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[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

The image only contains consenting adults who look very happy to be with each other (the perspective on the muzzles could use a little work though), so no, not very problematic. It is problematic if you're making an active effort to stop browsing porn and you still got far enough for your web browser to load that text.

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

sauce lot to, it fries things a french barbecue like on of on I works

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

We can have this talk if you ever pass Kolanaki's comment total

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 19 points 2 months ago

It's meant to roughly gauge how clearly you picture things in your mind's eye by asking you which apple you see when prompted to imagine one. #5 references the lack of a mind's eye in people with Aphantasia (coincidentally this Wikipedia article has this same chart as a header image)

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Years are ordinal numbers, the kind of number that tells you which place you finished in a race, and as such cannot have zeroes or negatives. You're living in the 2,024th year since the instant that began the Common Era. "0th" and "-1st" are not valid expressions for years for the same reason that you can't place 0th in the Olympics

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Using Voyager version 2.1.0 on Android 14, the two specially marked icons at the top of the list have themed icon support on my device

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 47 points 6 months ago

Besides the immediate threat of mass rioting and an armed resistance no matter who you're flogging, public torture as entertainment is a very, very bad precedent to set, and only serves to build up a culture of antipathy. Imagine how the wider justice system would change once that's normalized.

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago

I'm contacting you from an alternate timeline to tell you that I'm still angry

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

Congratulations, you've invented the Martingale betting system and are well on your way to becoming an adept probability theorist

The short answer is that casinos account for this by changing the profit returns and the odds of making a profit at all so that catastrophic losses are much more likely

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 months ago

pros: exceedingly small chance that the one decision-maker and everyone who succeeds them are correct about everything all the time and we reach utopia

cons: likely genocide

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

In case you didn't know, you can turn off promotional emails in Settings -> Dashboard -> Email Subscriptions or by adding a mail filter to push them all into an advertisement folder, and the other ads can be mitigated by hitting "don't show this offer again" on each one

[-] lyth@sh.itjust.works 19 points 9 months ago

you don't have one of those DM_ME_(thing) usernames

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