I think we can agree that your experience was valid and changed your life. The emphasis here is on your life for good reason. Porn and masturbation, like any other escape mechanism, is exactly that. I suspect something underlying as the cause for your need to escape that much. The nofap community there helped you reinforce that change. It does not make the community entirely wholesome.
What I wonder is if you would have had the same results with changes in your life without specifically focussing on porn and masturbation. I have observed this a few times in other areas, where changes to routine and outlook was the actual source of the improvement and not the thing the improvement was attributed to.
Just a thought. It is always good to try and understand yourself. It takes nothing away from your achievement in turning your life around.
No point in attacking you for something that works for you. Neither of us learns anything under those conditions. Philosophies teaching abstinence in physical pleasures have been around forever. In my mental map of the world, the NoFap community falls under those.
It is something you believe helps you be the person you want to be, more power to you. I would only consider it harmful if it attempts to impose its ideas on people who don't agree. Or deliberately spreads misinformation internally that may be harmful to its adherents.
What do we even comment on a story like this. In 2023. There are no words to express the distaste to how she was treated. Found her youtube channel and subscribed. Looks like she is doing cool stuff. Will keep an eye on it.
The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.
True, but I feel this change may be a bit deeper. Blockchain served very little purpose, beyond its trust. With AI i am seeing proof of concept projects coming in for distilling client briefs, ideation of concepts and even release planning. Not replacing the people yet, but making processes faster. And that is just in my industry. Marketing and advertising.
I work in an industry that will be heavily effected by AI over the next few years. My own opinion is that if you do not embrace and understand AI in your workflow, as a digital creative, you will be left behind. It is one thing to ban AI in your domain, like Hasbro has done, but a different matter where you are competing with other companies or creatives for the same business.
As a concept I would welcome a safe affordable male contraceptive and would use it if appropriate.
I would say that I would definitely evaluate the option very carefully. Especially in a committed relationship. Sometimes female birth control can bring benefits beyond just birth control, along with its drawbacks. My partner suffered from severe period cramps at a point in her life, where the birth control she used suppressed that. That said, it would actually be positive to have the option of a male contraceptive in a relationship. We share the pleasure and the responsibility. In the end, the safest option with the least side effects will probably win out. If that is a male contraceptive, so be it.
Outside of a committed relationship, condoms just makes more sense. I cannot imagine taking the risks associated with sex and not taking any precautions for it. Then again, my early 20s was spent in a country and area with a high prevalence of HIV, so not taking chances is ingrained due to that. It would also depend on just active a sex life we are dealing with.
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
AI will certainly be a challenge for web sites. I think we must accept that the end of the 2010s internet is upon us. Add supported web sites, that offer the user as the product, will start to slowly disappear. That is not really a bad thing though. The drawback for us users is that services will start to cost money.
I read a comment by Bill Gates recently where he suggested that most people will interact with AI through personal assistants. This actually feels like a good point from him. A PA that actually works will add a lot, to a lot of people. Which goes to your point about how normal users will stop interacting with the web though an unfiltered browser and start using AI to access the web. Companies who sell actual good and services online should be safe as their income is not dependant on advertising.
I suspect normal users will end up paying for the search engines used by the AI. On some form of tiered approach. Apart from a few oddball users, like us here in the fedverse who will find other ways to make things work.
A few days ago we informed you that Quake 2 Remastered appeared in the South Korean age rating system, which could advance an announcement at QuakeCon 2023,
In this case I doubt it would be as simple as a mistake. That poor little spaceship is really old and baked by solar and cosmic radiation. There would just be no way to perfectly simulate the impact of your commands on the ground. Coupled with unstable power from a dying nuclear battery. I would not want to be the programmer responsible for that one. The fact that it works at all is amazing.
I have been using KBin as my primary source of social media since the reddit shittification got serious. Dude you are doing excellent work. I am a dev myself and this is just amazing. Thank You!
The vision is sometimes more important that arbitrary deadlines. Your life your call, but I would rather be patient and have the man with the vision in charge than having kbin fragment. Just my thoughts.
I am not sure what is correct to put in kbin-core/issues without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here?...
I fully agree with your logic, but just purchased a pair of Epos gaming headphones for office use. The usual office stuff sucks, with almost no isolation and terrible sound quality. I needed a compact set with good sound and isolation to deal with the return to office. The second use case is space and convenience.
Please help me understand how this view is intended to work. I have been seeing a lot of content on that view that I am not subscribed to. Today I deleted all of my subscriptions to try and see if the view will change and it does not. Am I missing something in how this is supposed to work, or is there a bug there at the moment?...
So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....
It is a good question. As far as I know Antifa does not exists as a definable organisation with a hierarchical structure. Almost like the hacker collective anonymous. The racism and exploitation of the poor and marginalized goes hand in hand with fascism, which is why the poster makes sense. Fascism needs an enemy to focus the masses on, to distruct from it inherent flaws.
