oh yeah that turntable? it is a bog standard $5 plastic piece of junk manufactured in bulk in China. you can easily fix it with a hammer.
HatchetHaro
joined 7 months ago
i know i'm going to get downvoted for this.
this current reaction to the subject of underage sexual relations is entirely based on societal standards.
for example, the whole talk of "pedophiles are monsters" are pretty much exclusive to the western world due to the US being on a pedophile scare craze, so much so that sitting at a playground would already give you the "child predator" label and have the police called on you.
in the eastern world, on the other hand, it's less prominent. it's treated as a crime, yes, but it's not sensationalized. as an extreme example, lolicon media is legal in Japan, and some anime is stuffed with sexualized depictions of adolescent-looking girls that happen to be like a hundred years old or something. it's all legal, because it's not real, and there's way less of a scare about it.
in ancient Greece, pederasty was socially-acceptable, where a man can enter a romantic and sexual relationship with a male youth. also, bottoming was shameful and would get you ridiculed, so any sex in pederasty was often intercrural (between the thighs). the whole thing really throws a wrench into the whole "ancient Greece was a gay haven" thing. shit was wild.
it is a paraphilic disorder. a paraphilia is basically a fetish; a paraphilic disorder is a paraphilia that, if satisfied, is harmful to society or self.
i've also seen some people describe it as a sexual orientation. i disagree with that, but at the same time homosexuality was considered a paraphilia a while ago, and the difference between sexuality and kink isn't quite so well defined or researched, so i see where they're coming from.
i love my kuru toga, but i don't really write much anymore. i do still like doing sketches in my sketchbook, and i'm biased towards mechanical pencils, so it's a #1 for me.
Veering slightly off topic, but does anybody know if there's an alarm clock app that rings at set earlier times to the final alarm?
For example, I want to wake up at 8:00am, and so I set one single alarm for 8:00am, along with "earlier times" of 30 minutes, 15 minutes, and 5 minutes. The alarm will then ring at 7:30am, 7:45am, 7:55am, then 8:00am.
I'm basically sick of having 4 alarms for every separate thing I have to wake up for.
omg Gator Days is my current favourite webcomic series. it's so wholesome!
for your bedtime browsing, you might be able to solve your problem with some form of gooseneck phone mount.
right now, i can't think of anything other than the BFB hit in Splitgate.
i mean, it's just ads. you're blowing this way out of proportion just because of some unintrusive ads.
devs gotta eat. if you prefer FOSS, that's great! i love FOSS software too! but boost is like home to me, even with the ads.
it's either that, or attributing anything related to social welfare to communism or at least a slippery slope to communism.
you need to change the gamma on your monitor.
to be clear, gamma is not brightness or contrast, but rather more of a curve. to put it simply, it changes how bright the middle grey colour is the most, while leaving white and black the same.
in your screenshot, if that colour not visible to you, then that means your middle grey is too bright.
hard agree on everything said here.
keep in mind i've never stated what should or shouldn't be. all i've stated is that societal standards surrounding this subject have always been different between different cultures and times.
oh, and an opinion that ancient greece was wild.