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Silentiea , to asklemmy in What is the last video game that you were completely hooked on?

I love this game. I got it at launch and never had a problem, and I’ve played like two complete 100% games already before the dlc, now on my third one.

Silentiea , (edited ) to worldnews in Nuclear fusion experiment sets record for time at 100 million degrees Celsius

Biggest and just about onliest problem with nuclear fission is how expensive it is to set it up, both in terms of time and money.

Edit: typo

Silentiea , to asklemmy in To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?

If only there was a single chance in hell of making it happen, yeah.

Silentiea , to world in It’s getting even harder to find full-time work. So more people are taking second part-time jobs

It is, nonetheless, not without problems. First complaint I usually hear is “wait times” but, when was the last time you needed something major and didn’t have to wait? Most places with socialized healthcare don’t have obscene wait times, they just have regular ones.

Silentiea , to asklemmy in What is your favorite flower and why?

Anything with just a really good purple. Deep purples and indigos and such that are so purple they’re blue and so blue their purple.

Silentiea , to world in It’s getting even harder to find full-time work. So more people are taking second part-time jobs

I mean yeah, let’s just do a universal healthcare, maybe. There are problems sometimes, but have you seen how it’s going without it?

Silentiea , to world in 'Most wanted' man arrested at airport after 27 YEARS on the run

69 inchemeters.

Silentiea , to asklemmy in To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?

I would be interested to see data on how much capital gains tax is paid by people in whichever (income) tax bracket, or how people’s proportion of income tax vs capital gains tax lines up.

Savings interest and such is already taxed as income, no?

Hitting retirement accounts would make investing enough to retire harder, but tax brackets could be set so as to limit this effect (which, again, wouldn’t happen) while still capturing an awful lot of real estate sale income. Almost any house in my city has gone up by enough to immediately put you in upper-middle-class range for your income by itself if you bought it even just a handful of years ago, so selling/trading/working in addition to that would tax the sale significantly.

I get that there would be a burden to “common folk” but I would really love to see how much, compared to closing the easy out for richer folk.

Silentiea , to asklemmy in To everyone who hates the concepts of landlords and rent, what counts as being a landlord?

I mean we could start taxing capital gains as income, except no we can’t because that would never happen.

Silentiea , to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

If you’re making arguments on this issue with someone who feels the photo should not be used because using a cropped porn photo is offensive or derogatory, those are the points that should be addressed. Another approach might be to address why it should be used instead of some similar image, but it seems you agree with me that there is no good reason another image couldn’t be used.

Silentiea , to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

She consented to this, was an adult at the time, got paid for it and moved on

Sorry, consented to what? And what does that have to do with this? The existence of the photo or its continued use as a photo and as porn are not at issue.

Do note that Playboy has the rights of the photo though, not her

And again, this isn’t a rights issue. Lena isn’t upset because her rights are being violated, and neither is anyone else.

I never said that.

And I never said photos of shoulders are porn. You made a straw man or my argument, so I made a straw man or yours. Neither one was particularly useful to discuss.

Of course there were reasons the photo was chosen originally, convenience and the fact that it has just the right amount of complicated detail. But those don’t really matter now because, as you said:

It’s an old photo, along with all the other photos of the time it should’ve been retired ages ago, on technical grounds.

People are upset because the use of a photo from a porn shoot, especially one that has no other particular reason to use it besides “tradition,” is emblematic of a culture that is exclusionary to women.

Any defense of the use of this photo which does not address those points isn’t really a good faith argument.

Silentiea , to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

I mean obviously this is a porn device, it has access to the Internet. How is that relevant? One’s personal devices are exactly where one’s porn should be, not in an academic paper about image processing.

Silentiea , to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

No. But the fact that it isn’t obviously from a porn shoot doesn’t change that it’s from a porn shoot. The model has indicated she doesn’t want it used for this, and other women have indicated they are bothered by this.

Are you really insinuating that there isn’t any other possible standard besides this exact photo to demonstrate methods?

See? I can straw-man too.

Silentiea , to technology in Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals

Except that people do, in fact, remember. Sure, if society gets destroyed and future archeologists find the cropped photo and that’s all that remains of it, it’s not a porn photo any more. But for now, people know where it came from. That matters.

Edit: typos, clarity

Silentiea , to asklemmy in What's something small you achieved recently that you're proud of?

I mean, they’re hobbits. They turn to food for comfort.

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