This record is one of the first, if not the first record I bought with my own money. It survived garage parties, university dorm rooms, many moves and still plays all the way through. The surface crackle is like an old friend by now. I should buy a new copy, but somehow that would be a betrayal of an old friend....
Hi I noticed this behaviour today on my kbin/sub view where posts started to appear from magazines I am not subscribed to. Is there a setting I am missing or is this a known issue?
I am in the process of preparing our server world for migration to 1.20 and thought I would share my experience with MCA Selector so far. A youtube video from Pixelriffs a few years ago pointed me in this direction....
I have been trying to support our Kbin instance here on Patreon where I usually Paypal. I have other people I support though Patreon using Paypal, but paypal fails consistently for Kbin. Does anyone know of a reason why that would be?...
The turntable in question is a heavily modified Thorens, purchased from a radio station in the mid 2000s. I tried to keep it as original as possible. The only thing replaced was the arm....
We Know “NoFap” Is Misleading Men About Masturbation. It Might Be More Dangerous Than That. (slate.com)
Madison on why she quit Linus Tech Tips. (Content Warning: Sexism, Self Harm , Sexual Assault & Harassment) (threadreaderapp.com)
For Reasons relating to LTT on its coverage of PCGaming and PC Hardware I thought it important to share this here....
Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise (apnews.com)
The Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game franchise says it won’t allow artists to use artificial intelligence technology to draw its cast of sorcerers, druids and other characters and scenery.
[DISCUSSION] Would you feel comfortable using a male contraceptive medication?
Relevant post: slrpnk.net/post/1480928...
Stable Diffusion on AMD 6800XT - Ubuntu 22.04 - Experience so far and just how much faster it is than machineML on Windows
I thought I would share my experience this evening with the group here seeing that I still excited as hell for getting this hodgepodge to work at all....
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
Quake 2 Remaster will be announced and released next week during QuakeCon 2023 (gamerkick.com)
A few days ago we informed you that Quake 2 Remastered appeared in the South Korean age rating system, which could advance an announcement at QuakeCon 2023,
NASA temporarily loses contact with V'ger (arstechnica.com)
The Voyagers were launched nearly half a century ago.
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universal IDs for threadiverse items (re kbin-core #635)
I am not sure what is correct to put in kbin-core/issues without cluttering it up with somewhat speculative requests. I have no idea how to implement this or whether it is possible. So I will post here?...
Sennheiser Exits Gaming Headphone Business (www.anandtech.com)
Technically the successor owner of their gaming brand....
EDIT - Resolved Help Needed around understanding the Subscribed view: kbin.social/sub
Please help me understand how this view is intended to work. I have been seeing a lot of content on that view that I am not subscribed to. Today I deleted all of my subscriptions to try and see if the view will change and it does not. Am I missing something in how this is supposed to work, or is there a bug there at the moment?...
Exo-biology to fill the old bank account. Lets see how many credits we can earn in a week.
So I logged in last night after getting my new operating system to work with ED (ubuntu) and noticed that the useless crew of my fleet carrier once again managed to spend almost their entire annual budget on Indi Bourbon and Kamitra Cigars....
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A call to action poster...
Sidewinder slowly being swallowed by the sands of some unknown desolate world
BMW K1300R, On Franschhoek pass at the lookout point, Western Cape
OC I think she knows how to fly this thing - aZovyaPhotoreal_v2
I am really enjoying the model aZovyaPhotoreal_v2 for creating sci-fi space like images....
Today's Question, What is your most worn record that still gets regular play? I will start, Bon Jovi New Jersey, last new and pristine in 1990
This record is one of the first, if not the first record I bought with my own money. It survived garage parties, university dorm rooms, many moves and still plays all the way through. The surface crackle is like an old friend by now. I should buy a new copy, but somehow that would be a betrayal of an old friend....
Question about the kbin subscribed view showing articles from non subscribed magazines
Hi I noticed this behaviour today on my kbin/sub view where posts started to appear from magazines I am not subscribed to. Is there a setting I am missing or is this a known issue?
Trimming Worlds for the 1.20 Migration - Shout-out to MCA Selector
I am in the process of preparing our server world for migration to 1.20 and thought I would share my experience with MCA Selector so far. A youtube video from Pixelriffs a few years ago pointed me in this direction....
About to arrive
Learning to inpaint and messing around with a steampunk lycoris
Supporting Kbin from Patreon, Paypal issues
I have been trying to support our Kbin instance here on Patreon where I usually Paypal. I have other people I support though Patreon using Paypal, but paypal fails consistently for Kbin. Does anyone know of a reason why that would be?...
First new vinyl in a number of months. Alphaville, Forever Young, perfect sunday morning listening.
The turntable in question is a heavily modified Thorens, purchased from a radio station in the mid 2000s. I tried to keep it as original as possible. The only thing replaced was the arm....