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Pedophiles aren't just old men touching up little kids They're also men who are 50y old and flirting with a 19/20 year old girl

Pedophiles aren't just old men touching up little kids They're also men who are 50y old and flirting with a 19/20 year old girl

what a boring planet… no fairies, no elves, no mermaids, no dragons, no vampires, no ware wolves….. just bills, stress, gossip, and insufferable people

I helped do the general strike in 99 that shut down the west coast for the WTO . I organized unions , I can’t count how many protests ,walk outs , I did shut downs of the IMF and Worldbank helped organize occupy Seattle , anti Iraq war protests. It all meant nothing . Now what

Motherless is a free, user-generated p*rn website getting 60 million visits per month. The image below shows various content categories served up to visitors. The site consists of homemade sex videos and allows anonymous uploading with no verification of ID to ensure the videos don’t contain child victims, and no documentation of consent to prevent the uploading of r*pe, trafficking and other criminal nonconsensual content. The content is free but is heavily monetized with ads. Ads are all over the site and nearly every click redirects users to another p*rn site paying for traffic. CNN recently released an investigation that found unconscious, drugged r*pe videos with hundreds of thousands of views on the site. Sites like this are why mandatory third party, age/ID and documented consent verification policies, carrying major consequences for noncompliance, are necessary to prevent the distribution of criminal content. Ten minutes of filmed sexual crime on a site like this is ten minutes too long. Each view, each download and each screen-recording immortalizes the trauma of victims— all for the profit of those who run these exploitation machines. Motherless and sites like it should face major consequences, just like the P*rnhub crime scene and its sister sites are facing major consequences for the global distribution and monetization of child abuse, r*pe and trafficking.

Son is displaying some pretty severe ADHD behavior along with his sensory processing stuff. Pediatrician gave me an evaluation to fill out. Nurse called me back today. Here’s how the convo went. Nurse (super nice): so Dr said it does look like he’s showing some early signs of ADHD. Dr wants to repeat the evaluation in November after he starts school so the teacher can get to know him and fill out the eval. Me: okay and what if we’re homeschooling? Nurse (super rude): uh. IS that what you’re doing? Me: yeah that’s why I said that Nurse (even more rude): okay well if that’s the case then this (the ADHD) doesn’t even matter Me: ……. Like what the heck?? Does ADHD only affect kids negatively when they’re in public school? I hung up the phone after she said that.

wait why do i feel bad now like she kinda has a point😭-

Why don’t straight men and lesbians hang out like straight women and gays do

Your Netflix "4K" stream and a 4K disc put the same number of pixels on your screen. But the disc version of a two-hour movie is about 70 gigabytes. The stream is about 14. Same pixels, roughly five times less data filling them. You see it first in dark scenes. The stream doesn't have enough data to tell dark grey from black, so your TV just mashes it all into chunky blocks. Then you notice sunsets looking like a paint-by-numbers, with visible stripes where smooth color should be. Film grain is probably the biggest casualty. Directors add that slightly textured look on purpose to make movies feel cinematic. Streaming compression reads it as noise and wipes it. That's where the weirdly plastic, waxy look on a good OLED comes from. One comparison I can't stop thinking about. A regular 1080p Blu-ray (the older HD format, not even 4K) pushes about 40 megabits of data per second to fill 2 million pixels. A 4K stream pushes 15-25 to fill 8 million pixels. Four times the pixels. Less data. A plain HD disc from 2008 can look sharper than a brand new 4K stream. Sound is worse. Netflix sends "Dolby Atmos" audio at about 768 kilobits per second, compressed, with parts of the original permanently deleted. A disc sends TrueHD Atmos at up to 18,000, lossless, nothing removed. Up to 23x more sound data. If dialogue sounds flat when you're streaming, that's not your speakers. Netflix is getting better at this. As of late 2025, 30% of their streaming runs on a newer compression method called AV1, the same picture at a third less data. They also strip film grain out before compressing, then rebuild it on your TV during playback. Saves over a third on file size for most content, and up to two-thirds for really grainy movies. The rebuilt grain looks solid. The tradeoff won't go away, though. Netflix has to deliver a file that works over spotty rural Wi-Fi and gigabit fiber, adjusting quality frame by frame to whatever your connection can handle. A disc reads plastic. Same quality every time.

Cancelling Harry Potter because of Rowling but remaking/doing spin offs of Narnia and LOTR despite Lewis and Tolkien being two of the most prominent Christian figures of the last century who undoubtedly share Rowling’s views she’s been cancelled for. Make it make sense.

someone said HOA killed the garage band generation