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paultimate14

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  • The algorithm

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  • I wish that these platforms had better options for having multiple DIFFERENT algorithms that would be easy to switch between. I think this is specifically referencing Tik Tok, which I've never used myself, but it applies to things like YouTube too.

    Sometimes I want to go down a rabbit hole of music, gerting fed content about musical equipment or videos from new bands that might interest me, or talking about music theory. Sometimes it's crafting- woodworking, metal working, 3D printing. Sometimes it's information about TV or movies or videogames or books. Sometimes I want to dive into history or engineering.

    All of these very different watching "moods" are using the same account with the same algorithm. And maybe you could argue for making multiple accounts and switching, but that seems like a pain. And while I don't pay them, if I did then the multiple different accounts would be an issue.

    I've really appreciated Lemmy features, although some might just be specific to the Connect app. Its very easy and simple to have different accounts, usually on different instances, that I switch for different things. It's easy to set up a "multi" to group similar communities together into one feed. I wish all the apps for media consumption were like that.

  • An exclusive, members only restaurant with a limited menu. Some people pay top dollar for that

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  • Fun fact: people below the age of 18 are allowed to, and often do, go on dates.

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    What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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  • The big noticeable effect lasts probably about an hour. But I'd say there's probably a 10% residual clarity that sticks around and slowly goes away over a day or two.

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    What does it feel like to be a horny man?

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  • I think I agree with your sentiment that sex is overrated. I quite enjoy it, but the way it is portrayed in media is usually more extreme than my own feelings and those of men around me.

    I remember when I was around 16-18. I started to diet and exercise, was on the tail end of puberty in my physical prime and drenched in hormones. Went to high school and was surrounded by people my own age experiencing the same. Culture and marketing leads to high school girls constantly fighting with the adults and dress codes to wear skimpier, tighter clothing. I had my first girlfriend and we were both excited to start messing around. And there's a philosophical component- why do we exist? We are a repeating pattern (DNA) that exists not for a reason, but because it can. Life that does not procreate dies, so in a sense procreation is the most life-y thing you can possibly do.

    At the same time, I knew better. I was lucky to have sex education and not be in a very religious household. A couple of friends, and my first girlfriend, were victims of sexual assault. I had seen other men succumb to their desires, ruin their own lives, hurt people around them. Not to mention the very real threats of pregnancy and disease. So even while my physiology craved it and my philosophy guided me towards it, my mind pumped the brakes.

    The physiology waned as I got older. Or perhaps just distracted with college and work, maintaining an apartment and then a house. My energy was directed elsewhere. My wife and I quickly settled on having sex roughly once a week.

    About a year ago though, we created a polycule with another couple. It was really hard for me to keep up at first. I would have to watch my nutrition- make sure I don't overwat or ear heavy and greasy foods beforehand. Make sure I was working out and physically active in general, but not a full workout right before or else my muscles would be too tired. Mentally, I would have to start purposefully thinking about sex for several hours beforehand to make sure I was in the right headspace and ready to perform. The past 3 months have been suddenly dry due to just calendar issues and some minor medical procedures in the group, so I've found myself in this routine of trying to be horny and keep up but suddenly without the payoff of it. I also have a touch of the 'tism and really like predictable routines and long-term planning while the other 3 people are bi-polar or severe ADHD, and they all seem to have little issue with going from cozy to horny almost instantly.

    The actual feeling of horniness I think is similar to most other biological functions. Being hungry or thirsty or sleepy, needing to urinate or defecate. I view it similarly, ideally on a roughly 2-4 day cycle. Ejaculation, which leads to a period of post-nut clarity and calmness that slowly fades over a couple days. I'd find it difficult to get hard for a couple hours after, and difficult to cum again for at least 6, more like 24 hours after. By day 4 I noticed I start to get a little bit more irritable, a little bit more stressed out by little things. Longer than that and sexual thoughts start to interrupt my normal thoughts processes. Blue balls is real too. I know some men exaggerate the affect to manipulate women into sex, and some women have started to think blue balls isn't real, but the reality is that it's real minor inconvenience that I try to avoid.

    The Wolf of Wall Street scene where they talk about masturbating multiple times a day is hyperbole, but not entirely inaccurate. I think there's a lot of value to a quick, utilitarian jack off for some cheap stress relief and clarity. Having sex with others is fun, but people obsess over it too much in my opinion.

