Oh right. My mistake. I guess when it comes to art then anything that isn't obviously a child is technically legal, if distasteful and morally more than questionable. At least that is the legal situation in most countries.
My objective is the minimisation of harm. If someone uses artwork and that means that they will never touch an underage person then that is a good thing even though I may not like it.
Adults. Where I am from the word adult only has one meaning. An adult is a person of 18 years of age at the very least.
You said "mature looking" for which a 16 year old person might qualify depending on the exact interpretation which is not ok. It doesn't matter what they look like, it matters whether they are an adult or not. Going for looks reminds me of creeps going "he/she is so mature for his/her age". That is not ok.
Yeah, but those are the not-annoying ones. I don't care to spend 10 days installing 10 versions of the "Microsoft(c)(r) C++ Redistributable" or whatever it is called and 25 KBs in the right order with reboots in between on slowdows just to get a fucking compiler in CI. Compare this with a 5 second apt-get install mingw-gcc and done.
That's not accurate. They can look at it, but they can't port it. But looking at how it works and then coming up with their own implementation is fine.
I keep forgetting that in the USA it's normal to keep cats indoors. In my country it's the opposite, it's the norm for cats to go outside. We think that "jailing" them in a house isn't appropriate. I've seen cats that were kept indoors, they were like depressed slobs despite their many toys and cat trees and whatnot in comparison to the ones that get to go outside as they please.
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