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  • And nobody is going to get in trouble for scrolling past a woman with a bikini on at work. If your workplace is that strict, you’re going to be in more trouble for scrolling social media on the clock.

    More graphic content is visible in ads on any major website. The idea that a clothed woman should be censored as if it’s vulgar is excessive in my opinion. Where do we draw the line? Shoulders? Knees? Ankles? I had assumed as a society we had decided it was the actual genitals, but apparently not.



  • NFSW is meant to help people view content at work/in public by making it avoidable.

    I agree with this. This is the fundamental point of the tag. I don’t want anyone to lose their job, or suffer undue consequences for happening across something particularly graphic, upsetting, or unlawful.

    If it’s debatable and isn’t tagged, that’s inconsiderate and a request to tag it should be treated with consideration and kindness.

    This is what I don’t agree with. Everything is debatable. I live in the US south, if my coworkers had their way, any image of a drag queen or a pride parade would have to be marked NSFW. And while thankfully this isn’t a problem on Lemmy (yet), that means a sizable portion of the population would be unable to see that content at all without uploading their ID and giving up any semblance of anonymity.

    There’s nothing dangerous, illegal, or upsetting about a woman in a bikini. It’s something any person might see in public at literally any time if you live somewhere warm. And yes, I’m sure there are people who would feel harassed if you waved an image like that in their faces, but I cannot imagine a scenario where someone suffers any professional setback because someone saw them scroll past some clothed tits.


  • NSFW is cultural shorthand for porn or graphic content. It’s not a literal guideline for what’s acceptable in every single workplace. Should ACAB posts be labeled NSFW because saying that at my workplace in the US south would make a hell of a lot of people uncomfortable?

    And why are you browsing Lemmy at work in full view of passing coworkers? Is it that lax that you can just openly fuck around and your only concern is someone might see a girl in a bikini?



  • And I think everyone here can agree that any of these subs that are focused on explicit material should absolutely be pressured into setting the sub NSFW.

    The part that has people against the OP is that he’s claiming a girl in a relatively modest bikini should be flagged NSFW, and that a sub for non-explicit anime pics should have to adopt the NSFW label, which seems excessive to me.


  • It’s legally sold to minors, available in grocery stores, hell I’ve seen them sitting on a rack in doctor’s offices.

    NSFW is the terminology we use for actual explicit material, that’s the point. It’s a shorthand. Getting overly literal about how ‘work’ should be applied to the context is like arguing that all FPS games are actually RPGs because you’re ‘playing the role’ of some character.





  • I would argue that Eros is perfectly fine with the Jedi. In the novels and comics, Jedi have sexual relationships all the damn time. Padawans regularly have trists with other padawans, Jedi have one night stands, all kinds of stuff without fear of being expelled from the order.

    I don’t think there’s a clean way to apply the Greek loves here really. It’s more like they’re forbidden from going too deep into philia? Ultimately ‘Attachment’ is not a kind of love, it’s a fear, and fear is the enemy of all Jedi. If you can love someone without being afraid to lose them, then there’s no issue, but that’s obviously an incredibly difficult concept. That’s why it’s easier to just keep some level of detachment from others.


  • Most of the OG stuff was written before the prequels introduced the ‘no attachments’ rule, but after that they were pretty much only ever portrayed as dogmatic and deeply, deeply flawed.

    It hasn’t been until the recent High Republic material that any level of understanding has been shown regarding what ‘attachment’ is supposed to mean. Obviously the prequel Jedi have a messed up view of it, that’s the point, but there is a fundamental basis from Buddhist philosophy that is completely valid.




  • Did you know there’s Linux software that doesn’t run on windows too?

    There’s always something, and it’s an easy excuse. How many people using that excuse actually have one of those few missing pieces blocking them?

    And frankly, it’s so easy to dual boot at this point. I do get it, I have to hang on to windows to use fusion360, at least for certain projects.

    I’ll be damned if I’m going to waste my time and patience on windows for anything I can avoid though.



  • Since nobody else is bothering to explain it, there’s a very good reason the avian flu vaccine is not used regularly in almost any country. The vaccine makes the chicken likely to survive the flu, but it does nothing to prevent infection. So instead of AF outbreaks being detected and the unfortunate birds culled, you would have entire farms incubating thousands of chickens full of AF virus, creating perfect conditions to mutate and potentially spawn a new strain which may wind up being resistant to the existing vaccine. Meanwhile, those infected chickens will be spreading AF to every wild bird for miles around. It’s not a useful tool for prevention, it’s our last ditch protection if AF gets completely out of control on a global scale.