Sissy in particular likely stems from the social taboo of not performing to your gender’s role, it’s just a form of humiliation kink. Might be more common in closeted/egg transfems because it’s a somewhat safer way of being feminine in a context, it just happens to be sexual.

And crossdressing is a super wide term anyway but in a sexual context I’d think it’s just roleplay

A lot of the individuals aren’t in there entirely of their own will though. Particularly with BYU, the institution itself is a cancer, but the individual students are really not at fault (at least certainly not all of them). The university portrays itself very differently than it actually is, and you effectively cannot leave the mormon church while you attend (unless you want to get kicked out and have all your time there completely wasted).

I would heavily disagree on LLMs being obviously sentient. I don’t see how they could be, as I see it it would require an understanding of the words they put out in a framework that isn’t language - but language is the only framework they can possibly have. All words LLMs know are defined only through their relation to other words.

It’s also a matter of defining what self-awareness even is, and I don’t have the hubris to say that LLMs for sure are not sentient, it just seems very unlikely from my perspective. I would also argue that monkeys are most likely sapient, though the whole concept has always reeked of “oh shit sentience doesn’t make us special, quick think of something else”. I’d probably put LLMs somewhere on the level of individualistic insects at best.

I still agree with your general sentiment that people are far too dismissive of the topic in general given our history in doing this with animals. Esp the concept of pain is an interesting one, because essentially pain is just negative reinforcement, which of course is part of reinforcement learning. But pain also had to naturally evolve and is very flawed as a result, while the negative reinforcement is just a number without side effects, so it likely wouldn’t ever feel like pain the same way it feels for an animal. But the difference is often philosophical, and we define things the way they are convenient.

That depends on the person, plenty I’ve talked to have explicitly said that sweat smell is better than the mix resulting from trying to just drown it in a different odor. For me personally it’d also depend on the deodorant.

Reading comprehension, how does it work?

I literally said that in this case it’s almost certainly just because they know they can get away with it and make more money

If game prices had adjusted for inflation, we’d be paying 250-300 for one now.

That doesn’t mean it isn’t just greed especially in this case (from what I heard some pretty basic features like car customization are locked behind the “ultimate edition”), but in general it’s more of a miracle (and result of the massive market growth combined with no unit cost) that game prices have ignored inflation for this long.

Even with an announcement ahead of time it’s so much better imo. Doesn’t penalize people for having to work or just living in a timezone where it’s the middle of the night.

Sure it feels like you have less agency over when you get it but it’s so much fairer.

Artificial semination is key to commercial animal agriculture, and that too would be unambiguously rape in human standards. Not to mention the horrific living conditions of most animals farmed for meat.

It’s really just because one has always been normal, and the other hasn’t, aka it’s cultural. It’s not rational. Though there’s also arguably far more benefit in killing for meat vs. having sex with dubious consent, so that can be a consideration that isn’t purely cultural.

Iirc they removed the “women have to message first” requirement some time last month.

That’s… not the same as being aro at all. It doesn’t mean you feel nothing towards anyone. Just that you’re not interested in romantic relationships at all.

Cats do too if they can go outside. They don’t really like shitting in their own living space.

Most places have laws on this. Often, it is legal to film/take photos, but not to focus on individuals.

But is that blueprint dependent on hormone levels? Maybe wolverine would just rapidly grow a full female reproductive system and boobs on HRT, which then would mean that to revert, masculinizing HRT would be needed.

It’s just still a spelling bee. They’ll find some fitting term to call it and that’s that. Everyone knows the show is set in a different country anyways. The concept is intuitive enough, even if it’d be very easy in most languages.

Seconding the otome comment, and a link to a relevant tag on vndb - you can probably find anything from not very sexualized to pure smut on that list, and there’s often screenshots. https://vndb.org/g542

Being bad at identifying faces with features you don’t commonly see isn’t racism, it’s inevitable. Also some people are just bad at identifying faces even if they’re not fully face blind.

I hated public bathrooms as a kid (still kinda do but a bit less so), so I regularly went 12+ hours without.

4500 a month for housing is insane, is rent actually that bad in the US? I could rent a villa for that.

You are also missing private retirement funds though (and if car dependent 100/month seems very low for transit costs)

It’s the equivalent of grooming. So yes, it is morally questionable. But so is every “training someone to do a thing”. People just accept it with animals as long as in the end the animal seems fine, because it’s only ever about what seems normal and not about the actual impact. And I’m not saying it’s all a horrible moral crime, just that it’s a large grayscale and can’t be painted as good or bad blankly.

Doing that to random wild animals for no reason does feel rather fucked up to me because until the end point (which in that case is likely just the realization that there’s no danger) it puts the animal under a lot of stress. Not to mention the potential issues with wild animals losing their fear of humans.

Isn’t that mostly just reverse engineering though? The tools for doing that are available, hence why open source support for phones exist at all, the technology is just a lot more complex.