GreyEyedGhost

I'm open to new things. I'll keep an eye out for it.

People have been sending NSFW pictures one way or another probably since people started making pictures. We have images scratched into the walls in Pompeii. There are certainly issues of consent, abuse, and advertising that need to be addressed, but demonizing pictures of naked people is also a problem.

As for all those alternatives you mention, the vast majority of fediverse applications/instances seem to be "like [insert commercial entity], but hosted by individuals/the community? How many people would be on Lemmy if Reddit was offering them what they wanted? When you have control or alternatives the odds of finding what you like improve. And some of those things people will want to share will be images, videos, and yes, even porn. But even without porn, if the service isn't meeting people's needs, which I agree includes no or fewer ads, then it simply won't survive.

I didn't know it affects cheese. Now I'm scared, too.

Something tells me there would be agreements between the instance provider and a media hosting provider and as such the media hosting provider would probably have some disclaimers about what they're willing to host (war porn, regular porn, what have you). The two host providers would have to make sure everything they want to provide and everything they don't want to host agree. I mean, there's already lemmynsfw, so free porn hosting is already happening.

I honestly think the whole media hosting aspect of federation is dangerously flawed as long as instance hosts are still paying for storage and bandwidth, and I'm not sure how to fix it. It will cripple small instances with popular media if they host directly, but not hosting directly has a possibly lesser impact on all instance providers, with a higher aggregate impact. Tough choice. I don't know enough about CDNs to say if that can solve the problem, depending on how media is federated.

This is going to need to be resolved if federation is going to grow to the next level. I hope someone finds an answer that works well enough for everybody, even the porn users and providers.

Yeah, after that he doesn't have to spell it out, does he?

It reminds me of a giant English muffin. Interesting texture, visually, I wonder how it feels.

The case is clearly textured in the closeup. Grinding it down will definitely mar the surface, but sanding might be more effective.

That's a fair stance. I'm not a fan of getting high, but I'm even less a fan of making people live the way I want to live. And we absolutely need to expand our toolset for dealing with neurochemistry imbalances that are leaving people unable to enjoy life, as well as changing our societal structures so we don't have so many people being unhappy for perfectly legitimate reasons.

I'm not generally a fan of GMO, mostly because we're just not very good at it. Food with pesticide throughout when natural variants would just have it in the skin? Maybe not. That said, this looks like the perfect candidate for GMO. I dont mind having beta carotene being throughout the whole food, and i dont care if it gets expressed in the rest of the plant (not that i know if it does). If I could buy this in the store, I would. Sometimes I don't feel like carrots. Also, saying they could get their Vitamin A elsewhere while completely ignoring widespread deficiencies in various regions is the stupidest argument I've heard in a while.

Some of those pills make you more you.

Imagine waking up every day knowing how hard just everything is going to be, how it's going to take every ounce of effort you have to be and act the way you want to, like carrying 100 pounds on your shoulders from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep.

Now imagine taking a pill and that burden is just...gone. You get up in the morning, and things are fine. Something happens on the way to work, or at work, or your kids just do some dumb kid shit when you get home from work and, rather than having to have one more thing on that giant burden you've gotten used to carrying around that puts you over the edge, it's just one thing. You deal with it and move on.

That's what being on antidepressants was like for me. I'd wake up and be in a good mood for no damned reason. Bad stuff would happen and I wouldn't be upset for the day, or the week. I loved being on antidepressants. And when it got to the point where nothing was bothering me nearly as much as it should have, I talked to my doctor and got my dosage reduced, then eventually stopped my prescription altogether. Taking that medication for 5 years was the best thing I could have done, and I wish I'd done it at least a decade sooner.

This may not be how it turns out for everyone, but don't stigmatize taking pills just because of some perceived weakness or dependence. Sometimes it's exactly the right choice. Sometimes psychedelics may be the right choice. Everyone is different, and will need different tools to help them deal with their stuff.

Flag burning is probably the highest you can get in the ratio of dissatisfaction with your nation to violence caused. I say leave it just for that alone. There is the free speech/expression argument, too.

Cool, I'll give you a pass on the genocide, but you will still be as responsible as anyone who voted for Trump for all the other terrible things he said he will do that you are doing nothing to prevent.