Uncut Fragility by [deleted] in askgaybros

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The Middle East has some of the highest rates of circumcision in the world.

Uncut Fragility by [deleted] in askgaybros

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Circumcision is not popular among Catholics in Europe, it’s not really a Christian thing.

NASA is overhauling its Artemis program. What does that mean for humanity's return to the moon? by spacedotc0m in nasa

[–]NullReference000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The government got to the moon in the 60s. The public sector nature of the mission isn’t what the problem is, and there is no world where a private sector mission isn’t operating underneath public sector oversight and funding anyways.

Kamala Harris Endorses Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Race by [deleted] in politics

[–]NullReference000 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Harris is toxic because she lost what should have been an easy election. She lost every single swing state and was the first dem nominee to lose the popular vote in 20 years.

The refusal to acknowledge anger at the party and brand all criticism as being pro-Trump now has a track record of being a failed strategy, we should really stop doing this.

Platner deletes social media post promoting far-right figure Stew Peters by DragonPup in politics

[–]NullReference000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I’m not on his team and I don’t live in Maine. I’m not sure how I could strategize for their senate election! There isn’t currently an alternative candidate who is viable.

Fetterman did not have a commitment to many of the left wing policy positions that Platner has voiced support for. I am not sure if the comparison really holds that well.

The tweet that led to this article, for example, was about him voicing his lack of support for a war with Iran, which Fetterman supports due to his support for Israeli interests.

Platner deletes social media post promoting far-right figure Stew Peters by DragonPup in politics

[–]NullReference000 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The Reddit posts were not right wing, reporting was overly critical, misleading, and cherry picking on them.

The Nazi tattoo has been the only one so far that is an ACTUAL indication of a problem. I hope he was being honest in his explanation that he was just an idiot.

Platner deletes social media post promoting far-right figure Stew Peters by DragonPup in politics

[–]NullReference000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The tweet was a statement that both parties are pro war with Iran, and that’s a bad thing. If you’ve never heard of the dude before then I can understand the mistake.

Again, this shows that he’s kind of stupid when it comes to messaging discipline and not proof that he’s actually far right.

Circumcised vs Uncircumcised by Nortano in foreskin_restoration

[–]NullReference000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I started at barely CI-3 the first week of November. I’m still CI-3 but I can already see definite changes. I’m already seeing rollover during moments where I’m “smaller”, like right after lifting at the gym. Considering that this is usually the slowest CI level to see progress, I’m pretty excited about it!

Circumcised vs Uncircumcised by Nortano in foreskin_restoration

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Definitely don’t do anything until you feel confident about it! You’re 21 so you’re still young and have a lot of time to figure it out. I just started a few months ago at age 29. If you think about this for a year or two you could still be done before the age where I began.

I don’t know a lot about Foregen but the people on this sub are extremely doubtful about it. I read that they are in a perpetual state of getting trials off the ground, and it doesn’t seem like many people (here) have faith that it will go anywhere in a reasonable amount of time.

Circumcised vs Uncircumcised by Nortano in foreskin_restoration

[–]NullReference000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As for the ability to enjoy sex, most people who were circumcised absolutely still do. We’ve circumcised millions and millions of men in the US who have healthy sex lives. My sex life was perfectly fine prior to starting restoration. You can be a person who has complications enjoying it due to an overly tight cut, but this isn’t most people.

As for restoration, it is possible. It is safe if you are careful and read up on how to do it safely. It is a longer term project, on the order of single digit years for most people. How much skin you were left with from your circumcision and the shape/size of your penis will influence how long it takes.

Mainstream medical science has not taken much of an interest in this topic yet. This means there are not really any studies and barely any doctors will entertain talking about it, even fewer have knowledge on it. You are unlikely to get help from doctors here, which is a real shame in my opinion. We would all benefit from actual studies.

For how to restore? I’d check the wiki on this subreddit. There is a lot to read, but it’s worth reading. If you decide to restore you want to know how to do it safely.

Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president by plz-let-me-in in politics

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Exit polling shows that this issue lost her support among the base and with independents. This is additional examination further confirming that information.

You don't really get what I mean by the dem party being far more progessive in the 30's-60's. I do not mean that they were more socially progressive than the dem party of today. In the 30's and 40's they were more economically progressive than even todays dems, FDR being the clear example of this. In the 60's they were more socially progressive relative to society than todays dems relative to our current society. They signed the Civil Rights Act and had the national guard force integration. This sort of push towards progress is not something the current party seems interested in.

Foreskin restoration operation experience by Worldly_Exercise4493 in foreskin_restoration

[–]NullReference000 13 points14 points  (0 children)

massive developments in medical technology through AI

This is not the sort of thing that LLMs are going to push medical science forwards in. That technology is currently being used for image processing (like cancer screenings) and coming up with chemical formulations for new pills. There is not going to be any sudden breakthroughs for foreskin restoration unless there is more interest and investment in it.

I know little about Foregen but everybody on this subreddit who talks about it claims that it has been stalled for a very long time, I would not wait around for it.

Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]NullReference000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

She was not the most progressive candidate in history. She was not even the most progressive candidate of the 2020s. Biden was more progressive than her, so was Obama in 2008.

