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the "are most people trustworthy" debate, relating it to kink and sex
There's this pretty widespread 'belief system' of pessimism, that says something along the lines of "most people are fundamentally untrustworthy, or evil, or selfish". It thrives in right-wing circles (and vice versa), but it definitely is also present in leftist spaces.
It's a very long-running philosophical debate. With many arguments; social, political, anthropological, economic, you name it. Everybody's arguments in this discussion are heavily influenced by their personal experiences. And that is no different for me, but there's one angle I have that I haven't seen brought up before.
See, I'm quite kinky, and my 'kinks of choice' as a sub are free use, and CNC (consensual non-consent). As the names imply, that means "people being free to use me for sexual/kinky purposes without asking, within certain parameters" and "me having no right to refuse things, within certain parameters". They combine, too; people being free to use me at any time and me having no choice in the matter.
And this goes *far*, for me. We're not just talking about some slightly lewd things here; I prefer giving any-time blanket consent for as many things as I reasonably can, in some cases even to the general public (albeit without the CNC part there, for safety reasons). If I'd agree to doing something when asked, I'd *probably* give blanket consent for it, unless I have a specific reason not to.
In other words: for anyone but the most kinky of people, this pretty much boils down in practice to "you can do whatever you want with me, whenever you want to, whether I feel like it or not, and I can't stop you". A great playground for power fantasies, with no consequences for what you do. Right?
And you know what the single most common response is, by a country mile, that I get to this from people I offer such blanket consent to? No matter how much I try to reassure them?
Hesitance. Fear of 'going too far'.
Okay, you might say, but clearly there's some bias going on there; you'd only offer that to trustworthy people. To which I'd say, not really? Anyone who passes a very rudimentary 'vibe check', for lack of a better term, would get offered such blanket consent if the topic came up; and very few people have ever failed this check, and then only in the seediest of places.
(This works for me specifically because of an adjacent noncon kink; I wouldn't recommend anyone else take this approach unless they understand *exactly* what they are signing up for. This is very different from private free use arrangements.)
To repeat: when given near-unfettered access to my body at any time, with explicit permission to push boundaries and ignore refusals or resistance, the first thought for the vast majority of people is... "but what if I go too far".
And how could this possibly fit with the idea that most people are selfish and would choose their own pleasure over the well-being of others?
Sie sollte die Arbeitswelt revolutionieren. Doch mehrere Studien belegen nun, dass der Einsatz von KI keine Effizienzgewinne in Unternehmen bringt.
https://taz.de/!6125562
Tawny Platis on 65 years of female robotic voices in movies and TV
est-ce qu'il y a des gens en Pays-Bas ici ? je connais une meuf trans qui a fort besoin de logement et communauté ! migrant en échappant de les États-Unis, toute seule à Amsterdam, est-ce que on peut l'aider ?
Unsere Klägerin arbeitet seit fast 30 Jahren bei Daimler, 15 davon als Abteilungsleiterin. Trotz gleicher Arbeit & Quali verdiente sie deutlich weniger als ein Kollege auf gleicher Ebene. Objektive Gründe für diesen Unterschied? Konnte Daimler bislang nicht vorbringen.
Das LAG BaWü hatte ihr nur den Unterschied zum Medianwert der Männer zugestanden. Das hieß im Klartext: Eine Frau kann immer nur so viel verlangen, wie ein mittelmäßiger Mann. Diesem Ansatz hat das BAG jetzt eine Absage erteilt.
Well, there are multiple to choose from. Noodle Soup, Potato Soup, Bat Soup, Classic Bad Witch, but actually the Nice girl in town, Soup. Oh or maybe more a Curry like Soup?
I happen to own a little open source software company that is expressly anti-fascist, has a “No AI” policy, and has recently been called “aggressively queer” in case you’re interested in supporting tech companies like that:
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.
A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.
Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
[Boosts appreciated] Statement on Frameworks sponsoring of certain FOSS maintainers/projects
I paid a fuckton of money for my @frameworkcomputer laptop parts. I paid extra for the parts I could've saved money on elsewhere because I wanted to support the company and what they stand for. I even ported Debian to the RISC-V Motherboard for the product that made Framework Framework: The Framework 13.
Now Framework decided to sponsor Omarchy and Hyprland, the leaderships of which are not just "politically of a different opinion", they are actively toxic, hostile and highly discriminatory, to phrase it euphemistically.
Nirav Patel responded to this in the community forum, essentially doubling down on the decision to take a "big tent approach".
I want to reiterate: __This isn't about "political differences", because the political difference are actively harmful to democracy itself, and the physical safety of marginalised communities.
Someone I supported in good faith with both code and money turned around and gave this money to multiple people who'd rather see me dead for existing.
Needless to say, I feel quite betrayed and I'm really torn on wether or not I should even continue and proceed with the port for the second RISC-V mainboard, because I don't want to end up supporting the hate towards me, my wife or other people in the same situation as me.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels betrayed by this decision.
Hier erklärt das Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy kindgerecht, warum #Chatkontrolle eine sehr sehr schlechte Idee ist.
Das ist wichtige Arbeit, weil es auch nach drei Jahren „Diskussion“ immer noch Politikerinnen gibt, die es nicht verstanden haben.
EU muss endlich die #ChatkontrolleStoppen!
Anyone who sides with fascists is a fascist, and I don't want their browser near my stuff.
Ladybird will be joining Brave, and will be driven into the maze.
So once again, I say, DHH and the ladybird browser guy are both embarrassing fascist gutter water drinkers who are cringy and whiny as fuck.
"The Free Software Foundation has been sliding into irrelevance more and more by entirely failing to address its big Creepy Uncle problem. Open-Source has turned into a form of unpaid internship to be hired to make shitty apps that bring more surveillance and ads to our world."