tbh if these get past the concept stage and you ever see one, destroy it immediately
What if youāre a woman who canāt get pregnant by normal means
Adoption and surrogate mothers are options that arenāt affronts to God
Adoption isnāt the same as having a biological child of your own.
Surrogate is illegal in some countries
Then I suppose youāre woman who canāt have a baby then. Growing a baby in a test tube like a lab project isnāt the same as having one either.
Itās not, itās definitely not near ideal, but likeā¦ You do realize how easy it is for you to say āig you just canāt have a kid thenā towards some woman who by not her own fault canāt go through pregnancy, when having a child of your own is a pretty huge part of most womenās identity and feminity.
Iām just sorta trying to make you see it through someone elseās eyes.
And that MAYBE SOMETIMES when you folks say something is an abomination you base it mostly on fear of something new that you donāt understand.
Itās an artifical womb, there isnāt much to not understand. There have been ways for mothers unable to have children themselves to start families before this and there still will be without it.
Youāre arguing under the assumption that this will only be used by mothers who canāt safely have children, and not abused for profit or convenience like every other piece of technology these days. Yeah itād be nice for them to be able to start a family, but the possible negatives outweigh the possible good.
this is the first step to making women obsolete. once the ONE THING that men canāt do and women can gets outsourced to automation then what? the entirety of history is men trying to make women happy so they will fuck and have babiesā¦ if women are suddenly no longer necessaryā¦
Now if we could just walk down those sperm banks For even better destroy them all together. Replace the current system with a donor to customers model. That way you know who youāre doing with and if you donāt like themā¦.
A SPERM DONOR SHOULD HAVE ALL THE SAY IN WHO GETS THEIR SPERM.
^^^^
Honestly this should open the eyes of many feminists who cry āI love abortion!ā And then look at this and say they are trying to replace woman.
Nah hon you canāt have it both ways
Ā Its funny all the ppl crying this is a bad thing dont realize this is why we could write laws that make sure the mother and father are involved every step of the way, and that these pod babies are still human and will not be treated any less.
Ā To the people saying this is an affront to god; do you know how many women have died in childbirth, or how many have gained a malady from continuing their lineage?
Ā If you could have the chance so a mother would not have to suffer for being one would you not take it?
Iād love this. For me itās more of my health, as I have been told that if I have a child (and if is not much of a possibility ) it will be difficult birth. So if I can have a safe and secure birth and be able to be with my child - Iāll take this option any day.
I must wonder at the self-esteem and self-image of anyone who finds their worth, their being and quintessence threatened by an external womb.
Scientists
used CT-Scan to reveal the message inside this 4000 years old clay
envelope, and it is a receipt confirming the transaction of four
thousand gallons of sesame seeds
My favourite thing about this is, he didn’t even have to call him ‘Captain’ he could have used the screen-name but he was SO MARRIED TO THE IMMERSION that he DID.
this be me. and to anybody who follows me here that knows me irl, firstly, NO QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS OK THIS IS JUST ME BEING GAY SHHHH
1- qprs can mean SO much!! literally so much for aromantic people. like- they- we cant experience romantic love like everyone else, and so to have something thats like a normal relationship can be so helpful and so awesome especially for our mental health!!
2- queerplatonic relationships arent just “friends with benefits”! its literally blurring the lines between platonic and romantic attraction.
3- you can have a qpr even if youre not aro! its totally chill!
just an aromantic person’s thoughts on this
OH.
So THIS is the kind of relationship that I’ve been yearning for the whole time, without knowing what to call it.
Yall need to go outside
imagine kissing, going on dates, and having sex with someone while somehow convincing yourself that it’s not romance.
queerplatonic = close friends or special snowflake lovers.
So I can personally weigh in on this. I reverse-engineered the app, and feel confident in stating that I have a very strong understanding for how the app operates (or at least operated as of a few months ago).
TikTok is a data collection service that is thinly-veiled as a social network. If there is an API to get information on you, your contacts, or your device… well, they’re using it.
Phone hardware (cpu type, number of course, hardware ids, screen dimensions, dpi, memory usage, disk space, etc)
Other apps you have installed (I’ve even seen some I’ve deleted show up in their analytics payload - maybe using as cached value?)
Everything network-related (ip, local ip, router mac, your mac, wifi access point name)
Whether or not you’re rooted/jailbroken
Some variants of the app had GPS pinging enabled at the time, roughly once every 30 seconds - this is enabled by default if you ever location-tag a post IIRC
They set up a local proxy server on your device for “transcoding media”, but that can be abused very easily as it has zero authentication
The scariest part of all of this is that much of the logging they’re doing is remotely configurable, and unless you reverse every single one of their native libraries (have fun reading all of that assembly, assuming you can get past their customized fork of OLLVM!!!) and manually inspect every single obfuscated function. They have several different protections in place to prevent you from reversing or debugging the app as well. App behavior changes slightly if they know you’re trying to figure out what they’re doing. There’s also a few snippets of code on the Android version that allows for the downloading of a remote zip file, unzipping it, and executing said binary. There is zero reason a mobile app would need this functionality legitimately.
On top of all of the above, they weren’t even using HTTPS for the longest time. They leaked users’ email addresses in their HTTP REST API, as well as their secondary emails used for password resets. Don’t forget about users’ real names and birthdays, too. It was allllll publicly viewable a few months ago if you MITM’d the application.
They provide users with a taste of “virality” to entice them to stay on the platform. Your first TikTok post will likely garner quite a bit of likes, regardless of how good it is.. assuming you get past the initial moderation queue if thats still a thing. Most users end up chasing the dragon. Oh, there’s also a ton of creepy old men who have direct access to children on the app, and I’ve personally seen (and reported) some really suspect stuff. 40-50 year old men getting 8-10 year old girls to do “duets” with them with sexually suggestive songs. Those videos are posted publicly. TikTok has direct messaging functionality.
Here’s the thing though.. they don’t want you to know how much information they’re collecting on you, and the security implications of all of that data in one place, en masse, are fucking huge. They encrypt all of the analytics requests with an algorithm that changes with every update (at the very least the keys change) just so you can’t see what they’re doing. They also made it so you cannot use the app at all if you block communication to their analytics host off at the DNS-level.
For what it’s worth I’ve reversed the Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter apps. They don’t collect anywhere near the same amount of data that TikTok does, and they sure as hell aren’t outright trying to hide exactly whats being sent like TikTok is. It’s like comparing a cup of water to the ocean - they just don’t compare.
tl;dr; I’m a nerd who figures out how apps work for a job. Calling it an advertising platform is an understatement. TikTok is essentially malware that is targeting children. Don’t use TikTok. Don’t let your friends and family use it.
I’d heard a bit about this, but that’s worse than I imagined it could be.
Viewing TikTok-hosted videos in a browser or another app (such as Tumblr or Twitter’s mobile apps) will probably do nothing to your computer, it’ll just make some numbers go up at TikTok HQ, but installing the TikTok app is a Bad Idea.
India banned Tiktok just yesterday because it was being used to spread Chinese propaganda AND spy on Indian citizens.
Iāve seen this panel going around a fair bit, and each time, somebody in the notes expresses concern about whether He-Man should be holding that hand.
If youāre one of those people, allow me to assure you that thereās no cause for alarm: the hand He-Manās holding is not the fist with which Fisto fists.
