I can be controversial or annoying because I always require proof and facts for whatever people are saying/claiming. This has gotten me into a lot of heated debates, even got myself banned from “YouShouldKnow” for saying I need more proof of Israeli’s genocide (that was long ago, got more proof and changed my mind). If I do not agree on some subjectively obvious topic, please do not assume I’m being unfriendly, evil or a troll. I do try my best to approach any subject with neutral and open mind. Just call me autistic with OCD

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  • I’ve always wondered why are comments about overpopulation downvoted on Lemmy when that is objectively, scientifically a real problem. Last I checked, earth can handle around 3-4 billion people under our consumption model. The earth is dying.

    I do believe that once problems that commonly at the core occur from overpopulation (ie. rise in cost of living, housing crisis, water problems, etc.) the humans will simply not feel like making kids, so this is self-correcting problem, but still very damaging.





  • EDIT: Forgot to answer your question lol - Yes, Japan has one of the strictest rules on pornography amongst developed countries.

    My argument is quite long and hard to describe since English is my third language and this is essentially science.

    Long story short, during development of brains, humans develop things they are going to enjoy doing, getting, etc that are often related to what was going on in your life at the time. So if you limit your child from enjoying candies, brain can incidentally develop lust towards sweets. It is believed that limiting your children from masturbating and seeing boobies during puberty can really screw him up as an adult. Psychologically and neurologically, scarcity can lead to development of desire. Intimate desires to see someone naked to the point you act on them (almost all men dream about seeing someone naked, but actually acting on your desires is whole another level of wanting) are a common thing in Japan.

    I genuinely don’t know if my Postal 2 is a valid example, but I played some really screwed up games in my young years (10-15), I was fully aware that these things are screwed up, I knew the difference between right and wrong, and I grew up with that idea while exploring the fucked up side of the world, including browsing 4chan at the age of 13. Good times. Still, grew up as a loving human who’s anti-violence and anti-everything-evil

    We came up with non-existing problem (kids have never had real problems with seeing nudity. See:Africa. They’re either disinterested or capable of processing what is going on without getting brain-damaged), tried to solve it, and created a real problem during this process.


  • Generally developed countries do not censor or limit access to pornographic or adult material. Japan is pretty special case and a very good study in this regard, and they have quite a lot of creeps and creep porn, relatively speaking. People like to assume that banning nudity or violence from young minds is going to make humans grow up with less screwed up minds, but turns out the exact opposite thing happened. I remember my favourite childhood game being Postal 2. I’m fully against violence as a grown-up and it’s been 2 decades since I hit someone.




  • Your wish is granted. Russia with China are now the world’s police. Taiwan invasion finally happens. Western chip availability (and therefore tech prices) in shambles. Russia now convinced they can finish off Ukraine and go for entire eastern bloc, because at this point NATO no longer functions. Every country besides BRICS are scrambling for self survival. China goes all out on imperialism in Africa. Next 30 years we see way more wars and deaths than last 30.

    But hey, as republicans say it - anything to own the libs, no matter how painful or stupid it is.

    Look back at time you thought was bad (but relatively wasn’t) and realize that it can get so much worse without some balance in the world