Greed is the most destructive human impulse, but prudishness still wins handily in the fucking annoying category.
Oh no, boobs, those things pretty much everyone likes, the horror!
Boobs should never shut anything down. Ever.
Its a good thing they never invented a bomb that distributed female nipples over a wide area.
Entire cities could be lost.
The United military forces of me are acutely interested in this device you describe for warfare.
But it would only work on prude countries.
France would scoff at such an attack, they have raunchier shampoo commercials. And Scandinavian countries wouldn’t even bat an eye.
Finally, a way to obliterate Utah once and for all
"OnlyFans model flashing the so-called portal. Another "very drunk" woman was filmed rubbing her behind against the screen, while a different video shows a man exposing his own derrière.
One person on the Irish side went as far as to show the New Yorkers images of 9/11 on his phone, according to The Guardian."
Yeaaah. Not just boobs
The horror of the human body. Hide it, seal it and be ashamed of it.
Well, the 9/11 wasn’t about the human body. Rubbing ass against the screen is outright unsanitary.
Definitely tasteless. But hardly the worst thing I’ve seen someone post in an online space.
I might argue the root of the problem is anonymity.
I doubt it was tasteless. It probably tasted like screen
Does it really need to be sanitary?
I mean, people aren’t expected to eat off it or something are they?
But it was >20 years ago. We might as well be showing them pictures of the Troubles.
Everyone knows that if children are exposed to breasts between ages 3 and 17 they will go blind.
I literally wear clothes everyday. I’m doing my part.
Won’t somebody think of the children! Lol
"OnlyFans model flashing the so-called portal. Another "very drunk" woman was filmed rubbing her behind against the screen, while a different video shows a man exposing his own derrière.
One person on the Irish side went as far as to show the New Yorkers images of 9/11 on his phone, according to The Guardian."
Yeaaah. Not just boobs
To be fair to the yanks, you sowed us nice boobies and we showed you our pale arses, cocaine and videos of 9/11.
This girl should not get the blame here.
when I read where they put the portal I had the exact same thought as everyone else who knows what town is like on o’connell street. why didn’t they just put it on talbot st
Or into Phoenix Park! Where peace and tranquility reside, inner city wild life
woman
Here’s the thing. If people aren’t allowed to have fun with your intercontinental portal, why even have it at all?
Also, how hasn’t anyone learned that this kind of thing is an absolute guarantee? “It’s happened countless times. But it might not this time!”
Dorks. Put that shit back up. It’s neat!
I think the shutting down after such “incidents” is the final expression in this piece of art.
“A connected world is great, as long as that connection includes approved messages only.”
Here we are! Some people get this! Well said!
Seriously and it’s a hot topic so it’s going to get this sort of attention.
Let it sit for a while and it’ll become normalized and these sort of antics will die off.
Just let people express themselves as long as it’s not dangerous holy crap.
And your owners will approve.
Also let’s all live cramped up together in cities! Except for the owners who live in far off places. Cities make it easier to use you all in a convenient place. Plus it reduces traffic in the freeways. Traffic reduces the flow of goods which is how your owners can extract money from your labor at the end of the day. So get off the freeway, be at work on time, live in the city. Oh if you want to travel we have a convenient tram and bus. You can pay your owners to travel!
What an asinine take. I choose to live in a city because I can meet many different friends in many different interesting spots, where we can e.g. eat excellent iterations of different cuisines.
All without sitting my ass in a car and driving for an hour to meet a single couple that lives in some other hamlet. Or having to plan the exact amount of drinks and food to consume before the evening starts. And I can do that multiple times per week if I please.
You like living in the countryside, I get it. Don’t pretend that’s somehow objectively better lol
Well I didn’t start my comment insulting the commenter.
When you think about city vs country living: 1) there’s not enough space, some/most people have to live in people storage systems like cities. 2) cities do not produce anything. They consume. Cities do not produce fruit, fish, meat or their vegan counterparts. Cities do not produce minerals needed for even the most basic processes. Cities do not produce any of the basic human needs such as shelter, food, water, clothing. All of those things come from agriculture, mining, fishing, manufacturing etc of the raw materials which cities do not produce and do not want to produce. 3) cities do not produce energy. Rather cities use up energy and lots of it. There’s no significant production of energy of any form coming from cities. No oil, wind, solar, hydro, thermal energy at all.
All of these things are produced away from cities for the purpose of actually being able to do it. You can’t go drilling for oil in the middle of times square or downtown Chicago. You can’t fish where there’s no water.
What cities do produce is trash. Millions and millions of cubic miles of trash all together. Along with sewage raw contaminated water. Those two things are the 100% product of cities. Cities sometimes produce processed products and also have education centers. Usually cities are were local jails are as well as population control systems such as government offices, testing clinics, hospitals, people furnaces etc. None of these things made in cities would be possible without what is made out in the country side. Think of anything made in your city and chase the raw product and you will realize that cities are people storages because they depend on the means of production of the countryside. And cities are always fighting to remove anything that is “dirty” … Usually dirty is the original reason the city was crated. For example a saw mill. I live in a city who’s name comes from a saw mill and has no such thing today. Or it could be industrial processes such a pig and cow and chicken murdering companies, plastic or oil production etc. Somehow a guy or gal found a cheap piece of land, started a business gathered people and bam a city is founded. Then later they make legislation that bans the industry and you are left with a city that produces nothing and still needs that product they used to produce.
Notice that I did not insult you personally in my description of the difference between cities and country. Notice also that it’s actually very hard to come up with things that a city makes which are tangible things that do not depend on the outside.
For those reasons cities are people storage units.
