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30d ago
Pornography, by definition, is produced with the consent of those depicted; children definitionally cannot consent to being sexually exploited; ergo, sexually explicit videos featuring children cannot be pornography.
We're literally discussing teens sending nudes to each other right now; who is doing the abuse or exploitation? The non-US Anglosphere and IIRC decent chunks of Europe legally consider loli hentai to be "child sexual abuse material"/"child exploitation material" despite the complete lack of children sexually abused or exploited (even the Japanese products with voices use adult actors). Yes, it's a dysphemism.
(Also, I agree with @Crowstep, that's not part of the definition of pornography. It's part of the definition of pornography that's legal.)
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30d ago
Have you read Leaders of Men? I think it gestures at some of what you're eliding as "gimmicks".
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30d ago
There is no "differently abled"
Autistic savants are the obvious case of a package deal with good and bad qualities.
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30d ago
IIRC, that wasn't the result of the SPEW episode; Dumbledore had already been paying Dobby (and presumably would have been willing to pay the rest if they'd actually wanted to be paid) before Hermione even learned about Hogwarts having house-elves.
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30d ago
It's difficult to take your aside about Pride Month as anything else than "Pride Month celebrations should end"
This is not very relevant, but I will note that one can hold the position "Pride Month celebrations should end" without actually supporting crushing them by force.
Like, I think Pride Month celebrations should end, in the sense that it would be good if people were less attached to the idea and didn't run/join Pride Month celebrations. I would petition the webforums I go to that run Pride Month celebrations to stop doing so, attempting to convince them of this, but all the forums I'm a member of which run such celebrations have also threatened to ban me for blasphemy against SJ.
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30d ago
AIUI essentially all of the Anglosphere legally considers under-18s sexting to be CP, which is usually given some dysphemism like the one you're using (Australia's is "child exploitation material").
As I also understand it, they don't generally come after people for the "teen sexting" case unless somebody makes a fuss (e.g. girl asks boy to delete her sexts, he refuses, she complains; boy dumps girl, girl posts boy's sexts online; etc.).
IANAL, though.
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30d ago
I know the Idiot's Guide to Latin has sidebars called "Hysteria's Herstory". I'm not sure if it explicitly says or merely implies the false etymology.
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1mo ago
#1 is not how Scott phrased it. He phrased it thusly (as his #2, but that's not important):
"Definition By Belief: A belief that some race has negative qualities or is inferior, especially if this is innate/genetic."
The "inferior" option, with the relevant substitutions, threads between your Scylla and Charybdis; it doesn't require actively wishing harm, and it's not plainly true (it is a moral judgement).
I won't deny that there's equivocation going on, though.
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1mo ago
Was legitimately wrong (I think I was taught this wrongly by feminists who saw it as androcentric); thanks.
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1mo ago
Okay, but the OP said "most of human history", not "most of the existence of humans". Thus, your "correction" was spurious. Hypercorrection is a pet peeve of mine.
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1mo ago
Most of human history was spent as hunter-gatherers.
No, because that's prehistory. History is generally considered to start when writing is discovered, and thus when we get access to his story without dozens of layers of potentially-inaccurate retelling. Hunter-gatherers basically don't write to us; steppe pastoralists don't write to us very much either.
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1mo ago
Guess I didn't RC.
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1mo ago
IIRC Japan's basically the only Western country to have actually raised the age of consent in the last 100 years, although I could be wrong.
Victorian prudishness is, of course, legendary.
Oh, and I forgot, there's the "overprotective parent" voting bloc opposing lowering the AoC.
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1mo ago
we live in a democracy, but people secretly disagree with the law, but they don't vote it out because ... groupthink. no further mechanics given, just somehow a minority can mind control a majority.
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Kohlberg IV is a thing, and a thing most people never move past. Kohlberg IV morality is based on the law, in a direct inversion of the correct relation that the law is based on morality. This makes removing unjust laws really hard, because the Kohlberg-IV people will defend the law because it's the law.
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Most people are icebergs. What you see is the most socially-desirable part of them. If they see that you have a larger amount of stuff showing than they do, they usually conclude not that you are made of styrofoam instead (that you are more honest), but that your iceberg is much larger (that you have far-worse stuff that you're not sharing).
I'm sure you can sketch out how both of these relate to the difficulty of rolling back age of consent laws, particularly since a politician has to publically propose lowering them.
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1mo ago
My general feel - admittedly without having played 1 or 2 - was that Reign of Chaos' story was pretty good, but Frozen Throne's story sucked. I think it's a mistake to group them together as "Warcraft 3".
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1mo ago
That’s not why lynching was bad though.
Lynching is bad because it denies due process rights.
The point of due process is not to have due process; "due process rights" are a particular way of achieving other ends, not an end in themselves. The primary purpose of due process rights is that due process is more likely to get it right than summary justice. Hence, your attempted distinction collapses; due process reduces to (probabilistic) correctness.
