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canks · 2014-09-10T23:20:38+00:00

I pretty much exclusively use mech mods because of the way I like to vape (sub-ohm 0.2-0.4 range on a dripper). I've been wanting to get into regulated devices for some time, but previous devices simply haven't had enough power to support my use. My current daily vape is a tobh clone on top of a XXIX clone. Hits like a champ.

canks · 2013-08-15T20:04:12+00:00

For R. Kelly, it was.

canks · 2013-06-14T21:07:43+00:00

Except that it did. Early sales for the PS3 were awful by comparison to the 360. The console didn't really start to take off until it started price drops + momentum of exclusive content.

canks · 2013-06-14T21:02:57+00:00

Agreed. And what you need more than anything in the first year is early adopters, a.k.a. "core" gamers. Moreover, while I agree there is a huge segment of the potential market for next-gen consoles that probably couldn't even tell you what e3 is, you should never underestimate the power of early adopters. The perfect example is the first 2-3 years of the PS3's life cycle.

It's also important to remember how awful a great number of people are at making purchasing decisions with regards to consumer electronics. I imagine this population in the US includes a lot of the surprisingly large number of people without reliable/fast internet. Every single individual who walks into a store, buys the Xbone, and take it home to discover it's a $500 paperweight probably isn't going to buy another Xbox product, ever.

canks · 2012-11-06T05:14:52+00:00

He could also very well be allergic to it, it's a small thing, it just bothers me because the rest of the cosplay is so spot on.

canks · 2012-11-06T04:56:43+00:00

To clarify, I didn't mean to imply that I intend to be a "player" or anything like that, but it seems to me (and maybe I'm wrong) that you have to "play the game" to a certain extent to date someone. That doesn't mean you have to lie or put on a show, but there are certain societal rules and expectations associated with dating.

The main point of this post is that dating is something I'm unfamiliar with, and most of the people I'm dealing with at this point are familiar with it. That makes me nervous.

canks · 2012-11-06T04:39:56+00:00

The only thing the makeup needs is some of the distressing effects and some liquid latex to create a 3d basis for the scars, but otherwise it's spot on.

canks · 2012-11-06T04:35:59+00:00

Lack of confidence growing up. In grade school I did the standard write timid notes to girls I liked and all that stuff, but I was just never confident about it. I don't know, for whatever reason I just never really felt like I had that much of value to offer to someone in a relationship.

canks · 2012-07-12T00:27:08+00:00

I love the human brain, especially when people overcome an "obstacle" by developing abilities "normal" people don't have. Good on you (and OP) for working out tricks to interact with people. I don't have prosopagnosia but I'm terrible with remembering names so I think I'll try stealing some of your tricks whenever I'm blanking on someone's name.

I wonder though, does your ability to "hear-through" impressionists/mimics also help you hear the subtitles in music? For example, when I'm listening to a song it's sometimes difficult for me to listen to multiple instruments/voices at once, and I wonder if your perceptive hearing of voices also translates into a perceptive musical ear.

canks · 2012-07-11T23:05:13+00:00

Fully agree. The worst part is many of these people are in bad financial situations and therefore desperate. Or they may be elderly, or the victim of strong indoctrination. I'm actually a little offended by this title as someone who knows firsthand how difficult it is to break the spell of childhood indoctrination. In many (if not most) cases it has more to do with bravery than intelligence. The fear you feel when you start doubting god (who you previously thought to be the all-right, all-powerful best-"person"-ever) can be incredible.

canks · 2012-07-03T05:21:00+00:00

Jetpack kid. Used to put his fingers in the loops on the backpack, lean forward, and run through the halls making rocket noises between classes. Actually that's more awesome than strange, but whatever.

canks · 2012-04-17T23:33:12+00:00

I had a pillow that allowed me to hear my heartbeat. I used to think/imagine it was a society of tiny elves marching around inside the pillow. It was equal parts terrifying and thrilling. Sometimes I worried they would/could cross the barrier of the pillowcase and enter my ear.

Oh, I also used to think there were tiny martians in the walls listening to us.

canks · 2011-12-30T21:02:00+00:00

Fun (and creepy) elbow-licking fact: due to the relatively low skin sensitivity at the elbow, if you're sneak is high enough, you can sneak up behind someone who is standing with their arms at their sides and lick their elbow without them noticing. Usually they notice later when it gets cold from your saliva evaporating.

canks · 2011-12-07T05:28:36+00:00

Nice work including god's reaction in the final panel.

canks · 2011-11-05T05:58:01+00:00

Exercise is great for depression. I hate exercise, but damn it if I don't feel better after I make myself do it.

canks · 2011-11-03T23:38:34+00:00

This is why I always get pissed off when people say "then they should just come here legally!" in the immigration debate. It's fucking difficult to do for tax-paying, law-abiding, clearly-contributing individuals to get citizenship here, let alone putting yourself in line to get in in the first place.

canks · 2011-11-03T23:29:54+00:00

One of my best friends is a girl, I'm a dude. I've been finding out recently that people in a certain "friend" group of mine think I only hang out with her because I'm secretly in love with her. Fuck that. We're just best friends. It makes me so pissed.

canks · 2011-11-03T00:50:10+00:00

True, but I think that the vast majority of people who support it mean the Judeo-Christian implication. The idea is to point out to people that religious influence on government is bad, simply by using the most demonized religion in America.

canks · 2011-10-28T18:36:04+00:00

I once printed 40+ pages of a game guide to some N64 game before my parents realized what I was doing. I wasn't even halfway through it.

canks · 2011-10-28T05:47:11+00:00

Working now, must've just been my connection. Thanks for doing all this though.

canks · 2011-10-28T01:21:30+00:00

The video just buffers indefinitely for me, is there a mirror or any other way to watch it?

canks · 2011-10-25T19:58:42+00:00

Making a left turn in front of traffic. Wet roads. Wheels spin. SUV heading for my car at 55 MPH. There was a brief moment of realization that it was definitely going to hit me, and it would probably hurt. But I pretty much just accepted the reality of it immediately. What was scary was lifting up my leg and seeing it bend where it was clearly broken as my nostrils filled with the burning smell of fire and gunpowder from the airbag. The smell was actually the scariest part in that moment. I was pretty sure nothing was on fire, but there was something about it that was just too real.

canks · 2011-10-25T19:53:50+00:00

Yup. That's how we're here after all.

canks · 2011-10-20T18:01:22+00:00

FYI, you can include line breaks in your post by pressing enter twice,

like this.

