“People are gonna be pedophiles whether we like it or not, so why are we bothering to do anything to highlight predatory behavior?”

If anything, the issue isn’t that people have these attractions and fantasies, it is that some portion of those people can’t separate fantasy from reality and are willing to hurt a child to get what they want, or they are sociopaths that consume child porn without feeling disgust for witnessing horrific child abuse.

Correct. That’s what the issue is. We should definitely make sure that we aren’t encouraging any kind of behavior that perpetuates the demand for CSAM.

Found the incel. Literally nobody mentioned anything about feminism. You’re just telling on yourself.

Do you think that these AI girlfriends are trained to be as realistic as possible?

They’re meetable, it’s just the death cult of oil manufacturers don’t care.

So he admits it. The plan was always to destroy Gaza, not Hamas, wasn’t it? Israel has some of the most advanced weaponry and intelligence out of any government on Earth, and the best they can do is indiscriminately bomb hospitals, refugee camps, residential blocks, and schools just in case Hamas is there, which is considered a warcrime by The Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute of the ICC. Rules of engagement state you do not attack civilian infrastructure in order to eliminate hostiles, unless you can demonstrate that the loss of civilian life is negligible compared to the military advantage gained from attacking a civilian building that houses hostiles. I’m sure the IDF really needed that hospital to run tactical ops out of.

I’m willing to bet Trump had no idea who Bob Woodward was when he initially took his call.

I’ve found slashdot, over the last 2 decades, has devolved into climate change denying, capitalist fellating, wildly off topic flame wars in the comments. As a news aggregator, I’ve never seen an article hit slashdot before it hits reddit or lemmy.

Discord has forums built in. I know everyone hates it when I mention it, but there is continuity on Discord and has been for several years now.

Fewer barriers to entry and faster responses from people using Reddit/Facebook/Discord. Forums are great for indexing and posterity, but they’re absolute dogshit for meaningful information exchange. Unless you know exactly what your problem is, to the point of barely needing help, you probably won’t be able to word your question in a way that experts can understand, and the assistance they provide generally comes with a lot of assumptions that you’re familiar with X, Y, and Z. I can’t tell you how many forum posts I’ve read over the decades that just sort of end without any resolution of the original problem. It’s all too easy to lose pertinent information in multi page threads (esp if the pages extend into the 10s and 100s), and new users, the ones most in need of assistance, are overwhelmed by experts overestimating the new user’s abilities. Discord on the other hand lets you instantly get feedback from experts and allows you to refine your question in real time.