I think Seal might work for you.

That’s ingenious.

Can you elaborate on a detail for me?

I understood everything up to “base-52 it.”

I understand how converting base-10 to base-52 works, but that doesn’t include alphabetical characters. What are you converting from? Are you numbering A=1, B=2, C=3…?

Essentially giving out tickets for jaywalking when there’s a robbery going down a few feet away.

It means I’m an idiot. Haha

I meant to say something along the lines of

“People who prioritize hunting down artists and those who download art are prolonging the real abuse and sexual exploitation of actual children.” That’s not to say it’s an active effort to, but it’s a result of misappropriating effort.

I just woke up when I wrote that and am still tired so sorry for the typos and wording.

It might not be wise to dig up deleted comments. It’s no spez editing comments, but it does seem wrong in a way.

Tbf everything on the internet is saved somewhere. But people will feel less comfortable talking about what they honestly think if they think their wishes to be forgotten aren’t being respected by the mods themselves.

I like the maturity and levelheadedness here.

I’ve never seen such consistent respect during disagreements before. Sure one or two occasional ones on reddit, or maybe even discord groups. But here it seems commonplace.

It could be that we’re still small, but I hope the culture continues to be good.

I find it amusing how often these groups say “No bigotry” in their rules, but make the exception whenever it fits their beliefs. Almost like it’s virtue signalling or something.

Not to mention the predictable “No *phobia”. Which in of itself is intolerance of other views.

Sure, np.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Page 280 if the link breaks: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.59272/page/n279/mode/1up

I got kinda bummed that someone over at the exploding-heads instance was spreading bullshit about that.

Denmark has no laws restricting loli art. Why? Because after all their studies and research they failed to prove it could actually harm real children. We’re finding similar stuff in the U.S.

Even showing a clear case that it helps reduce child harm.

People that prioritize drawings over art are really hurting actual victims here.

People rarely know what the paradox of tolerance really is and just use it as a cudgel to shut down any argument they disagree with.

The creator of the idea himself said

"I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be most unwise.

But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument"