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Pastry of the Year posted:I don't have children, but as a former teenager, I assume the technique of wholeheartedly embracing whatever tryhard edgy poo poo your teenager is attempting to build an identity around is still the ultimate parental own. Making fun of, and embarrassing my children is one of the greatest joys of being a father.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Didn't you hear? Malls are back. Gen Z is going to save all the things Milleanials tried to kill. The malls the current crop of kids are "saving" are probably in populated, wealthy areas and were never really dying to begin with. A handful of random kids hanging out in a mall in nowheresville aren't going to suddenly revive it, especially when the area as a whole has been dying since the local sock factory shut down.
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May 3, 2019 16:57
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JB50 posted:Making fun of, and embarrassing my children is one of the greatest joys of being a father. I'm only an uncle, but I'm pretty sure the job description for that is "make fun of them, embarrass them and spoil the poo poo out of them." The spoiling part is the most important, as I'm relying on my nieces and nephews to look after me in my old age. At least one of the little sods should make a decent living.
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May 3, 2019 17:08
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The_Franz posted:The malls the current crop of kids are "saving" are probably in populated, wealthy areas and were never really dying to begin with. A handful of random kids hanging out in a mall in nowheresville aren't going to suddenly revive it, especially when the area as a whole has been dying since the local sock factory shut down. Sure. But that's been the problem from the start. Americans love malls. They will continue to love malls. They just don't love ALL the malls.
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May 3, 2019 17:28
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JB50 posted:Making fun of, and embarrassing my children is one of the greatest joys of being a father. Oh I make fun of her all the time. There's always going too far though and when a kid is trying to find their identity I won't dunk on them because they're just dumb kids and some of those things can sting years later. Edit: Oh hey wait, I thought you wanted us to stay on topic. Hang on I'm gonna go see if there's a Chick-Fil-A at my mall's food court.
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May 3, 2019 18:03
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Pick posted:Tumblr's actually a lot better since they got rid of the pornbots. It was an improvement and the "users" they lost were fake anyway. Sadly, valuations are based on fake users. They didn't though. I'm getting pornbot followers just as quickly, if not more so, than before the purge.
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Pick posted:Tumblr's actually a lot better since they got rid of the pornbots. It was an improvement and the "users" they lost were fake anyway. Sadly, valuations are based on fake users. Their traffic has decreased by 30% since they announced the porn ban and porn bots are still A Thing, they're just using images that tumblr's NSFW filters don't pick up now. Also tons of SFW posts get flagged as NSFW by their system and they're really slow at answering appeals for manual review when their algorithm fucks up.
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May 3, 2019 18:48
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Dylan16807 posted:I don't think they want to get rid of non-porn. If they just undo the change and also ban Nazis they could probably revitalize the site plenty. They will never ban nazis. They being anyone who owns a website on the internet whose name does not rhyme with 'bowmax'. There's been a lot of damage done and I wish I knew how much. Many people I follow who were super popular have long since deleted their blogs and left for other websites. When those popular bloggers leave, there's less incentive for people to stick around since there's less entertainment in their feed. That traffic isn't coming back. I do with tumblr wasn't so lovely. David Karp is a gently caress, but it was mostly alright under his direction. Pakled posted:Their traffic has decreased by 30% since they announced the porn ban and porn bots are still A Thing, they're just using images that tumblr's NSFW filters don't pick up now. Also tons of SFW posts get flagged as NSFW by their system and they're really slow at answering appeals for manual review when their algorithm fucks up. Sometimes they are. Sometimes they're really loving not. I had ten posts flagged, half of which were NSFW. I hit the appeal buttons, refreshed the page 3 minutes later, and the posts were restored. Even the NSFW ones. Nobody is looking at posts, there's no moderation. Understandably, it's expensive and difficult to have human employees moderating websites.
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May 3, 2019 18:58
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There are extremely few places where kids and teenagers can go in public without being yelled at nowadays, so. well, back to fortnite it is then.
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May 3, 2019 19:07
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Please do not engage with Pick on anything regarding porn, she will not be arguing from a place of facts, reason or sanity
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May 3, 2019 19:09
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I've got a metric shitload of tumblr followers, but they never seem to be pornbots. What are you posting?
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May 3, 2019 19:46
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Pick posted:I've got a metric shitload of tumblr followers, but they never seem to be pornbots. What are you posting? Porn ofc.
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MarcusSA posted:Porn ofc. is it at least good porn?
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Iron Crowned posted:is it at least good porn? It’s on tumblr what does your heart tell you?
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MarcusSA posted:It’s on tumblr what does your heart tell you? It's weird DDLG poo poo
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MarcusSA posted:It’s on tumblr what does your heart tell you? Sanity damaging tentacle porn with making GBS threads dick nipples. ... can you send me a link
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May 3, 2019 20:21
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Wait, people used tumblr for things that weren't porn? That's like trying to make imgur into a forum.
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May 3, 2019 20:50
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Why are people still using SA
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Flaggy posted:Why are people still using Tumblr? porn
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CharlestheHammer posted:Why are people still using SA What, and go out onto the rest of the internet? I think not 
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Flaggy posted:Why are people still using Tumblr? Sunk costs and other websites being even more or just as rampant with nazism trans/homophobes, radfems, pedophiles, etc. At this point I know who to avoid and there is a decent culture of strangers warning other strangers about lovely bloggers. Also porn. Mastodon is a p good Twitter replacement. Wish there was one for tumblr.
