the people you've been honking at since last month.
Fascist agitation was politely tolerated by residents until the national government had to step in to tell them, nothing's happening, fuck off.
This wasn't a sit-in. It was a harassment campaign against an entire city, by ignorant bigots, for weeks. If you endured a fraction of that you'd be ugly-crying on the phone for your local cops to do something about those poor innocent souls and their right to express HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK HONK at four in the god damn morning.
Always nice to see some constraint on "emergency" powers... but a mob starting shit over nonsense was ignored by all lower levels of government. Telling people to just go home after an entire week of aimless provocation is not exactly cracking skulls the minute someone in a keffiyah holds up sign in an empty field.
And if bricks started falling through windshields after three days of nonstop noise, well, that would have been a riot justifying any state power... toward the people saying "leave us alone."
Please don't do that in headlines. It's ugly to be distinct, and then that becomes the dominant strategy for attention, and then it's ugly and also indistinct.
Congratulations on the worst take in a competitive field.
Just... what the fuck? What is it about this distinction that makes people lose all sense? 'Hey bearing in mind we're still talking about criminal creeping on children, it's important to remember that actual touching is worse than doodling over images, so let's not dilute a term specifically f--' 'There is no difference between fiction and reality because what if a crazy person couldn't tell fiction from reality?!'
I'm making an explicit argument about the purpose of the term, as a necessary component of dealing with some of the worst crimes imaginable. I didn't figure I'd ever have to explain to someone why abusing a human child is fundamentally different from and worse than drawing on top of a fuckin' JPEG.
If y'all manage to stomp the meaning out of "CSAM," the same way y'did for "CP," we're gonna be right back here, where there's some bespoke term for the visual evidence of actual assault that physically occurred, yet people insist that a fictional rendering is-too VEOAATPO.
Diluting the impact of these terms is antithetical to protecting children. That stupid Horses game had people lobbing the term "CSAM" at it... for a game you can buy on GOG. If you can casually say "I bought some CSAM at Walmart the other day," then the term's not doing its fucking job, describing the kind of imagery you go straight to jail for.
Are you honestly asking me why child molestation is worse than rendering an image?
This term was already developed to distinguish evidence of criminal events. I should fucking hope everyone here understands why preventing or punishing such events is a leading goal, but apparently that's asking too much, if y'all really do not believe there's a difference between pasting someone's head onto a magazine centerfold... versus sexually assaulting them. I am fucking bewildered by this lack of consensus on the topic of child rape. Really thought it was a gimme, for everyone to go, yeah, this thing over here is bad, but obviously it's not as bad as child rape.
Didn't expect to fire up the computer and have Lemmings sincerely ask me, why are crimes that happened worse than crimes that didn't?
You changed it to Latrine?