Am I supposed to know what a pepperhead is?

I mean, nobody can prove that didn’t happen.

Even the phrase “mass deportations” should make anyone who cares about anything angry as hell. Are they planning on using trains? Stopping off at camps on the way to the border? Fuck that shit and fuck anyone who hears that phrase and doesn’t immediately think of Auschwitz.

It will always be a gray area, and should be, but there are practical and pragmatic reasons to ban this imagery no matter its source.

If you’re asking whether anime, manga, oil paintings, and books glorifying the sexualization of children should also be banned, well, yes.

This is not comparable to glorifying violence, because real children are victimized in order to create some of these images, and the fact that it’s impossible to tell makes it even more imperative that all such imagery is banned, because the existence of fakes makes it even harder to identify real victims.

It’s like you know there’s an armed bomb on a street, but somebody else filled the street with fake bombs, because they get off on it or whatever. Maybe you’d say making fake bombs shouldn’t be illegal because they can’t harm anyone. But now suddenly they have made the job of law enforcement exponentially more difficult.

Good luck convincing the AI advocates of this. They have already decided that all imagery everywhere is theirs to use however they like.

Not a great comparison, because unlike withh violent games or movies, you can’t say that there is no danger to anyone in allowing these images to be created or distributed. If they are indistinguishable from the real thing, it then becomes impossible to identify actual human victims.

There’s also a strong argument that the availability of imagery like this only encourages behavioral escalation in people who suffer from the affliction of being a sick fucking pervert pedophile. It’s not methadone for them, as some would argue. It’s just fueling their addiction, not replacing it.

To paraphrase someone smarter than me, “I’ll know it when I see it.”

But naturally I don’t want to see it. One of the things I miss the least about reddit is the constant image posts of anime characters, who may be whatever age they say but which are clearly representative of very young girls with big tiddies bolted on. It’s gross, but it is also a problem thatsl’s more widespread and nebulous than most people are willing to admit.

No no longer think it’s cool. Now I think it’s AWESOME.

Oh and also, “change this every four weeks please.”

Okay then. NEW PASSWORD: pa$$word_Aug24

The Satanic Temple’s Third Tenet states that “One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone” and they will go to court for you to defend that.

That sucks, but I can’t say I was surprised to hear it was in Oklahoma. I’m sorry you have to live in such a backwards craphole of a state.

It’s pretty weak to begin with to claim it’s his religious right to be an asshole to people. If some kid was named Alphonzious and wanted people to call him Al, but you insisted on using the name he hates instead, that’s just you being a huge dick, and it’s the school’s prerogative to fire you for it. Gender doesn’t even come into it.

Go ahead and claim your religion requires you to be an obnoxious toolbag bully to children. Good luck finding work, shitheel.

As if I needed another reason to feel good about not putting herbicides and pesticides on my yard. Who knows what prolonged exposure to that junk is doing to people that we don’t even begin to understand yet.

Harris is in an awkward position where even if she disagrees vehemently with the Biden administration’s policies, she can’t really do or say anything about it because she’s still a part of that administration. Undermining her boss right now would only cause a backlash from all directions that would be far more damaging than simply sitting on it until after the election.

A President Elect Harris will have far more leeway to steer policy on such a delicate issue than a Vice President Harris ever could.

Electrical tape is your friend.

I’m not going through life expecting something better to come after. Makes me appreciate what we have, knowing that it’s all we get.

“The anniversary of you joining Lemmy”

The truth is he can’t control what pops out of his mouth and he knows that.

To this day, whenever I’m alone in an elevator I drum out the percussion part of the theme: dun-dun dun dun-dun…