Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

Well, it is now 3 years since that article was published back in 2017, and I’m proud to say that my memories have not been altered in any way that I can tell.

On an unrelated note, I’ve been hooked on this sparkling water called “Dr. Breen’s Private Reserve”

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Jimmy Neutron “sodium chloride” ass reply, “everything is edible at least once” is a common joke that works precisely because words’ definitions are not rigid

Edit: I think it’s best to leave this comment up as I originally wrote it, but I’m also going to go on the record to say that I could’ve and should’ve phrased this a lot more cordially.

Washington Post is @washingtonpost.com, so evidently not.

Edit: Bluesky has this about page which is relevant.

The long awaited sequel to Tako Luka Maguro Fever

Amanita bisporigera, or the aptly named eastern North American destroying angel, if anyone’s wondering.

From Wikipedia:

The principal amatoxin, α-amanitin, is readily absorbed across the intestine, and 60% of the absorbed toxin is excreted into bile and undergoes enterohepatic circulation; the kidneys clear the remaining 40%. The toxin inhibits the enzyme RNA polymerase II, thereby interfering with DNA transcription, which suppresses RNA production and protein synthesis. This causes cellular necrosis, especially in cells which are initially exposed and have rapid rates of protein synthesis. This process results in severe acute liver dysfunction and, ultimately, liver failure.

I could not confirm that it causes liquefactive necrosis of the liver specifically, however. I wouldn’t doubt it, but I couldn’t confirm it.

Edit: I should clarify, I got this from the original thread on Bluesky, not my own identification.

This reminds me of that TEDx (I think it was TEDx) talk where the guy claimed that you could see the letters E=mc² in the Devanagari symbol for Om, as if this revealed some sort of profound truth about the universe.

The funny thing is that that’s literally all I remember about that talk. I don’t remember what the guy was talking about for the ten to twenty minutes before that point, just that the talk concluded with him looking super self-satisfied while saying something incredibly silly and cringeworthy.

My friend, you’re on the fediverse and saying that a single website would be the best way to achieve this. I think that decentralization such as federation or peer-to-peer would be a much better way to achieve a pirate’s utopia, because the decentralized approach guarantees that even if one part falls, the whole will remain.

That aside, if I can talk about “What other features would make the ideal file sharing site?” — for a pirate video streaming site in particular, my number one feature would easily be community-contributed subtitles. In the list of subtitle tracks, each track would have two checkboxes, one for text and the other for TTS (this would be used for audio description and makeshift voice-over dubs). For rarer languages without reliable TTS, users would be encouraged to submit voice recordings, which might be anonymized with AI to sound like the TTS voice.

Subtitling would be done with a danmaku-esque system, so that people can choose to contribute just a few pieces here and there and wait for other contributors or continue later, rather than just one person needing to subtitle everything. Users might be able to rate subtitle tracks based on quality and completeness, too. A system of upvotes and downvotes on individual subtitles, as well as both manual and automated moderation, would prevent abuse.

You personally don’t consider it to be CSAM, but the legal systems of Algeria, Benin, Cameroon, DRC, Djibouti, Egypt, Eswatini, Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zambia, Seychelles, Botswana, Ethiopia, Azerbaijan, Brunei, Cambodia, China (incl. HK and Macau), Iran, Iraq, Israel, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malaysia, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Singapore, Timor-Leste, Türkiye, UAE, Indonesia, India, Andorra, Bosnia, Croatia, Estonia, France, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Switzerland, Ukraine, the UK and territories, Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Grenada, Australia, New Zealand, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Chile, Ecuador, Uruguay, and potentially others still… Don’t really care about your feelings.

Also, Comfysnug has not removed its exception to loli characters, like your original post claims.