We worked together for a few years. He was from the midwest, really smart dude and the company I worked for at the time hired him and moved him out to work in the San Francisco office. (I'm WFH in another state, fwiw.)
Guy's personality was a little unsure of himself, almost like he was kind of quiet but I think it was mostly being small town midwest style of humble and now being thrown into the city. Other than that he was just a normal dude, kind of a neckbeard with a boiler (beer gut). Liked knives and weapons and stuff. Just a normal dude.
Before we hired him he was running a pretty popular opensource project in his spare time, I don't know how he had the time honestly. Not only was he doing great stuff for us but he was making free software in his spare time.
Anyway, that was a while back. I recently checked in on him and it seems those trans people got ahold of him and his impressionable mind. Fucking ruined him.
Now he's changed his name to some bastardization of his original name, his Twitter bio is full of weird pronouns I've never heard of and saying he's some sort of poly bisexual lesbian or something. I don't even know what that means. I looked at some of his posts and he's running around the proverbial halls of Twitter asking gender questions, calling "terfs" racists, trying to understand what "I don't identify as a woman, I am a woman" means. This guy went from mild mannered regular dude to the most tormented person I think I've ever met.
I looked at his github and his contributions went from daily, to weekly, to barely even contributing any longer. Guy can't hold a job anymore. Nobody will hire him, even in San Francisco. Add to this he's in California and he's been stuck in a small apartment for the past year.
Fuck these trans people. They've ruined this poor dudes life. It's on him for buying in but fuck man, I hate to see somebody so smart and great for society get wrapped up in all this. This guy is so tormented trying to figure out where he fits in with this trans thing, but at the same trying so hard to be unique, it's literally driving him insane. He's not well any longer. Knowing this dude before, and seeing him now, I can see why so many of these people end up on the wrong side of a rope.
Here we go again.
Porn is so endemic to human culture that we’ve never been able to find a society or time period when it didn’t exist. They also can’t effectively study it because it’s impossible to find a control group of adults who have never seen any type of porn.
Fucked up people are just fucked up people.
Modern day pornorgraphy and technology is a completely different animal. Looking at a porn magazine from the 60s does not have the same effect on your brain as modern day standard pornography. Look it up.
Prostitution is the oldest profession. Paying for sex and watching it on the internet. I don't see much of a difference as far as "moral decay".
As in all of history people paid hookers and brothels were in most towns. I don't think a magazine or internet video compares.
The availability of free porn is the difference. Sexual release is a drug and like a drug, your brain develops a dependency and a resistance. People who start developing a porn addiction have to chase increasingly perverted porn to get the same high. Because of the social influence (propaganda), its exceptionally hard to quit. Abstinence is the only cure, but easier said than done when society praises degeneracy.
Watching people have sex on the internet is uniquely different. It cannot be compared to prostitution or magazines. Again do your research.
Not as bad as throwing a few copper at your legal local streetwalker or cathouse.