JustSo

very memorable

Haha I know my brain is cooked and my memory is shot full of holes but I will not be gaslit by this.

the ultimate product – Nothing

I broke my brain working for a company that sold vapor and then tried to backfill the sold illusion with labor, with no basis in rationality at all. I still haven't recovered.

Oh you can be sure that healthy global competition (fuck I can't tell what level of irony I'm on at this point) will increase overall energy expenditure on the slop remixing machines.

Ronks.

Agreed this is exactly the sort of pain I have come to expect to be inflicted with in the tagline.

My initial response is below but I don't think I'm helping much with all my words. I'm not doing either of those things. I am perhaps being unproductive with my posting. Not intentionally, but unfortunately I'm realising that I don't have much that's of use to this discussion, just more dilemmas.

Oh I'm not riffing but I'm not specifically referring to that board. I don't know anything about it and it would be inappropriate for me to visit it to look at it by the sounds of things.

I'm referring to something I came across on the old internet where ostensible children were sharing their fantasies of [inappropriate activities] like, sexual compulsions or whatever that should not be encouraged because they would have been abusive towards siblings, as an example, and users who read as "fake children" to my eyes were encouraging those children to act on their fantasies.

I guess what I'm also saying is that I, a curious child, was able to see that the dynamic was fucked up and likely to be contagious and immediately closed my web browser and went to touch grass. I didn't even tell my parents about it, it was scary and gross and unsettling, but to talk about or acknowledge what I had seen would have raised more questions about what I was doing there in the first place.

I don't know if it was problematic for me to be exposed to these spaces, given that I had enough of a coherent idea of what was wrong to protect myself. But presumably not all children are equipped for this or wired that way or whatever.

Later in my juvenile years I had what would be considered by today's standards obviously problematic sexual interactions with adults, which were not damaging to my psyche or my sexuality, while the real world did present me with sexual situations that were, without an age issue involved, damaging to me.

All in all I guess I'm saying that it's a very complicated issue, that my online experiences were okay and perhaps even necessary for me to become who I am, but I acknowledge that I probably just got lucky. I've met younger adults who were not so lucky and have been permanently damaged and shaped by formative sexual experiences which have in turn led to them behaving inappropriately towards minors. They grew up in a bigger internet, more people, less selection bias towards certain types of personality types etc, everyone is on the net now.

I'm not sure it's possible for any space to be inherently "safe" for this sort of discussion amongst children, and that with the way the internet works at the moment, there is no reason to believe any space designed for children is safe from adults. To what degree this poses an actual risk of harm though, I think, depends on many factors and that perhaps the best thing is for children to be given solid education on sex and sexuality before they need to use that knowledge to assess the healthiness of the interactions they engage in. We do not currently live in societies where this is the norm, though and in many ways we are regressing on that front.

However I have noticed that a significant number of younger social media users do seem to be well educated about boundaries and demand to not be exposed to inappropriate stuff. It's an interesting thing.

tl;dr I have no fucking idea what the answer is to any of this, but hiding sexuality discussion away from children seems like an impossible ask, preventing adults from infiltrating "safe" spaces for youth to discuss these things is also basically impossible, and we can only hope that future generations of parents and teachers and media, who are more experienced than my generation's parents were, will keep them safe and well prepared to cope with what they experience online.

Yeah that's 100% the game I'm remembering. The PS2 ones sound way cooler.

tbh we didn't even know any better back in the day so still pretty much enjoyed the PS1 one. Rented from the video store lol.

So AI could be more sustainable this whole time? Interesting…

Yeah a lot of the breakthrough research has happened via cheaper / resource limited methods now that the cat is out of the bag. We live in interesting times.

BRICScoin when

Kids today are already figuring out volcel supremacy and how to cook bean. We're doomed.

(Literally a zoomer I know who isnt even political lol. So zased.)

Oh I'm sorry little guy I didn't see you, here have some mango.

I'm really impressed by the narrow multi-story ones that have been sliced out of some larger complex. Meanwhile in my advanced western settler colony buildings just start demolishing themselves at random.