BussyGyatt
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- Comment on The 'if this goes down, I riot' self-hosted app 2 days ago:
ew, botposting
- Submitted 4 days ago to 3dprinting@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 2 weeks ago:
The crucial, and often ignored, fact is that many people with pedophilia live their entire lives without ever harming a child. You never hear about them because, for obvious reason, they stay in the closet, fearing they will be hated and feared for an attraction they did not choose and have never acted upon. You won’t find useful statistics on this, I’ve looked. It’s impossible to collect valid statistics, again for obvious reasons.
Further, not all child sex abusers are pedophiles. Many rapists do so not out of some deprived desperation, but out of a desire for power over another person, a desire to dominate. Children, the elderly, the disabled make great targets for this because they are so vulnerable. And yes, you’re right, it is a temptation to have an unsatisfied urge hanging around your neck, as anyone who has tried to give up cigarettes can attest, but it need not be a burden, and people do in fact manage to overcome their urges. There are support groups, there is therapy, and there are safe legal and ethical fictional stories and sexual images (and apparently childlike dolls) which provide outlets that do not require a child to be harmed or an ai to be trained on CSAM for a person to manage their sexual urges.
I repeat, with emphasis, demonizing a safe alternative to actually interfering with a child ironically increases the odds of what you rightly fear. A pedophile is not more likely to rape than anyone else, but any person whose sexuality is repressed is likely to develop some very unhealthy coping mechanisms and a fractured sense of self which can make self-harm and criminal behavior much more likely. Instead of thinking of it as something like feeding an appetite larger and larger meals until it demands a “main course,” think instead of a “release valve” providing a control mechanism. Less like handing an alcoholic a beer and then they crave whiskey, and more like giving a smoker a patch to help them manage their urge without acutally smoking. For clarity, yes there are valid addictive concerns here too, I’m not dismissing that entirely.
If it seems like this is a personal issue for me, that’s because it is. I was raped as a child, and I have been given more reason than most people to think of how to prevent that from happening to others. From that perspective: I wish my rapist had every available alternative, including a childlike doll, if that’s what would have kept him off of me. The critical question in my mind isn’t, “will they get bored of the doll,” it’s “what will they do if they don’t have access to something like a doll?”
There, now I’ve said entirely too much on the subject and am all the way grossed out and want a cigarette.
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 2 weeks ago:
Well, one of the enormous problems here is that there really isn’t very much evidence either way, and what little evidence there is is of dubious quality. Most studies are done on the basis of self-reporting, which is fine for things people are proud to talk about like politics, but with “are you a pedophile, what is that like for you” some people are somewhat prone to fibbing, would you believe? I’ll just ask, do you buy the purported “gateway drug” effect in any other context, and if so, to what extent do you think it’s valid in that context?
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 2 weeks ago:
“Relatively” was the direct comparison I made between practising sexuality on a childlike doll, and practising sexuality on a child. That is relatively healthy. In comparison.
- Comment on Australia: Child sex abuse doll torsos and disembodied heads being offered on China's Temu, Shein to get around laws forbidding the importation of sex abuse material 3 weeks ago:
Child sex abuse
They keep using that phrase, but keep repeatedly describing a distinct lack of child sex abuse. While extraordinarily distasteful, I decidedly prefer the idea of a pedophile using one of these distinctly-not-abusive dolls instead of practicing their sexuality on an actual child. Ironically, demonizing this relatively healthy expression of sexuality increases the odds that an actual child actually gets abused.>
- Comment on A new paper proposes the first-ever warp drive design that does not require "negative energy," instead relying on known, physical principles. 3 weeks ago:
To move or change velocity, it would require an external form of propulsion, such as a “propellant exhaust system” (like rockets) attached to it.
- Comment on ChatGPT has the same personality flaws as some of the dumbest people I know 4 weeks ago:
gag
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 1 month ago:
Congratulations, you are being rescued! Do not resist.
- Comment on The Wikipedia page for the fediverse describes a den of iniquity 1 month ago:
ok bye
- Comment on A new community I started about practical tips to being healthy 1 month ago:
why wouldn’t i just ask chatgpt for health advice directly and skip the middleman?
- Comment on What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos? 1 month ago:
Fediverse User SLAMS Concept of ““X Destroys/Humiliates Y” Genre of Debate Videos”
- Comment on Netanyahu signs off on controversial settlement plan, says 'there will be no Palestinian state' 2 months ago:
i dunno. maybe when america is explicitly recognized as actively hostile to their interests? maybe not tho, seems a lot of people not reading the writing on the walls.
- Comment on Netanyahu signs off on controversial settlement plan, says 'there will be no Palestinian state' 2 months ago:
- Comment on Netanyahu signs off on controversial settlement plan, says 'there will be no Palestinian state' 2 months ago:
world war 3
- Comment on Entrance covered by dreams and RNA 2 months ago:
sadaam memelord fossilesque strikes again
- Comment on A Love Letter To Internet Relay Chat 2 months ago:
be the change
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 2 months ago:
im not asking you to cut jackboots slack. i am asking you to cut children who are intoxicated by propaganda slack. get it?