Lynching does have an additional problem, unrelated to due process, which is that it is not canonical. That is, a lynchmob does not need a monopoly on force, which means that there can be multiple lynchmobs in the same area enforcing different standards, which has a tendency to get a lot of people killed unnecessarily (with or without a slide into civil war). But this isn't related to due process; a monarch who rules by fiat is not engaging in "due process" any more than a lynchmob is, but his capricious declarations are nonetheless canonical.
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1mo ago
But datacenters obviously will get built, even if people don't like it
I know plurality-voting representative democracy has a major sell-out problem, but there are still some limits on that problem.
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1mo ago
then again,
Since I specifically didn't make the certainty claim, I'm not sure we have a disagreement.
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1mo ago
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There's a pretty infamous StoneToss comic about "what if the shoe was on the other foot",
Link?
I'm probably the softer side of the anti-academics. My positive vision for the future involves shoveling the contents of academic journals through an LLM, checking responses for phrases like "The fact that nobody on a team that includes both emergency physicians and biomedical engineers raised this concern suggests nobody stopped to think about it, which is a different kind of failure than not knowing", and then rubbing both the authors and reviewers' noses in it.
But I want that because I think it is an emergency for a sizable fraction of academic researchers, and there's a lot of people who want to go quite a lot further.
I'm not entirely sure what you're saying, here.
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1mo ago
Some of column A, some of column B, some of column C (they're also IMO-overly worried about global warming, which is unrelated to nuclear war and only somewhat related to Donald Trump). There's a reason I said "if we're using Reliable Sources", and a reason I capitalised the phrase (the reference is to this, and to a certain episode of DS9).
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1mo ago
As part of my work, I ended up meeting a man in his 70's who was hardcore MAGA, and he told me that he thought Elon Musk had done more for free speech than anyone alive today.
And don't get me wrong. I'm genuinely happy Elon Musk bought Twitter/X, because I do think it had a positive effect on the quality of societal debate, but I think it is silly to suggest that he did anything to free speech one way or the other.
Far too often, the signal of genuinely worrying encroachments on free speech like the Biden government sending messages to large social media sites asking them to take certain posts down during COVID,
Biden retaliated against Elon Musk (via capricious investigations of his other companies, fraudulent revocations of subsidies, etc.) for allowing the deplorables back onto Twitter. Musk lost ~$50 billion in net worth from that. If the COVID issue implicated free speech, I think this (the threat, implicit or explicit, of which we have to assume was behind a lot of the deplatforming by other social media and by pre-Musk Twitter) clearly does too. Of course, I'll also note that given the massive vibe shift from uncensoring Twitter, SJ's consensus-astroturfing operation does seem to have been quite successful until then; even had the US government not been involved, that does really seem like an instance of the problem free speech attempts to fix.
Also, missed this when writing my other reply:
I'd be far more likely to support laws forcing credit card companies to be common carriers for anything that's not actually illegal, as I have witnessed Visa and Mastercard absolutely demolish free speech online over the last few years, because they're too prudish around niche fetish erotica.
Do note that some (though not all) of that niche fetish erotica is illegal in at least some non-US Western jurisdictions. Those laws are bad, I break them, and I want them repealed, but it does somewhat complicate the matter.
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1mo ago
I don't think it is inevitable, although avoiding it may get a lot of Taiwanese (and others) killed.
If it goes nuclear, the USA has a lot more nukes; China would have to surrender. Of course, Taipei and Tainan would assuredly be nuked in the process.
(Also, I think the term "Anschluss" is misleading here; Austrians generally welcomed the actual Anschluss, while Taiwanese support for unification is lizardman since Xi pulled a Darth Vader on Hong Kong.)
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1mo ago
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The barges aren't ferries. The barges are mobile docks for ferries, with long ramps to overcome the various countermeasures Taiwan has at its beaches. That's why there aren't very many of them.
The ferries are ferries. The PRC is big on the idea of "civil-military fusion"; rather than commission a fleet of dedicated military transports, they told all their shipbuilders that all their roll-on-roll-off ferries (for moving cars over water) had to be tank-compatible.
He's never said anything to Taiwan at all.
Um.
If they're not worried, I'm not either.
They are, which is a very-large chunk of why I am.
(Also, if we're using Reliable Sources, I'll note that the actual, official Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it ever was in the Cold War. The experts are very concerned. What's different to the Cold War is the vibe among laymen.)
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1mo ago
Starlink is VLEO, as I understand it partially for that reason (it would be destroyed by an LEO Kessler event, but won't cause one). LEO goes up to 2,000 km.
Oh, don't get me wrong, Kessler syndrome in LEO's not the end of the world or anything; it will eventually self-clean and it doesn't pose much of a hazard to things going further. What I'm saying is that people spending on LEO infrastructure now (and yes, Starlink's part of that) are implicitly assuming no WWIII.
AIUI eidetic memory is quite common among the autistic, though admittedly not universal. Eidetic memory is actually, legitimately good, not in the kind of jackass-genie way you're using. I can pull off shit like this; while I'm given to understand that my memory is unusually good even by autistic standards, according to everything I've seen it's bullshit-tier by neurotypical standards.
It's a motte on an exceedingly-large and ridiculous bailey, but the motte is what allows the bailey to be claimed. Note how "neurodiversity" started with autism.
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