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  1. Comment on What are your thoughts on social nudity? in ~talk

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    Woa. You can't even walk around your own home naked with the blinds up. I do this when I move from the shower to a bedroom or laundry area. Also, no tanning in your back yard unless you put up a...

    is nude and exposed to public view while on private property, whether or not the property is his own,

    Woa. You can't even walk around your own home naked with the blinds up. I do this when I move from the shower to a bedroom or laundry area.

    Also, no tanning in your back yard unless you put up a big fence.

  2. Comment on You're not losing fat because you're eating too damn much (even when you don't think you are) in ~health

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    Two books that changed my thinking on weight were The Hungry Brain by Stephan J. Guyenet and Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss. They both touch on what this article calls the obesogenic environment....

    Two books that changed my thinking on weight were The Hungry Brain by Stephan J. Guyenet and Salt Sugar Fat by Michael Moss. They both touch on what this article calls the obesogenic environment. The hardest thing about losing weight is how much our psychology is unprepared for our current environment.

    We gain weight because we eat too much. We eat too much because food is so damned tasty.

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  3. Comment on What are some of your favorite "easy reads"? in ~books

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    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a Hugo award winning sci-fi romance writen in an epistolary format. No smut. The Books of the Raksura by Hugo award winner...

    This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone is a Hugo award winning sci-fi romance writen in an epistolary format. No smut.

    The Books of the Raksura by Hugo award winner Martha Wells are also great. The main characters are not human, but it doesn't feel "weird" to new readers because there is no smut. The series has broad appeal to fantasy readers.

    Nonhuman characters seems like a bit "out there" and I'm not super into reading "smut" (is that what it's called?)

    Yeah, explicit sex is usually called smut, steam, or spice. We have many words for the same thing.

    Most folks are wary of Non-human love interests at first. I know I was at first, but itnhas grown on me since then. One thing it does is it makes it easier to suspend disbelief about breaking gender norms.

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  4. Comment on I gave Lemmy, Kbin, and Beehaw a chance. I think I'll be sticking with Tildes. in ~tech

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    In the NSFW subreddits I mod on an alt, we have a bot that removes any submissions from people with a linktree or OF link in their history. The false positive rate is pretty low, and issues can...

    In the NSFW subreddits I mod on an alt, we have a bot that removes any submissions from people with a linktree or OF link in their history. The false positive rate is pretty low, and issues can generally be resolved via modmail. Comment links to OF get removed by automod.

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  5. Comment on The Reddit blackout is breaking Reddit in ~tech

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    I said this in one of my community discords, ill paste it here: Voting on moderators would be a disaster of a policy. A part of the reason mods do what they do is because they feel a sense...

    I said this in one of my community discords, ill paste it here:

    Voting on moderators would be a disaster of a policy.

    A part of the reason mods do what they do is because they feel a sense ownership of the community space they build. Being a moderator is about having a vision for that community and gathering people that share that vision. When you find that the existing communities don't align with your vision, you create a new community.

    Ownership rubs a lot of people the wrong way, particularly when mods are awful, but it is still a motivator for mods. Voting on mods changes the relationship between mods, users, and reddit. If you can be removed from a community you worked hard to build, that destroys any sense of ownership and lays bare the fact Reddit just sees moderators as unpaid labor. It would say reddit doesn't want communities, it wants topics. That it wants to become another mid tier meme site. I would be shocked if reddit goes through with the change.

    Side note, I think one thing that gets conflated everywhere is topics vs communities. Mods don't own the topics they moderate, but there is some ownership over the community spaces they create. The problem is reddit conflates them. If I want cats, I go to /r/cats, which rolls in the topic and the community into one entity. Discord does better by making communities (generally) use random links. It doesn't implicitly bless any community as the final word on a topic by handing out a chunk of namespace. But this has its own problems.

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  6. Comment on What are some of your favorite "easy reads"? in ~books

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    What genres do you typically like for fiction? Contemporary, historic, fantasy, scifi? Romance basically cuts across all genres. Then there is the question of whether or not you are interested in...

    What genres do you typically like for fiction? Contemporary, historic, fantasy, scifi? Romance basically cuts across all genres. Then there is the question of whether or not you are interested in reading about non-human characters. Edit: also, do you want explicit sex scenes or do you want "fade to black"?

    With all those caveats, for someone who doesn't typically read romance I would recommend The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion. It is about a neurodivergent scientist finding love. The book has great humor. As of 2016 it was the only work of fiction Bill Gates had ever put on his list of recommendations, which normally has very serious titles.

    If you are interested I can recommend more books and communities. I run some of the "romance books written for men" communities on reddit and discord.

  7. Comment on I gave Lemmy, Kbin, and Beehaw a chance. I think I'll be sticking with Tildes. in ~tech

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    That has happened, and it is sad to watch because it doesn't need to be that way. Communities can ban users with NSFW monetization platforms in their history.

    That has happened, and it is sad to watch because it doesn't need to be that way. Communities can ban users with NSFW monetization platforms in their history.

  8. Comment on What are some of your favorite "easy reads"? in ~books

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    Romance books are my easy reads. They promise a "happily ever after" and usually good feels.

    Romance books are my easy reads. They promise a "happily ever after" and usually good feels.