Holy shit she’s freaking gaming!!!

Broccoli Cheddar will grow up to be a fierce barn warrior

I used to be like Steve. It took a lot of years until I looked back and realized my mindset probably made a lot of people feel like you do now. Didn’t start treatments or therapy until years into college. You can’t rush someone’s journey to improve, it goes at their pace. They’ll appreciate it if you take the time for yourself that you need, and welcome them into anywhere that you reasonably can. Even if they refuse every offer or sentiment, they’ll still know you were there for them, and it will matter.

I only work one job, but the low income means without living with family I’d be homeless. I wish sanity got to be a part in breaking even each month…

Centralization strikes again

Hell, why limit it to gaming? I mean I know this is posted to Gaming, but still. There could be a lot of benefit to a tech industry wide Public Shame Index with how utterly soulless some companies are getting. Though, it would be under constant pressure from the largest companies to call it slander or libel, whatever they’d try to say to the abuse contact email of whoever hosts it to get it taken down.

Yeah, the example repositories’ license files explicitly state:

Please note that the Survey Creator component is proprietary software and requires a developer license to be integrated and used in your own application.

If the Survey Creator component is the part everything else is using to make the magic happen, then it’s definitely not open source

its a guy in bed getting his face sucked into a phone

Finally, we’ve managed to shove crypto directly into social media interaction itself. If only there was some way to shove AI into it. Maybe add some NFT’s while you’re at it?

Those screenshots looks an awful lot like AI, be careful with that… AI has no problem letting people wallow in learned helplessness. Regardless, getting stuck in a rut is a real thing that most people go through, many times throughout life. The job market is abysmal right now, especially for the average individual. It’s almost effortless nowadays to be overqualified for the minimum wage work, and underqualified for work at a livable wage. And that’s without considering whether companies even want more employees…

the user you advised that to uses lemmy as their personal venting diary, they’re a regular. people probably didn’t like the way you wrote it because they missed the latter word “just” in your post, misinterpreting the meaning entirely

Maybe skim this recent post? https://lemmy.world/post/43616899 Lot of folks chimed in about their opinions on many different wiki approaches, my takeaway was that Bookstack looked like something I’d wanna use in the future, but there’s a lot of stuff covered in there.

As nice as this would be, it’s not very likely… Licenses are usually limp suggestions from the perspective of companies with billions of dollars. AI companies train on millions of copyrighted materials, both literature and art, without any express permission from the authors or artists, and with essentially no recourse or compensation to the authors. You could append a ‘no AI training’ clause to an existing license like the MIT license, but the impact that will have will mostly be brief personal satisfaction and won’t change what the AI companies do. It’s genuinely more useful to keep code proprietary to prevent it from being used to train AI models.

TIL LibreOffice has socials! One of these days I should look into joining Mastodon

I’ve got some Western Digital and Samsung HDDs I bought refurbished a while ago in a RAID10 configuration for 4 TB total. Recently setup backups to that and an SSD, the read/write speeds are slow but tolerable and I’m not doing anything that needs high throughput. For backups from multiple machines, it does the job and I make sure to upload the encrypted backups to remote storage once a month so if there’s any catastrophic data loss on my end it’s all recoverable.

No LLMs used here, just regular old fashioned search engines and common sense. Not that I expect that to convince you :D I wouldn’t bother wasting an LLM’s time on this, it’s much more entertaining not to. If you feel so inclined, I’d be curious what your take on antiandrogen medications, serotonergic agents or gonadotropin-releasing hormone antagonists for treatment is, since it seems effective in the limited trials that have taken place. Of course, there should always be more thorough research into the capacity for full remission.

Of course not, an individual with such a disorder can be successfully treated to reduce if not fully eliminate pedophilic urges or inclinations. Medications and treatments are available to reduce sexual libido and urges in afflicted individuals, as well as to rebuild the mental pathways from pedophilic to normophilic, without altering sexual orientation. A resource to consider is the Handbook of Clinical Sexuality for Mental Health Professionals by Stephen B Levine, Candace B Rice, Stanley E Althof. For a study, as you’ve requested, feel free to give Changes in Sexual Arousal as Measured by Penile Plethysmography in Men with Pedophilic Sexual Interest a cursory reading.

A sexual preference towards men, women, or nonbinary isn’t a mental illness. A sexual preference to children is. Refer to this for further explanation.

It’s not a mental illness. If anything, it’s a mental disorder

Those are the same thing. “A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness, a mental health condition, or a psychiatric disability”

Most mental illnesses can be successfully treated, many live to tell the tale. Drug addicts who become treated are no longer addicts, sufferers of emotional cognitive disorders who become successfully treated are no longer emotionally suffering. Some disorders are treatment resistant, and afflicted individuals undergo life-long consistent maintenance therapy.

A sexual preference towards men, women, or nonbinary isn’t a mental illness. A sexual preference to children is.

Someone who undergoes resident rehabilitation as a pedophile and is successfully treated results in someone who is no longer a pedophile. That permanently removes the pedophile from society.