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[Random_Dragon]

I'll be sure to continue being slow and lazy about the Arcana mod update I've been working on. Plenty of time for this to be resolved by the time I get done with my planned update to announce it on the subreddit.

[Bumber]

From the government that brought you Kids in Cages™, here's Kids in Terraria™!

[Dunamisdeos]

That.... looks like some kind of bizarre anti covid measure? Wtf?

[TamerVirus]

Wrapped in foil for easy transportation

[Maximum Spin]

Wrapped in foil for easy transportation

Those are almost certainly mylar blankets, which are actually really quite good.

[Frumple]

Yeah, those are just thermal blankets or whatever they are. Never used one myself, but they're supposed to be pretty damn good as general utility blankets go.

If you're talking about the blankets, anyway. The plastic sheet things are just... plastic sheet things. Covid measures is probably an accurate statement, pretty sure I've seen the things used in temporary medical holding areas and whatnot, too.

'Course, something other than a cot on the floor (though ngl, those cots are probably an improvement over what I sleep on, ha) is probably warranted, but the US is still the US, et al. It's probably an improvement over whatever shit was being doled out previously, for what staggeringly little that's worth.

... has nothing to do with terraria, though. Not glass, so it's not even a terrarium. Eh.

[Maximum Spin]

It's probably an improvement over whatever shit was being doled out previously, for what staggeringly little that's worth.

It's exactly the same.

[Dunamisdeos]

It's probably an improvement over whatever shit was being doled out previously, for what staggeringly little that's worth.

It's exactly the same.

P sure there are phots of the last two admins using the same blankets.

The weird part is the clear plastic barriers. The look like just sheets hanging from the ceiling.

[MaxTheFox]

As reddit is an US company and there seems to be some politics involved , i'll post this here as it seems to fit more.

Today, i checked the CDDA reddit (CDDA is one of the Cataclysm survival roguelike game variants for people that never adventured in the upper boards) .
And noticed the whole sub was set to Private (so to read you have to log in), at the time i write this, it still is :
https://old.reddit.com/r/cataclysmdda/

On that page there's link that's supposed to explain why it's set to Private :
https://old.reddit.com/user/Blank-Cheque/comments/mbmthf/why_is_this_subreddit_private_see_here_for_answers/

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you've been linked to this page, you likely tried to view a subreddit that's been made private. You may be asking yourself "Why can't I look at teh memes and teh cat gifs??" I'll tell you why, young redditor:

It's because one of reddit's new employees is a supporter of child rape, and the mods of the subreddit you're attempting to view think that's bad. They also think it's bad for reddit to be censoring any mention of this across the site, including banning people just for saying the name of said admin in a completely unrelated context.

That page also give the following given link for more complete information :
https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mbeycw/whats_the_deal_with_rukpolitics_going_private_and/

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The situation is as follows, the moderators of /r/Ukpolitics set the subreddit to private last night. This was not a decision they took lightly, but one that was made to protect both the users and moderators of /r/ukpolitics.

A moderator posted an article from the Spectator - which contained a three-word mention, in passing, of a minor British public figure ( who was expelled from both the Liberal Democrats and Green Party) - this moderator was permanently suspended from Reddit (and later reinstated after we contacted the admins) for "doxxing" as a result.

As they had no idea what had happened, or why posting this article resulted in a permanent suspension, the mods of /r/Ukpolitics took the emergency step of making the subreddit private and immediately contacting the admins for clarification. They took this step to protect both the users of the subreddit, and themselves, from further action by the Reddit admin staff.

It later became apparent that Reddit has hired the individual as an Reddit admin, and were banning people from discussing the employees past to protect their employee from harassment.

Like the /r/Ukpolitics mods we would ask the following, in order to protect your account from getting terminated by Reddit:

• Do not name this individual, at all. Doing so may result in your account being banned by the admins.

We are obviously extremely concerned by these developments and expect Reddit to explain this situation.

The usual subreddit rules and Reddit-wide ToS apply.

Checking the comments of this article, there are a lot of users that do not care about being banned anymore and point to who is the individual in question that has been hired as a reddit admin so you can check the individual wikipedia entry , and wow if it's true ...
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(edit : in case things aren't as true as they appear to be, i'll remove the individual name, but you can check it on the comments in the page i linked (it's easy to spot it as the name is repeated all over the comments) and check the wikipedia entry yourself

Looks like in those "give people a 2nd, 3rd or 4th chance" situation that reddit company decided to choose the very wrong hill to go die on it.

Based. They should fire her because there is no place for pedos in the world. Oh is she crying herself to shit? Let me play the world's smallest violin for her. Shouldn't have been a pedo.

[MrRoboto75]

Acting on it is one thing, but being attracted to minors isn't something someone wakes up and decides to do.  You can't wake up one day and decide to be gay, either.

Given some certain people would line them on the street and shoot them, there's also little reason for them to come forward and get help they might need.

[Vector]

I think a lot of the hatred that used to be expressed toward queer people in general has been displaced onto, I guess I'm just going to broadly say, "sex offenders." It's important to protect children but a lot of what we do is theater that serves to harm and humiliate the offender but doesn't actually make anyone safer.

In this case it sounds like the hatred for this woman is coming purely through guilt by association?

[Maximum Spin]

You can't wake up one day and decide to be gay, either.

You can, it's just that most people don't.

[MaxTheFox]

Acting on it is one thing, but being attracted to minors isn't something someone wakes up and decides to do.  You can't wake up one day and decide to be gay, either.

Given some certain people would line them on the street and shoot them, there's also little reason for them to come forward and get help they might need.

For one, I myself am not straight.

I don't believe pedophilia is biological. And even if it is I still hate them. They should learn to keep it in themselves in that case.

Pedos, in my eyes, are worse than Nazis. And I think Nazis are the scum of the earth.

[Maximum Spin]

Pedophilia, like all paraphilias, is almost certainly learned and not biological. But what I find absolutely fascinating is that the notion that pedophilia is innate and they just can't control their urges is trotted out as an argument against the normal healthy response of wanting to shun and kill them. The fact of the matter is, and most if not all of the people who display that response at least subconsciously understand this (and thus will not be convinced by the argument), that the exact opposite is true: if pedophilia is innate and they just can't control their urges, it becomes necessary to remove them from the population by any means. In fact, if pedophilia is biological and "nobody wakes up and chooses it", then eliminating pedophiles will eventually result in a world without pedophiles, which certainly seems to me to be a worthwhile outcome.
We change, treat, and overcome biology every day in the modern world — something biological is easier (and more important!) to get rid of than something social. Of course, I know that some people who fear society trying to change them feel like they need to circle the wagons around pedophilia to prevent the idea from spreading, but this is ultimately destructive... frankly, nobody is going to win widespread acceptance for pedophiles, ever. Hitching your wagon to that star is only going to bring you down with them, and deservedly so. The smart and right thing to do is to win acceptance for not being a pedophile, then draw a bright line and make sure everyone knows "we're not like them".

[Bumber]

Isn't pedophilia correlated with being abused as a child? If you develop a severe negative connotation with adults as a child, that's probably not going to go away even after you grow up. Thus, you might end up being attracted to children. And, unfortunately, the world isn't running out of abused children any time soon.

... has nothing to do with terraria, though. Not glass, so it's not even a terrarium. Eh.

Terraria can be plastic. Being a flexible canvas might disqualify it, though. Edit: It's not flexible. It just looks that way from certain photos.