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Also while I’m talking about brain stuff who else does this to hold onto a phone number someone rattled off too fast

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I am That I am (a furry)

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is it?

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did anyone else ever get sad as a kid thinking about how their grandparents were orphans

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F-16 Bubble Bath (Hangar fire suppression system testing)

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funny to me to see people reading print books about "smartphone addiction". what you want to do when off your phone is read more about your phone

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I flipped off the ignition and for quite a minute sat in the car bracing myself for that telephone call, and staring at the rain, at the inundated sidewalk, at a hydrant: a hideous thing, really, painted a thick silver and red, extending the red stumps of its arms to be varnished by the rain which like stylized blood dripped upon its argent chains. No wonder that stopping beside those nightmare cripples is taboo.

nabokov really is incredibly funny

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He's a bird

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shocking numbers of people work as "behavior technicians". i notice this on dating apps because it's the main place i see other people's job titles, but my email also gets filled with spam about all the behavior technician positions that are available. as far as i can tell this is a newly invented "entry level" job where you do ABA stuff to autistic kids

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people are really enthusiastic about "someone should have stopped me" framings, when it comes to stuff in the past that's hurt them (relevant right now because i'm seeing so many posts about how people wished their parents had restricted their internet access more, etc) and this sort of desire is pretty inconceivable to me. you want to take the freedom of choice away from your past self?

sometimes stuff just happens as a cost of freedom. sometimes people look at things and regret doing so. you don't have to feel like you're ruined forever because you looked at the wrong things. you don't have to take away everyone else's ability to make the choice to look at things. it's fine to just make a choice, have an outcome that's bad, and move on. placing parents or the government in the role of arbiter on what is or isn't the wrong thing is so clearly worse!!

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everyone i know is 26, or something like that. this says a lot about the world

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It's very, very unlikely that all internet posts involving homosexuality are going to be classified as pornography. I understand that claiming this is going to happen is the only way to persuade certain types of people, but it is also alienating to anyone who is not paranoid in a hyperspecific online Democrat way about "christofascism" or whatever. Here are some better arguments against age-gating, restrictive TOS, etc.:

The distinction between transgressive, obscene art and pornography is highly artificial and comes down essentially to taste; trusting gatekeepers not to be philistines is a doomed exercise.

The history of smut is important in itself as a part of the history of culture and should not be shackled by a security apparatus just to ward off the possibility that it might be sincerely enjoyed.

Preventing someone from accessing a book they want to read or a picture they want to look at "for their own good" is absurd and wrong whether they're ten or a hundred; if they don't like what they're seeing they can look away.

Pornography of all kinds should be permitted and easily accessible because it is good in itself, just like other "merely" entertaining or beautiful media products.

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really can't read that doxxing: Now An App thing being described as a "women's safe space" with a straight face