  • Lina Khan I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout harms gamers&developers

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  • With how much money the companies involved have available to capture regulators I never expected any other result. It was, however, disappointing to see so many people in gaming communities defending this acquisition as some sort of battle of the console wars or something. I got called a Sony and Nintendo shill a lot for pointing out that this merger would be bad for pretty much everyone.

  • Fatten the beast

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  • We have 2 cats. One will bully the other off of the wet food, so we have to lock her in the basement to feed the two separately, and let her out after like 20 minutes.

    My wife and j have referred to it as "freeing the beast". As I walk over to the door to open it, hearing her meows from below, I like to give a dramatic monologue. "The time has come to break the seal, to unleash the insatiable hunger our predecessors sealed long ago". The little things that give life a bit more spice.

  • Google is blocking AI searches for Trump and dementia

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  • Dimensia Donny seems like a nickname that could fit

  • Shooting at Dallas ICE detention facility leaves 'multiple injuries and fatalities': Noem

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  • Ah thanks- the article keeps updating as info is released.

  • Shooting at Dallas ICE detention facility leaves 'multiple injuries and fatalities': Noem

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  • I hope no detainees were harmed

  • 'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers

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  • No. That means that the farmer's costs go up. The price in the supermarket is set by consumer demand, so an increase in cost at any point in the chain (farmer, logistics, retail) reduces the profits of ownership.

    This is why minimum wage increase have been consistently proven to NOT have the dire effects that conservatives claim they will.

  • 'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers

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  • “The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.”

    What wages are you offering? Perhaps you are the one who has been spoiled by cheap labor.

    “We moved to H-2A out of necessity,” added Sarah Zost, an orchard grower in Gardners, Pennsylvania. “No one wants to use the program. It’s a paperwork nightmare.”

    So it's fine to require these immigrants to jump through all sorts of hoops and navigate the beauracracy, but for these poor American farmers running businesses it's simply too much to ask.

    The cognitive dissonance with these fools is astounding.

  • The White House Apparently Ordered Federal Workers to Roll Out Grok ‘ASAP’ | A partnership between xAI & the US government fell apart earlier this summer. Then the White House apparently got involved

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  • Seems like confirmation the whole Elon v Trump falling out earlier this year really WAS just pure theater.

  • J. Michael Springman- UNCLE SAM AND FRIENDS

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  • The image quality is not helping, but I think that's Turkey, not China.

    I'm pretty sure the US is holding hands with Saudi Arabia. Israel could be holding hands with either Bahrain or Qatar, but given the context it's almost certainly Bahrain. The dogs from left-rjght are France (probably), Turkey (probably), UK, Germany, ???, Italy. With Ukraine in the corner.

    My vexillology is failing me on the one dog. The lighter blue plus the small dots that appear to be constellations kind of give me island vibes. It's almost like if Tuvalu had just a shield with the English colors instead of a full Union Jack (not that Tuvalu's inclusion makes any sense anyways) in its corner. Doesn't match NATO or the UN or the EU. Maybe it's an old flag, or one for some organization I'm not thinking of?

  • J. Michael Springman- UNCLE SAM AND FRIENDS

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  • I was interpreting this as a commentary on how these countries are being treated by the US and Israel, not a commentary on how they should be treated. The Trump admin has been treating Ukraine like shit and treating European allies like dogs.

    It's entirely possible that you're correct and this is supposed to somehow be an anti-Ukraine message, but other than "Ukraine = Shit" I'm not sure how it would tie in with everything else. I'm also not sure why Ukraine is here at all.

    If I imagine a Russian trying to cram a Ukraine commentary in here... This seems like a natural spot to repeat the story Russia has been trying to sell that the Ukrainian government is secretly run by Nazis, but the artist chose not to do that.

    And there's no Russian flag. That makes it harder to figure out if this is Russian propaganda or not. Which may be why they aren't included, or it could just be that the artists didn't think they were relevant because they're really trying to show how the US is controlling these other nations to prop up Israel.

    Trying to look up J. Michael Springman, the only thing I can find is this guy. I'm not sure if this is the artist or not, and if it is I'm still not sure whether he would be pro-Ukraine or anti-Ukraine.

