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If it wasn’t for Handsome Boy Modeling School, I’d still have sixty dollars.

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Cake day: October 24th, 2023

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  • or made public—privacy is always temporary.

    Personal opinion, this is much more applicable to paper data than it is to digital data.

    Magnetic tape storage has one of the longest lifespans for storage before data corruption and even that seems to at best be about thirty years. Even with ideal conditions for storage this is a very short shelf life.

    Without regular backups digital data degrades rather quickly and is difficult to recover after corruption.

    Beyond that quickly changing technology standards makes it harder to recover old data. PATA/IDE was the standard 20 years ago, how many people realistically have the tools available to recover an IDE drive when all they have is a slick laptop with a USB-C port? Specialized tools must be used to even recover from recent types of media.


  • I have always had issues with any and all legal systems because they are rooted in human language and human language can be endlessly reinterpreted. In fact, that’s pretty much the half the reason lawyers exist, to argue that a certain interpretation that benefits their client. As we’ve seen time and time again, the language of the oppressed gets co-opted and repackaged (recuperated) by the dominant and controlling parts of society. Those who already have control are unlikely to let that control of others go, and they will sink to any depth and any reinterpretation to justify it.

    At least academics who focus on interpreting literature are honest about how they’re pulling the interpretations out of their own ass.

    Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.

    -Jean-Paul Sartre

    Thus, as much as we need legal systems, I think they are always prone to failure and authoritarianism.


  • *laughs in private tracker community

    Plenty of trackers have gone down and taken their entire history with them. when baconBits shut down, the admins toyed with the idea of having a backup of the forums for some people who wanted it, but that never happened. Maybe it lives on inside some hard drive squirreled away somewhere, but since the forums were private and only accessible to members, they were never scraped and any history of them officially doesn’t exist.






  • Re-reading my original comment, I can see how you got that implication. I guess the point is that these men aren’t actually compensating for anything, that’s potentially a misreading of why they do what they do. Also only men seem to be concerned with the size of their member, in relation to equating it to partners pleasure. It also seems to be mostly other men who want to ascribe the idea that these men are compensating for something, which returns to the idea that mostly only men seem concerned with this issue because men equate “bigger dick” to “women like this.” There’s a lot of assumptions being played around among the varied groups of men that are all tied to this perception of the size of their penis impacting the pleasure of their lover, and it basically has fuck-all to do with women’s opinions on the matter. The men who are seen as “compensating for something” may actually be the men least impacted by these perceptions, ironically enough, because they simply don’t care.




  • Like someone buying expensive cars to compensate for their smaller dick.

    Just so you know, there’s some evidence this isn’t actually a thing and that the people who do that kind of thing are actually very self-assured in their penis size. Now, that doesn’t mean they have a large penis, it just means they are happy with it and unconcerned with how others feel about it. Which, if you think about it, tracks. Because the guys who drive wanker sports cars or giant fucking trucks usually don’t give a shit if their partner feels good, only if they do. So the size of their dick is kind of irrelevant to the whole equation. They could have a tiny dick, they could have a giant dick, either way, they’re perfectly fine with it because it’s not about how anyone else feels, it’s about them getting off and being in control.

    Might take me a while but I’ll try to dig up the old /r/science reddit thread about it.