you’re right, there’s probably some anti-ai/anti-scraping folks on there aswell as here. Personally I most definitely hate intellectual property more than I do generative AI. But you’re right, different people on there will feel differently. But the point still stands that for those who thought they shared their thoughts with the world, their ideas that they donated were taken from them.

This isn’t news.

People who posted on Reddit ( speaking in the past tense, because who would continue to do so now that we have better things? ) never intended for it to be of limited access. Reddit was a publicly accessible place, and people shared their thoughts and comments on it because it was the frontpage of the internet, so the place of choice to share things with the world. That being scraped should not be a problem. But clearly Reddit didn’t want to give you a platform to share your thoughts with the world, they wanted you to donate your thoughts and take it as their property so that they can capitalize on it.

Maybe rephrase the question, given the American Revolution?

I am Dutch, have 0 cars, 2 bicycles, and I’m perfectly happy with it. I’ve only recently came across the first situation in which I felt like car access would be usefull.

A couple I’m friends with were pregnant and they don’t have a car either, but since they wanted to be able to go to the hospital quickly and indepently, they rented a car for a week or so. This would’t work for me because I don’t have a drivers license. People often ask me ‘but what if you need to do this or that…’ and never do I feel like they’re pointing towards a problem that I have. Just some minor inconvenience, if one at all. But in this case I thought, yeah if my wife were pregnant it would be damn usefull to be able to transport her by car, by myself. If it ever happens I’m sure we’ll find a solution though. But I found it interesting that it was only the first situation in which it actually seemed usefull to me to have car access.

Thanks for the reply, I think I understand your sentiment but ultimately I still disagree with you. I agree that those who do plastic surgery can be seen as victims to societal pressures and in that sense deserve empathy rather than ridicule. It’s a shortsighted solution, because it’s often counterproductive (people often look worse & it increases pressure on others that differ from the ‘ideal’), ineffective (people often aren’t satisfied afterwards and keep going for more surgery), not without danger (there’s a shitload of complications happening) and only a short term solution (no matter how much surgery you do, appearances change). A better solution is acceptance, coming to terms with how you look. This solution is safe, durable, and inspiring to others. People generally perceive ‘satisfaction with ones appearance’ as attractive (of course this is outside the digital realms of Instagram and such, where people don’t actually exist, so this shouldn’t matter). But we can hardly blame people for shortsightedness. It’s a tragedy, but they’re not to blame. But this doesn’t mean it’s not deserving of criticism. Plastic surgery is a mistake. We all make mistakes. I’ve been an addict for 6 years of my life. It was my way of coming to terms with my family falling apart. It was a tragedy, but it was also a mistake. That’s not to suggest that it would be fair to mock me in public. But I was just a depressed teenager, this woman is a prominent fascist figure. If you want to rule the world, you should be willing to face the ridicule. People will ridicule you for every mistake you ever made. If you’re an addict and you want to rule the world, be ready for people pointing towards your addictions. Now is that really unfair? She pretends she has the wisdom to decide about wether fascists ICE gangs should hunt down people in the streets, which she clearly deems the right thing to do. Isn’t it fair to question her moral authority by pointing out that she shot her own dog (which might’ve also been a personal tragedy) and that she lacks the wisdom to refrain from deforming her appearance? May Hitler not be ridiculed for his moustache?

I personally would never go out and insult people for such things, I might criticize them for what I deem mistakes, but I generally respect people as a person, and don’t reduce them to one particular trait. But context matters here. Like you said, we’re talking about South Park. They’re satirists. It’s their role in our society to satirize people in positions of power. If they had chosen some unknown innocent nobody, I would completely agree that that’s unfair. But not by accident, they’ve chosen a fascist leader.

Frankly I think it shows superficiality, a lack of wisdom and an obsession with a fabricated unnatural ideal of what a woman should look like. Of course they can do as they please, but I am free to criticize them for it. Young perfectly beautiful people are putting their bodies in harms way to be deformed into blowup dolls. It’s a cultural disease that deserves all the criticism it can get. It’s not a question of identity, it’s a completely unneccessary choice to remove all authenticity from your appearance, it’s a cultural practise and cultural practices are though culture should be free, thankfully it’s not beyond the scope of criticism.

It may be very common these days that people alter their appearance through means of plastic surgery and what not. But it’s perfectly fair to criticize this behavior. Of course South Park will grab any noticable feature and go over the top with it, so you shooting your puppy becomes you shooting puppies all the time, and you looking like a woman made of plastic becomes your face collapsing regularly.

And Jesus said: “Don’t share thy bread nor thy fish, for it is socialism, and it is wrong.”

If animals do something, it’s what the species does. If humans do something, it’s just some odd freaks, and it doesn’t reflect on us all.

odd how that works. we would make for a very dark nature documentary.

If the EU doesn’t combine forces to get out of this tech-dependency, than what do we have the EU for? I am a big fan the EU, it’s doing many things for us already, but I’m really hoping we can work our way out of this together, and I hope we choose the FOSS-route so that we significantly help the world forward

Those are some interesting apps of choice. Good thing people share these, in case people don’t know about them yet.

Seeing this picture my mind wandered to thinking ‘this must be an Epstein girl, or a beauty pageant girl or something’. But it’s actually his daughter. Not saying that this makes him innocent, he’s not. By everything Trump has said and done he’s shown he has not the slighest bit of respect for women. I just read in psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolks ’ The Body Keeps the Score ’ that childhood sexual abuse, despite not being talked about much, is likely the largest public health problem that we face, and aside from the mental problems that come from it, increasingly diseases like auto immune diseases are explained by the unsafety that is experienced during trauma. Trump is infamous for 'grab ‘em by the pussy’, and people often plead for respect for women through the reasoning that goes: ‘just imagine it was your mother, sister, daughter, etc.’. I think the problem with this is that it assumes that people like Trump would never do to their daughter what they would do to women unknown to them. I think the statistics on sexual abuse go to show that many people are abused by those close to them. I also think the prevalency of sexual abuse point into the direction of ‘if something feels wrong, something probably is wrong’. The fact that this man is the most powerfull man on the globe is a slap in the face of every sexual abuse survivor.

Jesus popped up at South Park elementary too.

It suggests that nobody talks in the past tense about people have that just died. Which is false, because we do.

The question is if it’s edge cases. People suffer sexual trauma in very large numbers and working in psychiatry has taught me how incredibly harmful it can be. If this kind of material could help prevent sexual trauma, we should definitely allow it. If research shows that it makes problems far worse, we should consider limiting access to it. I am not saying either is the case, I am saying I don’t understand what is wrong with the question itself.

The idea that what you see online has an effect on what you do offline, is not that far fetched is it? I mean, I don’t know if it’s true and I guess you could argue it could work in both directions too. Do people blow off steam online so they don’t have to enact their darkest fantasties IRL. Or does the online material encourage or normalize these things? It could also be so that this works different for different people. It let’s one person blow of steam, while it pushes someone else over the edge to do something horrendous. And if that is the case, is it fair to take it away from those who are not negatively influenced by it, to prevent those in whom it inspires bad actions from seeing it. I guess we’d need research on the matter, I don’t know if it exist or how reliable it is. But I don’t think it’s a nonsensical question to ask what the effects are.

I get the feeling this is somehow also criticizing this particular woman. Someone did a small good thing, while others do bad things on a very large scale. What a naive idiot! Not a very helpful sentiment. One needs to look up for moral guidance, not down.

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But it’s got nothing to do with ‘honor’ so it’s okay. /s