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I am begging the mods to make this into a rule
The fact that this account is posting this meme, when it's the current top contributor to this sub, is ironic.
#botfails
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I am begging the mods to make this into a rule
The fact that this account is posting this meme, when it's the current top contributor to this sub, is ironic.
#botfails
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Spider which uses spring trap to capture prey discovered in Australia
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It's not like FNAF invented the term or anything.
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TIL about Thermoelectricity
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To my understanding, no. Heat pumps will always be magnitudes more efficient.
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Malaysian government replaces the term ‘LGBT’ with ‘deviant culture’
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We just changed govts. Trust me when I say this is the lesser of two evils.
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Have an AMD GPU? You can build your own SteamOS Steam Machine
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Hardware features? Background updates? Sorry, could you elaborate?
Edit: Man, this deserved a downvote? Hilariously thin skinned, ain't ya?
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Have an AMD GPU? You can build your own SteamOS Steam Machine
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I mean, how is a background update a hardware feature?
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I hate seeings these posts on shitty corporate social media
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I was just kidding. I lived a few years in Aus, it was awesome
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I hate seeings these posts on shitty corporate social media
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You took the risk... It did not pay off :D. I was in Adelaide for most of the time, though yes, I did visit Sydney for a couple weeks.
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Pedo party vote NO
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Yes. Regardless, can you really blame them for not wanting to be labelled pedos?
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Pedo party vote NO
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Following the effects of a new law in the Czech Republic that allowed pornography to a society previously having forbidden it allowed us to monitor the change in sex related crime that followed the change. As found in all other countries in which the phenomenon has been studied, rape and other sex crimes did not increase. Of particular note is that this country, like Denmark and Japan, had a prolonged interval during which possession of child pornography was not illegal and, like those other countries, showed a significant decrease in the incidence of child sex abuse.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49644341_Pornography_and_Sex_Crimes_in_the_Czech_Republic
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-csam-pedophilia/
https://virped.or/ g/vpp20240204/ (Feedback from actual MAPs)
To be clear - I'm not saying the science is in favour of ANY option, I'm saying that due to the stigma on this topic, we are severely lacking in hard data. All we have are hypotheses. It would be nice if people could stop sending death threats to researchers and social workers who try to bring up the well being of MAPs as a topic of discussion and research.
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Pedo party vote NO
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Following the effects of a new law in the Czech Republic that allowed pornography to a society previously having forbidden it allowed us to monitor the change in sex related crime that followed the change. As found in all other countries in which the phenomenon has been studied, rape and other sex crimes did not increase. Of particular note is that this country, like Denmark and Japan, had a prolonged interval during which possession of child pornography was not illegal and, like those other countries, showed a significant decrease in the incidence of child sex abuse.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/49644341_Pornography_and_Sex_Crimes_in_the_Czech_Republic
https://www.wired.com/story/artificial-intelligence-csam-pedophilia/
https://virped.or/ g/vpp20240204/ (Feedback from actual MAPs)
To be clear - I'm not saying the science is in favour of ANY option, I'm saying that due to the stigma on this topic, we are severely lacking in hard data. All we have are hypotheses. It would be nice if people could stop sending death threats to researchers and social workers who try to bring up the well being of MAPs as a topic of discussion and research.
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'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
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Pretty sure it was your classification that was idiotic
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Copper drug clears toxic Alzheimer’s proteins and restores memory
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The Internet is full of Dunning Kruger idiots who don't understand profit maximisation but believe they do.
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Pedo party vote NO
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To my understanding, people with this issue use the term to differentiate themselves (i.e. attracted to minors, but haven't acted on those impulses) from those who have acted on said impulses (pedophiles). Given the huge stigma connected to the label, I can perfectly understand why they'd want to make that distinction very clear.
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"Cold spot" in the ocean has baffled scientists. New Study Says It's an Ominous Sign
I guess Atlantis turned on their W/C
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Pedo party vote NO
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Yes, the legal issues would be a huge can of worms. I'm not advocating for free use of AI CSAM, I'd just like some actual research to be done instead of going with the 'think of the children' kneejerk reaction.
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Fire for You
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It's vague enough that you can fit any social issue of your choice in there.
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Love positivity
I've never seen it, but now I want to try it myself.
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WhatsApp's "End-to-End Encryption" Is the Biggest Lie in Tech History
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What are you going on about? It reads perfectly fine. Are we just throwing spurious accusations around now?
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CD Projekt Red boss believes some fans were forever burned by Cyberpunk 2077's disastrous launch: 'I'm convinced that we lost the faith of some people indefinitely'
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Funny, all the recent press articles I can find from after their updates are positive.