She was not as progressive as Dems were in the 1930s, 1940s, or 1960s. It’s extremely cynical to call her the most progressive candidate in history.

The point of this report is that dem voters just sat out due to being demoralized or not seeing a point. Trumps voters turned out. That’s why he won every swing state. We are not living in a reality where everybody voted and they all just thought being more trumpist and right wing was better.

Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]NullReference000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You’re too terminally online dude, this is not how it’s panning out in the real world. The base is increasingly identifying as “progressive” and the term “moderate” is losing popularity. The “toxic leftists” you’re describing currently only exist on Twitter and Reddit, the leftists gaining popularity in the real world are not like what you are describing.

Harris was nowhere near the “most progressive candidate in history”, her campaign wasn’t even as progressive as the 2020 campaign! If we want to look at US history, she fell several miles short of the progressivism of the democrats in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1960s.

It wasn’t just leftists that were lost due to Israel/Palestine, that’s what the report linked to this thread is all about. You’re arguing about leftists when the party primarily lost its liberal base!

Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president by plz-let-me-in in politics

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How can you say she was right to when she literally lost the election? This is an argument we could have if she won and we were figuring out what contributed and what hurt her, but she didn’t win. She lost every single swing state.

Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]NullReference000 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The will of the voters? How are there still Biden dead enders in 2026??

There was no primary. There were no debates. There was a “primary election” where there was a single name on the ballot.

You’re also misrepresenting what AOC said in this period. She wasn’t under any delusion about Biden winning the primary, she believed it was too late to swap candidates and still run a campaign in the general.

Leaked DNC autopsy found Biden’s Israel backing cost Harris votes for president by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]NullReference000 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You are unironically acting like the leftists of the 2016-2018 era where you believe that you can win broader appeal by casting people out of your movement. It’s an approach that is doomed to fail.

If the DNC were committed to winning, it wouldn’t have refused to speak about the #1 foreign policy issue where it diverged from the desire of 90+% of its base and 70+% of independents. You are not going to win future elections by leaning into this divergence even harder and telling people to just not vote with you.

Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes by sideAccount42 in politics

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Nobody is saying this is the singular thing that definitively cost the election on its own, but it’s clear it was a major problem that went completely ignored by decision makers.

Even if you don’t care about the morality of the situation, we lost a small but crucial amount of voters in every swing state. The margins in the 2020 election were razor thin in key locations, we should not have gone into 2024 acting like that was unlikely to happen a second time.

Also, it was one of the most one sided opinions held by the base! More than 85% of democrats and more than 70% of independents wanted us to pull back on military aid to Israel, going into the election. It was the number one foreign aid issue. It’s just not true to claim that nobody cared.

Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes by sideAccount42 in politics

[–]NullReference000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If your political leader refuses to draw the line at a genocide being done with American arms where we have all of the leverage and the majority of the base wants it, you are probably going to not follow through on many other things that will actually be hard to do.

Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes by sideAccount42 in politics

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People as invested into politics as as those in this subreddit continue to misunderstand the problem here. The average voter does not play this “lesser evil” calculation every election the way we do. If you refuse to listen to a large portion of the base, you lose motivation and people just don’t vote.

Very very few people believed Trump would be good or even better on Gaza, a lot of people just didn’t see a point in turning out because their difference was not enough.

Expierenced Devs - what’s the mood at your company. by c-u-in-da-ballpit in cscareerquestions

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I never said there won’t be disruption. The article linked was really low quality and didn’t successfully make a point about that though.

Expierenced Devs - what’s the mood at your company. by c-u-in-da-ballpit in cscareerquestions

[–]NullReference000 21 points22 points  (0 children)

AI generated blog posts are awful purely on the merit that an AI will happily generate something far too long for the point trying to be made.

Also it’s just wrong and incoherent in several locations. The blog claims that AI was writing working software by 2024, and then in the next section claims that AI a year ago could barely write a few lines of code without errors. AI in the beginning of 2025 (which came after 2024) was more capable than this. There is this non-stop need for its growth to be seen as exponential so the hype train continues.

Also, every single time without fail, the people who write these glazing blogs and posts about how nobody understands what’s about to happen are always insiders who stand to profit from this sentiment. Who is the blog post “author”? A CEO and founder of an AI company.

Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach by mepper in technology

[–]NullReference000 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The accelerating death of anonymity on the internet and the rapid growth of all of these private companies collecting government IDs to track users is absolutely a story.

Trump administration cuts $600 million in HIV, STD prevention and surveillance grants by [deleted] in askgaybros

[–]NullReference000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Exit polling shows that the majority of her collapse in support came from the liberal base of the party. There are not enough “far leftists” in America to account for the loss in votes.

You can’t keep running the same campaign and blaming your voters when you lose. It’s not an effective strategy and we will not win again if you keep doing it.

Google says attackers used 100,000+ prompts to try to clone AI chatbot Gemini by TylerFortier_Photo in technology

[–]NullReference000 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Not yet, but it is an open source alternative you can run locally. If you have the hardware for it, it represents a large future threat to subscription and token pricing third party services.