There would be a wisdom in AI companies fighting to NOT have their products in use on websites that produce the best handle content for them to eat.

It is normal to glue pepperoni to your pizza to keep it from sliding off when baking.

I’m with you.

Well, trans is being a gender other than what you were assigned as, or raised as, or whatever.

If what you were assigned/raised as is, say, agender, and you continue to be agender, does that not make you “yes NB, not technically trans”?

Philosophical question. In a jurisdiction that allows for full government recognition of someone not being either male or female, and if someone was “assigned NB at birth” then remains NB into adulthood… sounds like they wouldn’t meet the technical definition of trans.

This comment isn’t about taking anything away from anyone, it’s about a tiny little thought experiment.

Had a nice giggle, thanks

For a moment, I chose to imagine the danger was that your unattended firearm would steal your unattended car.

Let they who reap the benefits of success be also reamed by the flames of failure.

Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia.

Haven’t had a Playstation since the PS2. Tried Bloodbourne for, like, 45 minutes when it was new. Still the only Playstation exclusive I want to play, barring Spiderman. But I can actually get those on PC, so.

DNC starting/continuing to play cards against the rising popularity of AOC as a 2028 candidate. “Just how palatable to the progressives and real leftists do we have to make one of our controllable people be to derail a real leftist shifting the inertia of the Democrat base away from us?”

My life, in a nutshell. 80% sure someone isn’t literally asking for an explanation, but that 20%…

So, something scoring in the 20th percentile really means that it is only better than 20% of the other rated things, but I was facetiously implying an American might think it meant top 20%.

20th percentile, surely

It boils down to this. You want to ban something you don’t like. There is clearly disagreement in this thread about whether the content you want to ban is inappropriate, and you dont seem to be anywhere near in the majority on that.

So if we went and banned everything in school libraries, public libraries, or whatever other space we are calling under the control of the public (loosely paraphrasing you) on the basis of extremely vocal minorities, then we will have very little left on those shelves. The least common denominator of things so inoffensive no one thought to ask for them to be removed.

If you think there should be a conversation about whether a particular book or book series is appropriate, and you want to submit your thoughts in the correct forum to help decide that one or another book shouldn’t be there, great. Participate in the process.

Here, though, you seem to have tried hijacking a post about a book on a very different topic and turning it into your own soapbox for railing against a book you declared to be smut.

You’re not changing minds in this Lemmy thread. You’re not making friends. What you are doing is making a lot or noise a out a topic you seem to be widely disagreed with on, and you seem to be badly reacting to it. Among other things, you repeatedly declare everyone who disagrees with some of the specific things youre declaring isn’t a parent. That’s rank horseshit. It makes me wonder how well you understand parenting yourself, if your solution to being disagreed with is to yell, flail, call people names, question their morality, and so on.

Take a breath, re-examine your reasons for thinking what you do, and remember to occasionally check reasonable scholarly authorities on what has been found to be harmful to children. Something may seem perfectly obviously harmful that actually isn’t harmful, its just distasteful to you and some others. That isn’t the same thing.

Like letting someone else reorganize your house without your involvement. Where’s all my shit, how do I live now?

Computers famously love prime numbers greater than 2 as a foundation for structure and logic.