Desperate to be the center of attention as always

Oh wow, it even comes myelinated. Thank you gary

I thought the point of secure boot was to make it harder to install linux

“Missing the point” is very hard to falsify because it is too subjective, so I won’t touch that. I think you expected the paper to be empirical, which is not the case, it is an analytical piece.

Referring to your concern, the paper cites research by Takatsuki Yasushi, mentioning that sexual abuse of minors in Japan was statistically much more common during the 1960s and 1970s and has been decreasing since that period, a trend that roughly coincides with the increasing prevalence of fictional lolicon. Two things to notice: One is that this is an old paper so it could be that things changed more recently. Another one is that this doesn’t mean lolicon inhibts CSA, it just means that it isn’t a predictor to it, which is justified by the depictions having nothing to do with real children.

I never said that a pedophile was a child rapist and I know there is a difference. My point with the analogy is to point out that the depictions of the “shoujo” in lolicon are not representative of actual children (as pointed out in the paper).

The comparison with violent video games was to show that the representation of something like a “battlefield” in a video game is really not close to actual warfare, that even applies to these historically “accurate” video games.

Also, regarding your last point, the paper that I mention also cites a reduction is CSA during times where lolicon was more prevalent.

It is difficult to have this discussion because not many really want to actually think about it but I’ll do it anyway.

I guess the main concern is about how this sort of content could coerce people to attempt their fantasies in real life. However, the subject for a lolicon is a symbol and the subject for a pedophile is an actual individual. To say that lolicons are pedophiles is equivalent to say that gamers who play violent games blowing up buildings or slashing people into a million pieces are terrorists. “Cest une pipe”.

What we know is that there is no direct implication between consuming this content and engaging in criminal activity. People have different minds and respond to things in different ways, lolicon is not a predictor of pedophilia. Also, the Catharsis hypothesis, the one where people say engaging on it would keep someone from committing a related crime doesn’t seem to be true either.

This one is a an oldie, but it is a nice overview about this topic if you want to get some context:

https://www.imageandnarrative.be/index.php/imagenarrative/article/view/127/98

I think the most important point of this paper is that the shoujo depicted in such content no longer corresponds to an actual real depiction of the prepubescent and are no more than fantasy.

What does the crab mean?

Ecofascism, as far as I know, is when you use an extremist authoritarian enforcement of racist beliefs under the pretext of environmentalism, which is not what I claimed. I am not particularly targeting a specific group of people but humanity as a whole and I do not enforce my beliefs unto others at all really. Antinatalism is an existential problem, not a political one.

I have a vasectomy if that is what you asked

I know

I think humanity should go extinct anyway and avoiding having children seems to be a peaceful way to do so. The more we breed the more we perpetuate the agony of existence.

False

This level of cruelty makes my blood boil so fucking much

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_to_hide_argument

Governments want you to think they know everything about you but they really don’t, although they relentlessly want to, which is why they pass all of these surveillance bills. For this case specifically, the verification is done by a company owned by Peter Thiel called Persona, not the government. In either case, no one should know everything about you because privacy is a human right.

Again? I’d just give up having values at this point and become even more absurdist I guess

Questioning social norms doesn’t necessarily makes you an asshole, it depends on how it is approached.

By not defying them we will remain stagnant, imagine the downhill slope we would end up on if no one ever questioned why a man shouldn’t love another man or a woman shouldn’t love another woman.

People shut you down because many are intolerant to change and have their values under scrutiny is seen as hostile, but that doesn’t imply compliance is productive. Of course, you don’t want to this all the time, but teaching your kid to repress their displease of social norms doesn’t sound good either.

Hitler was sentient too

The electricity requires a thermal machine, thermal machines are not 100% efficient, so part of it is wasted as radiated heat. That’s just thermodynamics.

Now, claiming we shouldn’t have AC because their work derives from heat also applies to literally anything that does work, including freezers, so it is not a valid argument at all.

The solution is to rely on solar, as the heat source is external to the planet

You can say the same about refrigerators