    The whole inclusion of Ukraine is definitely weird. The cartoon would probably be better off without it. I'm just not sure I have enough info from the comic itself to fully conclude the artist's intention here.

  • The forgotten war on the Walkman

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  • Honestly there were some food points back then. A lot of people simply are not able to wear headphones responsibly. It's only gotten worse with noise cancelling technology. The ability to ignore the outside world is great when you're in a safe space to do so, but people doing it out in public or while driving are absolutely mad.

    The quotes about "breaking societal connections" or whatever are funny to me though. Because that was happening at the time, but it had far more to do with the erosion of 3rd places and the rise of car-centric infrastructure than it did headphones.

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  • "Are you tired of your AI spouse getting reset after every update? Well, for just $19.99 a month you can have access to our new LLM model wAIfu!"

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  • I have to wonder... Are these real humans mourning the loss of their AI companions, or AI bots mourning the loss of their AI bots? Did the "lost" bits ever exist in the first place?

    Is this all a viral marketing scheme to get people to use a specialized AI bot for their artificial companionship?

    I'm saying all this just because I've never actually talked with anyone who has admitted to having a relationship with an AI chat bot. I've never even heard of a friend of a friend of a cousin of a coworker of an acquaintance. That doesn't mean these people don't exist - there's probably some sampling bias involved simply because people who fall in love with AI probably don't talk to a whole lot of real people. But my years of experience on the internet have taught me to be skeptical.

  • Why do you think payment processors are restricting their policy to exclude pornographic content?

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  • I see two possible explanations:

    1. Class warfare. The same people banning porn are the ones banning abortion, banning homosexuality, banning gender transitions (although they never seem to ban the same therapies for cis people), banning sex education, banning contraception. All of these attacks on individual sexuality are to try to push people into unprotected heterosexual sex. At the same time, these same political groups have been attacking both parental support systems and child labor laws. They want parents too desperate to rebel. They want children working. They want a larger supply of labor: more supply means more competition amongst workers for wages, which means the labor is cheaper.
    2. Power. Maybe these payments processors don't actually care about pornographic games. But attacking pornography in the name of "defending women and children" is easy to sell to the public and sets a precedent for these payment processors violating neutrality. So eventually they will move to banning games that are too violent (well, they've already been trying for decades). Then it'll be games that are too "extreme" or promote "terrorism". If these payment processors don't see any consequences soon, I expect in the next 5 years they will try to take down any games that are anti-Zionist. Maybe games that are pro-Ukraine. In 10 years it could be any sort of left-leaning game. Disco Elysium for promoting communism. Horizon for depicting climate change. Stardew Valley for allowing same-sex relationships and being anti-corporate.

    Notice that these discussions never seem to apply to copaganda. It's perfectly fine to be violent and bloody as long as that violence is authorized by the state. The US Military offices have a well-documented relationship with Activision for Call of Duty, so you aren't going to see any of these groups call for CoD to be banned.

  • Singles are in your area!

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  • Men, particularly the vast majority of working class men, are victims of the patriarchy even at the same time they receive privileges. There's an unfortunate sentiment among the woke that people who happen to be part of a privileged group are bad. White people are colonizers, straight people are toxic, men are all violent sexual predators, etc. For a lot of people, it's much easier to be woke and fight for an equal and just world when the victims of that oppression are obvious.

    If this exact same comic was made by JK Rowling and replaced "men" with "trans women" or "trans men" the comments section would be (rightfully) shooting it down as being bigoted.

    All that aside, from a practical standpoint it's also worth pointing out that any sexual assault expert will tell you the vast majority happen between people who already know each other. A victim is more likely to be abused by their own family members, family friends, teachers, religious figures, youth leaders, coworkers, or significant other than they are a random stranger. Of course, it's always dangerous to meet strangers (robbery, fraud, and more).

    Which is important to point out because it's a very quick jump from "women don't feel safe because of all of these men around" to "well let's get rid of the most violent men". Which, oddly enough, tend to also be a part of whatever group they are trying to eliminate. Jews in pre-WW2 Germany, black men in America, communists in McCarthyism, Hispanics under Trump, Syrian refugees in Europe. It always starts with "this group wants to hurt our women and children" and ends with everyone losing rights to authoritarian regimes.