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This is true, and falls under [feature of capitalism].

Though I will note there's a lot of people - albeit still a definite minority - who primarily engage with pornography through forms that, even in the case of wage slavery, aren't particularly more harmful than any job as an artist or writer who has to make stuff other people want to meet ends meet.

Even beyond that, there's really no good evidence for the consumption of porn being inherently harmful, regardless of the morality of the work's production.

I was raised Atheist as well, but ended up becoming a weird Gnostic Christian-adjacent occultist who is very much theist.

It does seem rare for things to play out in that direction, I must admit.

Much appreciated, thank you for not doubling down.

To explain, jokes like that are essentially the same exact thing as the attack helicopter line - they couple being transgender to something perceived as obviously illegitimate and worthy of mockery as a reducto ad absurdium, suggesting that being transgender is also obviously illegitimate and worthy of mockery.

People do the same shit with Therians or less properly Furries, for example - a while back there was a CHUD propaganda wave about schools allegedly having litter boxes for children who believed they were cats, for example, and this was directly rhetorically connected to being transgender by them.

There are obviously differences between being Otherkin, which is fundamentally a strange new postmodern sort of spiritual thing, and being Transgender, but in my experience mockery of Otherkin is almost always coupled with transphobia.

It's like how people who mock and harass Furries are almost always virulent homophobes, it is functionally a more socially acceptable cipher for overt bigotry towards a more 'normal' or 'legitimate' group that happens to heavily overlap with the 'obviously' illegitimate cultural group.

You do realize making jokes like this is itself transphobic, right? Like, obviously? This is literally the exact kind of comment I'd read from a hooting chud, come on.

Given how increasingly terrible public health is, while I would've probably voted for her if I lived there I actually find it quite damning. The last thing the government needs is even more alternative medicine cranks, after all.

I have to agree, being Gen Z myself. COVID was a complete killer in both my and a lot of my compatriots faith in humanity.

Thank you for typing this all up, it makes me feel like I'm losing it how nobody seems to be bothered with this at all.

I'm newly in the same age range and it's baffling to me how the 'real adult' cultural age marker seems to be a target that's constantly just out of reach. I'm honestly concerned people will start thinking anyone below 30 is a child and should thereby have no rights, at this point.

They weren't called vapes back then - I remember this too. They were usually just called electronic cigarettes or e-cigarettes, at least in the US.

I remember sneaking a puff of one as a teenager - they were shaped like and sometimes even coloured like cigarettes, I think they had a intended system of titr8ion down in nicotine dosage too.

You can't just deny reality because it doesn't suit your opinions.

There are, in fact, a lot of anti-AI people who are familiar with the technology and have used it and maybe even still use it while absolutely hating it and wanting the technology destroyed.

People do, in fact, have their own opinions. Not everyone worships productivity. Many people acknowledge the usefulness of this technology and still reject it for the cultural, artistic, and cognitive impacts.

They're an AI booster. They can't explain anything in their own words, that's why they're like this.

I'm not convinced you ARE a person. Maybe you used to be one but you sure seem to have replaced your own brain with token prediction.

This is a hilarious strawman by the way. You're right there's a number of people who've never tried it but to imply that ALL those who are anti-AI have never engaged with it hilarious.

I have spent hours and hours of my life engaging with these stupid machines and trying to get myself to like them because I know they're only going to get more everywhere over time and it's obviously bad for my mental health to fucking hate this stupid fucking technology so much, I know they are in fact useful for a ton of shit, hell, I've even begrudgingly used them to dig through erratz unorganized databases many times.

I still fucking hate them, and I still do not think the technology is in any way worth the negative effects on cognition, society, the arts, and human culture as a whole.