• @[email protected]
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    1048 minutes ago

    Do you think they’ll fall victim to the ads since they’ve never experienced the internet before?

    Hot chicks in your local Oblast, click here!!

  • Diplomjodler
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    “You now have access to the collective knowledge of the entire world.”

    “Nah, let me see the boobies!”

    • @T156
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      A surprising amount of technological development is for pornography. Video-casettes won out because pornography used them over laserdisc or betamax.

      • @CarbonatedPastaSauce
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        72 hours ago

        I think you meant VHS won out. Betamax was also a video cassette format.

        And yes, porn had a lot to do with why VHS won!

      • @shalafi
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        32 hours ago

        And secure online payments.

    • @PunnyName
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      416 hours ago

      That’s where it starts. Then once they find Wikipedia, it’ll be a game changer.

      • @shneancy
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        285 hours ago

        it might be the pessimist in me, or it might be the reality we’re living in

        but if sheer access to Wikipedia cured you out of being a cultist- i don’t think there’d be that many trump supporters

        • @PunnyName
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          43 hours ago

          There’s a difference between a cultist living thru the growth of the Internet and social media. It’s another when you have people completely cut off from the vast majority of the world and information for the last few decades.

        • @[email protected]
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          144 hours ago

          My mom believes that Wikipedia is “influenced and censored.” She didn’t like Fargo when my uncle tricked her into watching it, so claimed that the Wikipedia article describing its awards (7 Oscar noms, 2 wins, etc.) were part of the demon-influenced liberal agenda.

          So no, Wikipedia doesn’t cure cultism.

    • @ThePyroPython
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      156 hours ago

      As is tradition dating back to cave paintings.

  • @[email protected]
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    967 hours ago

    Imagine being an adult raised without all-you-can-stomach porn and suddenly getting access to the Internet.

    SO. MANY. BLISTERS.

    • @BobbyGasoline
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      " I can’t fire my rifle! My hand is cramped up!"

      • @[email protected]
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        We had a couple decades of slow acclimatization: crappy black and white scans, weird CGA scans, glorious 16 colors, all of which had to be painstakingly downloaded at 2400 baud or less, then finally lifelike 256 color images. And then tiny gifs or videos that would take all night. In the semi modern era, there was crappy filesharing where you could type search strings in and hope for the best (and enough seeds).

        But these poor bastards are going from zero straight to pornhub.

        • @Valmond
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          54 hours ago

          “Glorious leader was right, the west is depraved! Still not putting phone down though.”

      • @Passerby6497
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        86 hours ago

        Eh, y’all got that pornography sent to you 3 pixels at a time, that hardly counts as ‘all you can stomach porn’. Waiting between each line of your image is barely equivalent to today’s hard hitting porn problems such as videos buffering (though it’s an amusing comparison now that I think about it).

        A better comparison would be long term coma patients or people who’ve been in prison since the 90s.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          135 hours ago

          Believe it or not, many of us grew up before you could even download porn slowly. The internet literally didn’t exist. Then it existed but was slow and empty. Then it grew, and here we are now.

          • @[email protected]
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            215 hours ago

            We found porn stashed in hedges and sheds, hidden in the woods, on playing cards, in the bottom of wardrobes. It was something you found rather than something you sought out.

            • @krashmo
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              64 hours ago

              It’s true. Everyone who grew up in the early 90s or before has at least one story about finding porn in the woods, including myself.

                • @krashmo
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                  117 minutes ago

                  No you either took it home with you and brought it back later or you saved it in your memory for future use.

          • @[email protected]
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            65 hours ago

            My first experience with internet porn was after trying to download Fight Club from a peer-to-peer filesharing app and ending up with something unexpected that was merely named ‘Fight Club’.

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              That was well into the internet’s growth period. My first experience with it was a file saved on a 5.25" floppy disc. Then a friend showed me how he got it, and it was like that other person said. The picture loaded one line at a time and took like 5 minutes to download. We were amazed! It was amazing technology for the time.

          • @crank0271
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            And here you are, also not invading Ukraine.

  • miak
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    156 hours ago

    You know, we really should have a world wide Fap For Peace day. Like those “Pray for [insert thing]” days you sometimes hear about people doing.

  • @betterdeadthanreddit
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    126 hours ago

    We haven’t ruled out the possibility of Dear Leader porn. Also have the state-approved stuff like Debbie Does DPRK, Backdoor Kim Sluts, Taepo-dong and Juche Bottom Babes.

  • Pantsofmagic
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    146 hours ago

    Genuinely curious, what are they using to access the Internet? I’m struggling to believe they brought smartphones with them that are universally compatible with the cell networks? Do they have PCs in the barracks and the dudes are just huddled around having the time of their lives?

    • @j4k3
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      286 hours ago

      WiFi is a standard protocol. Russians are also clever with electronics. Gaining favor with the new guys is as easy as giving them an old phone. WiFi still works.

      I don’t think most people fighting for Russia are super indoctrinated on the Russian side; opportunistic, morally corrupt, maybe, but not super jaded. Even if you’re fighting in dubious circumstances, the level of NK dystopian cult insanity is next level crazy. I can’t picture anyone that is around those guys being totally passive about the extent of bowdlerization and disinformation present in NK. Like you’ve got a bigger humanitarian obligation to show those kids that they are living in The Hunger Games IRL.

      • HobbitFoot
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        45 hours ago

        I would expect it would be some kind of landline unless it is far away from the front. A lot of people have gotten killed because they had a device that was transmitting that could be targeted by missiles and drones.

    • @PunnyName
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      56 hours ago

      One computer, many guys was how the world of porn was for a while. Printed shit off for “personal care” later.