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Rov_Scam
13m ago
(5) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS MOLESTATION.--
(a) A person who intentionally touches in a lewd or lascivious manner the breasts, genitals, genital area, or buttocks, or the clothing covering them, of a person less than 16 years of age, or forces or entices a person under 16 years of age to so touch the perpetrator, commits lewd or lascivious molestation.
An offender 18 years of age or older who commits lewd or lascivious molestation against a victim 12 years of age or older but less than 16 years of age commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084
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(7) LEWD OR LASCIVIOUS EXHIBITION.--
(a) A person who:
- Intentionally masturbates;
- Intentionally exposes the genitals in a lewd or lascivious manner; or
- Intentionally commits any other sexual act that does not involve actual physical or sexual contact with the victim, including, but not limited to, sadomasochistic abuse, sexual bestiality, or the simulation of any act involving sexual activity in the presence of a victim who is less than 16 years of age, commits lewd or lascivious exhibition.
(c) An offender 18 years of age or older who commits a lewd or lascivious exhibition commits a felony of the second degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084
I could go on with all the Florida statutes he could have been charged under, but I don't have all night.
hydroacetylene
20m ago
Sûre, I eat hunted meat when practical- and happily point this out to ethical vegans- for health and animal cruelty reasons. I have western-typical ideas about eg dogfighting even if I think no-kill shelters are impractical and cause too many problems.
hydroacetylene
25m ago
How much of what was admitted to was actually illegal at the time? It’s not illegal to show people your underwear, even if it will likely result in being asked to leave a public place- but had these girls went to Walmart like that they would have been charged with trespass, not a sexual performance or whatever. Masturbating in front of the girls and touching them with a vibrator might legitimately have been loopholes in the law- it’s entirely possible that the girl would have had to have touched his penis to trigger statutory.
self_made_human
Grippy socks, grippy box
30m ago
On an intellectual level? I'm well aware that people are using LLMs for smut. I just never looked into the... specifics of it. I regret to say that I think the I read all of the Evangelion stuff, I got off the train when the beastiality station was the next stop. Or is it even beastiality if it's a dragon fucking a pony? Only Satan knows.
If I want titillation, I'm opening PornHub. Text isn't my jam, but if it's yours then I'm not one to actually judge. From a purely technical standpoint, it all came across as competent, probably way better than the average literotica writer.
quiet_NaN
31m ago
If citizenship is not a matter of ethnic belonging (i.e. an intersection of familial and cultural ties), it must then be ideological, which necessarily means exercising discretion and control over the ideologies of people allowed in
This is a false dichotomy. There are a lot of other possibilities around which to organize citizenship. In the Roman republic and empire, it was for example build around collective military aid: polities on the Italian peninsula which were subjugated by Rome and fought side by side with the legions were eventually granted citizenship. In the French foreign legion, it is individual military aid: mercenaries who are willing to die for French interests get French passports for their service. Or a lot of cultures were willing to integrate women who married their citizens, willingly or otherwise. In Tír na nÓg , citizens and immigrants share a metatype. In Israel, immigrants and citizens (mostly) share a religion (which is only an ideology in the widest sense of the word).
Of course, if America has an ideology, it is the ideology of the American dream. The idea that an immigrant who arrives with little more than the clothes they are wearing can through hard work thrive in the land of capitalism and freedom. Having opinions about which group should murder which somewhere in the old world seems pretty orthogonal to that.
Some rights are clearly citizen rights -- the right to vote is a clear example. Some other rights are basically human rights, and should naturally apply to any human under the power of the state. The right to free speech, freedom of religion, due process, confront their witnesses, or the prohibition of cruel and unusual punishments are examples of the latter.
Ideally, I would not want the government to change people's immigration status based on any actions which are not actually criminal (or at least narrowly concerning immigration, such as "lying on your visa application"). A world in which each free country has an LLM which searches if visa applicants have made any statement the ruling party does not like and automatically rejects them is not a freer world than one where no free country does such a thing.
thejdizzler
33m ago
I think this is the crux of the disagreement. We both have axiomatically different reasons for holding our positions. There’s no reasoning across that gap. I’m not going to convince you, and you aren’t going to convince me.
However, it seems from the last paragraph that if we could provide adequate amounts of meat/protein with less suffering you would be in support of that. As would I think most users on this form. That seems like a much more fruitful focus of vegan political efforts than the bullshit that PETA wastes its funding on.
hydroacetylene
34m ago
So you'll often see libertarians defending Corporations, Universities or NGOs for trampling your rights (It's a private entity, it can do whatever it wants!), while they condemn the government for doing the same
To play devil’s advocate(and to be clear I am not a libertarian, even if I don’t like the government very much)- a lot of the reason corporations and universities are on one side of the culture war in particular is due to government policy making it hazardous to take the other side. Theoretically in a libertarian world conservative universities wouldn’t be limited to small religious liberal arts colleges.
hydroacetylene
40m ago
I do not think animal suffering is a good, or even neutral thing, exactly, but I don’t think it’s in the same category of human suffering- it’s an ordinary evil similar to soil degradation from mono cropping or similar. No, I don’t see gorillas or elephants or whales as meaningfully different in that regard, even if they’re as smart as a child. I don’t care if harambe or dumbo or shamu are as smart as a child they don’t have the moral worth of one, it’s a qualitative difference not quantitative. To my way of thinking elephants are rarer than rats and so killing one should be a much higher bar to clear, but there isn’t a moral problem with shooting a depredating elephant from a helicopter in the same way that there isn’t a moral problem with setting a rat trap.
That’s why I don’t worry about shrimp eyestalk ablation or farrow crates. Doing these things for no reason would be profoundly evil. Doing them to have affordable animal protein is as necessary as tilling fields; and having almost everyone in society eat meat every day is a straightforwardly good thing so much so as to be miraculous, for child development reasons if nothing else.
Supah_Schmendrick
44m ago
how do we address the issue I mentioned of idealogy changing constantly?
This is the price we pay for being a propositional nation; the proposition changes as the populace does...when the melting pot itself melts and Jeffersonian democracy wears away to nothing, there's a fight over how to replace it. And like most fights, there's swings back and forth until a new consensus emerges.
wayfarer
45m ago
I don't think there is a complex allegory hiding behind the Avatar movies.
that would imply it being intentional
I see rather it as hilarious exploration of completely unintentional rejection of nature and accidentally revealing that self-proclaimed environmentalist does not understand nature, rejects it and prefers advanced tech.
hydroacetylene
47m ago
The gourmet vegan diet you’re referring to is available to most regular vegans, though. Rice and beans are, famously, among the cheapest things in the grocery store, veggies aren’t expensive, and even the expensive parts like avocados are still cheaper than meat.
Regular vegans don’t eat like gourmet vegans, I suspect, for the same reasons regular meat eaters don't eat like my home-cooked French-Mexican fusion food made with wild game.
I'm about 75% of the way through wiring TRON helmet bike LEDs and the second joint I soldered together is already kind of janky and the connection now winks in and out as I wiggle the LED strips. Either my first few joints just sucked but it'll get better as I finish or I need to give up on this approach and use those bulky connectors kits after all.
Previous discussion of my possibly-too-jank method so far here https://www.themotte.org/post/2271/tinker-tuesday-for-july-22-2025/349091?context=8#context
If that Libertarian world were less than completely theoretical, or if the Libertarian movement gave any indication that they had a method of getting us there, this might weigh heavier of the deliberations of former libertarians.
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