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  • you gotta admit that there are psychological effects on avid adult viewers and more on minors

    Citation needed when we're talking about implementing laws and opening up lawsuits suing for $75k+. Multiple robust peer-reviewed citations needed. Preferably not funded by a Catholic church group.

    Also it's a leap to say top-down privacy invading laws are the way the state or federal government should handle it instead of the concerned parent monitoring computer usage. There's so many free and subscription based parental control tools out there. Comprehensive sex education would be a potential alternate way for the state to support parents and teens to educate them on porn consumption and safe internet usage.

    FYI, NCOSE, the group joining (likely funding) the lawsuit, is against comprehensive sex education.

  • I hope those aren't his real initials because it seems like there's more than enough information to identify him between the article and complaint filing. Poor kid doesn't deserve to be dragged into this.

  • Ty! TIL. I've probably seen it many times before, but it only jumped out at me this time given the Olathe, KS setting and strong fundie Christian vibes.

  • Agreed. As a lawyer friend once told me, "you can sue someone for damn near anything. It doesn't mean you'll win".

    I imagine the "disability and disfigurement" will get sussed out at some point and either backed up w some sort of evidence, or taked out from the rest of the complaint.

  • Pretty sure those NCOSE assholes are the ones who said school shootings and other mass murders are because of moral decline due to gay people.

  • Jeebus, I need backup plans for Friday nights.

    Page 8 & 9 of the court filing (not the article):

    Through this time, Q.R. was able to access chaturbate.com on thirty different instances: [...] seven instances on August 30, 2024 [...]

    Bruh, make sure to hydrate.

    Page 13, absolutely fascinating to me that "prays for judgement" is stated and whether that is at all common:

    Plaintiff prays for judgment against Defendants in an amount in excess of $75,000.00 for: a. actual damages resulting from Q.R.’s access to material that is harmful to minors, including but not limited to past medical expenses, future medical expenses, past and future lost services and disability, past and future pain, suffering, and disability [...]

    Page 15, looking for more details on alleged "disfigurement":

    As a direct and proximate result of Defendants’ negligence, Plaintiff has suffered and will continue in the future to suffer the following damages: a. Pain, suffering, disability, disfigurement, and mental anguish [...]

    It goes on to talk about pornography causing a shift in perspective on sex and possibly leading to addiction. Not finding anything specific on the alleged "disfigurement".

    I'm left to assume poor Q.R. will have to deal the rest of his life with the friction burns caused by jerkin' it 7+ times on August 30, 2024.

    His mom also demanded a jury trial, so Q.R. can rest easy knowing 12 strangers will hear about his friction burns and give it the serious attention due.

  • I coached my grandma to just repeat "I want to talk to a human operator, please" over and over until she got through. It worked about 70% of the time but some are nearly impenetrable.

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  • Yep. Alexander Skarsgard as Murderbot. I think it needs more time than two episodes to cook and find itself before I pass judgement. I will watch at least another couple episodes.

  • Ha, two people I tagged so far in this thread. One for being a self-described and proud redpiller type (I don't remember the specifics on that one) and one for conversing in bad faith; that person kept arguing with well-sourced fact. Think flat-earther type stubbornness to acknowledge reality for the sake of being funny or edgy. There's a time and a place for that, but it was on a serious topic where everyone else was taking it seriously and trying to be genuinely helpful.

    I haven't tagged you, OP. Yet.

  • Ah, you want specialized instead of general.

    Well, then is a couple of books enough to train your LLM? How many books are there on wavelengths your first doublet filters for?

    Seems like you might want a forum full of topic specific comments too to feed into the model. A photography textbook with a section on lenses is good, real questions and answers from actual photographers with real scenarios would be better for most people.

  • If copyright were magically not an issue, why does this need to be local/self hosted?

    Like sure, some people will still self host and we need some people to keep information independent of corporations. But for people who just want a summary of a car maintenance task, why would they go to a local repository instead of the largest one they can find?

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  • I would need more specificity around "basic human needs". It could be that only 1-30% of the world's population don't currently meet that threshold, so sure, easy call to lop off pinky thru middle finger on my non-dominant hand to help them. I mean, ask "would you cut off your pinky finger to stop the genocide in Gaza?" and that would be a hard, fast yes and that's way less than 10% of the world affected.

    If we're talking past basic survival to full universal healthcare and universal basic income... I'd consider all ten fingers with more details. I'm super sus of any monkey paw curls, so I want to understand the ins and outs before I say all ten fingers.

  • During COVID I switched from a sit-stand-walk around type job to WFH sitting for the full 8+ hours. I found myself spiraling into some real hip and lower back pain until I invested in some new home office furniture to enable more standing and moving around.

    Cheapo walking treadmill was the best $125 Bezos bucks I spent during lockdown.

  • New medicine down the road of ozempic and other hormone mimics/manipulators. I think we're going to see a step change increase in how much control people can exert over their bodies when genetics and environment are a challenge.

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  • Never conceived... that makes me Jesus? So either tap into that sweet church money or get crucified.

  • When it was a younger sibling getting the beatings. When it was targeted a me, I always justified it thinking I must have done something to deserve it. But watching the attention turn to the younger, I realized there was nothing us kids could do to be "good enough".

  • You don't get points for hobbying the hardest. IMO, you might benefit from focusing on enjoying a hobby and stop making it about efficiency.

    "Feeling guilty" about not being the best at a hobby is a bit of a "please consider therapy" flag.