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walrusman posted:We have urban malls too. I don't think they're doing significantly better than their suburban counterparts. The one I went to when I lived in Arlington VA (one of the many urban areas around Washington DC) was floors 1-6 of a tall building, and a huge Macy's attached to it. Floors 5-6 were a movie theater with stadium seating. Lots of escalators, a huge food court, and a parking garage. Pretty different than the mall I grew up with in a more rural setting, which was a sprawling, single-floor deal with acres of parking and the eateries were scattered about randomly. Both these malls I'm talking about are still there apparently! I frequently have dreams that take place at the latter.
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My local malls are still packed on weekends for the most part, but that's unsurprising since New Jersey's shopping malls typically do really well as it is. The nearest one to me did just lose the Sears, so that end of the mall is closing up, but the Dicks Sporting Goods that is across the street is moving in on the first floor of the Sears space, and on the second floor they're opening up a Round 1 Entertainment Center, which I'm absolutely thrilled about. Bowling, Arcade Games, Karaoke, Ping Pong Tables, but what I'm interested in is that since they're a Japanese based company, they've got legit rights to connect Bemani cabinets and connect to the eAmusement network that Konami runs, so as such they've got Beatmania, DDR, Sound Voltex, and other Bemani games, all at the latest versions and well maintained.
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Pakled posted:Their traffic has decreased by 30% since they announced the porn ban and porn bots are still A Thing, they're just using images that tumblr's NSFW filters don't pick up now. Also tons of SFW posts get flagged as NSFW by their system and they're really slow at answering appeals for manual review when their algorithm fucks up. Just came across this post...  
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Manky Tungeon posted:Just came across this post... haha Thats pretty amazing if thats true.
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Iron Crowned posted:porn really it's more like an incessant stream of lowgrade moomin slash
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Flaggy posted:Why are people still using Tumblr? You know how I have like 14,000 forum posts about star trek? SomethingAwful is my second-favorite place to talk about star trek.
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Pick posted:You know how I have like 14,000 forum posts about star trek? SomethingAwful is my second-favorite place to talk about star trek. Mods knew
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Another way to get past the "no female presenting nipples" bot is make a completely benign post, let it sit for like five minutes or something, then edit in the smut. It's really, really stupid.
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What is this phrase "female presenting nipples"? I'm at work and really don't need to be looking up that kind of thing lest it be dirty.
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BloodBag posted:What is this phrase "female presenting nipples"? I'm at work and really don't need to be looking up that kind of thing lest it be dirty. Male nipples are ok but female nipples are not ok and a shoddily coded bot is tasked with determining which is which.
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InediblePenguin posted:"female presenting nipples" was literally the phrasing Tumblr used in their post listing things that they considered NSFW Yes, it was their much-ridiculed way to find some insane middle ground between “your body doesn’t determine your gender” and “lady nipples are icky and sex but guy nipples are okay.”
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I still think Verizon wanted to kill Tumblr. The ‘child porn’ controversy was just an excuse that provided cover for an unpopular decision. If by some chance Tumblr survives as a sfw blogging platform then great. If it doesn’t it’s worth more as a tax write off. Even those site traffic went down 30%, site bandwidth probably decreased by even more and advertising is probably easier if companies know their ads won’t be next to pictures of someone’s gaping butthole. ‘Female presenting nipples’ is so stupid. I had some purely artsy photographs get blackholed. They weren’t trying to make sense with those rules. Krispy Wafer has a new favorite as of 14:44 on May 4, 2019 |
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BloodBag posted:What is this phrase "female presenting nipples"? I'm at work and really don't need to be looking up that kind of thing lest it be dirty. Porn laws in America generally specifically indicate female nipples. Think about like beach attire; a man can be topless but a woman is supposed to cover her boobs. Porn basically works the same way; a guy without anything on his torso is fine but a woman has to at least cover the right parts. There were legal discussions on what exactly the line was. Is it the whole boob? Is it a certain percentage of the boob? Does it matter how big the boobs are? Eventually it was settled on "cover the nipples." It was a clear line that you could easily follow. That was written before the current LGBT stuff going on so now you have people that are still biologically male but present as female so you get phrases like "female presenting nipples." If your first response is that "well a woman can just say she presents as a man and go topless" then congratulations you've thought about it more than whoever wrote that. But why can a man show his nipples but a woman can't? That's actually a very good question! There have been challenges to that and people doing funny things like photoshopping male nipples onto women's breasts then posting that and being all like "it's fine, there are no female nipples showing." There was also a video going around a while ago where some women's group or another (I honestly forget which one it was a long time ago OK) wanted to post a video about how to check yourself for boob cancer on Facebook. So they had a woman in her underwear being all like "I'm going to show you how to check for boob cancer!" Then she was all "but I can't show you on me because I can't show my nipples." So a fat guy with moobs walked in and she reached around him from behind and was like "so this guy is here to help me." ToxicSlurpee has a new favorite as of 19:29 on May 4, 2019 |
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Porn laws in America generally specifically indicate female nipples. Think about like beach attire; a man can be topless but a woman is supposed to cover her boobs. Porn basically works the same way; a guy without anything on his torso is fine but a woman has to at least cover the right parts. There were legal discussions on what exactly the line was. Is it the whole boob? Is it a certain percentage of the boob? Does it matter how big the boobs are? Eventually it was settled on "cover the nipples." It was a clear line that you could easily follow. I like this. The problem is that no one wants to see man nipples, so they are ok to show. Everyone wants to see woman nipples so they are bad to show. We have to hide the best things from everyone or we will have anarchy
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