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So like the opposite of women's clothing brands with their vanity sizing.

You could take a vacation to somewhere less prudish. Sex work is legal in most of the developed world, and there are sex workers who specialize in helping people work through traumas and other issues. It's not super expensive either but don't go cheap, street based sex workers are probably not what you need for personal growth.

Get yourself to Germany, Australia, the Netherlands, etc, research providers and what they offer, and get out of your rut and self-limiting beliefs.

I sometimes like to idly dream up alternatives to the current social media landscape, with its surveillance/advertising and centralized control. The first obstacle I see in alternative systems that are more p2p is spam. Usenet faced that crisis first - any insights or thoughts about how communities/technologies can be built that would be resistant to spam without some kind of centralized control?

I don't find that convincing. Mostly because the concept of national sovereignty is simply incompatible with universal human rights. The human rights of, say, people in North Korean gulags are just much more important than the right of the local warlord to stay in power.

Likewise the concerns of political manipulation ring hollow, do you feel any judgement of the ICC is more affected by politics away from justice than local courts around the world?

Details of procedure also don't seem too important, there are many member countries all with their own legal traditions who come together in good faith to protect human rights, it will not be 1:1 with any member state. Any system can be improved, but a system which has not seriously punished, say US war criminals from Korea and Vietnam cannot be considered a better justice system.

The only person to go to jail for the CIA torture scandal was the whistleblower. That is not justice, that is not working, that is not good enough.

Hmm, now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever seen Bruce Wayne and Spiderman in the same room together. Gasp. What if...

Guys, guys, I think Bruce Wayne might be Spiderman.