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  • Yeah the jokes are universal too, there's no getting away from it. Feminism has stood up against body shaming (with limited success) but even amongst many feminists there's still small dick jokes

  • Of course many do, but many also don't/can't - I can declare that as an objective fact. Ableism indeed.

  • You do occasionally see flaccid cocks in media and IRL, but only from guys confident enough to show it in the first place, which skews public perception a fair bit.

    I went to school with a girl who'd only ever seen erections drawn. To her first boyfriend, she said "is that it?" the first time she saw a boner. It was a perfectly average cock, but she'd been expecting something the size of a cucumber

  • I think the full phrase is "size isn't everything, its how you use it" but bro has nothing to use. As disabilities go, its one of the easier ones to have - able bodied and normal-looking with all five senses. It sucks that he misses out on sexual relationships, but so do loads of people with much worse conditions.

  • In the UK in the late 70's they rolled out a scheme where they fitted disabled drivers cars with little flags they could raise if they were in trouble. There were TV campaigns to make people aware - "if you see this flag, the driver needs help".

    Campaign was swiftly abandoned, because enough people saw the flag to mean "I cant defend myself and will be easy to steal from!" that it did more harm than good.

  • Hey guys! We've invented the Dead Person Simulator from that Black Mirror episode "Don't Invent Dead Person Simulators!"

  • This is Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google/YouTube, Netflix, iTunes, Adobe (someone carry on the list for me)

  • Could someone explain the joke to me?

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  • I have not, and I've got the privilege that I can walk the streets at night without the fear of it even crossing my mind.

    I do have a vague fear of getting mugged or beaten up, and even the threat of the latter played on my mind almost daily for about a year after it happened, so I'd imagine it (or SA) actually happening to me would last a fair bit longer and the intrusive memories be even more intensely horrible

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  • Of course not - this is very much hypothetical. I'm more interested in whether people think emotional/psychological trauma would be worse than lifelong physical trauma

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  • I do wonder if the proliferation of True Crime podcasts is, possibly, down to shadowy funding of some sort.

    I don't listen to them anymore myself, not because they're not gripping, because a lot of them really are, but because it effectively turns victims of horrible crimes into profitable entertainment, and I don't want to be a party to that.

    (I wish I was smart enough I'd come to that conclusion myself, but no - it was other podcasts and an episode of Black Mirror that pointed that out to me)

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  • Very good point

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  • Kidnap was what the meme said

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  • Genuine question here, am not trying to be edgy or controversial: Which would you least like to happen - be raped, or lose the use of a limb in a road accident?

    As a cishet man, I'd take the former (assuming no HIV etc)

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  • One in a hundred? No, of course not. One in five million? Actually, still no, because I don't like sweets very much. But lets replace the sweets with 20oz wagyu steaks... and yes, I think I would!

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  • The tragedy here is that so many women are terrified of unknown men. A real culture of fear we've got going, which serves to isolate almost everybody.

    I'm not completely naive - I know this stuff does happen - but the chances of being kidnapped are far lower than, say, being in a road traffic accident, and yet billions of people drive daily without a second thought, without fear, just assuming everything will be fine.

  • Yeah I want to know my win/loss record and world ranking at pool, chess, monopoly etc.

    I don't expect any of them to be great, just interested.

    Also curious how many completely unique sentences I said/wrote.

  • Maybe I've just had bad luck. I had an issue where my second monitor wasn't being detected at all in Linux, but was fine in Windows. There was a fix, fortunately someone in a forum had the same issue, but it was a command line fix. And IIRC it wasn't permanent either - I think I had to retype it on reboot.

    I also have a 3 button mouse with the middle button set to double click in Windows. There was no linux driver for it. I'm sure its possible to get it working, but quite how, I've no idea.

    Basically I've installed various flavours of Linux maybe 5 times, and each time had to abort and go back to windows after a day or two because I couldn't find how to fix a particular issue.

  • For me, I've been using Windows for so long that when I want to change something, there'll be a UI for it somewhere. In Linux, you have to learn a bunch of text commands and modifiers. And if you don't already know what they are, you don't know what to search for to find them.

    One of these days I'll learn out of necessity. Until then, Windows it just too convenient