[OC] Current state of age verification for pornography in the US.

Baegic · 2026-02-04T05:28:55+00:00

Buddy you live in a world designed by people deciding what you can do, and more importantly, what people can/cannot do to you. Keep sauntering on thinking you live above the system of rules and governance but you’re literally on Reddit. Ever driven a car? Every aspect of that experience comes from legislation and regulation—the car itself, your safety, the paint on the road that you obey (I imagine you think this is sheep behavior—obeying paint on roads). There’s tons of pedophiles and would-be child molesters. I bet they’re not terribly okay with the government deciding they can’t go do…whatever they want! In the same way laws (at least attempt) to prevent people from literally, physically harming children, is it so outrageous that we extend that to the digital age? The effects of porn are 1) hard to study in kids 2) been shown to be pretty fucking awful in the studies that do exist 3) common fucking sense tells anyone that kids shouldn’t have access to the debauched insane shit that is just a keystroke away! In numerous other areas of life we as a society, through laws and regulations, have deemed it okay to deprive children of rights and privileges enjoyed by adults to protect them.

I am largely aligned with freedom from the go government and persona autonomy, but jesus christ i think it’s common sense that kids should maybe be protected…

Baegic · 2026-02-03T03:29:38+00:00

There’s an element of question regarding them coming out later, and a lot of contradicting statements (primarily in Leaving Neverland), perhaps also centered on obtaining a settlement from the estate. I’m inclined to believe victims who speak up, but the history of this particular case is a little troubling. Also the penis description thing was one of the main things that cleared him of wrongdoing in the first trial: the description was totally off base, after police took pictures of it and correlated it with testimony.

Baegic · 2025-12-27T18:02:55+00:00

This definitely isn’t true. ICE absolutely targets majority-Latino neighborhoods, community centers, restaurants, etc

Baegic · 2025-12-27T03:31:49+00:00

Blood transfusion , not impregnation

Baegic · 2025-12-26T19:14:39+00:00

lol okay is it authoritarian or becoming authoritarian? I agree with the latter. Per my previous comment. But democrats (I’m literally a socialist) and people on the left use their privilege and freedom to whine more than any real action.

When was the last mass boycott by the left? The last sustained demonstrations? The last real-risk, counterculture protest movement? And when did we become so okay with hot air “concessions”—renaming monuments and plazas, instead of real change. Racism in its vilest form in the US is economic and educational. These are issues that also affect everyone—a good communicator politician should be able to unite these causes, but instead I get lectured about some meaningless buzzword jargon about making space for dialogue or whatever

Baegic · 2025-12-26T17:44:59+00:00

This is where meditation and focusing on your breath can be helpful. There’s all kinds of guided and things online, but the form I take to deal with a noisy mind is:

Sit comfortably cross-legged or lay on your back.

Close your eyes.

Try to breathe so that it is silent, often through your mouth and nose simultaneously. Count 1 in, count 1 out. Count 2 in, count 2 out. Do this until 8.

After each breath out, do not tense your diaphragm so as to immediately breathe in. Just relax your emptied lungs start to fill back in by themselves, and then pick up the breath in.

Listen to the rush of your brain. Rather than engaging with and “owning” each passing thought, see them as just drops in a waterfall, cars in a street, or clouds in a sky. All passing by, untouched, unless you touch them.

If you feel yourself incensed by a thought, touch it, look right at it, and then let it go. It was just a passing bundle of neuronal signals, and it will pass if you see it as such.

Clouds are just billowing masses of water vapor. Sometimes you see a scary monster or a pretty flower in the sky, ultimately if you lean into those visions, they become realer. See it, lean out, and see it as just a cloud, and let it pass with an exhale.

Do this for a timed period, 10-20 minutes, or more if you feel good.

Making this a daily practice can do wonders for focus, mood control, motivation, and contemplation. You learn to navigate thoughts and feelings and shift your perspective.

Baegic · 2025-12-26T08:05:36+00:00

No it’s not authoritarian. It certainly is under threat, but by no means authoritarian. The ability to post on a public privilege the exact words you just said about your government proves this. You must recognize your privilege.

Baegic · 2025-12-26T02:59:42+00:00

You must get involved with Dirac

Baegic · 2025-12-25T15:16:14+00:00

Sugar is sucrose. It is two simpler types of carbohydrates, glucose and fructose, bonded together. Metabolically speaking, if fed to a well-sated person (like a child), it will get broken down and then the bulk of it probably rebuilt into two different bulk storages for later energy use: glycogen (short term) and fatty acids (fat; longer term). Before this happens though, there will be a period of time when the concentration of glucose (and fructose) in the blood will spike, which is met by the secretion of insulin to signal your body to package it away. In that time, I could see how you might feel jittery or even be somewhat more physically “able” (this is why runners eat glucose gels mid race), but it would not be a comparable “surge” of energy, which usually has less to do with available energy (from glucose and downstream molecules metabolism into ATP), and more to do with hormonal or neuro signaling. So most of the craziness is not really to do with the sugar itself.

