Schadrach @ Schadrach @lemmy.sdf.org

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Yeah pornhub seems pretty legitimate and safe these days.

Yeah, they got threatened a few years ago with essentially banking cutting them off if they didn't make a concerted effort to purge anything shady, which they achieved by purging basically all end-user uploads that weren't verified models or studios.

Too bad there aren’t other porn sites with massive libraries of content that apparently no one in power has noticed.

The states aren't banning PornHub from being accessed there, PornHub are blocking themselves from being accessed from those states so as to not need to comply with new state laws requiring ID proof of age to access because they don't want to handle personally identifying information of end users. So basically you're just waiting for law enforcement to notice and charge them, and then find out if they're run out of somewhere the state can reasonably do anything about it.

Wikipedia is one of the last, best sources of information on the Internet that isn’t biased, corporate-sponsored bullsh*t.

Instead it's bullshit built upon elaborate bureaucracy which has it's own layers of issues depending on exactly what topic/field we're talking about.

The biggest and most obvious flaw being that it's more or less explicitly designed to fail spectacularly as regards any topic that the media doesn't want to talk about (for example, anything that might make the media look bad) because there's going to be an intentional lack of "reliable sources" on those topics.

The definition of a "reliable source" is another - there's a fair bit of jockeying on that which functionally biases WP. Especially when you start looking at what disqualified a given source from being "reliable" and start to notice that the bar seems to be set very unevenly depending on the particular source and how well liked it is by certain power-editors.

It's good enough for anything that's not politically contentious to anyone, but I would never use it for anything other than a vague overview and starting point for other sources to dig into.

Being serious, it seems like he picked his people from a couple of pools.

1. Republicans with a lot of social media clout.
2. People plausibly accused of being Russian agents.

Every couple of years Chinese make a new Sun Wukong move, TV show, or videogame.

Let's not forget that in the same way you can trace a huge amount of things you see in Western stories to the Greek epics and Gilgamesh you can trace a huge amount of things you see in anime/manga to the Journey to the West.

You're actually demonstrating my point - I said "a common noun" for one and "a term" for the other. The whole point is that any "acceptable" language for those notions (a person of the sort who possesses female genitals and potentially has ova that she could hypothetically carry to term and identifies as a woman and a person attracted to the sort of person they might hypothetically be able to reproduce with) has to have at the very minimum an adjective if not an entire phrase attached to it.

For example, imagine someone tried to re-popularize the old English words to refer to cis folks, using wifmen for cis women in this example. That would immediately be deemed transphobic, specifically because it's a common noun to refer specifically to cis women and not a shared category you have to use an adjective or phrase to differentiate from.

Same thing applies to orientation - we have a lot of words for sexual orientations. But a word for a person who is attracted to cis people of a given sex relative to one's own is unacceptable - the very idea that there could be a term for it is transphobic. Despite sexual attraction being one of those rare cases where what genitals you have and whether or not they're the original equipment is actually relevant.

Also wouldn't "gynephile" meaning one who has an attraction to women still not be precise enough, since women includes trans women by definition, at least the feminine ones?

Let's say yes, since we're in a hypothetical. Breeding fetish, perhaps? Maybe just someone who's specifically looking for a long term relationship leading into children?

Except "woman" doesn't mean "female person" anymore, it means "anyone who identifies as a woman" because attaching any common noun at all for people based on sex rather than gender would be accused of transphobia.

It's kind of like if someone asked what the term for the sexual orientation of someone who is interested in partners they could hypothetically reproduce with is, the answer is there isn't one and suggesting there should be will get called transphobic.

The billboards aren't saying Americans will rape them, but the smugglers smuggling people into the country, which does have a high incidence of happening.

I mean the point of all rating systems in the US was fear of government regulation of content and having to fight that particular legal battle. It basically exists because moral busybodies were upset about Night Trap, Mortal Kombat and Doom.

Kraft singles are still cheese. They've just been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate.

