This discovery is nuts.
Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
Pragmatically if it stops a spam burden, I don't much care. Beaver college sports and The UK town of Scunthorpe are well used to this kind of regex filter, and neither have ceased to exist online. I don't think this is a good argument against censorship at all.
> Pragmatically if it stops a spam burden, I don't much care. I doubt there are people/bots spamming about jerking off on HN. It makes me wonder why this rule was implemented.
There are porn bots in the comments section of my personal website that like 5 people have ever read. HN is a big website, I'm sure spam is a major problem.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
When I'm in the mood of reading a bunch of smug nerds pontificating and preaching, I click on any popsci or diet-related article on HN. Never fails to entertain. Nofap like many things has been turned into a brand, and even politicised to the point some idiots attack it saying it's far right ideology. On the other hand there are teenagers with serious porn-related issues that think nofap will turn them into superhuma…
“Sorry, I’m in a cranky mood” Made me look up the word cranky and found “crankshaft” - a shaft driven by a crank that turns reciprocating motion into rotating motion. Legit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocating_motion
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Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#64Dont show this to the nofap community
Most of that community appears to be based on woo and bad analysis of science/biology, so I imagine they'd likely dismiss this study out of hand regardless. But also, we shouldn't forget this: > The studies from the United States and Australia do little to answer these critical questions — but they do open a new avenue for research This isn't a fully understood area of research yet.
Nofap is just secular Puritanism with its canon replaced with biotruths, poor interpretations of evolutionary biology and the ramblings of people driven insane by celibacy.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Pragmatically if it stops a spam burden, I don't much care. I doubt there are people/bots spamming about jerking off on HN. It makes me wonder why this rule was implemented.
There are porn bots in the comments section of my personal website that like 5 people have ever read. HN is a big website, I'm sure spam is a major problem.
I browse with showdead turned on. I never see porn spam. You could say maybe those comments are completely removed, but then that wouldn’t explain the graying out of comments with “masturbation” in them.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#66I want to point out that it's long been HN filter policy to "kill" posts that use a word beginning with m for self stimulation they is very relevant to this discussion. If you turn on showdead you'll see a few dead posts by people that aren't otherwise shadowbanned, because they used that word. Seems like a good argument against censorship, especially as it relates to normal activity.
The conceit of Hacker News is that it is heavily censored/moderated so the site has, in the eyes of its operator, a high signal:noise ratio.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#67Hacker news: check out this amazing stablediffusion library in rust! Also Hacker news: you should be crankin' it more.
Rust evangelists surely need to crank it more. Make sure to wrap it in unsafe{}, boys.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So YouPorn is a medical device now. I thought I've read the opposite that porn should be avoided because it's just like the rest of social media (a hinderance overall). Bad from an "over stimulation" perspective. aka the whole "nofap" movement https://www.reddit.com/r/NoFap/ has 1,100,000+ members
So some behaviour is bad and social media is bad and you join a social media forum with one million... ahem, members to talk about it. It doesn't seem like a good plan. Edit, to clarify: traditional suppport groups must be helpful for serious addiction, but an online forum with a lot of traffic? It seems crazy. If you have a problem with doing something pasively and anonymously online, go outside and chat with people…
Another way to look at it: 1,000,000 people felt their relationship with porn and masturbation wasn't healthy and needed help weening off of it
Who's telling the truth? Medical science (ejaculate more to keep your prostate healthier) or the community online telling you "stop masturbating"
I have no clue
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
People who drink 1.7 glass of water in the shade on Tuesdays are 53% more likely to win travel-related sweepstakes in odd-numbered years (this expands to 66% for carbonated water)
Source? Citation needed.
72.53% of statistics are made up on the spot. This increases to 83.49% if the quoted statistic has two or more decimal digit of precision.
Re: Ejaculation frequency and prostate cancer (2022)
#70Hacker news: check out this amazing stablediffusion library in rust! Also Hacker news: you should be crankin' it more.
Why not both? There are multiple ways to have joy.