xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

On the "health benefits" of circumcision:

> It reduces the spread of HIV

This is kind of like when cheerios sponsors a study to prove that cheerios are good for your heart. It's very under-handed.

The claim is that less mucus membrane, that is allowed to dry out, is less absorptive. Which is not wrong, but it's also not that effective. Whereas a condom is perfectly effective.

The second reason why this is under-handed is because spreading HIV is REALLY HARD. In the worst case scenario (a man with HIV ejaculates inside of you), your risk of catching it is 1 in 20. Any sexual contact less than that, the risk is even lower.

And that's just for one person to contract it, for it to actively spread through a community, the amount of promiscuity needs to be so high that circumcision is just not going to change the outcome.

> It reduces the risk of penile cancer

Well, not really. It eliminates the possibility of a condition called phimosis, which is a risk driver for penile cancer.

Phimosis is a condition where the foreskin remains too tight to retract into adulthood. This is a relatively rare condition and is addressable in a number of different ways including steroid creams, stretching, minor surgical interventions - and of course adult circumcision.

Men with phimosis SHOULD get it treated, but it's rare and not that hard to deal with. There are so many other "rare and not that hard to deal with" conditions out there, that singling out phimosis as the one you want to prevent doesn't really make any sense.

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?

> Having to go to the darknet to contribute code to an open source game emulator was not on my 2024 bingo card.

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

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

this company is run by the kind of person who would get a kiwi farms thread/ED page/google docs callout post

In New Hampshire, The Great Replacement is libertarians replacing statists 😎

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

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/

@djsumdog

> Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones

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.

the RMS cancel crowd talks about compassion, yet the only thing they can come up with is parroting tired lies and adultist bullshit about RMS avoiding growing up.

they hate people who are able to carve out a space for themselves to do what they love, like RMS did.

everyone has to be as miserable and depressed as they are. it wouldn't be "equity" if other people were happy.

grow up kids, do things you hate, be unhappy. it really is the "dig the hole!" meme. just like it is beaten into kids in public schools.

envy, masked as fighting for justice.

game jam game almost done, just gotta give the enemies special moves and then test it to make sure they aren't too overpowered lol. i definitely want the game to be easy and something you can complete in like 10-15 minutes, but there is a score at the end so if you want to try and get it higher you always can!

The Federal Reserve is now entering a monetary easing and rate-cutting cycle in an environment of elevated inflation.
https://activistpost.com/2024/10/from-high-inflation-to-hyperinflation-how-close-are-we.html

BSDs or even Plan9 are becoming a more viable option for me on a monthly basis. The level of politics and shooting itself in the foot Linux does is increasing rapidly. Not to mention how LF has become a complete and utter joke.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/