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Cake day: September 13th, 2023

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  • I’ve heard of vigilante groups doing it for content. There was a case I remember from last year where a man was attacked - the person he was talking to never claimed to be underage, but was a group of people trying to make something for a YouTube channel or something. Didn’t find the article, but the search terms “innocent” “pedobait” and “vigilante” provide enough search results to suggest that it might be a problem.

    In Russia, Ghana, and undoubtedly other countries but those are ones I’ve read specific examples of recently - it’s not uncommon for gaybashers to get on apps like Grindr and get entirely away with it. Likely that one of the strats is to claim to be pedobaiting.










  • You’ve clearly never worked in a university biology lab.

    Out doing fieldwork Graduate student: “Hey [my name], smell my finger!”

    Turns out, certain species of ant smells like blue cheese if you crush it.

    My favorite was a post grad that let a tick feed off her for a week to prove it could prey on humans.

    RFK Jr is the kind of unhinged mind that did deserve better. That doesn’t make the perhaps thousands to millions of deaths that we will be able to trace back to him both directly and indirectly less reprehensible, but I really have had very similar conversations to the one you just tried to “reductio ad absurdio” describe.