No, if it was just cheese that's been pasteurized and adulterated with sodium citrate it would be pasteurized process cheese. A couple other additional additives are acceptable.

When it has other additives but is at least half cheese by weight it's pasteurized process cheese food.

When it's pasteurized process cheese product it's not meeting any of those standards. Often because it's less than half cheese or an addictive outside the accepted list to meet the other definitions is being used. Milk protein concentrate is an example, but also increasing the fat content with something like vegetable oil or adding flavoring agents to make the result taste more like cheese.

The FDA caught Kraft singles not meeting the definition of pasteurized process cheese food something like 20 years ago which is why it's labeled a pasteurized process cheese product.

For any curious, the sodium citrate is an emulsifying agents that helps the natural cheeses used melt together smoothly, and pasteurization was originally done to prolong the life of the resultant mixed cheese as the whole original point of American cheese was to reprocess ends and scraps into something homogeneous and comparatively safe for long distance overland transport before refrigerated trucks were a thing.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they realized they were never going to convict her of anything. Protected speech that also references a wildly popular killing is just not something you're going to be able to convict over.

My money is on fusion before proper socialism.

Utopia is literally "no place" for a reason, and anything less than a utopia will be deemed "not proper socialism" (like literally every place that has ever tried some flavor of communism/socialism) so my money is on fusion as fusion is more likely than utopia.

Hey now, we have some of the best healthcare in the world if you can afford it, and healthcare stats that demonstrate just how few people that actually is.

The implication is that someone is going to come off as a likely mark and for example get invited into a private user group with people "joking" with things like the Happy Merchant or being ridiculously over the top in a way that's hard to take seriously to ease people in to taking white supremacist ideas seriously.

Ever seen the South Park episode about the Passion of the Christ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Jew)? The idea is basically that that is constantly happening online anywhere it's not sufficiently prevented.

The ADL considers Pepe a hate symbol, which I agree with is daft but that's kind of key to their data and they are considered experts in the field by most. They scanned Steam with some automated tool looking for hate symbol images, came up with like a million hate symbols detected. If something contained more than one detected hate symbol, it got counted as however many hate symbols the tool detected (so for example Pepe saluting a swastika would count as a Pepe and a swastika).

Almost 55% of those were Pepe. The next highest was the swastika at 9%. A literal majority of hate symbols they detected with that tool were Pepes, at more than 5 times the rate of the next most common symbol. It's literally included to make the problem bigger in the hopes that most readers either won't look that deep or won't know what Pepe is.

EDIT: Another fun one is if you go look at their hate symbol index, about an eighth of two digit numbers are either hate symbols or part of a hate symbol.

I am a big GOG enjoyer myself, but when I need to use steam for anything, I have never encountered such content.

You've never seen a Pepe meme on Steam? I'm not kidding there either - if you dig into that ADL link and follow it to the research, they have a list of top extremist and hateful symbols on Steam and the swastika is number 2 at 9 percent of detected symbols. #1, representing something like 55% of extremist and hateful symbols their automated detector found on Steam was Pepe.

Perhaps there is such content in private or otherwise not very visible spaces (such as user profiles), where they will not get reported, but that is true for any site with user content. I call BS on this being an issue.

If you dig into their research, it's mostly private user groups and profiles. Game discussion pages are moderated by their respective devs or whoever the devs appoint but user groups are moderated by their owner/appointees and user profile pages aren't really moderated at all unless you're doing something actually illegal in the US.

So unless you go looking at the user profile pages of white supremacists, or go searching for white supremacist user groups you won't run into much of it.

The two could be combined. Any shooting of three or more executives would be a mass shooting of executives. By a mysterious masked man that no one can identify.

...and the fancy steam engine version of solar is probably greener to build that photovoltaics, since it's basically just a boiler and some mirrors.

You’re going to face more hardship than ever before.

Yeah, but private businesses won't be arresting them for doing crack or meth or heroin or w/e. Just firing them for it showing up on a urine test, or just because they feel like it or w/e.