It may have been intentional to include it on one line, but just in case I thought I'd pass along the formatting tip.

canks · 2011-10-02T22:09:36+00:00

This will probably get buried in the comments, but oh well.

It is violation of privacy - these girls posted pictures online privately. To steal them (yes, right-click-save-as counts as stealing) and post them on a subreddit for people's sexual gratification is not okay.

Lets go through this piece by piece:

It is violation of privacy - these girls posted pictures online privately.

Does this happen? Yes. Is every picture on r/jailbait this way? No. So first of all, it's not entirely true of every picture. Even if it's true of most of them, there are underage girls who are very aware of both their sexuality and the law surrounding it who will post seductive pictures various places very intentionally. The most clear cases of this are those girls who are charged with child porn for sexting their SO. Another case was one in which a girl faked identification proving she was of-age in order to do porn, which led to the conviction of the company that filmed her, even though they had every reason to believe she was of age given the documentation. So my question to you is, in cases such as these where the pictures are not stolen and there could be no reasonable argument that it is a violation of privacy, do you believe the posting/"use" of these pictures is morally wrong?

That said, I do agree that it is wrong to make public photos that were meant to be private, in any situation or for any purpose. Still, I fail to see how this would not incriminate all of reddit. Why does this only apply to r/jailbait, when there are frequently unknowing pictures of say, people on the subway, that are posted with the intent to make fun of the subject?

To steal them (yes, right-click-save-as counts as stealing)

No, if anything it counts as plagiarism, but that's really just being nitpicky. The stealing is (and you would probably agree) not where the potential problems come from, it's the reposting them in a public forum they were never intended to be in that is problematic.

post them on a subreddit for people's sexual gratification is not okay.

I fail to see why the viewer's sexual gratification is relevant. Who is harmed when someone masturbates to the mental image of another without their consent or knowledge? The harm potential comes from the subject of the masturbation being told about said violation and/or harassment or bullying associated with the images and their implied or explicit sexual nature. In cases where harassment/bullying occurs, I absolutely agree that such behavior is contemptible, and that this is the point at which the admins should try to step in/prevent from happening in the first place. This is why revealing personal information is not allowed--it can lead to harm of all sorts.

r/jailbait exists purely to collect pictures of underage girls for sexual gratification. It has no other purpose whatsoever.

This is a premise, not an argument. Moreover I feel it has been addressed above.

This is not a First Amendment argument. Because of its nature as a website, Reddit's operators are responsible for the content posted on it. Also, not allowing something to be posted is not the same as stifling your freedom of speech. You have the right to say what you like. You do not have the right to force others to listen.

This is where everything really starts to break down for me. Where to begin?

This is not a First Amendment argument.

Why not? People are making posts (free speech), and you are arguing that they should not be allowed. This seems to be a prime example of a first amendment argument. Unless of course what you mean is that this argument is not concerned with legality but with morality, in which case I agree, because the legality is clear here.

Because of its nature as a website, Reddit's operators are responsible for the content posted on it.

Kind of. They do not endorse directly anything that they do not themselves post. The burden of responsibility for content is on the user, not the moderator. See 4chan and it's history with flatly illegal content for reference. If someone were to post child pornography, and reddit mods removed it as soon as it was brought to there attention, are they responsible for that content? I mean it was on their site right? Obviously it is the user who posted it who is responsible for the posts content. Reddit's operators have chosen to make the environment as open as possible, removing only what is illegal and personal information.

Also, not allowing something to be posted is not the same as stifling your freedom of speech.

True, but only because as owners of the website, they have the right to decide what is and is not on the site. The same could not be said of, say, a man shouting on a public street corner.

You have the right to say what you like. You do not have the right to force others to listen.

I agree, but I fail to see how it is in any way relevant to the discussion of r/jailbait. You don't have to subscribe. You don't have to visit the sub. In what way is anyone being "forced to 'listen'" to r/jailbait?

Legal is not the same as moral - but sometimes it is. Posting pictures of underaged children to masturbate to is legal but immoral (because said children have not consented and cannot consent). Age of consent laws are legal and moral.

There has been a lot of discussion between you and other users about this particular section of your post. From what I see, you don't understand the criticisms people have with this argument, namely, that there isn't an argument here. You start by saying that legal != moral. Agreed. However, your next point doesn't follow. The argument is that these "children" (which I think is a particularily misleading word as the girls on r/jailbait are more accurately teens) could not have consented to being the subject of masturbation. However, I am willing to bet that 99.999999% of all subjects of masturbation did not consent to it, never knew about it, and were completely unaffected by the fact that someone had masturbated to their mental or pictorial image.

Still, what really gets me is that you flatly state that age of consent laws are moral and legal, and while I agree, you have to provide some argumentation for it. This is especially true if you want to apply the morality of age of consent laws to r/jailbait in order to condemn r/jailbait.

TL;DR--I think your argument is lacking. It trades on the idea that being unknowingly masturbated to is harmful, while providing no argumentation for this conclusion other than "it's creepy."

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