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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 165 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What the hell is this perfect picture?

[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago
[–] Imbrex@lemmy.world 147 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wtf how is the onion supposed to keep up with this shit

[–] Neato@kbin.social 47 points 10 months ago (2 children)

By waiting until people are used to their shit and posting completely normal stories about them. No one would believe them.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"Republican has a change of heart when their 12 year old daughter gets pregnant, now supports abortion. "

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, I think that one's fairly common. So is just "Republican gets pregnant, now supports abortion - but only for her specific circumstances".

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[–] fosiacat@lemmy.world 96 points 10 months ago (3 children)

god these people are fucking weird. so fucking weird.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

This is what happens when you're brainwashed from childhood to believe you're born evil, anyone not on your "team" is more evil, and you must blindly obey authority.

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 58 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Organized religion destroys who we are or who we can be by inhibiting our actions and decisions out of fear of an intangible parent-figure who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says "No, no!"

--Kevin Smith, Dogma

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[–] Teon@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

You spelled weird wrong.
It's spelled, *psycho.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I remember this kind of stuff back from my days as an evangelical Christian...they applaud this kind of nonsense, even though every single one of the users of this kind of software has some way around it. Purity culture craziness.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 83 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn

Covenant Eyes sounds like some Handmaid's Tale shit.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Hey, I have a local cult that uses that software.

https://www.dwellchurchcolumbusisacult.com/

They also like to pack a bunch of students into one apartment and then charge each of them $700*/month in rent.

*(Don't take my word on the numbers.)

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh wow, I didn't know Xenos Church changed their name. Trying to mask themselves with a name change.

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[–] Fester@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] reflex@kbin.social 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] figaro@lemdro.id 13 points 10 months ago

I swear, every week I see an article that makes me say, "oh shit, The Handmaid's Tale is starting"

[–] yildo@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

Next step up from using confession material for blackmailing parishioners

[–] Janoose@kbin.social 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

I get that lots of jokes are to be made about the porn part but what really should be concerning everyone is that the current Speaker of the House pays a third party to snoop on every aspect of his phone.

Was he using his personal phone for any of his duties in Congress?

Is he still using this phone with even more potentially secret government information as a member of the Gang of 8?

This is a MASSIVE security risk, who the fuck knows what information this Covenant Eyes “company” is now privy to.

ETA: From a Wired article from Sept 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/

"But Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You do much more than just police pornography. When WIRED downloaded, decompiled, and tested Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You, we found that both apps are built to collect, monitor, and report all sorts of innocent behavior. The applications exploited Android’s accessibility permissions to monitor almost everything someone does on their phone. While the accessibility functionalities are meant to help developers build out features that assist people with disabilities, these apps take advantage of such permissions to either capture screenshots of everything actively being viewed on the device or detect the name of apps as they’re being used and record every website visited in the device’s browser."

Emphasis mine. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Dude has this software on every one of his devices and now the Christofascists behind Covenant Eyes and any one willing to hack them, ie foreign governments, has screenshots of everything he is viewing. Massive massive security risk.

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[–] swope@kbin.social 44 points 10 months ago (6 children)

Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?

What level is considered safe?

Asking for a friend.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Npps aka Naked People Per Second

[–] ironhydroxide@partizle.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not to be confused with NiPS. (Nipples per second) Which indicates how many definitely female nipples are in view per second. This is a better metric as many scenes are shown with partial clothing and therefore don't get counted in the NPPS metric correctly.

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[–] runeko@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's millipervs.

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

With this guy, it's more like megapervs.

[–] MudSkipperKisser@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

The equivalent of 3 McDonald’s cheeseburgers consumed in their playground ball pit per week

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[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 44 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same software the Duggar pedo used?

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 17 points 10 months ago

abuse software for abusers

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Ok, how many burner phones does he have?

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 27 points 10 months ago

Dude, I'm willing to bet the son has at least one.

"I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate."

A quote like this tempts fate. I thought he was trying to avoid temptation.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 28 points 10 months ago

So what you're telling me is, that Johnson and his little Johnson measure the usage of each other's Johnsons?

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 26 points 10 months ago

There is no normal, only weird and weirder. Beware the normies, for they are least normal of us all.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (13 children)

As a parent, thats just some shit you don't wanna know. Like idgaf if its furry or scat shit keep it to yourself, kid.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mike Johnson is a walking argument for voting against 70+ year-old geriatrics who can't string together coherent sentences.

All it takes is one exceedingly unlucky accident and that motherfucker becomes president.

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[–] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this the kind of thing TOR and a private browsing session was made for? Additionally this is just bizarre.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 10 months ago

Maybe it's a way to make sure they don't forget. Like "oh hey bro i saw u had some lewds in ur history make sure u go incognito next time" "Damn u right man good lookin out" fist bump

[–] Delphia@lemm.ee 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Its really creepy and intrusive. But at the same time, I can find really fucked up porn with literally zero effort.

I mean, if your kid has terrabytes of rough incest bdsm porn people will ask why you werent monitoring their internet use, but monitoring them like this feels like a different kind of weird.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Shit, if your kid has terabytes of train videos you need to intervene. Terabytes of any specific thing and... son we need to talk

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thats what I mean, how do you know unless you're either using this shit or searching the HDD. I was a kid back when porn was Jpgs traded on floppy disks or grainy 480x320 10 second realplayer clips.

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[–] Fal@yiffit.net 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

He's taking about his kid monitoring him as well.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago

Nothing creepy about that

[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It must be that software that you install that lets your "accountability buddy" check your browsing activity.

[–] Orbituary@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It literally says that in the article.

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