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Circumcision is a contentious and slightly taboo topic - as such, there is a lot of superstition and bad information out there.

Most people either know nothing, or have strong opinions.

Most men are pre-disposed to prefer everyone be like them. Most doctors are pre-disposed to prefer whatever makes them the most money.

If you search "Should I circumcise my son" on google, you will think there's a Scientific Consensus that it's beneficial.

But if you seek out anti-circumcision material, you will think it's one of the most heinous and barbaric practices ever to have beset the human race.

The reality is that the health benefits are minuscule at best, and the harm described in the anti-circumcision community is often overblown or lacking in concrete evidence.

It should be immediately obvious that most cut men live normal fulfilling lives. It should also be obvious that being uncut does not carry any real health risks because otherwise these problems would be well known in Europe, where circumcision is near nonexistent.

My personal opinion is that none of the perceived benefits outweigh the risk of complications from surgery (doctor slips with the knife). This type of thing happens with a non-trivial regularity, and the result are life-altering and sometimes deadly.

Is there anyone here who is planning to become parents and is faced with this question?
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> Having to go to the darknet to contribute code to an open source game emulator was not on my 2024 bingo card.

:comfyghostscary:
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US banned Russians from the linux kernel. Open source destroyed by the state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Ec5jrpLVk

It seems like everyone who finally woke up about the two-party illusion went back to being full MAGA-tards after the McDonald's PR-stunt.

There are some valid reasons why people still use Windows and can't (fully) switch to Linux, but "muh trannies use it" is not an excuse.

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If technocracy wins this battle and they implement it on a global basis, it will again take hundreds of years before the concept of freedom and liberty will resurface again.
https://activistpost.com/2024/10/what-is-technocracy-a-scientific-dictatorship-nightmare.html
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babe wake up we've got some retarded coreboot drama going too on top of the torvalds meltdown
https://www.malibal.com/features/dont-support-the-coreboot-project/
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@PurpCat @nach Well, Haiku is a clone of BeOS, and I don't think BeOS was ever used in servers. The only thing remotely server related I know of in Haiku is the PoorMan webserver, and it's a really basic webserver at that.

@nach @PurpCat Is Theo de Raadt (the OpenBSD maintainer) still anti-woke? I remember hearing that he openly mocks the concept of CoCs.

@PurpCat @nach I want an actual desktop operating system, not some server or mainframe OS pretending to be one. Haiku seems like the perfect choice for me, but it needs more supported hardware and software for me to use it as a daily driver.

@nach @PurpCat
>it's over
No, it's not. Linux is still usable and you don't have to give the Linux Foundation any money. I think there would be enough people to maintain a stable fork if worse comes to worst.

None of the other options (BSD, illumos, etc) can realistically run on anything other than the exact old ThinkPad model that the contributors use.

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@djsumdog

> Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

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The DeVault Report:

https://dmpwn.info/

It looks like @drewdevault, the coward who secretly authored (and tried to deny authorship) of the Stallman Report is now trying to nuke every part of his past.

The DeVault Report contains tons of archived links showing Drew is super into lolis, like crazy into lolis. He's written bots/scrapers and image hosts just for his loli addiction.

He accused Stallman of defending potatophiles, and yet DeVault's own reddit history shows him constantly defending nonces.
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Oh right I should probably delete my sourcehut and move to codeberg or something like that.

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