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JackbyDev

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Any pronouns. 33.

Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

I'm using a new phone keyboard, please forgive typos.

  • Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions

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  • To be frank, I wasn't being invited before.

  • Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions

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  • I'm sure they'll send a strongly worded letter.

  • Pentagon Wants It to Be Illegal for Reporters to Ask “Unauthorized” Questions

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  • The first amendment doesn't allow this.

  • If you're sexually frustrated & can rarely find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has?

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  • I'd be happy to. I believe they're being lied to. I was brought up in that same puritanical culture. Leaving the church and religion were the most freeing things of my life.

    But even apart from that, if you believe that lust is a sin and/or that pornography is morally wrong, you can still masterbate without that being a part of it. That's sort of what I was trying to get at without being so direct, as I don't know if OP is religious or what their beliefs are. Too many people think that looking at porn and masturbating are the same thing. You can look at porn without touching yourself. You can touch yourself without looking at porn. You can even touch yourself without imagining yourself having sex with someone. I have male body parts, and generally "fap" implies male parts, so I sort of assume OP has the same parts as me. It is a very common experience, especially when younger, that any sort of physical stimulation down there results in an erection. If you get an erection because you crossed your legs in tight pants, did you lust? No. Of course not. If you get an erection because you intentionally touch yourself in a way you find pleasurable, have you lusted? I say no, and I feel pretty strongly about that. How is it different than rubbing your shoulders to give yourself some relief if you're tense? It's another physical stimulation that feels good.

  • If you're sexually frustrated & can rarely find a mate & decide to live a life of "nofap," what are the effects that buildup of sexual frustration has?

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  • It's a little odd calling them a "mate" in this context. There's nothing wrong with masterbation. If you think porn is had and don't wanna watch it, that's fine, but genuinely there is absolutely nothing wrong with masterbation. I think a lot of people take folks' negative feelings about porn and twist them into negative feelings about self pleasure and try to get people to believe that living some "pure" life where you don't touch yourself is inherently better than the alternative or something. It's really not.

    Sex is a big part of life. There's no reason you can't do it alone. There's no reason why you shouldn't do it alone. Go enjoy yourself. Have some me time. It's not something to feel guilty about.

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  • I'm not sure what the context of their discussion is but I interpreted it as being sympathetic to people who realize they were duped by conservatives. But there's a big difference between whether we should accept former maga voters and whether we should compromise with fascist politicians.

  • also don't use brave or vanilla Firefox

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  • What scam? Or do you just mean the crypto stuff in general (which is fine, I'm not saying crypto isn't a scam, just trying to understand you)?

  • also don't use brave or vanilla Firefox

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  • If you absolutely have to use a Chromium browser for some reason it's not the worst choice. But they're pretty shady.

  • virgin HDMI vs chad VGA

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  • The pixels come out otherwise.

  • virgin HDMI vs chad VGA

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  • MY BODY IS A MACHINE THAT TURNS ELECTRICAL SIGNALS INTO COLORED PIXELS. YOU HAVE NO POWER OVER ME, MORTAL. DON'T TREAD ON ME.

  • UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity'

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  • Who generated the demand?

  • this keeps happening

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  • Cave diving is so wild to me. All the horrors of spelunking with more cold, extra crap to carry, and a time limit with the consequence of death if it hits 0.

  • this keeps happening

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  • It's free real estate

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    College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself

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  • I had one truly awful professor in college. I'm pretty sure he came in hung over multiple times. Regardless of speculation, he definitely DID Google the topic of the say and get notes from other professors from other universities to teach from and then also had the audacity to complain about them. The cherry on the shit cake was him falling asleep during the grad students' presentations and then was weirdly aggressive and nit picky about what they said after waking up. I really laid into him on the student review. Supposedly their boss reads them all. I hope he saw some consequences. It's one thing to sort of be hands off and say "you're in college now, you need to teach yourself," but it's another thing to be an asshole and disrespect your students by falling asleep.

  • Only half of the calories produced on croplands are available as food for human consumption

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  • Those gluttonous soy enjoyers!

  • Operating System Political Compass - Updated version

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  • Yeah, in what world is it one tick more corporate/authoritarian than Arch?

  • Only 90s kids will understand

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  • I was born in '91 and a lot of what I associate with the '90s actually are things from the early '00s. I think part of it is because we moved around that time so memories of my old house and things that were from the actual '90s sort of faded in my mind.

  • My doctor had christan nationalist propaganda in the examination room.

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  • Yeah, because despite it all, I am still open to and sympathetic to folks who genuinely have just been duped somehow. It definitely gets harder and harder to buy that folks are oblivious the more time that goes on, but I'm never gonna make the mistake of pushing someone back into the fascists' arms because they think I'm not willing to accept them.

  • My doctor had christan nationalist propaganda in the examination room.

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  • A Christian nationalist, by the way.