Honestly I didn’t even see the date, just saw the headline and new what I had to do xD

Only connotatively, but yeah xD

Yeah, with the way activity pub works it doesn’t pull the old info, it just gets new posts. I know you can usually take a link to a post and search it and it’ll pull, but Friendica didn’t get anything from one of the trail links, though friendica is picky

Poked around, there’s a demo instance with a demo account. Plugged it into Friendica, and it seems to pull the info.

https://demo.wanderer.to/profile/@demo

Why did you bring birth defects up if marriage is the concern? You don’t get birth defects from a wedding.

Also in basically every state where it’s illegal to marry your cousin it’s illegal to have sex with them, too.

(When I say basically I mean I’m too tired to check half of the US’s laws on this, and the source I’m using says sexual contact is generally not permitted)

25 US stated by my count, but also I let my ethics develop separately from the law. There’s been a lot of very questionable things in the law in the past, and as such it’s not exactly a trustable guide for ethics imo.

That’s not the point you presented here, though. The point you presented here was birth defects.

The point you brought up there I still object to, though. While there can be power dynamics between cousins, it’s fairly rare for those to continue into adulthood, and I have long taken the stance “I don’t believe the state should have a say in what consenting adults do in the privacy of their own home.”

The line that’s been drawn is people allowing their disgust to inform policy at best. If it were based in anything else the policies would be different.

I don’t know, but do you also think it should be illegal to have a child if you’re over 40?

Do you also think that it should be illegal for people with heritable disabilities to have children?

Because your argument isn’t anti-cousin-marriage, it’s anti-birth-defects, and there are a whole lot more sources of them than incest, and ones that are way more common.

Also, yes, preventing people from having children who would have birth defects dates back to the original eugenics movement, it is literally a core belief of the eugenics movement.

I… Don’t even actually see the point here? I have access to the internet, and know how to use a search engine? You can literally look that up on Wikipedia, are you trying to imply that because I looked at a Wikipedia article for this post that I want to fuck my cousin?

What a strange outlook on obtaining knowledge. If just knowing what states it’s legal in, something that takes about 30 seconds to find, makes you a cousin-fucker, wouldn’t that make you one too? Or is it just the first person in the thread doing it?

What, persuasive about not wanting to fuck my cousin? I don’t particularly care if anyone thinks I do. If I did, I wouldn’t be in a thread about fucking your cousin saying I think it’s fine to fuck your cousin. I know that people will make assumptions about my sex life based on my position alone.

If you mean about the arguments against it being eugenics, I care more about that point, because they are, and eugenics is bad.

Fun fact: Most of the places it’s legal in are blue. Alabama, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina are the only red states it’s legal in, out of 17 total states. If we include states where it’s conditionally legal (usually based on age/fertility) it’s Utah out of 7 states.

Solid observational skills! They have, however, failed you. Just because someone is pointing out that certain arguments don’t actually hold water doesn’t mean they engage in the activities the arguments are against.

I just don’t care if two cousins wanna fuck because the arguments against it are things that I’m actively opposed to, or don’t apply to the situation.

This. I haven’t seen an argument about incest that doesn’t immediately devolve into eugenics, or talking about power imbalances that aren’t present with adult cousins

I like it! Bookmarking for future reference, since it seems helpful. Only thing I’d noticed that I think would be a good addition: Some kind of XMPP client, at least one of them. I use Dino on desktop primarily (fairly modern UI, has the core features in, but is made for GNOME so looks a bit funky on anything else), but Kaidan, Pidgin, and a few others exist.

This is what I do. I use strawberry on desktop, and all of it is linked to ListenBrainz for recommendations

It’s also not just fat! If you flush “flushable” wipes, don’t! They don’t disintegrate like toilet paper does, and just clump together with everything else

I use org-roam (similar to Obsidian) to do that, the graph is neat for it! I only personally go to metamours, but I might pass an Obsidian vault around to see how deep that rabbit hole goes.