I agree with the moderator that those comments were transphobic. The author seem to say one can "cure"/treat being trans by changing habits. This reminds me of those gay conversion camps, which at least where I live, is considered very homophobic.
The first few levels are really easy but after a while it gets more fun and challenging. I suggest looking doing "View solutions" after you've finished a level as well, some interesting things there sometimes, I learned a thing or to.
I think a more relevant question would be something like: Does watching rape porn make people more likely to rape? Does watching porn make people more or less likely to rape? Or something similar to that.
I'm sure there are places where porn has been illegal but later become legal, looking at how it changed the rape statistics might give some weak evidence (though correlation is not the same as causation of course).
Advertising doesn't just show the product being consumed (not that modern pornography shows just sex). But, take cola commercials as an example. You barely see the product in these advertisements anymore, just the branding associated with the product. What you see are actionable items to associate with the item; sexy men and women, a luxurious lifestyle, fun, friends, wealth. They're associating a lifestyle with the brand in a Pavlovian way, so when you see the logo on the side of the box, or the can, you don't even think cola anymore, you think lifestyle. That's what a hundred years of advertising has taught us.
The closer comparison one can make the better, right?
Drinking coca cola isn't illegal or even looked down upon. Rape porn isn't advertisement for rape and is not meant to encourage people to rape. Coca cola advertisement/product placements is designed to make people buy it more.
The two cases are in my opinion very different.
Do you suggest rape porn or rape scenes in movies promote more rape in the real world? What about violence in video games? I don't claim to know the answer, but I've thought that was disproved (though I haven't really looked into it).
Once it's in the redemption grace period the domain is already on the way to deletion. That's not part of the normal domain lifecycle; that's part of the deletion lifecycle.
You clearly have never ever worked in domain renewals before. Many people only renew once dns stops resolving. I've seen govt agencies use this as their reminder to renew.
And yes, many scammers out there send postcards to businesses offering to assist for $1,000 on the renewals - and many people pay. So people do send out "alerts" the way you ask - most commonly exploitive and at least I give the advice to ignore ALL such renewal alerts. If you are telling people to respond to those you are sending people down scam ally.
> Many people only renew once dns stops resolving.
DNS stops resolving because the domain is pending deletion. At that point it's not a renewal, it's a restore (which costs a lot more money). Refer to the brown "Domain no longer in zone" section of ICANN's lifecycle chart: http://archive.icann.org/en/registrars/gtld-lifecycle.jpg If people are actually regularly using restores instead of renews then they're unnecessarily throwing away lots of money.
> I've seen govt agencies use this as their reminder to renew.
What TLDs were these government agencies using? gTLDs have uniform policies but ccTLDs and special purpose TLDs like .gov do not (and you cannot generalize your experience there to gTLDs). But the expired nameserver domain registration under discussion in this article is a .com, which is a gTLD, so it goes through the standard lifecycle of 30 day redemption grace period + 5 day pending delete period, and during these its DNS is yanked.
Source: I've been in the domains industry for 7 years and run 44 TLDs.
Then you should absolutely know that pending deletion is not a black swan event. Can you talk to someone with some data in this space? You will find pending deletion -> restore is a surprisingly common pattern.
As to govt agencies - sure, many use .org and .com domains routinely. These do not get special treatment - and I do generalize my experience from .com and .org to these govt run websites without hesitation.
Despite ideas - just because a public agency is using these domains does not make them magic.
I'm going to stop here. Despite your claims that folks don't go into pending deletion - they do. I am responding to top comment - people fail to renew their domains on time routinely. I've seen it happen with some surprise in govt agencies (ie, someone in a dept spins up a website, and renews when someone complains its not working and they get permission to spend the money to renew - which is not instantaneous even for small purchases) as well.
All my points stand and I remain unconvinced by your claims that these govt agency websites can't expire (they do routinely), that pending deletion is a black swan event (it is not) or that folks don't fail to renew on a timely basis (they do frequently).
Have you looked into Effective Altruism, The life you can save foundation, and/or GiveWell? They are all initiatives to make sure resources are used as effectively as possible when it comes to doing good.
