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todd_bonzalez ,

Are you suggesting that this war should be taught in schools as it is happening?

There’s absolutely no responsible way to do that. The fog of war keeps us from being able to report on this from a historical perspective because there’s little to no way to verify anything as fact.

Encouraging kids to pay attention to current events, and teaching them relevant lessons from the past is important, but we can’t risk misinforming a whole generation because we couldn’t wait for the smoke to clear before we started committing what we think we know to the history books.

As for teaching about this conflict in the future, you’re never going to escape the reality that people will feel disconnected the further away they are from the actual event they are learning about.

You’re either too early to teach verifiable truths, or you’re too late for the truth to feel real.

todd_bonzalez ,

That’s the joke

todd_bonzalez , (edited )

I don’t think that has been tested in court.

It has and it continues to be.

And even if it hadn’t, that’s no excuse not to start.

It would be a reasonable legal argument to say that the image isn’t a photo of anyone. It doesn’t depict reality, so it can’t depict anyone.

It depicts a real child and was distributed intentionally because of who it depicts. Find me then legal definition of pornography that demands that pornography be a “depiction of reality”. Where do you draw the line with such a qualifier?

I think at best you can argue it’s a form of photo manipulation, and the intent is to create a false impression about someone.

It is by definition “photo manipulation”, but the intent is to sexually exploit a child against her will. If you want to argue that this counts as a legal form of free speech (as libel is, FYI), you can fuck right on off with that.

A form of image based libel, but I don’t think that’s currently a legal concept.

Maybe actually know something about the law before you do all this “thinking”.

It’s also a concept where you would have to protect works of fiction otherwise you’ve just made the visual effects industry illegal if you’re not careful.

Oh no, not the sLiPpErY sLoPe!!!

We do not allow animals to be abused, but we allow images of animal abuse in films as long as they are faked.

Little girls are the same as animals, excellent take. /s

Children are often in horror films, and creating the images we see is very strictly managed so that the child actor is not exposed to anything that could distress them.

What kind of horror films are you watching that has naked children in sexual situations?

What’s the line here?

Don’t sexually exploit children.

Parental consent?

What the living fuck? Parental consent to make porn of their kids? This is insane.

I say all of this, not because I want to defend anyone, but because I think we’re about to set some really bad legal precidents if we’re not careful.

The bad legal precedent of banning the creation and distribution of child pornography depicting identifiable minors?

Personally, I don’t think the concept of any image, or any other piece of data, being illegal holds water.

Somebody check this guy’s hard drive…

todd_bonzalez ,

Is it material that sexually abuses a child?

todd_bonzalez ,

So you don’t think that nudifying pics of kids is abusive?

Says something about you I think…

todd_bonzalez ,

That’s one definition, sure.

Now answer the very simple question I asked about whether or not child porn is abusive.

todd_bonzalez ,

drawings

Nobody said anything about drawings, but interesting default argument… Thanks for telling the class that you’re a lolicon pedo.

the liberty of masses be stomped and murdered

Nobody said that anyone should be stomped and murdered, so calm down, lmao. We’re just saying that child porn producers, consumers, and apologists are vile, disgusting perverts who should be held accountable for their crimes against children.

todd_bonzalez ,

Do you really think being insufferable is going to change any minds here?

todd_bonzalez ,

I’m making kids unsafe by…

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…being firmly and unwaveringly against the sexual exploitation of children.

I really can’t stress enough that this was an actual 15 year old girl who was pornified with AI. This isn’t some “erotic drawings” argument, the end results were photorealistic nudes with her unmodified face. This isn’t some completely AI generated likeness. Pictures of her from social media were exploited to remove her clothes and fill in the gaps with models trained on porn. It was nonconsensual pornography of a kid.

Anyone who read this story, and feels the need to defend what was done to this girl is a fucking monster.

I can’t believe that the person defending sex crimes of this magnitude is a fucking mod.

todd_bonzalez ,

You are absolutely not coming across as calm fwiw.

todd_bonzalez ,

It really is a bizarre argument.

“The government bans child porn, but the government is bad, so child porn should be legal”

I feel like this person is starting with the conclusion, and justifying it with any narrative they can find that makes child porn free speech…

todd_bonzalez ,

It’s never too late to take up shitposting on LinkedIn.

todd_bonzalez ,

So obvious in fact that nobody was under any other impression, making this comment essentially a “the sky is blue” kind of thing.

todd_bonzalez ,

I don’t know if traveling from Washington, D.C. to Clinton, Maryland is considered “tourism”, but yes, it’s good that she recognized this piece as an artifact that belongs with the people whose history it represents.

todd_bonzalez ,

Dozier took an interest in the pottery because she had worked with Indigenous communities in Mexico

…

Dozier then traveled to Mexico City in January on a work trip

Only if you don’t know what a Tourist is.

todd_bonzalez ,

You’re not going to hire a white man to play the little mermaid.