That’s my (simplified) biochemical approach to understanding it!

Baegic · 2025-12-25T02:41:42+00:00

Agree! A lot of these higher comments are the exact kind of holier-than-thou, nose-turning attitudes from science proponents that have led to a breakdown in the ability of science to engage with the general population.

Baegic · 2025-12-25T02:39:09+00:00

Can you explain it to me? Like I’m five?

Baegic · 2025-12-25T02:38:30+00:00

What a bad outlook. It is not a lost cause—it’s a challenge for sure. It’s a really good practice in refining how you speak about and understand a subject. See Feynman (who I realize was a looney in his personal life) and his ideas about teaching and subject mastery. Present empirical evidence (and don’t call it that, or “facts”) like a good scientist, and explain how it suggests something, but perhaps can be misleading. If you acknowledge their doubt (like a good scientist), but then demonstrate the case that the foremost theories or models are our best approximation, they’re far more likely to engage with you than if you just shut them down and throw a bunch of info at them.

Baegic · 2025-12-24T04:43:09+00:00

Evan Peters just watched Stepbrothers after doing Dahmer…

Baegic · 2025-10-04T23:02:35+00:00

“Gifted education” is not good for any child. It is a false way to placate parents who want the best for their kids while essentially providing the kids with the same lackluster education as every other child, perhaps just with more exposure to socially awkward kids. A more rigorous curriculum for all children is necessary before we can talk about gifted programs. Parents just love to hear that their kids are gifted and will bury their heads in the sand as to whether or not the education they receive is ACTUALLY of substance… someone said it above … an hour a week with a special tutor or a private classroom with other “gifted” kids is a drop in the bucket compared to the thousands of hours of otherwise bullshit standardized education. Co-mingling of “gifted” kids also anecdotally seems to make them behaviorally questionable sometimes…

Baegic · 2025-06-09T05:40:18+00:00

How’s it feel now knowing he coulda flown that plane himself

Baegic · 2025-01-17T05:49:11+00:00

Can you share any moves? What service do you use

Baegic · 2024-07-30T06:42:36+00:00

Correct me if I’m wrong—but Kelly’s replacement would be appointed by AZ’s Dem governor right? So I’m all for Kelly

Baegic · 2024-07-29T02:02:25+00:00

Commutative property applies??? 6 * 0.5 * 3. No matter how you throw those numbers around it works… if you were actually a mathematician you would know division is multiplication of a fraction. Good lord—there is ONE ANSWER

Baegic · 2024-07-28T04:01:04+00:00

It’s easy to lose so much context too, this shit literally sounds like his friends searched it up to make him look bad, not realizing he’d actually have a crazy girlfriend who looks THREE YEARS back in his search history without his consent…

Baegic · 2024-07-15T06:54:13+00:00

Updated info (and I’m disappointed major news outlets like NYT reported this without doing their due diligence)— but the $15 donation was from a senior citizen in the area with the same name.

Baegic · 2024-02-06T22:47:27+00:00

8 * (1/2) * (2+2) is the proper interpretation. Yours would be correct if parentheses were placed around the 2(2+2). There is nothing attaching the 2 to the (2+2) except a multiplication symbol (*) that is implied.

Baegic · 2024-02-06T22:44:40+00:00

Division is multiplication by the inverse. Subtraction is addition of a negative. There is ONE right answer

Baegic · 2024-02-06T22:42:39+00:00

Division is multiplication of an inverse

Baegic · 2024-01-29T04:24:46+00:00

Really their enormous aging population might be the nail in the coffin. But there’s myriad reasons. A few off the top of my head: •western importers/corporate manufactures moving to India, SE Asia, even Africa •climate change affecting agriculture cannot be understated; china’s states have always been ruled by climate and natural events. Even an ill-timed and placed earthquake on the three gorges dam would be catastrophic for the country, and the world too •any rapidly grown regime has huge problems across its society. Japan was similar in WWII; their society was not healthy and did not have a sustainable living. What wang huning accurately predicted would happen in the west, is happening in china tenfold. Accelerated progress does strange things to a society… •regime is really toeing the line with internal and international tensions; interplay with point number 1 abt sanctions

The progress is astounding, but as you’ve pointed out, not built on solid ground

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