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Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

Exploring diverse perspectives on contentious subjects.

Sharing my honest beliefs, welcoming constructive debates, and embracing the potential for evolving viewpoints. Independent thinker navigating through conversations without allegiance to any particular side.

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AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action
  • You made three claims:

    1. Fueling the child addiction will harden the persons mental health problem.

    2. One of the ways to help a person with such addiction, is to replace it with adult pornography.

    3. Fueling it with more of that content won’t do any good.

    I asked for a source for these claims because obviously you didn't just come up with this yourself, so I'm assuming there's some study to back these claims up which I asked you to provide, and instead you gave me a link that even you admitted doesn't talk about any of this.

    Also:

    It’s obviously stated there is psychological help.

    From the study you linked:

    ..healthcare providers must rely on data from international literature. These clearly demonstrate that simple psychotherapies do not lead to a reduction in the risk of reoffending. On the other hand, therapies such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and, even more so, the combination of CBT with pharmacotherapy targeting hormones, significantly reduces the risk of reoffending.

  • AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action
  • You made three claims:

    1. Fueling the child addiction will harden the persons mental health problem.

    2. One of the ways to help a person with such addiction, is to replace it with adult pornography.

    3. Fueling it with more of that content won’t do any good.

    I asked for a source for these claims because obviously you didn't just come up with this yourself, so I'm assuming there's some study to back these claims up which I asked you to provide, and instead you gave me a link that even you admitted doesn't talk about any of this.

    Also:

    It’s obviously stated there is psychological help.

    From the study you linked:

    ..healthcare providers must rely on data from international literature. These clearly demonstrate that simple psychotherapies do not lead to a reduction in the risk of reoffending. On the other hand, therapies such as Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and, even more so, the combination of CBT with pharmacotherapy targeting hormones, significantly reduces the risk of reoffending.

  • AI-generated child sex imagery has every US attorney general calling for action
  • Mind linking the study you're refering here?

    Majority of pedofiles never offend and most of the people in jail for child abuse are plain old rapists with no particular interest in kids per se, they're just an easy target.

    This is the same old "violent games makes people violent" -argument all over again.

  • It shouldn't be called ADHD; it should be called restless brain syndrome.
  • It's kinda crazy sometimes, how I notice I've been thinking the same thought for minutes. I don't think I have ADHD, but probably ADD, my mind is just all over the place through the day, but after a bowl it all just calms down. Kinda like a group of people organizing into a queue.

  • When did you finally feel old?
  • For as long as I've remembered people have been telling me 'just wait untill you're x-years old.." and yet almost none of the things that were supposed to happen when I get older still haven't happened at +30 and I have a feeling it's not going to happen at 40 either. I refuse to get old as fast as my parents generation.

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  • How do these cars even connect to the internet? Can't you just not let them? Obviously you can't use the built in navigation or spotify either then but it's not like you can't just use your smartphone for that like I already do with my -07 truck

  • We're really just electric horny meat bags.
  • 'Look for what's looking' is something he often says in his daily meditation sessions on the Waking Up app, which famously frustrates people. 'There's just consciousness and its content' is also a direct quote from him.

    Neither of these he probably came up with by himself, but that's his way (and in my view, the best way) of saying it.

  • Viestihistorian tallentaminen

    Saako täällä mitenkään ladattua koko viestihistoriaa teksitiedostona mieluiten siten, että siinä olisi pelkästään viestit ilman mitään timestamppeja etc.

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    Vuorokausiajastin lämminvesivaraajaan

    Voiko tuollaisen perus 5€ vuorokausiajastimen pistää lämminvesivaraajan töpseliin, että voisi vähän enempi hyötyä halvemmasta yösähköstä? 2KW näyttäisi olevan varaajassa tehoa ja Opalin ajastin tuotetietojen mukaan kestää 3.5KW. Kyseessä on siis aivan tuollainen töpseli seinään varaaja missä ei ole kuin lämpötilansäätönuppi.

    Mitenköhän pitkään tuollaisen 100 litran varaajan ylipäätään edes tarvitsee olla päällä vuorokaudessa? Kahden hengen käytössä ei ole vielä ainakaan koskaan loppunut kesken.

    Jostain tässä on pakko koittaa säästää kun tuntuu inflaatio kumoavan kaikki jo käytetyt konstit..

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    What does the fear of being judged by others hold you back from doing that you would otherwise do?

    To be fair I still do these things but only when I'm alone.

    Personally I love finding big puddles and then dig drains with a stick or my heel and watch the water flow.

    Also love to throw a piece of wood into water and then toss stones high up in the air and try hit it imagining it's a warship I'm trying to bomb.

    Then also without going into details there are some pieces of clothing I would like to wear but don't because they're considered femine or gay.

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    Have you ever been under general anesthesia? What was it like? Did anything strange happen?

    As a compliment to the thread about near death experiences I'd really like hearing people's experiences of losing consciousness under general anesthesia and what's it like coming back.

    Also interested of things anesthetists may have noticed about this during their career.