Don’t you tell me what to do.

todd_bonzalez ,

RIP to the only VPN that reliably let you watch streaming services overseas.

Here’s to enabling the OpenVPN / Wireguard feature on your router.

todd_bonzalez ,

Funny how they argue that they are content neutral every time someone calls them out for having Nazi customers, but they are more than happy to censor for capitalists.

todd_bonzalez ,

Convicted of adultery? Even I would have a problem with that…

todd_bonzalez ,

Interestingly enough, smoke detectors get more sensitive as they get older, but eventually they just stop working.

If your smoke detectors go off every time you cook, it’s time to replace them.

todd_bonzalez ,

Honestly pretty funny to call the site “Jetflix” and advertise it as nothing but aviation videos. Nobody would know what you’re up to until they pay you.

How much you wanna bet a aerospace nut subscribed to this because they love Jets, and immediately reported this site to the authorities because he got the avengers movies rather than Airbus maintenance videos or something…

Pretty stupid though to run this site out of the USA. Terrible opsec. They really just seemed to trust that nobody who cares would ever figure out what they were doing. Plenty of similar sites out there that don’t even need to hide what they are because they are well outside of American jurisdiction.

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp (www.reuters.com)

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans.

todd_bonzalez ,

I mean, they accomplished the first part mostly because they are cheap connected speakers, but I have yet to meet anyone who doesn’t absolutely loath their home assistants. Got rid of mine (Both Google and Amazon) not just because they are a privacy nightmare, but because they are completely fucking infuriating to work with.

The exact same phrase is never guaranteed to have the same results. The assistant hardly ever answers a question right. It routinely takes repeated attempts to get it to control any of my connected lights. It responds to people that weren’t talking to it. I could keep going…

If they tried charging me for it before I rage quit them, I would have just rage quit sooner.

todd_bonzalez ,

I think they’re also sacrificing the image of climate change activism.

todd_bonzalez ,

I kid you not, the dad has been on the show Intervention for meth addiction, Divorce court as a result of his continued meth addiction, and does gay porn to pay for his meth addiction. He’s enormously homophobic, but he’ll do gay sex for drugs.

I don’t know whether to hate him, or pity him. He must hate himself quite severely.

todd_bonzalez ,

OnlyFans is just one step below prostitution. They will vanish overnight when sex work is legal.

This is absolutely not true, and is absolutely dripping with sexism.

Settling for OnlyFans is ridiculous when there are literal TBs of porn out there.

People aren’t paying for porn. They’re paying for parasocial relationships.

todd_bonzalez ,

If you don’t know what a parasocial relationship is, you can always look it up.

Biden to announce protections Tuesday for undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens and ‘Dreamers’ (www.pbs.org)

The president’s executive action will shield undocumented spouses of U.S. citizens from deportation, allow them to obtain work authorization, as well as ease their path to permanent resident status, the three sources told PBS News. The announcement will be made at a White House event marking the 12th anniversary of an...

todd_bonzalez ,

The issue here is abuse. If getting married to an American means you get automatic permanent residency, then an American can use that to force obedience from a spouse.

If you have the right to divorce at will (which is an important right), you’ll basically have the right to deport your spouse at will.

todd_bonzalez ,

Explain to me how you can issue permanent residency as a condition of marriage in a system that allows divorce for any reason, that doesn’t introduce the threat of marital coercion.

You don’t think men would use conditional residency to manipulate and control immigrant women? There’s a whole cottage industry of “mail-order brides” predicated on this fantasy.

We need to protect Dreamers, and their families, but we need to make sure we’re not creating a system that can be used to exploit people.

todd_bonzalez ,

Yeah, but good luck getting a green card or a chance at naturalization.

And two years is a long time to be exploited, if that’s something they have to endure.

todd_bonzalez ,

I mean, the actual answer is that this is just another “trigger the libs” exercise, and they are choosing the AR-15 because it is the favorite of mass-shooters.

They don’t want to celebrate guns, obviously, or they would choose something native to Michigan like you say. They want to celebrate whatever the left opposes, even if it means celebrating the weapon of choice for mass murderers.

todd_bonzalez ,

I have some bad news for you.

An AR-15 is really only good for wartime scenarios (and mass-murder). If your goal is self defense, you have chosen a terrible gun that limits your mobility and cannot protect you at close range. A handgun is vastly superior for the purpose of self-defense.

