I misremembered my internet class. Sucks that it made ya feel bad.

Edit: and you can put whatever you want as your source IP at the IP level. Though idk how modern security deals with that. I know I was taught that that was a way to DoS attack, so I imagine it’s protected against.

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Oh yeah. Forgot about that.

You can fake your IP. There isnt really any authentication at the IP level. Just make a packet and overwite the IP field.

Edit: I was corrected. The TCP handshake requires you to have a valid IP you can respond from. So even though you can fake your IP, you can’t use that to talk to most websites.

In my highschool physics was optional. You had multiple options for science credits and could get through without taking it.

Jesus Christ. On an RC website?! I just don’t even know how to process that. That doesn’t make any sense.

So sorry you had to see that.

Yeah its not like the web feels better without ad block.

I mean, books did make us worse at memorizing. I think its give and take. There are some things that are good to cognitively offload to an AI.

As long as we have ways to give feedback and affect the system this is a good thing.

The less recourse we have the more authoritarian it is though.

Man, this is very disappointed news. Thanks though, good to know.

I use obsidian. It have been pretty happy with it’s table support lately. It used to be much worse.

Ugh tables are really the killer. If my editor doesn’t support tables then I avoid them like the plague.

I hear genes couldn’t have changed as fast as shortsightedness has risen. I’ve heard bright light like from the sun helps certain systems shape the eyes and as we’ve rapidly become indoor folks myopia has risen.

I’d say if anything the AI only suffers during trainig, as I’m pretty sure that’s what pain is for: learning what not to do.

For sure! Incase ya didn’t look too close its a meta study from 2000 and mostly self report data. The study admits it would’ve been impossible to control for culture.

Given that the data is over a quarter century old or older and culturally influenced there’s for sure some wiggle room with how much it applies today.

Hey, I’m sorry I didn’t do this earlier. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1207/S15327957PSPR0503_5

I’m convinced. A quick google and a bit of a read and I feel I have a grounded take. Men desire sex more frequently and likely more intensely in western countries.

Your faith in business is strange to me. Sorry you couldn’t convince me. Some things I can be convinced of, but I have a higher bar for my evidence. I’ll stick with a confident “I don’t know who’s hornier.”

You can have any bar for your evidence ya want. I just think ya look a little silly being so convinced lol.

See ya around.

For your proposition of equal horniness to be true, one of two must be true: A)women are so repressed they don’t even want sexual materials in which case, even if it’s cultural and not biological, women are functionally less horny or B) they are so terrified that someone will bust in and search their web history which seems kind of a bizzare amount of repression.

This is an extremely uninspired list. Let me help.

1. Women could be put off from watching porn when first introduced due the male centered industry and generally less acceptance of their sexual expression leading to longer term differences in how they get their fix.
2. The smut industry while not as lucrative could produce more sexual stimulation per dollar. I know there is a lot of pirating in the smut community. And books take a while to get through.
3. Porn sites may not capture gender from their user base perfectly.
4. Again, there are a lot of ways to get off for free. Any women could get on a dating app and get their fix in half a day.
5. Women centered porn sites may not make as much per view.

I could keep going, but its becoming more work. My point is that there is way too much wiggle room in the money argument. You just can’t account for how our culture affects their expression unless you’ve studied it.

Economics is much better for studying how money moves. Idk why we would use it to try and generalize the experiences of a group. It is exceptionally indirect and biased. It is a silly thing to use as a foundation for that kind of belief.

Edit: removed snarky comment, I was feeling a bit hot

Edit: just stumbled on this video, but its whole point is about how the different genders interact with sex differently: https://youtu.be/Qfpj5qQr9KA

I agree that it can look like that at a glance, but why would we expect spending to reflect horniness when sexual expression is less accepted for women in many rich countries? Can you say to what degree that affects it? They may feel just as much hornyness and express it more privately. How can you be confident?

I admit, that if you look at the economic you presented, men spend more on sexual stuff. That is a fine conclusion. But it says very little to me about who is more horny.

Homie idk how many times I gotta say it. I’m agnostic to who’s more horny. I get why I seem stubborn.

You can believe what you want. Your evidence is too indirect to convince me.

I really think we’re arguing slightly different things though. Like it is even important for me say wealth inequality in the world means that sex spending better represents rich countries interests? Therefore has a very very large cultural bias. Not abstact, real cultures are different. Lots of people are unaccounted in your metric, and lots of peope are extremely over counted.

I can be convinced, you just haven’t done it. I am not confident the data is out there. Spending definitely has too many flaws to be a good indicator.