they’re always bringing experts or activists on the news to agitate about porn and there’s a standard script for this that’s like “I think sex education is important, I’m not anti-sex, but so much of this porn is violent and misogynistic if not outright illegal, and it’s far too accessible to our children”
I want to see someone finally be brave enough to say that the government should just make its own porn for teenagers that accords with community values, so they don’t have to go to these shady places to get it. I think the government porn would probably be pretty bad but I would be so eager to hear about the process of designing it. there would be so many stakeholders and consultations. in canada it would have to be bilingual
BILINGUAL CANADIAN PORN NOW
how would they do it? just subtitles? or do the actors need to say the french line immediately followed by the english line and vice versa? or will there be a voiceover? will it be published twice, with the second having been dubbed?
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #our home and cherished land #politics cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Having your own personal blog is honestly quite a nice change of pace compared to Reddit. I could put a funny GIF of George Bush getting hit by a shoe on here and the worse case scenario is that no one even notices.
You put that on a big subreddit and you get your eyes gouged out and a heap of political discourse underneath your post.
YOU HEAR THAT EVERYONE??? I’M A LIL GECKO BOY
The Redditors really are adapting well to the ecosystem here.
official tumblr gecko???
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#Reddit #Tumblr: A User’s Guide #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #politics cw?
One view of the internet that I find important is that it’s an amoral ecosystem of ideas, many of which are poisonous to you and can have effects ranging from ‘making you waste your day angry at someone’ to ‘causing you join to a cultish crusade for or against some political ideology that renders you incompatible with large swathes of mainstream society’. If you are a very online person, you cannot just take content as you go, otherwise the hungriest and most efficient predators will snap you up and consume huge amounts of your mental resources. If you are Very Online, the internet will radicalize you by default.
The fact of radicalization is neutral. Certainly there’s nothing guaranteed to be good about the things you already believe and the ways you act; there are extreme-relative-to-society viewpoints and movements floating around that will, in my view, make you a better person. But the majority will not, just because there are more bad things than good things, more incorrect things than correct ones. There’s nothing that says morally righteous movements (or the ones that will make you more thoughtful and happy) are more memetically powerful and good at capturing the imagination and belief system than the immoral.
If you read an unusual claim online, there are two equally important questions to ask about it – the first, of course, is “is this correct?”, and the second is “if I take this seriously, and become the kind of person who believes it, how will it change my life? Do I accept that?”
For me, the thing that most sets my attention vibrating with caution is contempt or mockery. There are some times when I think contempt/mockery is the emotionally appropriate thing to be occupying my mind – but it’s uncommon, nowhere as frequent as the internet would have me be. And contempt easily worms its way in my mind – “these people are contemptible” is a lesson I learn keenly and quickly because I’m afraid of being mocked and want to know what to avoid. Is sincerity cringe? Is being vegan obnoxious? Is being into this particular show embarrassing?
I hate a lot of stuff and love to complain, and am given to understand this is a common human trait, so there’s nothing surprising, or intelligently malicious, about the fact that the internet is brimming with jabs. But, even more so than the real world, the internet tends to amplify contempt – you get to see the wittiest comments someone made in the past week making fun of something, with numbers that indicate that a boggling number of people approved of that statement. You get to see compilations of the stupidest comments the people you dislike said, captioned “this is what they really believe”. In my brief forays to break out of my Democratic bubble in college, I followed some conservatives on social media, and the most surprising thing wasn’t that their points were convincing – I didn’t find it so – but the idiocy of the US liberals they tended to respond to. Some of the most embarrassing people in the world shared something like my beliefs, and they were getting attention in the other camp, same as how their worst people got the spotlight of shame on mine.
So when I see something online practically designed to evoke anger or contempt in me, I don’t treat it as the same kind of thing as anything else in my life. This is a radioactive piece of space rock thrown at me by a vast machine that gives me nice things and friends and is known to function in ways that attract radioactive debris and centrifuge it out at my face. Yes, this screencap of an obnoxious person probably corresponds to a real thing someone said, but treating it primarily as a real thing someone said that I have to have an opinion about, rather than a radioactive space rock that the machine spat out at my face, will have terrible outcomes for my worldview, priorities, and personality.
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#infohazards #politics cw? #that one post with the thing #I’m not sure *what* I think about this post‚ but I definitely think about it
#environmental storytelling #god there are so many details here #I think my favourite thing I’ve spotted so far (and by favourite I mean most horrifyingly plausible) is that #Florida is rapidly vanishing beneath the ocean but a zillion people live there anyway #(I live in an area expected to make out relatively well in its new climate and #you *bet* your ass my parents thought about that when deciding where to settle the family down) #home of the brave #climate change #politics cw?
I can’t trust any take on Disney from someone so clearly ignorant of what he’s talking about that he can say this with a straight face:
“That is because in normal times you must choose perhaps four or five big rides, each lasting mere minutes, and spend hours waiting in line to be admitted to each.”
Dude, just showing up at a major Disney ride and expecting to be seated is like just showing up at a fancy restaurant and expecting to be seated: in both cases *you are supposed to make a reservation*. When I went in the autumn of 2015, ride reservations (“FastPasses”) were quite flexible (one-hour usage window) and very often available on a same-day basis: while we *had* reservations months in advance, we made last-minute adjustments to them pretty much every day (you can do this on your phone, thanks to the complimentary Wi-Fi [link]).
(Also a part of me is going “you’re complaining about how expensive everything is and yet you stayed at the fucking *Contemporary*??”, while another part goes “why did the Atlantic send some poor dude with a COVID-19-naive immune system to fucking *Florida*? they’re a bunch of Americans in the summer of 2020: did they *seriously* not have anybody who’d had it already that they could send instead?”)
Still, it’s interesting to hear some reporting from the field. Just…with some caveats.
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#Disney #reply via reblog #covid19 #home of the brave #politics cw? #illness tw
Me, even though Donna’s ending was over a decade ago: Here’s how Donna can still win
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#so I went and looked through this person’s #Donna Noble #tag and there is some quality stuff in there #but also #yes this #in this house we are *never* over Donna Noble #Doctor Who #politics cw? #(for the meme) #amnesia cw?
Their next performance is an extended monologue where they just wildly misunderstand the role and structure of the Supreme Court; at one point they seem to be under the impression that Chief Justice John Roberts is a werewolf.
For an encore they deliver a lecture about the alleged political career of Ludwig van Beethoven, who they appear to regard as one of America’s Founding Fathers, in spite of his having been six years old when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
(Partway through, the lecture drifts into a rant about the various historical inaccuracies of the stage musical Hamilton. The harshest condemnation is reserved for playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda’s decision to depict the title character’s infidelity as the turning point of his career, entirely omitting the far greater scandal that emerged when it was revealed that Hamilton had received uncredited lyrical assistance from Beethoven in his Congressional rap battles.)
Brinens and Things 