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Surely filtering out childporn is something that I can do for myself.

Even if that was a viable option as a solution (it isn’t), humans that are employed to filter out this disgusting content (and worse) are frequently psychologically damaged by the exposure. This includes online content moderation companies and those in law enforcement that have to deal with that stuff for evidentiary reasons.

The reason its not a viable solution is if YOU block it out because YOU don’t want to see it but its still there, it becomes a magnet for those that DO want to see it because they know its allowed. The value of the remaining legitimate content goes down because more of your time is spent blocking the objectionable material yourself, until its too much for anyone that doesn’t want that stuff and they leave. Then the community dies.

This piece can be had as an “Inner Tail Light”, for $70, and replaced in 10 minutes with a small set of hand tools.

If I’d already decided on spending $70 to replace the light, I think I’d just drill a small 1/8" (or 1mm) hole in the outside lens in the corner. It would be on the lowest point so liquid water could drain out, but at an upward angle from the bottom so rain and other water wouldn’t fall into this new hole. This would be on the bottom left hand size of the light lens where you see the water pooling. Right at the green arrow:

The whole fix would take less than 5 minutes. If this fix doesn’t work, or make it worse, then I could still fall back to the “spend the $70 on a new light and replace it”.

Your teacher was full of shit, but we do have more than 5 senses. You know the taste, touch, smell, hearing, sight. There are two more everyone has:

Vestibular - sense of balance and movement in space (like falling).

Proprioception - you can sense where your arms and legs are relative to your body without looking or touch.

My sister was/is blind and the only superhuman power she had was being fucking annoying.

There’s blind and there blind. Besides actual damage to the eye itself, most definitions of blind are loss of connection of the optic nerve to the visual cortex (the part of your brain which takes nerve pulses and translates them into vision). However recent science has found that even if there is a break/damage to the visual cortex, there are certain visual things that blind person can “see”. The optic nerve makes a couple of stops along the way from the eye to the visual cortex, specifically the Amygdala in the brain. Many that are “visual cortex” blind can still know where someone’s face is and even determine what mood they are in from their facial expression. They can also sometimes dodge object thrown at them. Both of these are Amygdala actions. Its not like they actually SEE the face or SEE the object being thrown, but they “know” if someone is upset or happy without that person even saying anything if their facial expression tells the story. Here’s the science if you’re interested in more.

Since reading these studies I’ve always been curious to talk to a blind person to have them describe their experience with this.

Well, you can, you just won’t be paid anything for it.

Pores in latex lamb skin condoms bigger than the AIDS virus.

That’s probably what they were going for, but you’d think a teacher in that position would check their data if challenged.

That would be good for Lemmy.