Okay. Most of your comment seemed to be focused on whether they resemble actual humans. I don’t think we have any information about whether these impact your mental health but I would tend to agree they can’t be good.

Perhaps the point is to seek something that’s not like real humans.

This is not the actual graphic, and not all passports are getting Trump’s face on them. BBC says that these “commemorative” passports will be a limited run available only through the Washington passport bureau.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5pn1ngerpo

Well okay, because it’s also a myth that only people who drive get value from roads.

No, non-white people have always existed.

I immediately thought of homeless people when I read this. I mean I could probably lollygag a lot of places but if you look a certain way, have long hair, dirty clothes, a few bags with you, you start attracting the wrong kind of attention fast. Often in the nicest places of all. Shittier places leave you alone.

Someday soon, and it isn’t as far off as some people think: the government will know who we are.

“The salad is screaming” has been a notion for decades.

Also, the Jains have entered the chat.

Thank you for taking a moment out of your day to fight for the actual meaning of words. I am completely serious here.

I know what open source means.

A group that wants to host that game server is eventually going to need to fix it, or adapt it to new software / hardware if we expect it to be able to run in perpetuity. They will need to be able to modify that source code to do so.

So the game publisher can’t just publish one final compiled package “for people to use.” The software has to be able to be maintained, not just used. And if we expect the software to survive over time, it will need a community not just one group. Open source is the only thing that would allow the game publisher to walk away from it, but allow the software to live on.

It sounds like she asked them to do it for her - doesn’t that involve her?

Among other things, you are there to ensure the heterosexuality of the event for them, so they can explore each other a little bit without fear of commiting. They sound like trad guys and trad guys are raised to think that sexual identity is all or nothing and that if they let in even a little bit of gay their entire identity will shatter. It’s sad that the culture does this to them - they do it to each other, really. Have patience. Let them go at their own pace. Exactly as you would with any partner, with any sexual experience.

There are definitely some drugs I’ve tried that I would not want to do while staring death in the face. But I agree it should be a personal choice. Basically I think it should be at any point in life.

And when date night progresses to the right point, you’ve got 99.8% the hardest hard you’ve ever had. A cat couldn’t scratch it.

It’s absolutely true that we have too much focus on pharmaceutical solutions and not enough on general wellness and prevention. But wellness and prevention means exercise and vegetables, not protein bars and woo woo shit about balancing your internal landscape.

Fuck this grotesque man.

This tweet does not understand the difference between libido and erection. I’m happy for him that he’s so ignorant. I wish the same for all of you, truly.

Because erectile dysfunction is when you’re plenty horny but the flag keeps going up and down anyway. ED pills do not make you horny, they help your vascular system direct the blood where it needs to go to keep the flag raised. They only work when you are already aroused.

When you take one before date night, you might feel a little flushed but that’s it. You don’t immediately get hard out of nowhere. Your nutsack tyrant doesn’t materialize next to you with a hammer and whip like a demon ready to slave drive you into machismo.

But then how could anyone use it? If it’s to download and run at home, you can get away with it. But in many of these cases they’re saying open source it so volunteer group XYZ can host a server and keep the game alive. Wouldn’t group XYZ be vulnerable to copyright action?

Yeah I think there’s some promise in “open the source” as a remedy here. Because that doesn’t really put any onus on the game maker. They can keep making games exactly as they do now, but if they want to utterly walk away from a title, they have to open the source.

I think the complications with this would come from IP and copyright law, licensing, etc. for example, if the developer licensed any other software (or music or whatever) in order to make the game, do they actually have the rights to open source all of that? Perhaps not.

It’s kind of like accelerating the public domain thing. Very interesting remedy for this situation, but extremely complex legally, I would guess.

Absolutely. Age verification sucks. It’s just an example of the complexities between a two sentence concept and an actual software implementation. I lived through SOX, GDPR, and many others. They sound simple. “Right to be forgotten” but they are complex as hell and often have unforeseen side effects.

Well unfortunately most of these are.