Yes, Minors are robbed of autonomy by the patriarchal family. Yes, They should be afforded more freedom over themselves and their lives. This is no way justifies romantic or sexual relationships between an adult and a minor. Even within a society where a child and an adult are on completely equal grounds in terms of rights and power you still have the massive gap of years of knowledge, experience and both physical and mental growth the adult is going to have over the child. This makes abuse and coercion on the side of the adult extremely easy. This isn't even covering the awful effects this type of relationship can have on a child's mental health. The power imbalance is inherent.
To address the second comment. This is absolutely not the case. It's often the very institutions and systems that oppress minors that lead to them being sexually abused. The whole "haha priest touch little boys" """" joke"""" is literally born of the power adults have over children in institutions such as the nuclear family, churches, schools etc.
A point I bring up in these conversations is that a reason children are so commonly the target of sexual assault isn't because paedophilia is rampant but because children are easy, accessible targets who are less likely to be taken seriously and have less direct power to fight back. The same reason why poor and/or disabled women, trans people and sex workers are common targets of sexual abuse while we have laundry lists of bourgeois, white cis men who got away with years if not decades of sexually abusing people. They exert material and therefore social power over these groups. It is in the material interests of those who wish to sexually abuse children to uphold this system. Actual paedophilic attraction or not.
Those with genuine paedophilic attraction NEED to have nonjudgmental mental health services available to them because there is simply no consensual way to fulfill their desires. A minor simply cannot be trusted to make a clear, uninfluenced decision that fully understands the implications, risks and possible harm in a situation where they are being asked by an adult who they are likely trying to appease. Will you have cases where they grow up and not regret or be hurt by it? Sure. But the majority ARE deeply hurt by these experiences and it was still built on imbalance and misuse of power regardless. Paedophiles are in no way evil for desiring something that's unable to be practiced in a way that doesn't unconsensual harm someone, but the issue there is stopping those wants becoming actions.
Happy Birthday! I'm hoping you get that comically large spoon replica you've always wanted.
Have always loved handhelds and portable computers in general, something novel about them to me and they are super convenient. I got my LCD 512gb steam deck back in march of last year and it's easily become my favourite handheld, dethroning my beloved PSP 3000. A couple reasons why I love it.
95% of stuff works outta the box with the rest working with 1-5 minutes of tweaks from protondb. The "Unsupported" tag often just means "Needs some tweaks to work" or "you won't be able to play online" in my experience. The only game I could not get working was deadly premonition 1, which is a notoriously shoddy pc port that struggles to run on modern windows systems anyways. Thanks to the deck being great with emulation however, I was able to play the switch version just fine.
Speaking of, absolutely stellar emulation handheld. Everything pre ps3 worked mostly flawlessly (the exception being saturn which needs some messing around to get some games working, just the nature of saturn emulation tho.) ps3 is hit or miss, some games run perfectly, others with frame dips, some unplayably slow and a handful just crash immediately. Switch emulation mostly works, but a handful of games have issues or unacceptable performance. let both ps3 and switch games compile shaders the first time you run them, performance gets better when you are a lil bit into a game.
3rd party pc games work well provided yer comfy with navigating desktop mode and the dolphin file browser. Was able to get my GOG library up and running with heroic games launcher. Itch.io and Archival Backup games I just added manually to steam via it's add non steam game feature and enabled proton in that game's steam settings. Lutris helped for some edge cases like silent hill 2's enhanced edition fan mod.
Overall, i was able to play whatever i wanted on the thing. Which is great if you like going after and playing old or obscure games that haven't seen releases on stuff like the switch.
For 3rd party customisations. Decky is easy to install and opens the flood gates with addons with custom ui's, The ability to change your boot and sleep videos, Ability to change your system sound effects and add background music to the menus, custom loading icons, custom game art, easy music control, easy bluetooth device pairing, discord game status. You can pretty much redo the whole user experience in 20 minutes with minimal computer knowledge.
Desktop mode with no accessories is an okay experience provided you start steam in online mode while using the desktop, otherwise you won't have your on screen keyboard for some reason, it's not ideal but if you just need a desktop for one thing or just wanna watch something it's completely serviceable.
I was really impressed by the deck, and if you play handhelds enough to justify spending €400+ on one the deck will probably be worth it for you.
It's a Firefox/Chrome extension that allows users to mark sites and people as pro-trans or anti-trans. with pro-trans in green and anti-trans in red.
One of my favourite paintings. The look on the revolutionary's face,in absolute awe of the luxury the bourgeois and royals indulged in while he and his comrades lived in squalor. absolutely brilliant.
I generally dislike short form video and vastly prefer to curate my own feeds. It's as simple as that for me. I'll shit on a lot of tiktok users in joking but tbh I'm honestly pretty indifferent about the platform itself outside of some qualms with it's moderation (which pretty much every major social media struggles with) and personally disliking the way it operates.
I'm going with a Githyanki Melee focused Warlock build running pact of the blade with the plan being to use the lv 2 spell darkness with devil's sight to fight enemies up close while having eldrich blast to fight at range and cover me when my darkness is down.
I'm downloading the game right now so it should be ready in a few hours. I'm pretty damn excited.
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