How do you guys manage your iOS device(s)?
I may have spent too much time photoshopping it to blend with his skin tone lol
Is that actually true? I'm not an expert but I thought all forces extend our into infinity. I thought we just allowed them to go to 0 at a certain radius for the sake of making the math manageable.
Love it. +2 for the joke. -1 for the unreadable "Call me for an okay(?) time 696-6969" graffiti
Native English speaker here. I agree with Winker.
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Law and Order: Pikachu
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This article is super thorough which I appreciate. I will say, though, it feels a bit biased towards two concepts:
- That men are being pushed into these situations
- That age verification is the only solution
I can understand that some people might be getting more extreme content in order to fulfill the dopamine hit. But most of these men went onto chatrooms and requested CP. That's a big leap to go from "18+ teen" porn on Pornhub and then hop into a chatroom on some other site to seek out underage porn. It's not like Pornhub pushed them into that chatroom or even - as far as I understand - offered a chatroom.
I also don't see how age verification will do anything to stop this. The article seemed a bit tech illiterate. The whole point of illegal forms of porn is that they're illegal. They're hosted on the darkweb or shared behind forums and chatrooms. They're not hosted (I think) on platforms like Pornhub. So how does age verification resolve this issue if the illegal websites won't comply? Not to mention, now the only legal sources of porn are behind some form of ID restriction which is going to make a lot of people who want to remain anonymous seek out alternative websites.
I don't believe Pornhub has likely been entirely innocent. Any website which allows users to upload media experiences this kind of corruption. I'm sure Google Drive has had countless zip folders of questionable material uploaded to it. As has, probably, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and - yes - Lemmy instances. What are we going to do? Require people use a driver's license for every online account so we can track who is uploading the illegal content? Who is responsible for validating IDs in that situation? Is a UK ID valid for a website hosted in the US?
As for the last section related to children seeking out content of teens their own age, I think age verification makes more sense there. But, again, it would require some massive overhaul of centralized IDs and tracking people across the web to stop it. It would effectively end the web as we know it.
It seems like - to me - the best thing we can do is educate people on why some porn is ok and why other porn is not. I think we should encourage others to report the illegal stuff when they see it. I just don't think age verification will be effective. It'll either work and make the internet inaccessible. Or it'll be easy to bypass and just make everything less usable.
Where are the numbers
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Yeah and it has been constantly on my mind since my original post.
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I don't need mental health issues to want to assassinate certain people, but it helps.
TBF if you want, you can have a bastion server which is solely whitelisted by IP to stream your content from your local server. It's obviously a pivot point for hackers, but it's the level of effort that 99% of hackers would ignore unless they really wanted to target you. And if you're that high value of a target, you probably shouldn't be opening any ports on your network, which brings us back to your original solution.
I, too, don't expose things to the public because I cannot afford the more safe/obfuscated solutions. But I do think there are reasonable measures that can be taken to expose your content to a wider audience if you wanted.
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That is a haunting last sentence. But you're probably right.
Thanks for the comment. I appreciate the honesty. Like I said in other comments, I have a lot of things that are holding me back, but that doesn't mean I shouldn't explore it entirely. I just don't think I can go 'all in' but maybe that's ok. Definitely internalized transphobia and other body image issues make it much harder.
For now I'm considering growing my hair out again. Maybe it'll look better this time around. Whilst high school would have been brutal for me, I still wish I could have put the brakes on puberty. It's impossible to go back and it's hard to imagine I'd ever have had the courage. But it also just seems like the only way to halt the manly characteristics I've gained.
I'd feel awful. But - to my credit - I have explored these concepts with her. We are quite open with each other. When I came out as bi to her, I point blank asked her if she'd consider dating/sleeping with a woman and she was pretty adamant that there was no circumstance in which she would. Because I feel only mild dysphoria, I don't feel like I'm hiding from her entirely. Maybe you're right though. I might broach the subject to her more casually. I should at least be honest about how I feel - even if I don't necessarily intend on acting on my feelings. I guess I've always felt like talking to her about it would be me "coming out", but I suppose I can frame it more honestly: as a mild dysphoria I occasionally feel, but don't need to upend our lives to explore. I'm speaking off the cuff here so I hope I'm making sense.
I did my best to read the gender dysphoria bible during some of my work meetings and - for better or worse - I do fulfill a lot of the cliches illustrated in it. Even as a teen, I occasionally wore makeup, painted my nails, etc. I didn't really feel comfortable around my peers. I'm guilty of sleeping as much as possible to kind of live in the fantasy.
All that being said, I have so much internalized transphobia (as someone else pointed out) and I'm deeply entrenched in this life as AMAB. If I could guarantee I would love myself as a trans woman, I might consider it. But I feel somewhat confident that my inability to pass and my shame make the idea transitioning overwhelmingly difficult. I can't shake the feeling that I'm maybe fetishising the experiencing (despite reading the subsection "Consider That It’s Rarely 'Just A Fetish.'"). It's nice to talk about it nonetheless.
Thank you for the detailed response. I will try to find time to read the gender dysphoria Bible. I appreciate you allowing me to vent/voice myself here. Whilst I like to believe HRT could "fix me", I am dubious. Plus, for some reasons I neglected to mention in my original post, I feel tied to my life as it is. I have a wonderful, straight, wife who wouldn't be happy being married to a woman. She's the love of my life and I just wouldn't ever consider risking our relationship in order to fulfill my desire to explore transitioning. I think there might be ways for me to fulfill my dysphoria without necessarily fully transitioning and maybe I'll start exploring those.
I don't have advice for an iOS user. I will say that Android is far more flexible for Linux users. So, maybe go Android?