Aww, your so spethal.

Clearly some people do need treatment to not go and do evil things with their desires. If you can save a person from their own desires, by treating them, isn't that better than executing them?

But for those who don't - and I hope... wish that was most people - that desire can still eat away at you and make life unhappy, especially if you don't have any legitimate way to fulfil your longing for romantic relationship. Treatment, including good, old, counselling (when done right) can help.

And consider a middle ground. The incel who always complains at women because he can't get a girlfriend. The married woman who flirts with other husbands. The rich businessman who makes his attractive secretaries uncomfortable but never quite abuses them. The paedophile who can't hang out with their friends who have children without feeling urges and making inappropriate remarks. Are these egregious enough to cut those people off from society? But if you can help them; if they're willing to be helped; their quality of life and those around them can be improved.

That's very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

I hope things work out well for your son.

FWIW, there's a lot we don't know - but are learning - about bacteria and the gut. For example, if I'm not mistaken, a baby gets a lot of important gut bacteria from it's mum through breastfeeding.

So when I hear all this argument about raw vs pasteurised milk, I expect there really is something of health benefit to raw milk, just there's a big downside of harmful pathogens that can be cured with pasteurization. That doesn't mean all raw milk is unsafe. Like with raw eggs in the UK, or not iodizing your vegetables, it can be safer with care over production.

Anyway, that is to say, I figure there could be some interaction with the bacteria in the raw milk helping your son to digest it.

But having seen the other comment suggesting homogenisation, that sounds more likely to me. (Just a guess though.)

Encrypted system partition on one side; shrunk-as-much-as-it-can windows C drive on the other. No space to resize into. I'm waiting till I have time to reinstall.

My problem is I have a /boot partition big enough for the old days, and now every time Linux Mint updates the kernel it's hit and miss whether it has space to install the new one without removing the old first!

Musk buys Ubuntu

American government services are now provided as Snaps

[audience looks around] 'What just happened?' 'There must be some context we're missing.'

Or, to put it another way, (unprofessional academic linguist here), a word has meanings by what you mean by it, and what the listener understands it to mean.

In a sense, it can mean anything you want it to. In another sense, it can mean anything the listener/reader interprets it as. Most useful though is when you mean the same meaning that the listener understands.

And for "accepted/official meaning", that's just a community all agreeing on a meaning. Optionally with a recognised group (e.g. dictionary writer) affirming certain meanings as accepted in the community.

Then FEED THE AI!

Or dig through all the settings yourself to turn it off.

New theory dropped: elfs are Chinese!

Or elves, though that doesn't explain how they came from the West. Maybe from an America centric view? Or the Chinese are the Avari, that could be it. In which case, dwarves in their mountains might be Tibetans? Kazakhs? "The bridge of Kazakh-Dûm" sounds about right, somewhere around the Hall of Kazakh-Stan. I think I'm on to something! Now then, since we know Ngauruhoe is Orodruin, that would make New Zealand to be Mordor, and I guess Gondor must be Australia.

Now, the Avari are the 'dark' elves, who haven't seen the light of the two trees. Is that why they make toys for Santa, to be hung on Christmas trees, to remember that connection they never had? Yes! It fits!

Eärendil, the red-nosed mariner,
Had a shiny Silmaril...

As to people who have paedophilic desire - rather than those who actually rape children - there wasa very interesting thread I read a while back, on Reddit I think, of "I'm a paedophile, AMA". Very interesting to see the experience of a couple of people who have that attraction but choose not to molest children by acting on it.

Child sexual abuse is a very serious evil, but regarding attraction to children, I think treatment's a very appropriate route.

"The Giant Armoured Scorpion of Death was created to help mankind, not to harm it!"

That's the AT-ST

... Or was that the other imperials?

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS CHICKEN??

WANTED BY INTERPOL AND UNSC

I think it's that rust has higher entropy than programming in pure steel.

just keep repeating the same 2-3 slogans over and over again in smug superiority

Sounds like most of political/ideological Lemmy to me.

I noticed via the link from another comment that "work" and "schools" can turn it off - though not exactly easily.

Are we heading for a situation like smart TVs, where individuals are wrapped in the net of data collection but companies can pay extra to not be spied on - so they don't kick up enough of a fuss or stop using the vendor.

...wow

It's referring to the man in the image. Isn't that obvious?

"Watch out for rain. From now on, it will be wet," said by the company standing there with a running hose.