DaDragon

Because they care about the west supporting them. That’s it, that’s literally the entire reason. That and they don’t have the capability without western support. (To some extent yes, but not really in the ‘precision-guided-munitions’ department)

So it’s more of a case of ‘we will follow orders’ then. Somehow not surprising…

How would funding work, then? If everything I do is available to the public with no protections on my end, then I can’t guarantee that I (the inventor) will ever be able to extract any value from some thing that I put a lot of time and effort into developing. Considering we live in a capitalist society, there needs to be a way to reimburse inventors.

As the person above me pointed out, how do you prevent a large company on capitalising on ideas that a small inventor has?

And best of all, they’re not even satanists. They just call themselves an edgy name

I’ll say that it’s a logical position: the GOP loves any and all innocent lives (that vote for them). If you’re a good white Christian (to some extent you can be a good black too), you’re innocent and therefore allowed to live. If you’re a criminal, an ex soldier with PTSD, LGBT, a political dissident, poor, of the wrong religion, of the wrong race, of the wrong citizenship, your right to free and unmolested life is revoked.
Babies are good because they are not old enough to be anything but a possible future GOP voter.

I’ve turned to adding a ZWSP (no width Unicode) between the : and ) parts of the character, that works pretty well. It’s a bit of a hassle, of course

Because we’re the last of the old guard? I’m gen z, and honestly I still prefer emoticons, probably because I grew used to them before emoji

You could just as easily end up on the opposite end of the spectrum, no?

If you’ve got a problem, it’s on you to solve

Isn’t that exactly what NNN aims to do, at a general level? A peer-pressured event to at least give most people a reason not to watch porn for a bit.

The same idea going for things like r/nofap. I’ll absolutely believe that the sub has become cult-like and incelfilled, as I haven’t gone there myself. But at least on the surface it’s a group of people trying to solve a problem they have, no? (And some people taking advantage of that, or of other issues the people there have)

What about the overconsumption of porn? It seems fairly logical that too much of anything can bring about harmful side-effects. Even if you do not let the bodies you seen in porn change how you view people in real life, it still represents some level of desensitisation.

It has already been shown that porn addiction is much the same as any other addiction, that is, it brings the same general side effects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050060/

Can it really be considered completely unhealthy though? I’m going to assume that jerking off every day isn’t exactly particularly healthy either. Certainly consuming pornographic content day in day out isn’t that good for you.