Had sex and then got stuck behind another car for 48 seconds…

Working as intended! POSIWID in action

That’s kind of wild. I can’t visualise anything in my head. My internal monologue and thoughts are entirely symbolic and linguistic.

I can only imagine sounds. I also have no visual memory either. I can only remember a description of how something looked which means I also have near total face blindness. My wife jokes that I should always keep a photo of her around because if she ever went missing I wouldn’t be able to tell the police what she looked like.

Aphant here! I would actually love your theory to be true but unfortunately no amount of training or practicing makes me better or even able to visualise. Believe me, I spent many years trying and practicing art before I heard about aphantasia and realised thats what I have.

If I looked at 10k slop pictures and their corresponding prompts I wouldn’t be able to imagine the outputs any more than I already can (which is not at all).

Likewise I can’t do meditation or self-hypnosis where the guide says stuff like “imagine you’re lying on a beach” etc. At least it makes me immune to those stage hypnotists who try to get someone suggestible up on stage.

In the UK we already have a law where isps block porn by default (blacklisting) the adult who took out the plan can contact the isp and ask them to opt out of these blocks. That’s been a thing for about 10 years. You can own a Pay-as-you-go sim as a minor but you have to send government id to prove you are over 18 to get the adult content filtering turned off.

That’s one of the things that made it clear to me that the new law is an authoritarian data mining operation and blatant power grab. Like… We already have these tools in place. If you don’t want your kid accessing porn, don’t opt out of the filters provided by your isp.

You could argue that putting the onus on the platform is more effective at “protecting kids” than having the isps maintain blacklists but there will always be small sites that don’t comply and enterprising kids who find a way around any block. Just like the law requires you to be 18 to buy alcohol or tobacco here but there are always dodgy shops who sell tobacco to underage kids. There are older siblings and relatives willing to buy cigarettes and alcohol for underage teens.

This was never about protecting the children. That was the Trojan horse used to justify these laws to the technically uninformed.