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You have got to stop referring to video games, fiction, drawings, etc. as "CSAM."

This defeats the entire purpose of the term "CSAM" (child sexual abuse material) which is that it's material of a child being sexually abused. The term was coined by anti-CSAM advocates because this material was being called "child porn," and it's not "porn." "Porn" generally refers to fiction, and CSAM is not fiction. It's real footage of real children being really abused.

"CSAM" is to "child abuse" as "snuff film" is to "murder." It is real filmed violence against a real human person. Games/drawings/fiction depiction child abuse as a plot point in a work of fiction are to child abuse as, e.g., murder mysteries are to murder. It's a fictional story in a fictional medium. No real human people are harmed in its production. You can argue -- and many people do -- about whether the fictional depiction "sends a bad message" or whatever, but it is not, literally, a snuff film or CSAM.

Referring to fiction as "CSAM" not only needlessly gives cover to moral panic and censorship; it also completely dilutes the harm of CSAM. The harm of CSAM is not that it's morally bad media that sends a bad message. The harm is that real human people are abused in its production.

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Crinkle papper prince!

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What generation of Pokémon is this?

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am i wrong ???? like i feel like knowing that "when its summer in the northern hemisphere its winter in the southern hemisphere" is absolutely assumed knowledge for all global citizens connected by the internet..... like 1 this is information you learnt when you were 6 and 2 if youre online you interact with australians kiwis and with south americans and with south africans and people from the southern hemisphere all the time. how can you not know this basic knowledge

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My friendddddd

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truly wild how driving really does become like piloting a mech after a while. like it sounds so car-bro-y but the car genuinely does become like an extension of your body. your muscles are simply making the correct micro-movements to perfectly manouvre a giant piece of machinery through a constantly moving maze while your brain is busy singing karaoke. you can physically feel when a gap is too small for your car-sona to fit through, like a cat putting its whiskers into a crevice. your brain is suddenly able to do on-the-fly s=d/t calculations in a milisecond and tell you exactly how quickly you need to move to avoid an oncoming vehicle while turning across the road. why does driving unlock the unused 89% of my brain

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Really? Right across the Daily Planet where *everyone* can admire the view??

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May I introduce you to my favourite Calvin and Hobbes strip which only got funnier when I got hearing aids.

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Watch the full tutorial on my YouTube

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I have no words

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I like stories where a normal human child is being raised by a sinister supernatural being who is totally malevolent except when it comes to their kid. Those are so much better than the “kids are scary” changeling type horror movies.

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Untitled, 'Not defined by what I lack (2023), one of the surreal images from the inner world of Russian painter, performance artist, and photographer, Ellen Sheidlin (née Elena Viktorovna Lyalina in 1994)

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carbonating you then putting you in a water bottle with a straw