Yasha wrote:

Okay, this isn't an article, but I wanted to share it somewhere--

Global Internet Porn Habits (TOTALLY WORK SAFE. I'm actually serious, you could browse it at work.)

The best search term ever is Nigeria's "Things I jack off to." Seriously, if I could just go to any search engine and type in "Things I jack off to" and get porn I like, that would be the pinnacle of human achievement and we'd have to hit the game over button right then to avoid backsliding.

This is fascinating, and also sort of adorable.  Who knew MILFs were so popular?  One oddity is that -- while "ebony," "asian," and "hawaiian" are popular search terms in states where the corresponding populations are large -- the same is not true of "latino/a," which I couldn't find at all in the United States.  Is it a language barrier thing?  Were Spanish-language porn sites not surveyed?  Conversely, someone named Lisa Ann seems to be very popular in Mexico.  Sampling also seems to have been a problem in some parts of South America -- unless South America just has waaay more gay people than the U.S.  (Or, come to think of it, more straight women who look at porn.)

Other things I thought were interesting: reputation aside, there is no poop in the German top ten; the preferences of both the Netherlands and Thailand are disappointingly ordinary for their continents; China has an entirely one-way crush on Japan; America is actually less interested in lesbians than most English-speaking countries.

My vote for most interesting country is Lebanon, for the heel turn between #3 and #4 on their list.  It goes "sleeping girl," "masturbation," and "futunaria," which is all very sweet and innocuous by porn standards, and then the next one is "shit orgy."

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Yasha wrote:

satyreyes wrote:

China has an entirely one-way crush on Japan;

Porn is illegal in China. In this case, it's not so much a one way crush, but that while authorities may turn a blind eye to porn consumption, they do make it VERY hard to produce their own material. So China can only consume, and Japan is the nearest country with the widest range of tastes ("wtf japan" being a regularly heard cry in my apartment here) that look similar enough to Chinese people that Chinese people can fap to them.

This is an appealing explanation -- so how come the second and third results for China are both "chinese?"

Speaking of China and porn, another interesting thing was the Baidu Ten Mythical Creatures. If you haven't heard of them, definitely check them out. They're hard to explain, but to simplify they were the Chinese internet's response to censorship. I found them pretty heartwarming, and I wish I had a way to support beyond spreading the word

The linked article wrote:

a large goose dove

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satyreyes wrote:

My vote for most interesting country is Lebanon, for the heel turn between #3 and #4 on their list.  It goes "sleeping girl," "masturbation," and "futunaria," which is all very sweet and innocuous by porn standards, and then the next one is "shit orgy."

I think there's some eye of the beholder going on there, as I wouldn't have picked the shit orgy to be the disturbing one. The sleeping girl one is the one that has heavily implied nonconsensual sex in it, and kinda ticks my bells since I've in reality been in that situation. At least a shit orgy is hopefully consensual, even if it's not what I'd call fun. So for me it starts out bad and then lightens up a lot

Yeah, so that is me misunderstanding what the sleeping girl genre is likely to involve.  I mean, even what I was thinking is a little creepy, but yeesh.  Thank you for the correction.

Houston nose severing case ends in probation

Yes, you read that correctly. This lady bit off her sister's nose in a fight.

DD, the link is broken

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http://izismile.com/2011/07/19/the_ugli … _pics.html

Has there ever been a good "political message" videogame? I know there's been some real stinkers. It seems as if overly-earnest and/or humorless political views are incompatible with good gameplay and fun.

Here's another awful "political" game for the list-- Ethnic Cleansing. It's so bad that even the white supremacist audience it targets thinks it sucks.

Do we have a thread for this? It seems like a thread-worthy topic. I've noticed that Mass Effect had some political comparisons in it, although Gio would be better at expressing them than I would.

Someone on Facebook shared this article with me the other day. This makes me shake my head that someone could write such horrible things and actually send it. There is also a follow up article stating that police do not consider this to be a hate crime and includes a scan of the letter in question.

Reading the letter just fills me with all kinds of emotions. I get the normal reactions of hated towards the writer and sympathy for the family she sent this letter to, but I also feel concern for the writer's children. With this kind of woman raising them, it's possible that they could grow up to be intolerant as well. Another thing that raises concern for them is how she described her kids as being normal. Makes me fearful of what she might do if her kids one day weren't 'normal' in her eyes.

Six months ago I wrote here about rat telepathy.  Now we have human telepathy!  Or at least, the first glimmerings thereof.  We can make one human play a video game using another human's right hand.  Sure, the video game is "hit the space bar when you see an enemy plane," but still.

Yugi Mutou responded to this news by reaching into his ridiculous hair and discovering that there was a transcranial magnetic stimulation coil there the whole time.

Atropos wrote:

Apparently there's been a very negative response to this article on Wired, mainly because people perceive the writer as sympathizing with the shamees. I didn't really get that vibe at all; I read it not as "won't someone please think of the poor white men?" but "the punishment doesn't fit the offense." The latter I can get behind; the former I cannot.

This seems like a "do unto others" thing to me.  If I were speaking in a chauvinistic way without realizing how it was affecting the people around me, I would want one of those people to inform me of that fact.  If issues of perceived social power inhibited em from telling me, I would want em to talk to someone in a better position to talk to me, like the host at a party or the director at a conference.  I would want this because I am interested in taking reasonable measures to not gratuitously offend people, and I can't do that if I don't know I'm offending someone.  Call me an optimist, but I believe that most people are like me that way -- especially in face-to-face interactions.  And so conversely, that's what I would do if someone else were being outrageous and I felt like I needed to call em out on it.

I would not drag em through the mud on Tumblr.  Why not?  Because I wouldn't want to be dragged through the mud on Tumblr, not unless I was behaving really horribly and all other reasonable means of stopping me had failed.  If your patient has an infected toe, you try antibiotics before amputation, and even then you amputate the toe before the foot, and the foot before the leg.  Obviously amputating the leg from the beginning will take care of the problem quickly and thoroughly, but the patient would like to keep that leg, and we try to practice compassionate medicine.  Compassion does not apply only to people who are nice to us.

SexingTouga24/7/365 wrote:

http://jezebel.com/jessica-williams-has … 1526182685 sadly, true.

From the commments: "There's so much wrong on BOTH sides of American race relations that I don't even know where to start."

"Both" sides. I didn't even know we boiled it down to two sides.

The actual video's funny and sad-funny, though. Good stuff.

I have a one in seven billion chance of meeting my husband anytime soon? That's depressing.

Cops: Man Attempted to Murder Roommate for Eating Three Cookies

Shame on him! Pizza is the only food worth killing over!