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    Zombie Survival @sopuli.xyz Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

    Besides death of loved ones and the scarcity of food - what do you think would be most challenging to you about living in a post apocalyptic world?

    I think that living in a constant fear or being attacked is something many people don't think about. As someone who regularly spends time alone in the woods at night I know how your minds start playing tricks on you and it can get quite intense and scary even though you know it's just animals out there. Just imagine trying to sleep in a abandoned house and then hearing a zombie walk outside. Even if you made sure that location is as safe as it can be that's still going to be terrifying as hell.

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    I had been putting off repairing this rust spot for a year. Decided today is the day. It's rusted thru

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    Put some new shine on my +10 year old Haix Airpower P3 hiking boots.

    I use these alteast 3 times a week while mountain biking. Fits my foot like a glove and still holds water. Hands down the best shoes I've ever had.

    One thing to note though is that these are not for winter use. The rubber gets hard in cold weather and has zero grip on ice and I truly mean zero. Ask me how I know lol

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    Zombie Survival @sopuli.xyz Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

    It's been 3 years since the start of the outbreak and somehow you're still alive. What are the key reasons for this?

    I guess I'll go first:

    • I stayed home for the first few weeks and waited out the worst chaos
    • I was prepaired enough that I could stay at home
    • I own a 4x4 truck and had several spare canisters of fuel which enabled me to bug out eventually with all my gear and no need to stop looking for fuel
    • I stayed away from malls, supermarkets, gas stations and other hotspots
    • Every time I encountered a zombie I ran away instead of fighting it
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    Could you resist a true virtual reality and should you?

    Lets assume we develop the capacity to create virtual worlds that are near indistinguishable from the real world. We hook you up into a machine and you now find yourself in what effectively is a paraller reality where you get to be the king of your own universe (if you so desire). Nothing is off limits - everything you've ever dreamt of is possible. You can be the only person there, you can populate it with unconscious AI that appears consciouss or you can have other people visit your world and you can visit theirs aswell as spend time in "public worlds" with millions of other real people.

    Would you try it and do you think you'd prefer it over real world? Do you see it as a negative from individual perspective if significant part of the population basically spend their entire lives there?

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    Zombie Survival @sopuli.xyz Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

    How are you planning to keep yourself fed during the first few months after the outbreak?

    Personally I've got enough food stored at home to survive the initial phase but if not I'd probably rather try to raid abandoned private homes instead of heading to the closest grocery store. I believe it's wise to avoid hotspots like that especially in the beginning.

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    Zombie Survival @sopuli.xyz Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

    What would be the safest places to sleep in during the apocalypse?

    I'd feel the safest somewhere off the ground. Second floor of a building with the stairs blocked/destroyed or perhaps in a hammock high up in a tree. I don't think I could fall asleep knowing they could just sneak up on and grab me

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    Zombie Survival @sopuli.xyz Thorny_Thicket @sopuli.xyz

    In your opinion what is the SECOND best melee weapon for a zombie apocalypse?

    I'm a bit torn between a splitting axe and a mace/morning star of some sort.

    An axe offers better penetration and is useful for other tasks aswell but perhaps posseses greater risk of getting stuck. A mace is not as versatile but is highly effecive when making direct contact with the skull and is unlikely to get stuck. A mace is also easier to improvise and customize for individual preferences.

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    Zombie Survival - A place to discuss the hypothetical scenario of a zombie apocalypse

    This is the niche topic I'm into and since nobody else has made a community for it I made one myself.

    All related discussion is welcome: preparing, weapons, base location, vehicles, tactics, rebooting civilication etc.

    https://sopuli.xyz/c/zombiesurvival

    [email protected]

    Zombie Survival

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    Any chance of being able to add content filters in the near future?

    My feed is currently being flooded with r/place spam that I could easily hide with a content filter like I did on reddit. Would be really nice to get this feature on the blocked-page.

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    My trusty E-Fattie with half-finished duct tape camo paintjob

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    For how much longer do you think this tire is going to hold? (satire)

    This indeed is my bike and it's been like that all summer but I'm not actually concerned that it's going to catastrophically fail on me though it might. Already have a new set of tires but I'll try to save them for winter to save the new grippy tread pattern.

    The extreme wear is most likely caused by running these at 4 - 5psi while it's way freezing outside.

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    What does defederating actually do?

    Now with all the discussion going on about Facebook joining the fediverse and what to do about it many people seem to be advocating for defederating with them thinking that they're going to grab all your data and this is the only way to stop them.

    I'm not especially educated on the subject but my understanding is that this is not at all what defederating does and also I don't think that's going to stop them from getting the little data that's here publicly available for anyone anyways.

    I'm trying to get my head around the entire concept of the fediverse but it seems like there's very few people who actually understand how it works and these people seem entirely absent in these popular threads I'm reading.

    Voi vastata myös suomeksi.

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    Lievästi mielenkiintoista: tämä pieni liikennemerkki

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    Put a new edge on these two abused +30 year old knives

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    Second year in a row leaving half of my yard unmowed

    From the street my house looks abandoned but luckily I'm not keeping up with the Joneses

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