AndyLikesCandy

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[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I would totally pay for YouTube premium if they weren't so good about making me watch my favorite gun-tubers on other platforms. Every channel has this endless and constantly changing list of words they can't say for fear of being demonetized.

Fuck them indeed.

Break up the monopoly and I won't need to block your ads because I'll be able to go elsewhere.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago

Quite possible, but I've also seen genuine bullying this way too.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 37 points 10 months ago (4 children)

They would only be forced to if she filed a lawsuit against the anonymous caller. People have done that before.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I moved Mykolaiv+Odessa to US in the 90's, then married someone who grew up in Canada. Citizen of both.

Food wise, try a lot, Ukrainian flavors are incredibly bland, depending on where you live (I know Mississauga well) the Indian food is very good and authentic and kind of the polar opposite of traditional slavic cooking.

Canadians are more diverse, cultures vary depending on who you're talking to, cannot always tell just by appearance. Very very different from Ukraine in this regard as well.

Other things people here covered already.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You disagree with my statement that is not actually contradicted by anything in your statement, apart from your open acceptance of flawed studies?

My question then is this: what do they teach kids to allow them to spot flaws and what do they teach them as the method for determining who is reputable? Beyes theorem? How to control for multiple variables? I don't actually know whether they go into this or tell kids to JUST trust an authority.

Flawed studies have done all kinds of harm over the years before being retracted. Linking vaccines to autism for one.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 16 points 10 months ago

149 camera feeds of the person watching the 1 video should be enough no?

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

That's the thing though, outside of studies published in journals where you look up their ranking and it's high enough that you trust the peer review, how do you tell the difference between imperfect and flawed in a way that renders the conclusion useless to your use case? It's not a rhetorical question, that's what I'm saying requires deeper knowledge and where you should not trust it alone without having qualified help review it for you. And without the help, yeah it's just as well to go without.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I agree porn addiction has been around for a long time, but it's very different not that we're reaching a point in time where people who are expected to be adults and functional in their mid 20's grew up in a world of ubiquitous Internet access and had smart phones.

So while porn addiction existed since photography, this is the first time we get to see the effect of population-wide unrestricted access to these things from a very young age.

It's actually probably better now with parent-child account management and the like, which didn't exist at all 15-20 years ago. Also 15-20 years ago CSAM, death imagery, real rape and mutilation videos were all on the front pages of openly accessible .com's anyone could visit.

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I wasn't kidding. https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

Imagine an alien species bombarded the planet with real-dolls, we basically did that to this species of beetle

[–] AndyLikesCandy@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There are things every mating creatures brain is hard wired to look for, as signals of a healthy and breedable mate

Like the caricatures of sexual perfection in porn, the brown beer bottle happens to be the anime girl of a species of beetle whose males will regularly get carried away trying to reproduce with manufactured human garbage creating an actual risk to the species

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-giant-jewel-beetle-1968152

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