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 2 months ago:
god is a quaint metaphor. you were with me until then, so it didn’t actually detract from any point i made. i was trying to draw attention to and defeat the concept of ‘empathy is a sin’ by explicitly countering it on its own terms. i can empathize with the christian perspective, but i do not sympathize with it.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 2 months ago:
friend, i think it needs to be stated explicitly that i have respect for you as a person, your opinion, and your right to express it. i also need to say that i think we agree more than we disagree. i am an atheist for a start, and as evidence i submit the fact that i do not capitalize the name of the fictitious god. i do not capitalize a lot of things, friend, but i especially do not capitalize the word ‘god.’ i was using god as a convenient topical metaphor. i think see what you meant with trans hate speech now, i was a little quick to dismiss that point. in a way i think i was doing the same thing i think you were trying to do talking about trans hate by making the comparison to ‘empathy is a sin.’ i was trying to refer to the kind of mindset that says “empathy is a sin” and say you don’t have to think that way, whether you believe in a god or not. it was clunky and clumsy if i have to explain it this much, sorry for that.
And you do that by making it damned clear that it is a “with us or against us” mindset. Either side with The People or oppress them.
we agree. what i’m trying to point out is that in there are a lot of factors that have nothing to do with empathy or trans hatred or invading countries or oppressing minorities generally that do not occur to children before they walk into a recruiter’s office with civic duty and filial pride and escape from poverty in their heads. that it is possible to be a totally normal, morally sane, apparently well-adjusted human being who walks into a recruiter for a global war crime syndicate think they’re doing a right and good thing. telling such an apparently ‘morally sane’ person that they’re about to commit evil without explaining that to them, without overcoming almost 2 decades of programming inertia first is bound to backfire. the easiest and best way i know of overcoming that inertia is empathy. no gods required. and you don’t have to sympathize to empathize. that said, considering why someone acts the way they do does not obligate you to act that way too.
you don’t need to meet in the middle, and I am 100% not asking you to. i would respect your opinion a lot less if i thought you wanted to meet midway between fascism and whatever-we-had-before-that-we-could-pretend-was-democracy.
- Comment on More people are joining the military. A shaky US job market could be boosting the numbers. 2 months ago:
children suffer from grandiose delusions of military service intentionally induced by state propaganda. they are victims before they are perpetrators; part of their victimization is being coerced into becoming a perpetrator: this is how a cycle of abuse perpetuates itself.
respectfully, ‘republicans talking about trans people need to die’ is non-sequitor; it follows from nothing said before in this comment chain and more importantly leads to nothing (as far as i can see anyway) that is relevant in this conversation about the reasons for military enlistment. also ‘counterargument from typo’ is a worse look than the typo itself. was it a good take on his part? no, saying you have brainworms was ad hominem insult that frankly just doesn’t stick. and yes, it is a little bit ironic to be calling another person stupid while making a syntax error. a very little bit ironic. comparing my sense of irony to my sense of elitism, i find in the balance a stereotypical human error that in no way actually detracts from any point they were attempting to make.
telling people that the military is not actually the propaganda they’ve been fed but would in fact be oppressing others for an evil orange rapist is a good thing. it does not conflict in any way with anything he or i have said; nothing that has been said by the other poster or me prevents you from making that valid observation to a potential recruit or even an active duty member. i unironically encourage you to do so. if you manage to break even one child out of the cycle of abuse and prevent a new ss member from being created, you will have done the world a great service.
i’ll take this opportunity to re-phrase something the other poster said, ‘just because you’re considering the perspective of another person doesn’t mean you’re endorsing that person or their behavior.’ now go do god’s work, and remember: empathy is not a sin.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
“if”
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
american lumber doesn’t use standard imperial units. an “inch” isn’t the standard you’d expect on a so-called “nominally” 2 inch by 4 inch board. just attempting to use metric without accounting for the extra wackiness added by lumber ‘measurement’ on top of standard imperial silliness, you’d end up with a bunch of errors.
tl;dr: a 2" x 4" board actually measures something like 3.81cm x 7.62cm.
- Comment on Two arrested as police suspect 'corrupt' council staff allocated 'hundreds of homes for cash' 2 months ago:
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- Comment on DOJ does damage control as staffer admits Republicans will be redacted from Epstein files 2 months ago:
why are rawstory are the only ones covering this? not cnn, reuters, ap, fox, bbc, only rawstory has the courage to cover this bombshell reporting?
totally unrelated question, hasn’t james o’keefe earned a bit of a reputation?
- Comment on MIT Study Finds AI Use Reprograms the Brain, Leading to Cognitive Decline 2 months ago:
16 hours after posting it I am editing this post (as well as the two other cross-posts I made of it) to link to MIT’s page about the study instead.
Better late than never. Good catch.
- Comment on Israel weighs West Bank annexations in response to Palestine recognition push 2 months ago:
- Comment on It turns out Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great general user interface font – OSnews 2 months ago:
hes rite u no
- Comment on China turns on giant neutrino detector that took a decade to build 2 months ago:
this, like an open casket funeral, remains to be seen.
- Comment on Constitutional right to a wild garden with weeds and bees to be tested in Ontario court 2 months ago:
wow, looks like a little slice of paradise. it’s so green.
strange, i came down with covid for the first time this year, and i spent 2020 and most of 2021 getting bounced between shelters and a halfway house. shit sucked. glad for vaccines. i think it must be complacency, everyone stopped even pretending to wear masks, and don’t get me started with handwashing, which was already an unacnowledged public health crisis before covid imho.
I read something about loofah sponges a few days or a week ago or so… aren’t they related to bottle gourds? have you actually used them for like, scrubbing? probably a silly question but i don’t suppose birds could actually nesti in the gourds?
