Olives @olives@qoto.org

Should I take tips (as in money, not advice) or something for the blog?

I'm not really in a hurry though.

As an update, I've run into some technical issues while trying to set up a blog, so that might take a while longer.

1) It's not necessarily that easy to tell someone is depressed.

2) Maybe, someone filing a lawsuit claiming damages is not a reliable source.

3) Talking to someone might be overwhelming (and there is a good chance they'll dismiss whatever they say).

Another strike against dubs. If someone isn't taking watching #anime as a passive opportunity to learn another language, then it's really not getting the full potential out of it.

It is also interesting how people kind of just let people get away with speculating things out of thin air like this, without any real basis for doing so, even though it is a very serious accusation to make.

It's like saying "someone who is known to speak to therapists committed suicide, this means that therapists make people commit suicide".

There are a couple of initiatives to do with VAWG at the U.N. (run by politicians) which basically take political talking points and dress them up as "ideas", even when these "ideas" are extremely flimsy and bring the entirety of the U.N. into disrepute.

I am aware that there are politicians who show up at the U.N. to make very stupid takes. The person cited here tried to be more reasonable and tried to consult with civil society before saying something.

It's silly to try to "connect" a suicide to someone using a chatbot for romantic reasons when it could equally be that people who are depressed might use such bots. Also, anecdote.

One of the things which someone might expect me to do is to pretend that things which millions of people have done on a regular basis for decades are novel and only started happening very recently because that was when it caught person x's attention.

If you are thinking that a lot of this stuff is fairly common sense, well, it should be, but bad takes still seem to be a thing.

Oh, cool, bridges which don't work properly.

I'm not really interested in making an anti gun argument. But, please, don't make that stupid argument about how video games have anything to do with violence, when that has been thoroughly debunked.

I might tweak a bit of language around the alcohol prohibition in the science post. Practically speaking, it won't make much of a difference (it's there as background in the preamble). Still, it bugs me.

It's kind of obnoxious and narcissistic, really, how anti porn weirdos seem to think that they are the most important folks to discuss at a time like this.

It's a fairly political period of time, so I originally wanted to wait a while for it to pass before talking about something like porn science, but since the subject has come up, I'm going to have to do something sooner than I wanted to.

I don't get the point of adopting a tiny character limit, just because Twitter made that particular product design decision over ten years ago.

While I would rather wait a couple more weeks, I'll see if I can mirror this post (if you can't see it, it's a post which debunks points about things like erotic media and other such things being "spooky" with science, it also touches upon some related matters such as applications involving technology x) on a blog sooner, and get back to supplementing it.

The .world fediverse instance has been accused of petty censorship, so that might be something to watch out for.