Oh, I too doubt the regret is for anything beyond “I got caught and this makes me look bad shash will directly cost me money slash power slash influence”. I only made the reference to say that Gates’ ties to Epstein were known well before 2026.
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In 2019, Gates characterized his relationship with Epstein as a ‘huge mistake’. Make of that what you will.
But this post doesn’t really address that. It suggests Epstein bought Windows XP once, which … is fine … I guess? (Doesn’t let him off the hook for the criminal empire he ran though)
25·2 days agoIt would be inviting a lawsuit for sure. I like the essence of the idea, but it’s probably more trouble than it’s worth for all but the most fanatic.
I love how expressive this is, and how it juxtaposes the authors main thesis against an elegant visual counterpoint.
“The Farmer Was Replaced” has you covered
I think avenue Q said it best, “The internet is for porn”.
Sure, PornHub is not the only thing you can do on the Internet. Some of the more formal studies are functionally run by marketing groups, who are likely more skewed to advertising demographics.
Example: the fundamental backbone of the internet upgraded as part of the CERN Large Hadron Collider project construction, to distribute the massive amount research data being generated to scientists across the world - but Cloudflare doesn’t count that traffic when preparing it’s statistics)
All I’m saying is: you could do a lot worse than PornHub as a research authority for trends in this subject.
For example, Oliver has magic hands
“Get off my lawn”
Please stop doing something that artists have doing since practically the invention of paper
Tell me, what new medium is ruining the kids today?
Is it low-effort? Sure. But so are boobs and farts and piss. Artists got to get practice in drawing something, doesn’t hurt anyone but your fefes if they use a meme.
Heck, for the context of this tired argument, I wouldn’t even care if it’s AI. (And I broadly do not like AI)
The term is hood. This is a motorcycle hood
(😈)
Perhaps it only took 90 minutes, but it felt like days went by, just like many meetings.
Thank you. I seriously looked over the image and my eye caught the weird compression artifacts, but didn’t see the other things despite well trying. (Also, my client apparently doesn’t show web banners - the heart LLM is a pretty strong hint) I appreciate you sharing what you saw.
(Downvoting original post)
What makes you say this was made with AI? Not exactly doubting you, but curious about your methods.
2·27 days agoWhat if we coupled the cylinder symbol with a ‘going to’ arrow ⤵️ above it?
Back at the beginning of the modern LGBT umbrella, gays were given the stereotype of all being hookup obsessed kinky motorcycle enthusiasts, the ‘leather daddy and boi’ look. It’s good to look tough when protesting for your right to exist.
Around the 90s the jazzercise fit athletic picky eater gay became a trope on television - your classic twink.
The problem with both those poster boy stereotypes is they’re both positioned as kinda in-your-face and combative, so gays that just wanted to live life emerged - fat, unthreatening, and likely to invite you to their BBQ - the modern bear.
Meanwhile, the internet is just becoming a thing and in the early days ‘nobody on the internet knows if you’re a dog’ as the expression goes. Without a corporal body as reference, people are reduced to their chosen name/handle, their profile pic and whatever thoughts they posted. Internet culture filled the gaps with anime girls and cats - creating the perfect culture for mascot suiting to evolve into a new niche.
Finally, pup play stems from the biker boi kink of gimp play (sensory deprivation), someone stitched leather ears onto a gimp hood to reduce a (consensual adult) person to ‘just an obedient animal’ with the original look meant to dehumanize and anonymize. Ironically this play has gone through radical transformations and softened as most modern pup hoods are colorful expressions of individuality. Today pup play is a great sampler platter of kinks and adult activities in general (including many that are family friendly). It’s a great way for stressed adults to step away from adulting for an evening and just play.
Also, don’t take my description as fully gospel, all of these movements are complicated with regional variations, and since these are generally voluntary labels and useful stereotypes, you’ll find plenty of people who see these differently or wish to gatekeep, etc. So take this all with grains of salt
Yeah, I’m being tongue in cheek pretending that pup, furry, and bear aren’t often just the same type of person in different moods.
They could be a furry. A wholly different thing. 😅
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1·1 month agoAin’t that the naked truth?
They don’t own it, the individual posters own the content of their own posts, however, from the reddit terms of service:
And with each of those rights granted, Reddit’s lawyers can defend those rights. So no, they don’t own it “just because they ran the servers” - they own specific rights to copy granted to them by each poster.
(I don’t like this arrangement, but ignorance of the terms of service isn’t going to help someone who uploaded a full copy of the works they have extensive rights to) On this subject I think there needs to be an extensive overhaul to narrow what terms you can extend to the general public. The problem is I straight up don’t trust anyone currently in power to make such a change to have our interests in mind.