When I was 12 learning C from a programmer friend

“This is too complicated”

“Why does it matter if it’s complicated?”

Yeah actually, I don’t have a reason to feel threatened by complicated things. There is no cost to tiring your brain, no cost to doing something tedious

I got a new job that has no remote possibilities because we run a defense SaaS thing that’s cut off from the internet, so, a real reason for it

I’m paid 2.5x my old wage for it and everyone keeps leaving despite the insane pay. We’re about to hire a software guy that didn’t know what grep or curl was

Granted there’s a few more hurdles (applicants must speak english fluently and make as few mistakes as possible writing in a country that’s hardly bilingual, top of the chain tech stack that might give people the feeling that they’re not qualified, …) but 2.5x the pay? I’m gonna get enough to straight up buy a house with cash in like two years

How would it depend?

Using the unused office will not “recoup” any costs, the money’s gone. You’re just paying for heat lights and AC in addition to increasing employee turnover, especially on the ones with easily markettable skills - often those you would most struggle to replace

What the “no such thing as a free lunch” mentality does to a mf

Anti-choice republicans are single-issue voters, pro-choice republicans aren’t

Haha I made some code in that thing!

It’s built by a company called Sabre

The unholy chipotle order

That big part of you is fetishizing nuance and mistaking it for wisdom

Nuance doesn’t stand on its own, there is no sense saying something has merit because it has nuance. I can give 10 examples of things that would be moronic if you tried to add nuance into them. “Nazism bad”. “The crime of loitering shouldn’t exist”. “The planet is getting hotter”

That forest is built like an american city the way its missing its middle

All the same size!

Forests need to have old trees, young trees, bushes, fallen over trees, …!

The original local fauna couldn’t live in these!

Call me greatness the way I’m always on the verge

Step up the reading comprehension please :)

It’s pretty funny having you state, re-state and re-re-state the exact same obvious things that everyone understands while not seeing that everyone gets that, that you’re missing the point, and that you’re yelling in a hole

Why do you keep going?

Are you that painfully unconvincing in real life like cmon

Step it up

Step up the reading comprehension please :)

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1466A

(a) In General.—Any person who, in a circumstance described in subsection (d), knowingly produces, distributes, receives, or possesses with intent to distribute, a visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting, that— (1) (A) depicts a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct; and (B) is obscene; or (2) (A) depicts an image that is, or appears to be, of a minor engaging in graphic bestiality, sadistic or masochistic abuse, or sexual intercourse, including genital-genital, oral-genital, anal-genital, or oral-anal, whether between persons of the same or opposite sex; and (B) lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value; or attempts or conspires to do so, shall be subject to the penalties provided in section 2252A(b)(1), including the penalties provided for cases involving a prior conviction.

You’re really mad that a US based study is using the US definition of CSAM while also clearly stating the definition of CSAM they’re using, aren’t you?

Sure buddy, it’s a “false equivalence”, they’re totally stating it’s the same. It’s not just your reading comprehension

There’s no definite conclusion on whether consuming and distributing lolicon content could lead some individuals to seek out or create explicit content involving real children

If they rule that out entirely through the scientific method one day, then I’ll join your side

Weebs usually respond to that “Well that’s like saying video games cause violence!” so I’ll jump ahead of you, that would be like saying we should forbid Lolicon videogames in a society that already has lolicon books, lolicon movies, lolicon cartoons and where history classes mostly cover instances of countries showing lolicon to each other. That’s not the situation we’re in, and even if it was, it’s still not necessarily comparable. Sexual urges have properties that violence doesn’t share.

They’re studying the prevalence of CSAM under the definition of the country they’re in. It’d be arbitrary to separate the two and make two different conclusions.

Also you seriously need to take a chill pill

Ah. It depends on the jurisdiction the instance is in

Mastodon has a lot of lolicon shit in japan-hosted instances for that reason

Lolicon is illegal under US protect act of 2003 and in plenty of countries

The study is transparent about their definition of CSAM. At this point, if you don’t get it, you don’t get it. Sorry dude.

That’s an arbitrary decision to make and doesn’t really need to be debated

The study is pretty transparent about what “CSAM” is under their definition and they even provide pictures, from a science communication point of view they’re in the clear