To teach my students the fallacy of "I have nothing to hide", I simply ask them to tell the whole class about the last time they masturbated.
It is surprisingly efficient, they immediately grasp it. I never had someone argue with me on the subject after that.
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in reply to ploum • • •well i was changing the light bulb above the sink in the bathroom and i started thinking about the movie "Avatar"...
wait your question is just rhetorical to make a point?
am i oversharing again?
diffie
in reply to ⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) • • •Mycotropic
in reply to ploum • • •John Q McDonald
in reply to ploum • • •what did the school authorities say when they learned you were talking about masturbation with your students?
in USA that’d get you arrested
(not that I think it should)
Mycotropic
in reply to John Q McDonald • • •Pedagogy is the faculty's job, as long as it fits into your curriculum you're good even when it makes some students uncomfortable.
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in reply to sleepy62🍁🛠️ 🖥️ 🔬 🌞 • • •@sleepy62 "Sharing is caring".
-- Dave Eggers, The Circle
(It's ... dystopian, for those unfamiliar.)
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in reply to ploum • • •"They immediately grasp it."
Um... phrasing?
Full Metal Archaeopteryx
in reply to Juliet, Woodland Elf 🏳️⚧️ • • •@julie
That's what I saw first 😂
In my defence, I was a sailor for 21years
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mathew
in reply to Full Metal Archaeopteryx • • •C++ pays the bills
in reply to mathew • • •Let's hope it was never your turn in the barrel.
Full Metal Archaeopteryx
in reply to C++ pays the bills • • •Sensitive content
Some day, I should tell you all what Chief's initiation was like
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The only thing I can think of is this classic:
youtube.com/watch?v=E5ZJ6jiyWf…
How we "Pay for Our Sins" Father Guido Sarducci
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in reply to Sterling • • •@AG100pct @briankrebs Don't even need to see the video.
"I was thirty-fiva cents short."
Nicole Parsons
in reply to ploum • • •"I don't mind surveillance. I haven't done anything wrong"
"Until they change the definition of 'wrong'."
Reminder: Republicans are voyeurs & pedophiles demanding gender checks for kindergarten baseball.
dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/13…
thehill.com/opinion/campaign/6…
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06…
erininthemorning.com/p/opinion…
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/06…
Democracy relies upon the right to privacy, even in public settings.
Opinion: The Trans Sports Attacks Were Never About Sports
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in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01
I think maybe we need to point this out more.
ploum
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in reply to ploum • • •john lomax
in reply to F3715H • •Arsenal football (soccer) fans will be taking offense at your use of their nickname!
And what do you call fans of the movie The Goonies?
#Gunners #Gooners #Goonies
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in reply to Eden Linnea • • •Einfach Nein
in reply to ploum • • •Equally effective, and probably practical with a briefed "victim" to play along:
"Yes we found that genome sequence explaining that attitude of yours in your data and it does not fit into this group. You will be escorted out NOW and we will keep your tuition fees."
Once the person is out, ask again!
GeePawHill
in reply to ploum • • •Dam H.
in reply to ploum • • •Valentijn Sessink
in reply to ploum • • •unfortunately, this amplifies the idea that privacy is about standing naked under the shower. It isn't.
It's the manipulatability that is the problem - for individuals as much as for society. But not the Victorian era blackmailing type.
The privacy that's at stake is the size of your wallet and who controls it. By guiding you to some products while dismissing others. About your political choices and who can manipulate these - by showing you some information and withholding other. About your thoughts about society, about your empathy. Because if Big Tech knows what touches you, they can touch you - and they do, because they know, so they can.
Our privacy and our society is at stake *because* people think that it's the nekkidpics they're after.
Joaquim Homrighausen
in reply to Valentijn Sessink • • •@valentyn
Agreed. But, this is also a construction of the morals of society.
It's far worse getting caught masturbating or dancing naked in the streets than committing fraud, abusing public funds and/or authority... and so on.
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Marius DAVID
in reply to ploum • • •That is actually something I openly shared with my schoolmate in (french) collège (should be around the age of 12-14).
Cue those schoolmates harrasing me with question that I eventually stopped answering them (a few months later).
They were so immature and childish. (which, now that I think about it, might be exactly what they where. Immature child.)
Patrick O'Beirne
in reply to ploum • • •omar
in reply to ploum • • •Be careful with this. Sex and other relates intimate stuff are "so kewl" or "so what?!" right now.
You just need one "funny" guy in the class.
After all, even elected women (ex:
Sandrin Rousseau) disclosed on Twitter she was fond of anal.
No, instead ask them to unlock their smartphone for you.
F4GRX Sébastien
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