But you did insult. You asserted that living in a city isn’t a voluntary choice, therefore taking agency away from people who choose to live in a city.
You’re both pivoting (now you’re suddenly talking about production) and wrong. Cities produce cross pollination between minds. Art, science, philosophy. Cities are where the ideas for photovoltaics were seeded and developed. Cities are where most music genres emerged.
We live in a world where currently, the most popular alternative to city living is being a narrow-minded redneck who holds their gas guzzler as the ultimate expression of freedom. Anarchist communes in the countryside might be part of the solution, but I bet you that what’s going on in and around the city will also play a vital role.
Were you not aware the auto and oil lobbies you’re paying to get stuck in traffic for 20 minutes to get to a place a mile away are a huge portion of the capitalists who own our politicians?
Yes, our owners are everywhere. They get to choose where to live whereas the rest of us either live stuck in a city or cannot afford living in one so we live on the outskirts closers to industrial locations.
Fun fact: Women being topless is not illegal in NYC.
*As long as it’s not in furtherance of a business interest.
Isn’t the purpose of the art piece to demonstrate the human condition across an ocean? Flashing/mooning/offensive memes, that is what humans do. This should stay up and more should be put in place. How much more culturally connected would cities in the US be linked to other UK or EU cities?
“humans ruin everything” yea that the point and art
You know this kinda makes me think that it would’ve been funnier if they connected two cities that hate each other more than just like, dublin and new york, which I can’t really think of as ever having had beef. Maybe NYC and chicago, or something. You can’t really put something like this in texas or LA because nobody fuckin walks anywhere, unless maybe you put it in like long beach or like some random part of Austin or something. Seattle? Does Seattle have beef with anywhere? On the other side, could we connect Dublin with like, London or something? Maybe some city in northern Ireland?
Something like outside Yankee Stadium and Fenway Park, and they’d probably be destroyed in minutes…
That’d be fuckin awesome though, imagine the chaos you could just ambiently cause, especially if you made it out of like, bulletproof glass and concrete, and maybe included some self-cleaning mechanism, or set the camera back from the glass a ways, so people couldn’t obfuscate the camera or the image. Could be the move, could be the play.
Seattle has beef with Portland. Hippie beef. Impossible beef.
Mississippi and Bagdad
You’d just have the religious nutjobs get the thing shut down in the name of “saving the children.”
I don’t know what the Baghdad citizen would do though.
(In case this goes over people’s heads, I’m calling the Mississippians the religious nutjobs)
Then suddenly replace the LED screen with an actual wormhole bridge and watch the melee from afar!
Airlines hate this one weird trick
Toronto and Boston would be funny as hell LOL
Miami and San Francisco would be excellent
But make both of them out of bulletproof glass
Dublin and Rome
“One person on the Irish side went as far as to show the New Yorkers images of 9/11 on his phone, according to The Guardian.”
oh boy.
I don’t know what they were hoping to accomplish, a lot of Americans practically observe 9/11 as a holiday, complete with documentaries showing off all the footage we have
Should have just told the New Yorkers their Pizza is over rated.
WW3 material for New Yorkers, right there
Are new yorkers really that high strung about it? I would think if anything they’d get more mad about like, insults to hot dog carts or something, but that might strike me more as a philly or chicago kind of thing, come to think of it. Maybe bagels? I feel like the average new york bagel is probably a better kind of undersung food hero, compared to the average overpriced to shit new york slice.
Variations on a Cloud
Yeah New Yorkers are pretty well known for being shrinking violets.
The horror if all the OF thots would’ve swarmed the portal after this incident.
Edit fixed typo
Leave it up, you cowards
It’s New York. What did they think would happen?
New Yorkers and Dubliners are supposed to come between breasts, not have breasts come between them.
This thing is on the Irish radio every day since they opened it. Great idea, and sounds like people are having fun.
people are having fun
*were having fun
I’m sure this was killed by bitchy socially conservative sheltering types who freak out about anything that doesn’t fit in their small minded view of morality.
Lemmy is full of those people too, there’s a whole thread of them angry that openI might allow NSFW content.
Oh, they must remember the threads discussing finding child pornography in the image generation model training data.
God forbid people have concerns about ethics.
No one forces you to stare at the girl. People see offensive shit every day all over, but society doesn’t conform to all offenses equally, does it? Why is your ethics enforceable, but other people’s aren’t? Why does she have less right to practice her ethical choice to expose her body (assuming by your answer you would have offense)? Why is it more ethical to have others right to view taken away than for you to simply turn your head away? Ethics is very subjective, especially when there is no direct harm to either party.
Are we talking about the same thing? I replied to someone taking about OpenAI, not porn in general. The creation of porn without the consent of the people fed into the program is nothing short of an ethical nightmare, even in cases where said people are pornstars. You’re painting me as a repressive for shit I didn’t even say.
It looks like you were responding to my comment
“I’m sure this was killed by bitchy socially conservative sheltering types who freak out about anything that doesn’t fit in their small minded view of morality.”
That’s how it showed up. If you were responding to a different comment, my bad, please disregard my comment. Sometimes the line system in Lemmy is a tad hard to follow.
Edit: realize I misread the line scheme and you weren’t responding to me. Sorry.
Doesn’t necessarily have to do with conservatism. Not everyone wants to be randomly flashed without consent.
Oh the terrors of non-consensual nipples entering your line of sight. The beach must be horrifying for you, unless only women’s nipples require “consent” to be exposed. Social conservatism is the entire reason breasts have to be hidden like dirty sexualized secrets to begin with. It’s silly.
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You do not have my consent to display your eyebrows today.
Yes a fair comparison.
Seems like you grew up in a very puritanical place.
Nudity is objectively neutral.
