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Finally, a scale for the rest of us!

I don’t know much about shipping (ie, fan fiction content that is usually focused on new sexual/romantic relationships between characters) but no, shipping without pedophilia is not equivalent to shipping with pedophilia - not in terms of it’s ‘potential for scandal,’ criminality, or ethics.

I think your judgement to call out that person’s pedophilia (that involves a minor IRL) was sound. Their minimization of their behaviour does not surprise me. One barometer I use for this is lemmynsfw.com’s moderation policies. Underage AI content (and any kind of underage content) is forbidden. Protecting children from sexual abuse is a hard line in society, as it should be; and it’s everyone’s job to offer protection however they can

Thank you for that! I love Tobias and Michael in scenes together. I think I might do an AD rewatch, of the first 3 seasons anyway

There’s got to be a better way of saying that. I love Tobias, and Michael, and Arrested Development

Dragon’s Lair (old school). Too difficult and frustrating for a casual like me, but I want to see the later stages of the game!

The NYT has lost all credibility to report anything on this conflict that is not Israeli government propaganda

This is what supporting genocide looks like. (If you’re in the US, I think you still have to vote for Biden in November)

This certainly mirrors what I’ve seen on the ground. In the last 10 years, predatory publishers and publication mills went from known issues to the new normal. And yet despite how easy it is to publish, interest in reproducibility seems at an all-time low. It’s jarring, and I’m kind of making a career change out of research as a result, because what I do as a lowly assistant is essentially engineering results and marketing as opposed to anything having to do with discovery or science. I interpret it as capitalism’s going to capitalism.

This has resulted in a 47% growth between 2016 and 2022 in the global number of published papers (Hanson, et.al. 2023). Moreover, we should expect a further spurt of growth following the widespread advent of large language models in late 2022. During the 2016-2022 period there was little net increase in the number of PhD students globally or in the funding of science, both indicators of science activity. Increased paper productivity implies either that scientists became suddenly much more creative over the period, or had spent more time writing, and therefore reviewing papers: an increase in paper productivity but a decrease in scientific productivity.

Black tea: Yorkshire Gold (by Taylor’s of Harrowgate). Other: Celestial Seasonings Sleepy Time tea

Baby got back!

I’m glad I’m not the only one who’s had difficulty getting through ISL (which is great)

You can be a trans ally regardless of how you identify gender-wise or how you feel about sharing your preferred pronouns to others.

There’s more than one way to be trans. But the mainstream centres a certain trans experience/narrative above all others that includes the gender binary and presuming everyone has enough privilege, safety, and support that they can broadcast their pronouns widely without risk of discrimination, job loss, etc. A lot of trans people do not enjoy that level of freedom of expression - temporarily while in transition or migrating to safer place, or permanently. It’s not uncommon to meet trans people who are critical of ‘pronoun culture’, which can refer to institutions doing the bare minimum to present a picture of inclusivity while failing to acknowledge current barriers.

I identify differently in different contexts, because disclosing my preferred pronouns is my right and I’m not going to do it to the detriment of my safety. Other people and institutions have to earn that trust first. So I generally don’t broadcast pronouns, and they aren’t that important to me. But when I see other people using them, I appreciate the roadmap for how they’d like me to interact with them.

I get a bit of a sense you might not yet have found an identity that really resonates with you. For me, feeling disconnected from my core sense of gender and feeling dissatisfied with life are highly associated.

Conservativism predates fascism by 100-200 years, does it not?

Thanks! (and just like uncle Jack in IASIP - that’s fun)

Why are his hands so small?

Lies and denial about the impact of the O&G industry are so PERVASIVE in today’s society, I think it’s important to scientifically study and report on the reality of their impacts on this planet. We’ll be talking about for the next 100 years

You might be able to 2FA via text or phone call. That’s what I do. It’s bad enough I have to BYOD for a laptop. I don’t want MS BS on my personal phone as well

Hardly a rave review :P

If I came across these, I think I’d have to buy one, in solidarity with my favourite social media platform. The peach one sounds yum!