Yep, it’s always about profit and control with these assholes, never about what’s right or wrong. And even the religious pretext is just utter bullshit from where they’re standing, using it to make the pill easier to swallow for the brainwashed masses, nothing more…
These people don’t give a fuck about any sort of god or code, they just want more money and more power. That’s all there is to it.
Good point, I do feel my brain liquefying and gushing out through my friggin’ ears when seeing what we’re doing to ourselves…
Or, y’know… they could do some actual parenting and talk to their kids about this. Kids aren’t morons, they’re just inexperienced. They are actually capable of understanding, like, words and stuff as long as one offers enough context for them… Actually teach the kids to use the internet, help them develop some insights.
And if anyone’s panicked about the immoral stuff going on in the porn industry (and there are plenty of things to be addressed and critiqued about a hystorically predatory domain), then address those directly! Friggin’ nurture their critical thinking and empathy! Locking them up in the fucking basement isn’t gonna Protect Them From Evil™, it just ensures they’ll be maladapted and sociopathic once they manage to escape from fucking prison! (no pun intended)
Edit: I will say this forever and ever - it is the parents’ duty to adapt to the world in which their kids have to live, not to force their kids to adapt to a world their parents wish would apply!
Why not just gouge out their eyeballs, it’s the only way to make sure!
Oh, what’s that, it’s not actually about the porn, it’s about getting everyone to self-submit personal info to your shitty databases? Ooh, ok, gotcha!
Edit: sorry about the non-sequitur, I’m losing my fucking mind…
I’m laughing constantly because I’m losing my mind! Haha!
Said it better than I did, exactly!
I honestly don’t think letting go implies giving anything up! I see it as letting go of the emotional load of some memories, but not of the memories themselves. I still choose to remember everything which happened to me, because it’s my past and I can do what I want with it, I just don’t let them burden me with emotions past their Best Before date (which is nonsense in practical terms, but I’m using it metaphorically).
Plus letting go of old things makes room for new things, like how one will never appreciate a current partner if they’re hung up on an ex. I see the same thing applying to everything else, including humanity ourselves! Gotta let go of the old in order to make room for the new.
I mean… sure, there are similarities between the activities in the sense that they’re all escapism in one shape or another, but I wouldn’t associate American Pie with Cow & Chicken* (edited in as a better example, as they even share a certain kind of lewdness), for instance. Nor would I think that a KitKat is the same as a joint.
It’s always all down to brain chemistry and changing it through various external stimuli/substances in essence, but I strongly believe that each type of escapism and escapist stimulus generates its own, very specific effects.
Adults are just children, though, yes. 100% agree with you on that!
All we need to do is patent that shit as distinct from wired headphones (“it’s just a backup system, bro, not the main mode of transmission!”), then sell it for ten times its production costs apiece (we’ll outsource to a Freer™ country, of course!)
Heey, maybe make it multiple wires, have it act as a backup transmission system in case the BT fails!
On the flipside, the rate at which I forget my phone in a different room has increased significantly since switching to wireless headphones…
Plot twist: it really isn’t after a point!🙁
Money! Money, money! Money money money, money, money money… Money money? Money money money money money!
Yep, I get it. Think I have it, used to have a very independent tomcat living with me (he was not my pet, they were all my flatmates, one of the dogs was my brother, so you get an idea of the type of relationships going on). We got along very well, but he LOVED to play-hunt me around the apartment (he had a lot of verticality at his disposal), so much so that he became that lovable sort of annoying. He’d hop in my lap and I’d get that urge to lovingly squish his brains out when massaging his face (he also loved this=))) ).
Or how I’d hug my first cat Maia, a very Bothered™ and aloof individual in general, giving her a tight but benign squeeze, or would hold her for a couple more seconds once she’d had enough of the touching, already!:))
On the flipside, Ralph, the German Shepherd who was also my brother, loved doing this to me! He’d drop me to the ground, then would sit on me (he was a big boy, and I was ~30cm shorter at the time=)) ), or he’d paw me heavily when I started annoying him by pretending to ignore him, stuff like that:))) Oh! And he loved chewing mum’s hair because he knew she hated it=))))
Yet another thing already perfected by humans. It’s called “drunken monologuing.” Sounds like words/coherent ideas until one sobers up.
I mean… everyone’ll want the D once they’ll standardise it:-?
In all seriousness, this would make the most sense in terms of progression in design. It already sorta’ is just that, but it’s been stepped on.
Hah! Just hit me, if I’d seen a USB-C plug back in the day, my first thought would’ve been “oof, someone isn’t playing bootleg cartridge games for a while!”
It would be hilarious if they made it exactly like a headphone jack, but the USB-D slot wouldn’t support headphones.
Hah! Aaahahah, fuck you, German Court!