Not that your choice of gun matters here. The choice to have a gun at all actually increases your risk of being victim of a violent crime, and that’s just the odds for you. Having a gun in your house at all greatly increases the risk that you or someone in your home will die accidentally, or by suicide. Those odds are greater than those of any violent lunatic breaking into your home and murdering anyone in it.

If you want a gun because you expect to be at war with tyrants, more power to you. If your goal is to minimize the risk of harm to you and your family, unless you have some actual enemies you expect to have to deal with, you are better of without a gun in your home, or at least not one that is easy to access.

todd_bonzalez ,

Where are you getting a 30% increase?

Adding 14 tons a year to the 17,520 (48 x 365) tons of meteorites per year is a 0.07% increase (assuming that every meteorite is 100% aluminum and burns up entirely, which is definitely not reality)

todd_bonzalez ,

Frag your CO before they even ship you out.

todd_bonzalez ,

Again, nothing sexual.

todd_bonzalez ,

The article tries to say that this is ridiculous, but I don’t see it.

Sure, he’s a cheater, and he got caught. Not particularly sympathetic.

But, Apple markets their products as privacy-respecting, he deleted something he wanted to keep secret, and his Apple products betrayed him and revealed his secret to someone else, resulting in real-world consequences.

Apple should be held to account for the privacy violation at the very least.

todd_bonzalez ,

Yeah but you’re a person who sees other people as human and values their lives and well-being, not a cop.

todd_bonzalez ,

Microsoft’s models run locally too. It doesn’t make a difference, because they are shipping everything you do home.

todd_bonzalez ,

It’s true. There’s a guy I used to follow on Twitter years ago who was an excellent shitposter. Can’t even remember his name, his username was some unpronounceable jumble of letters.

Fell down a flight of stairs and died at 30. Complete bullshit.

Some bangers:

“Guns don’t kill people, nothing kills people, people can’t die”.

“Get your fucking hands off of me, I’m a thought leader!”

“Every morning my boss shoots me in the head with a Smith & Wesson snub nose revolver, piercing my brain casing and killing me instantly, but do I stop going to work? No. Because I hope to do the same to employees of my own some day.”

I can’t even remember his first name, but I can remember these.

todd_bonzalez ,

As we all know, confronting Republicans with their hypocrisy will force them to reevaluate their positions.

todd_bonzalez ,

Of all the ideas that anyone ever had, this one is the worst.

todd_bonzalez ,

Literally anything by Baby Queen.

Or, for a throwback, Cry For You by September.

todd_bonzalez ,

There’s a whole website dedicated to this nostalgic niche: racingsoundtracks.com

todd_bonzalez ,

Oh man, I literally can’t answer this. I mainline EDM, I would end up laundry listing a hundred or so vocalists.

I’ll just say that JES is legendary and I have a playlist that’s like 15 hours of electronica with her vocals and it rules.

todd_bonzalez ,

I used to live somewhere where I needed a car, and I didn’t think much of it.

But after moving somewhere where I hardly ever needed a car, I ended up selling mine within a few years because I simply stopped using it. I realized that alternative forms of transportation were far less stressful and way less expensive than driving, and I never turned back.

If you live somewhere that requires a car to get around, you’re stuck. If you don’t, I highly recommend switching to public transit and dumping your car. We underestimate how much stress driving adds to our lives because we never get a good chance to take a break from it.

todd_bonzalez ,

Look, in whatever far away galaxy the Star Wars movies are set in, sound travels through space. Pretty self evident since every spacecraft and space weapon in those movies is loud af.

todd_bonzalez ,

Then direct your criticisms at colonizers, and not all Jewish people.

Judge people for the content of their individual character not their race/ethnicity. Not every Jew is a Zionist, or even religious for that matter. They aren’t a monolith that you get to stereotype to fit your narrative.

And if you have criticisms of Judaism as a religion, make sure you’re not misattributing these criticisms against the broader ethnically Jewish community.

It's funny how google pretends the music on YouTube isn't straight up piracy and everyone just goes along with it

Most people have extremely weird ideas of what’s considered piracy and what isn’t. Downloading a video game rom is piracy, but if you pay money to some Chinese retailer for an SD card containing the roms, that’s somehow not piracy. Exploiting the free trial on a streaming site by using prepaid visa cards is somehow not...

todd_bonzalez ,

Well, the gigantic pile of low-end audio I ripped using yt-dlp begs to differ. Half a million tracks so far. Perfect for my OpenSwim headphones. Tiny mp3s to maximize my 4GB of storage, and shit quality to match what I’m getting from bone conductors (which are, for no compelling reason, compatible with FLAC).

I swim a lot, and have a lot of free disk space, so I promise this makes sense.

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