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[–] ultratiem@lemmy.ca 177 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What the hell is this perfect picture?

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[–] Imbrex@lemmy.world 158 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wtf how is the onion supposed to keep up with this shit

[–] Neato@kbin.social 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

By waiting until people are used to their shit and posting completely normal stories about them. No one would believe them.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Republican has a change of heart when their 12 year old daughter gets pregnant, now supports abortion. "

[–] SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, I think that one's fairly common. So is just "Republican gets pregnant, now supports abortion - but only for her specific circumstances".

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[–] art@lemmy.world 119 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Okay, that's a red flag. Someone check his hard drive.

[–] Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.

"Myself, on the other hand? Petabytes of CSAM."

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"My son knows how to use a VPN"

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago

I think his son checks it often.

...Wait, were you intending innuendo or not?

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

50,000 files of drag queens and transgender porn show up

[–] fosiacat@lemmy.world 106 points 1 year ago (3 children)

god these people are fucking weird. so fucking weird.

[–] Teon@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

You spelled weird wrong.
It's spelled, *psycho.

[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I remember this kind of stuff back from my days as an evangelical Christian...they applaud this kind of nonsense, even though every single one of the users of this kind of software has some way around it. Purity culture craziness.

[–] reflex@kbin.social 90 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

he installed “accountability software” called Covenant Eyes on his devices in order to abstain from internet porn

Covenant Eyes sounds like some Handmaid's Tale shit.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Hey, I have a local cult that uses that software.

https://www.dwellchurchcolumbusisacult.com/

They also like to pack a bunch of students into one apartment and then charge each of them $700*/month in rent.

*(Don't take my word on the numbers.)

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[–] Fester@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] reflex@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] figaro@lemdro.id 15 points 1 year ago

I swear, every week I see an article that makes me say, "oh shit, The Handmaid's Tale is starting"

[–] yildo@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Next step up from using confession material for blackmailing parishioners

[–] Janoose@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

I get that lots of jokes are to be made about the porn part but what really should be concerning everyone is that the current Speaker of the House pays a third party to snoop on every aspect of his phone.

Was he using his personal phone for any of his duties in Congress?

Is he still using this phone with even more potentially secret government information as a member of the Gang of 8?

This is a MASSIVE security risk, who the fuck knows what information this Covenant Eyes “company” is now privy to.

ETA: From a Wired article from Sept 2022: https://www.wired.com/story/covenant-eyes-anti-porn-accountability-monitoring-apps/

"But Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You do much more than just police pornography. When WIRED downloaded, decompiled, and tested Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You, we found that both apps are built to collect, monitor, and report all sorts of innocent behavior. The applications exploited Android’s accessibility permissions to monitor almost everything someone does on their phone. While the accessibility functionalities are meant to help developers build out features that assist people with disabilities, these apps take advantage of such permissions to either capture screenshots of everything actively being viewed on the device or detect the name of apps as they’re being used and record every website visited in the device’s browser."

Emphasis mine. This is exactly what I'm talking about. Dude has this software on every one of his devices and now the Christofascists behind Covenant Eyes and any one willing to hack them, ie foreign governments, has screenshots of everything he is viewing. Massive massive security risk.

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[–] swope@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Is porn intake measured in sieverts or mW/cm² or what?

What level is considered safe?

Asking for a friend.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Npps aka Naked People Per Second

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[–] runeko@programming.dev 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Pretty sure it's millipervs.

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[–] Bremmy@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same software the Duggar pedo used?

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

abuse software for abusers

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 32 points 1 year ago

So what you're telling me is, that Johnson and his little Johnson measure the usage of each other's Johnsons?

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, how many burner phones does he have?

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 29 points 1 year ago

Dude, I'm willing to bet the son has at least one.

"I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate."

A quote like this tempts fate. I thought he was trying to avoid temptation.

[–] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 28 points 1 year ago

There is no normal, only weird and weirder. Beware the normies, for they are least normal of us all.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (14 children)

As a parent, thats just some shit you don't wanna know. Like idgaf if its furry or scat shit keep it to yourself, kid.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mike Johnson is a walking argument for voting against 70+ year-old geriatrics who can't string together coherent sentences.

All it takes is one exceedingly unlucky accident and that motherfucker becomes president.

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[–] gaiussabinus@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this the kind of thing TOR and a private browsing session was made for? Additionally this is just bizarre.

[–] lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's a way to make sure they don't forget. Like "oh hey bro i saw u had some lewds in ur history make sure u go incognito next time" "Damn u right man good lookin out" fist bump

[–] Delphia@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its really creepy and intrusive. But at the same time, I can find really fucked up porn with literally zero effort.

I mean, if your kid has terrabytes of rough incest bdsm porn people will ask why you werent monitoring their internet use, but monitoring them like this feels like a different kind of weird.

[–] gibmiser@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shit, if your kid has terabytes of train videos you need to intervene. Terabytes of any specific thing and... son we need to talk

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thats what I mean, how do you know unless you're either using this shit or searching the HDD. I was a kid back when porn was Jpgs traded on floppy disks or grainy 480x320 10 second realplayer clips.

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[–] Fal@yiffit.net 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

He's taking about his kid monitoring him as well.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Nothing creepy about that

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