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    Other ads animated a photo of a 14-year-old Instagram influencer “showing off her new sports club uniform” into “a video of her performing oral sex.”

    Ok that’s enough internet for now. Please alert me when it is safe to return.

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        fwiw, I think this is their actual endgame: use digital to convince people this isn’t a small cabal of the ultrawealthy causing so much of this harm.

        They say dictators don’t need majority support, only a majority of people doubting themselves.

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        Humanity’s fine if we ripped down these over-paid pedos instead of allowed them to run billion dollar scams…

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      Don’t wait standing

      (I dont know if this translates, in argentina we day “get yourself a chair” or “don’t wait standing” meaning that something wont happen)

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        The meaning of the idiom is remarkably clear in English. I propose we adopt this one.

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        I think we say, “don’t hold your breath,” in English.

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          Or “don’t count on it” (because if you did you’d be counting for eternity)

          I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now…

          “Why don’t you wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first”

          … yeah, I like the chair one

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            When I was a kid I thought the saying was “why don’t you piss in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills first?” And I was like wow adults are gross

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              My mother used to say “If wishes were horses,” and I had no idea where that came from. I didn’t get internet until after her death in 2001. I looked up that saying and the complete version is, " If wishes were horses then beggars would ride. " Apparently, it’s a very old saying so I guess adults weren’t always gross.

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                No, that’s wrong. Here’s the correct saying: If wishes were horses than I horse you a wish cock up the ass.

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              idk which hand you’d fill first doing that method, lmao

              It’s basically just a crass way to say “wishing is for suckers”

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                idk which hand you’d fill first doing that method

                Definitely the piss hand, unless your bowels are unwell.

                …is not a sentence I thought I’d be typing today 😄

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                  Liquid is harder to hold tho, so I think it depends on how you (subjectively) define when your hand is “full”

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            That sounds kinda close to an old saying I’ve heard once in over 40 years

            Put a finger in your mouth and a finger in your anus, and hope; if that doesn’t work, switch around.

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      Better pull the plug on that bell, because “it’s here to stay”, some people says proudly.

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    There’s a nonzero chance oligarchs are pushing this to normalize pedophilla.

    Like how Ghislane Maxwell was super involved in early reddit and their main draw for a long time was “legal” sexualization of children.

    Especially since it’s a common accusation they make against “the left”. Most of the time when they accuse, it’s a confession.

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      zuck attended epstein’s party at one of his “properties” along with other well known billionaires in the past, he definitely knows or is involved.

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      Libertarian types, which the right is part of, see CSAM as just “recordings of crimes”, so they likely do it intentionally, to slowly change the general public’s view on the matter.

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        If you knew much about libertarianism you would know what the non-aggression principle is, and you would know that we don’t condone or approve cp

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    As bad as this guy is (literally just one of THE worst guys), I can never get over how his wife is a pediatrician and they have three daughters and she’s just along for the ride? The damage that family does to millions of children, and especially girls, through their direct action and inaction is astonishing.

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      I really feel bad for parents like you. What a horrible era to live through. Younger people like me, who don’t have any direct siblings or significant others don’t have much to worry about. But I can’t even imagine what it must be for people with families.

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    You know how in the movie Idiocracy they used " 'baitin" as a shock factor, and had all the woman characters be demeaned and sexualized?

    Somehow, this is a lot worse.

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    This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.

    Today’s kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country’s economy. Capitalism is going great.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)

      I good deep dive is the You’re Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)

      TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that’s a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.

      Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.

      Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.

      This is the United States of America.

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        Yeah, honestly, you could go way further back.

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

        A Venus figurine is any Upper Palaeolithic statue portraying a woman, usually carved in the round.[1] Most have been unearthed in Europe, but others have been found as far away as Siberia and distributed across much of Eurasia.

        Most date from the Gravettian period (26,000–21,000 years ago).[1] However, findings are not limited to this period; for example, the Venus of Hohle Fels dates back at least 35,000 years…

        For context, we figured out agriculture and started to move away from hunter-gatherer life about 12,000 years ago.

        These figurines are recognised as some of the earliest works of prehistoric art.

        Most have wide hips and legs that taper to a point. Arms and feet are often absent, and the head is usually small and faceless. Various figurines exaggerate the abdomen, hips, breasts, thighs, or vulva, although many found examples do not reflect these typical characteristics. Depictions of hairstyles can be detailed, and clothing or tattoos may be indicated.[5]

        The original cultural meaning and purpose of these artefacts is not known. It has frequently been suggested that they may have served a ritual or symbolic function.

        I have a guess.

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        Its a bit overstated. Sure, Sony blocked adult material from Betamax, but VHS simply had longer running time on the tapes, a larger library, and far cheaper hardware.

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          Same with Blu Ray. People claim that porn was responsible for the adoption of it over HD-DVD, but Bluray was a disc with nearly double the capacity in the same form factor. In what world would people choose HD-DVD?

          People didn’t care that betamax was technically better quality. You couldn’t record an entire sports game on a betamax tape.

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    So by viewing ads you get CSAM in your browser cache. Therefore you can be charged with 1 count of possession for each image saved. Failure to use an ad blocker is dangerous.

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    Surprise! Nazis do not only exploit the marginalized, but also find and exploit weaknesses is ordinary people.

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    Uk what sucks? We knew AI was capable of it from start. Hell, we even saw this happen on twitter. And yet what we did? Just let it happen. Gave a slap on the wrist to elon, and did nothing to address this.

    I remember when I first saw nano banana I immediately deleted all my profile photos, and looked up on wayback machine to see if any of my photographs were archived or not. Yeah it’s kinda late and it must be somewhere on some hidden archive, but atleast I’ve bought myself some time. Since that day I have maintained a strict policy amongst my friends and family that I’m not going to be in photographs that are going to be posted online.

    Also I want to be clear, I’m not saying it’s corporations responsibility alone. It’s responsibility of individual people to not use it. This is freaking crime. But I’m pissed how world is trying to make it the new normal, and regulators have been too sluggish to respond to it.