• captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      A lot of people have commented on how Ben Franklin would love porn, trans women, modern voluntary sterilization, etc., but I’m just gonna come out with a hot take: Ben Franklin would fucking love cocaine. Really all modern stimulants. If there’s a heaven he’s up there doing lines off some chick’s dick discussing her PhD dissertation. This is a man who would be fucking pissed that the nation he helped found has created Adderall shortages by restricting supplies. He’d demand healthcare be in the bill of rights for that reason alone.

  • yesman@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    The concept of a bloodline is incoherent.

    Since the number of direct ancestors doubles every generation you go back, individual lineage is closer to a bowl of spaghetti than a family tree.

    Every generation you go back, you share less and less genetic markers. You share exactly 50% of your DNA with each parent, about 25% with each grandparent etc. Eventually you’ll find a direct ancestor with whom you share no DNA markers. It’s 12 generations back, on average.

    So, go back a few hundred years, and you’re not genetically related to anybody. Go back a thousand, and everyone’s list of ancestors is indistinguishable.

  • peoplebeproblems@midwest.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    How the fuck do people do it? Like is there something else more wrong with me?

    It says it’s AI. It reads like an AI. I’m desperately lonely too, but it doesn’t remotely come close to even a hint of being a real person.

    Maybe it’s the user interface? The constant awareness of the AI girlfriend URL?

    • DarkSpectrum@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I think it has something to do with the person needing something other than a human relationship. Its like those lifesize dolls that some guys are into. They meet needs that are different to a human relationship.

  • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    Don’t know if it’s better or worse than me jacking off for 4 hours. Regardless my ancestors would probably fully understand. They’d still be disappointed for a myriad of reason.

      • LittleBorat3@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        We used to call that edging, don’t know the kid lingo really but they are more pathetic than us so probably they combine this with some para social friendship to some only fans model.

        Oh that was not the question was it? You have 45 tabs open in private mode, minimum.

        • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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          5 months ago

          Edging is distinct from gooning in that edging is done with the homies or for the homies, gooning is an isolating experience.

          “There’s an expression… Gooning, G-O-O-N-I-N-G, basically it means being transfixed with video porn for 24-48 hours straight. And, it struck me that even though this crowd considers itself bohemian, and anti-establishment, it struck me that this is exactly the crowd that would go over for Fascism. It had that feel.”