It may be understandable to view the novel as high art using pedophilic themes to craft an intriguing story, with no intention to titillate.
Then you check out the author’s other work…
It may be understandable to view the novel as high art using pedophilic themes to craft an intriguing story, with no intention to titillate.
Then you check out the author’s other work…
The exhausting thing is this literally happened. Trump shat his diaper in court and the MAGA crowd started the “Real Men Wear Diapers” bowel movement.
“But council I was merely casting the humble and fun Balloon Animal spell ~targeting penis~”
My favorite fact about all this is that Spielberg insisted on the giant raptors during production. Around the same time the Utahraptor was first being studied, an actual giant raptor about the same size.
Less fun fact, it was gonna be name Utahraptor Spielbergi but it was changed last minute because Universal was suing museums over the word Jurassic. Trademark trolls ruin everything.
Guy on the right, look at his sheer confidence!
He’s already won and he knows it.
Literally what uprooted my “rational” centrist opinions on everything.
The timetable quote just hit me and my sensibilities like a truck.
Yeah but then you get older and it doesn’t cut it anymore so you switch to the harder stuff.
I say Psychosis because I forget the exact mental disorder he had.
I also say “it’s not bad” as in I’m not judging him for it.
I’ve met four different people involved in the military and also have met four questionable people.
My dad, never got deployed, was in prison for fencing items, also owned businesses that in retrospect were suspiciously ideal for money laundering. o7
Then my childhood friend, sprayed nazi graffiti around town, went to juvie, now serves the troops. o7
Then a coworker, former military (allegedly), has a psychosis (which isn’t bad!), and was harassing his ex at her work based on delusions (which is bad). o7
Then a different coworker at a different place, active military, very authoritarian despite not knowing much and not being our supervisor. Made everyone uncomfortable and frustrated including our actual supervisor. Now he’s becoming a National Guard. o7
Here is an article about it. Even if it’s technically right in some ways, the language it uses tries to normalize pedophilia in the same ways as sexualities. Specifically the term “Minor Attracted Person” is controversial and tries to make pedophilia into an Identity like “Person of Color”.
It was lampshading the fact this is a highly dangerous disorder. It shouldn’t be blindly accepted but instead require immediate psychiatric care at best.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/feb/28/googles-gemini-chatbot-soft-on-pedophilia-individu/
First the Google Bard demo, then the racial bias and pedophile sympathy of Gemini, now this.
It’s funny that they keep floundering with AI considering they invented the transformer architecture that kickstarted this whole AI gold rush.
I believe proper gun safety teaches people to treat every gun as loaded and safety off. Same reason it’s extremely unsafe to point a supposedly empty gun at someone.
Since discovering I’m trans I’ve shaken myself out of this hardcore “rational” mindset that I feel is poisoning the internet.
It’s the moderate point of view that the marginalized needs to remain “civil” and shouldn’t get overly emotional or say anything hyperbolic.
Every statement needs to be followed with multiple asterisks responding to every possible angle of your statement. All until everything boils down to tepid “bad things are bad” statements, or writing things off as “case by case”.
It’s this hyperdrive to remain unbiased to the point that taking any stance reveals your biased and you lose.
Our ability to sit around and debate all day like greek philosophers is a recent luxury that’s drying up. We need to commit to action, and action requires strong emotional stances by the marginalized.
Can’t wait for FOSS brain implants, it would still be hellish but a fun kind of hellish.
I want someone like Linus Torvalds to verbally abuse someone for not understanding basic computational neuroscience.
There was a weird incident in class where a good amount of my classmates, including some who were POC, believed that black people were biologically more aggressive based on anecdotal experience.
I’m white but I was arguing against this because it made no sense. As a possible explanation I argued that black communities are typically poorer because of history (slavery, segregation, ect) and that poor and desperate communities are whats more likely to be violent.
It seemed to get them to pause for a moment. I’m sure I wasn’t as nuanced as I’d be now but I was a dumb reactionary teenager talking to dumb reactionary teenagers.
Rule of thumb is that Computers love base 2 numbers (2,4,8,16,ect) and hate prime numbers 7 and higher.
Don’t get distracted from the important moral of all this:
There was a sewer man.