“What part of rules for thee but not for me don’t you get?”

Functionally binary.

I tell people as often as I can, especially my trans and bipoc friends; now is the time. Get a couple guns (a long one and a short one) and learn how to use them. Learn some basic first aid, you really just need to know how to stabilize someone. Start networking with like-minded people in your communities. The police will not protect us, they’ve proven they’ll happily club senior citizens to the ground and shoot any protesters in the face with rubber bullets while escorting a rightwing murderer to safety.

Iran was a secular, liberal state until almost 1980 when they (mostly legitimately) elected an Islamist theocracy; it could happen here

Directions unclear, now I’m in the hot sun in blue jeans, diving into the sand.

You know Maverick never got the sand out of those jeans, absolute psychopath.

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Biden is doing Fascism already

I’m not sure he is.

Please define Fascism in the context that you believe Biden is doing. Be specific, I won’t engage with vaguery or hyperbole.

It’s worked incredibly well for the right over the last 50 years. I suspect the left doesn’t actually have the discipline to do the same.

Oh noes he’s gonna tell! Report me too you dumb motherfucker.

And you all care so fucking much about Palestine now that it’s a convenient cudgel to beat someone with. You don’t care now and you didn’t care then you just want to score your little debate points from mommies basement.

Fucking waste of space if you care so much go do something about it because no U.S. president is going to do anything.

Yeah Sega was way ahead of its time. Dreamcasts had a built-in modem so you could go online and access (the very new) game services, it also included a browser able to access (at the time) most websites.

I thought gleek was when you yawned or are eating candy and that little jet of saliva squirts from under your tongue.

everyone knows that naked baby pictures are used to torture children in front of their serious romantic partners brought home for the first time. This has not happened in my 14-year-old daughter’s life yet

What age did you start meeting your partners parents? Gonna be any time now isn’t it?

can you provide evidence that has ever happened to any parent?

How could I even find that evidence? I don’t have access to court records re custody battles and divorces or therapy notes from every doctor out there. I showed you links indicating that even unintended childhood trauma lingers into adulthood but you dispute showing embarrassing images could possibly be humiliating or that any parent could possible make a bad decision regarding them.

seem to think you can make any claim you like without evidence

I never claimed it happened, I claimed it could be bad which is self evident to me but apparently not everyone. My hypothetical illustrated how easily innocent actions could be misconstrued, nothing more.

get indignant about it when you aren’t automatically believed.

My only point here is that maybe taking pictures of your naked children and parading them around when their first boy/girlfriends start coming over (the thing you said it was for) maybe isn’t the best idea and could be saved for a time later, when they’re ready to show people. If anyone is indignant it’s someone who feels their parenting skills are being questioned.

Evidence?

Was the focal point of the photo on the child’s genitalia or pubic area?

“It seemed to be.”

“Was the child who is depicted in an unnatural pose, or in inappropriate attire, given the age of the child?”

“They were naked.”

“Was the child nude or fully or partially clothed?”

“Completely nude your honor.”

That’s how quickly that can be used against you and I for one don’t have that kind of faith in our legal system.

Look, it’s your kid you do whatever you want, we could argue back and forth all day, I’m sure you’re a decent parent and handle things as appropriately as possible but for anyone else reading this maybe give some consideration to pictures you take of your vulnerable kids and what purpose those pictures serve, some strategic bubbles or a cloth make the picture 100% innocent and it becomes a non-issue.

Everyones first friend, Tom had the right idea. Check-in and cash-out, how much do you really need to live a happy fulfilling life? He’s chilling on a tropical beach taking pictures of sunsets right now with no intention of going back to his old career.

you’re saying a baby feels trauma and shame when it has its picture taken and that leads to psychological problems as an adult and creates more trauma when you show that photo to their partner?

You’re being willfully obtuse. The trauma and shame comes from the picture being displayed for the parents amusement to potential romantic partners the first time they come over, presumably in their early teens.

virtually every new parent has photos of their baby naked on their phone.

Most I’ve seen are completely swaddled and only their little faces are visible.

And it’s legal.

Where did you get your law degree?

I have no idea why you don’t think it would be. A nude picture of your own baby is not child porn.

I mean, I personally agree with that.

No one has ever been put on a sex offender list for having a picture of their child just after it exited the womb on their phone.

Crazier shit has happened and we’re not talking about gross little bloody newborns fresh out of the box. In every baby pic I’ve ever seen (and in the context of this comic); they’re bath pics, specifically ones with their junk in it! It’s weird, just place some bubbles or a wash cloth strategically or something it’s not that difficult fuck.

And yet I don’t think you do have a point without evidence,

My point is childhood trauma takes a lot of forms and “good natured” showing naked pictures of your children to potential romantic partners the first time they visit (the thing we were talking about) is undoubtedly traumatic for a portion that experience it. I’m not aware of any specific studies studying the impact of showing nude photos of your children to their potential romantic suitors but I do know that childhood trauma has been studied and has far-reaching, unknown impacts. Even if the victim often doesn’t recognize the instance as abuse until much later in life, if ever.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/understanding-ptsd/202206/how-childhood-shame-can-affect-our-adult-relationships

https://psychcentral.com/blog/psychology-self/2018/09/childhood-toxic-shame

https://mind.help/news/childhood-humiliation-can-leave-lifelong-scars-warn-mental-health-experts/

Again, where do you get your psychology degree from?

I was about halfway through a sociology degree (admittedly as a pretty subpar state university) before I transferred to CS. What’d you study?

I’m sorry… do you think it’s illegal to have a photo of a naked baby on your phone?

They’re not something I’d want on my phone obviously.

We’re talking about pictures of your kids genitals. What a weird fucking hill to die on. Its your kid, take all the pics you want, probably don’t get caught with them on your phone.

It’s ok to just say “you know what you might have a point” and walk away sometimes my dude.

Mmmm, pie.

Psychology isn’t based on your bets.

Spoken like someone who’s never been in therapy or studied psychology, people bet and guess and infer stuff all the time; it’s a “soft” science for a reason.

That means no baby pictures at all.

Specifically pictures of their genitals, I feel like no baby genital pics is a good default, yes, what a weird hill to die on.

You have no evidence of this trauma.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence

You’re just guessing.

Guessing, inferring, surmising, call it whatever helps you sleep at night. I think of it as erring on the side of safety and respect for my kids. Not having pics of their junk doesn’t make my life any worse, there’s only downsides for them.