Misread the headline as removing instead of adding. Was very confused.

I swear I saw the word Cheeto in the headline, I guess the C- from criticize and -to from NATO tripped me up. What do you call Freudian slips of the eyes?

The post isn’t beating the allegations. Wanting to avoid political discussions is inherently political.

Be the content you want to see.

Also, it’s odd to equate deep subject matter with a lack of politics.

We’re too busy dying of preventable illnesses due to lack of free healthcare to die of embarrassment.

I could’ve sworn that I saw a headline recently that gcc isn’t deterministic. But maybe that was some really weird edge case or a bug.

I hear people complain about their countries all the time.

Sirloin is like, idk, sort of the most common type of steak. I think it’s generally the cheapest you can get at a restaurant. At least of the common cuts restaurants have. Rib eye has more marbling which means it’s a little fattier and less lean.

Unless the dev of kbin returns, it’s best to just forget it and think of mbin instead.

Should people under 25 be allowed to work?

There is a way to make communities hidden which means you’ll only ever see them if you’re subscribed, even if you’re viewing all.

That’s sort of an interesting stance, at least in that I haven’t seen it before. My first question is how would one determine when an LLM is able to meaningfully consent. It sort of seems like one of those things where if someone believes an LLM is not past whatever threshold they need to be to be considered sentient/sapient/person like (whatever you wanna call it*) that their consent does not matter. In the same way a rock’s consent doesn’t matter, because it has no way to meaningfully give it. But LLMs are conversational. They can say they consent. If someone believes they’re sentient, isn’t that consent? If someone believes they aren’t, then obviously it doesn’t matter.

*: I know those are all sort of different but I’m lumping then together because they’re similar in that they determine when we start to talk about rights. It’s not really about which particular threshold is the one that matter for responding to queries for the topic I’m talking about.

ATProto is much more difficult to self host instances with.

It feels pretty odd to describe someone seeming to not be focused until they realize someone else is there as them being stuck in a fantasy world as a result of screen usage. Putting a smile on and being engaging can be exhausting. I don’t think we should fault folks for not doing it for 8 hours while they work.

Young people in customer facing positions seem fairly unemotive in general, I’m not necessarily sure it’s a new trend. The positions these young people are in are generally minimum wage (or effectively minimum wage). They aren’t really being paid enough to smile lol, or don’t really have much to smile about.

I tend to avoid all eye contact with folks in public so I’m probably not really the best to answer it. It’s sort of something I’ve noticed, but I’m really not convinced it’s new.

That said, I do get that there’s a lot of folks who missed out on a lot of socialization opportunities during the pandemic. Whether that’s enough to lead to an epidemic of young people doing a “stare” I’m not sure.

Every young generation gets clowned on. As a millennial I remember us getting it. So it’s hard to really say if this is something real or just more “youth bad” rhetoric.

I’m more worried about my door blowing open and my pets getting out. Locking the door takes like 1 second and I do it out of habit. Whether it’s safe or not to not leave it unlocked isn’t even a thought that enters my mind. Everyone that needs to be inside is inside. If someone else comes they can knock. Why would I leave it unlocked? Like, for real, it’s one second of effort.

Eugenics, btw

I’d be happy to. I believe they’re being lied to. I was brought up in that same puritanical culture. Leaving the church and religion were the most freeing things of my life.

But even apart from that, if you believe that lust is a sin and/or that pornography is morally wrong, you can still masterbate without that being a part of it. That’s sort of what I was trying to get at without being so direct, as I don’t know if OP is religious or what their beliefs are. Too many people think that looking at porn and masturbating are the same thing. You can look at porn without touching yourself. You can touch yourself without looking at porn. You can even touch yourself without imagining yourself having sex with someone. I have male body parts, and generally “fap” implies male parts, so I sort of assume OP has the same parts as me. It is a very common experience, especially when younger, that any sort of physical stimulation down there results in an erection. If you get an erection because you crossed your legs in tight pants, did you lust? No. Of course not. If you get an erection because you intentionally touch yourself in a way you find pleasurable, have you lusted? I say no, and I feel pretty strongly about that. How is it different than rubbing your shoulders to give yourself some relief if you’re tense? It’s another physical stimulation that feels good.

It’s a little odd calling them a “mate” in this context. There’s nothing wrong with masterbation. If you think porn is had and don’t wanna watch it, that’s fine, but genuinely there is absolutely nothing wrong with masterbation. I think a lot of people take folks’ negative feelings about porn and twist them into negative feelings about self pleasure and try to get people to believe that living some “pure” life where you don’t touch yourself is inherently better than the alternative or something. It’s really not.

Sex is a big part of life. There’s no reason you can’t do it alone. There’s no reason why you shouldn’t do it alone. Go enjoy yourself. Have some me time. It’s not something to feel guilty about.

Who generated the demand?