claudiawerner

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by claudiawerner 2y ago
>if you could even call the writing of some guy with no credentials that The researcher I'm quoting (who's by far not alone on writing this topic in his field) is Patrick Galbraith, a researcher and associate professor of cultu
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by claudiawerner 2y ago
In this case, it's not; but even if it were, does that limit the ability of a text to explore interesting themes? Why? I'd recommend reading deeper into the scholarly literature of sexual themes in anime and manga before assuming
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by claudiawerner 2y ago
I don't really know how to respond to the idea that the fact anime includes fanservice means it can't deal with sensitive topics at the same time.
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by claudiawerner 2y ago
'Pedophilic undertones' doesn't relate to 'trashy' or 'harem', even if you read the anime that way. In fact, it can be extremely interesting to see something which is so rarely portrayed or discussed in fi
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
I imagine the support for more recent Google Pixel phones specifically is better (existent).
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
The article specifically mentions "successfully aging" as a term to avoid if possible.
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
Again, I can't see those things as necessarily bad in any kind of global sense that applies to everyone, unless you claim to know what's best for everyone. Escapism might be a problem if you're neglecting your duties as a par
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
Even if they were a 'cult of sexuality' - what exactly is the harm here? I'm always struck by how, even on HN, there is a current of moral busybodies who, often without understanding the topic or subculture, deem certain acti
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
"Exposed to furries"? Come on. It's a subculture like any other, but one which (for fairly stupid reasons in my opinion) faces bullying and harassment. Where do you draw the line between a "social contagion" and a q
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
4chan has an extensive list of rules; only the /b/ (Random) board is exempt from most of them - with the caveat, they say, that the moderators of that board are also exempt from abiding by the rules of who to ban and for what reas
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
Pithy comment, but it's a shame that the state is regulating comic materials in the interest of 'child safety' without anything to back it.
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
There are citations both for and against falsificationism at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy[0]; quoting: "Popper’s demarcation criterion has been criticized both for excluding legitimate science (Hansson 2006) and for giving s
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
>as opposed to some bro watching anime and watching documentaries about sushi and samurai swords who feels they've "made an effort to learn the culture" You've used this strawman previously in this thread; perhaps it
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
>It's their country. You don't get to feel "bullied" for them not wanting foreigners there. Why shouldn't I? You don't get to dictate how I "get" to feel. The very idea of racism and xenophobia i
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
>("I like multiculturalism, as long as every country has the same cultural mindset as mine"). To some degree, this isn't a bad idea. For example, I abhor female genital mulitaliton (FGM) and I don't think it's pa
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
I agree with you, but in some jurisdictions the distance between stuff generated with AI and actual photographs of child abuse are treated rather closely; either way, possessing either could result in what the England & Wales calls a &q
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
That's funny; I immediately thought of BQN when I saw this character pop up on HN :)
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
When I went in 2018, I loved the 'creepy otaku stores', maybe because I am a bit of an otaku, hah. To each their own.
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
I use locally hosted LLM models for roleplaying almost exclusively, and I've found that the only acceptable models for that use case are 30B or larger (though the jump between a 40B model and a 65B model reaches the point of diminishin
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
>But watching a woman getting chocked while DPed in her anus while a half dozen men ejaculate on her is not the type of extra-curricular activity [1] I want my soon to be teenaged daughters' boyfriends interested in. If this is cons
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
That's fine with me, so long as they don't get a PS3 or newer.
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
I already had those eight hours (after work, before sleeping) to myself, and as much as I appreciate the fact that modern conveniences make it easier to squeeze as much as I can out of that time, the amount is still palty compared to eigh
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
I don't think anyone disputes that such metrics are better than before; the issue is staying complacent with what we have in a world where we are seeing yet another wave of potential productivity gains being captured by people who can
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
Although that's true, it's important to acknowledge that you've shifted the conversation from time, which was the original topic, to merely having things in a world where most people have little flexibility in the amount th
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
>How-to sex guides and the like are not appropriate for a high school library. I wasn't saying they necessarily are; I was saying that such a representation isn't necessarily pornographic. >Is it? I don't recall having
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by claudiawerner 3y ago
Such images are shown in books about human sexuality, or sex guides. The purpose of those books is not to tittilate in an erotic sense, but to provide information or education. To go further, almost everyone agrees that a cartoon of a man a
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
Employees in the UK don't have access to an employment tribunal unless they've been at the company for longer than 2 years.
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
I didn't call you an anything-ist. The term is used in the studies done on these people, unless you'd rather there just not be a term at all. Whether you think it's "valid" is up to you, but we can say this about an
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>In the same way I can decide someone being in love with an underage child... someone being in love with an anime character[0]... someone being in love with their dog[1]... is dodgy Are you seriously comparing pedophilia with being in lo
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by claudiawerner 4y ago
>If the value is what offer and demand agree on, exploitation disappears, in Marx's theoretical model. This is not true; Marx's model of exploitation (known to modern economists as the Profit-Exploitation Correspondence Model (

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