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  • Whether the porn has good or bad politics won’t actually change whether or not they believe we need to be kept away from children

    I don't know how much it would actually effect it either way but it definitely determines whether whatever narrative and characterization is present implies it. If it's furry porn it is way less likely to have the typical hentai theme of woman + penis = uncontrollable sexual aggression for instance.

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  • That's all fair, and I can see how right wing porn memes contribute to that kind of problem. Trans women need more non-pornographic representation and not be automatically treated as fetish objects. Still, I think it's relevant that this is about something someone was saying about furry porn, which as a whole has pro-LGBT politics.

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  • Why are you assuming the depiction would be dehumanizing? Just how constrained do you want porn artists and their viewers to be? Bigoted and hateful porn exists, but so does porn with a progressive message, and the distinction is not which groups of people have been depicted.

    If you want to focus on the word and move the euphemism treadmill along because it's become associated with offensive stereotypes, that's understandable, but you're probably not getting any closer by calling people r*dditors just for saying it. As porn tags go I think 'futanari' is overall on its way out, for instance you won't find it on the tag lists of e621 posts because the word is aliased to other tags and not used directly.

  • The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter

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  • What is the concept even, it's hard to parse the ad-copy speak about what the software they're pushing does

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  • I think maybe there's more layers to it though, to me what stands out first about this is the perversity and wrongness of a bloodstain from a presumable homicide being framed and regarded as art at all.

  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

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  • Because I don't trust you and shouldn't have to.

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  • By how they talk about people who aren't part of the conversation. Someone focuses a lot on heaping contempt on former coworkers and romantic partners, it's a bad sign.

  • Canberra bar declared a crime scene as police seize 'clearly satirical' posters under new Commonwealth hate laws

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  • "In the new legislation, there is a defence carved out in relation to [art and literature], but the defence has to be made out first … it has to be borne out in the court process.

    Free speech but only if you go to court to prove you're allowed to say it...

  • I'm Not Into Politics

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  • I think the biggest issue is people are trying so hard to get you to think a certain way about politics, that having an actually good and proportional understanding of what is going on and what the real options are, and expressing that effectively, is somewhere between very difficult and impossible. Of course everything is enmeshed with politics, and you might care about that, but if you also know that you are not immune to being manipulated it might be a reason to think engaging in overtly political discourse won't be useful or good for you.

  • House committee advances bill to ban chemtrails

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  • HB25 provides a means for enforcement of the law under the Alabama Department of Environmental Management. The Department would be required to establish a publicly available email address and online form for the reporting of violations. residents could also report what they believe to be violations by telephone or mail.

    I wonder what the job of an ADEM Chemtrail Investigator will be like

  • Do you read books on your phone?

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  • I used to before I got my ereader. IMO the way to do it somewhat comfortably is, get an app that lets you display epub files in dark mode (light text on black background), and turn the brightness down until the text is visible but doesn't strain your eyes. Unfortunately PDFs do not play nice with any reader software so you're going to want to look for other formats, or convert them and put up with conversion artifacts.

  • Tiny Homes Are Big in Texas—and They’re Selling ‘Rapidly’

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  • Mobile home owner here. I'm pretty sure that most of their bad reputation as an investment is because most of them do not come with the land, but if they do come with the land, then as an asset they will behave more like other real estate. The main thing that is valuable about a home is that it confers the legal right and practical ability to live in that location, but mobile homes placed on rented land categorically do not.

    To address the other points (warning: c/dull_mens_club style content ahead):

    To give an example of a repair task related to custom appliances: The water heater broke, and replacing it was complicated by the differences between normal and mobile home water heaters; the latter are smaller, and the cold water intake pipe is on the bottom rather than the top. I had to downgrade to a slightly smaller, mobile home approved tank because the previous one was a regular water heater too large to be up to code as it is placed in a small contained closet and there are clearance requirements. The floor underneath it also needed some repairs, which were fairly simple. All of the plumbing, electrical wiring, and joists underneath the floor can be accessed from the crawlspace by cutting through the wrap material and insulation with a utility knife, and then stapled/taped up when done, which is a little awkward given the lack of space, but everything is accessible without that much difficulty. The cost of the whole replacement was mostly the tank itself, which was more expensive than a comparable non-mobile-home water heater, but only by $100 or so.

    Overall, the thing is a really simple single story structure, and compared to what I saw my parents go through trying to maintain an old farmhouse it seems like easy mode.

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  • I like that they're also banning anyone not doing a similar ban

  • Can you touch type?

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  • Yeah, I took a class in highschool where they just had us play a typing game until we got good enough at it. It really helps to learn the correct form and be using the right fingers for the right keys, once you get it in your muscle memory you don't have to really think about the individual letters anymore and the words just appear when you intend them to.

  • Is there a good way to tell if music was made with AI?

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  • There are a bunch of music artists who used to use random images for youtube thumbnails who switched to AI images when it became viable, I assume because it's more legal not to use copyrighted art without permission and because they could have more control over the image, so I think it would make sense to also look for some other indications the music itself was generated.

  • What advice or tips do you have which sound like nonsense but really work?

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  • I guess that could make sense if there is such a narrow range of possible outcomes and everyone has some clear objective idea of a baseline, but I've gotten freelance gigs where I would have been willing to do it for say $X, but was offered like $3X and was very happy to have kept my mouth shut and not talked numbers at all before that point. If I hadn't I think I might not have gotten the job at all because the price being lower than the expectation would have made the client worried about the quality of the work, and even if I did get it that would have made them less satisfied with the deal.

    As for your other comment, it's not always true that combativeness will make people less satisfied with a transaction. I remember a particular situation where I was negotiating with another freelancer who was obviously also purposely avoiding saying a number, and I ended up caving when it got truly absurd and cited some past payments to use as a reference point. I was personally more satisfied with the deal because he did that, because it increased my respect for him; we were going to be working together and it was nice to feel that I could trust him to not be a pushover in general.

  • What do y’all think about Cloudflare?

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  • It's a free way to get a reverse proxy for a self hosted website and not expose your home IP and avoid attacks, so kind of hard to pass up tbh.

  • Which Animals are the worst, and why so?

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  • Killed the most humans is a pretty strong qualifier

  • (Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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  • Someone in the hackernews comments links a bluesky post by the author of the article that adds more context: https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p. He claims the use of those quotes was an inadvertent mixup of his notes due to being sick and in a rush, and that he didn't intend to include any AI output in the final piece.

  • (Ars) Editor's Note: Retraction of article containing fabricated quotations

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  • This whole story is a little bit confusing since there are two entirely separate ethically questionable uses of AI by different parties, the person running the rogue coding agent, and the author of the Ars article using AI to misquote the victim of that coding agent.