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by enriquto 2169 days ago
Why? It's like "lorem ipsum" at this point.
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If lorem ipsum were softcore erotica...
What if I told you it actually is?

> Quis autem vel eum iure reprehenderit, qui inea voluptate velit esse, quam nihil molestiae consequatur, vel illum, qui dolorem eum fugiat, quo voluptas nulla pariatur?

Translation: Who has any right to find fault with a man who chooses to enjoy a pleasure that has no annoying consequences, or one who avoids a pain that produces no resultant pleasure?

This text could very well be the first page of a softcore erotica (or even hardcore!). The rest of the text is not usually visible. But then again, neither is the rest of lena!

Then... you'd be wrong.

It's a philosophical argument against Epicurianism. Which has as much in common with softcare erotica as the phone book.

Not sure what your point is.

This is a really big stretch in interpretation but also in plausibility, since Latin is a dead language.

But if it were true, then you'd have it your way: it'd also be inappropriate in professional settings that don't naturally necessitate it.

> This is a really big stretch in interpretation

According to Wikipedia[0], "[t]he placeholder text is taken from parts of the first book's discourse on hedonism." The first book being the first book of Cicero's De finibus bonorum et malorum.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_finibus_bonorum_et_malorum

I knew other commenters would bash you for proving their point, but this is quite the best comeback I have seen in long time.
I would humbly note that, by volume, almost all of what generic lossy image compression algorithms are applied on, is in fact some form of erotica. A better compressor specifically in the domain of pornography—if widely applied—would probably do more to save total global Internet bandwidth usage than, say, better compression for YouTube videos would.
Fish have no concept of water in very much the same way as you not seeing the problem here.
How about you respect women in tech more and stop assuming they're so fragile that they need men to change an industry so they don't get their feelings hurt.

Women are people, they don't care.

Woman here, you are absolutely right, I couldn’t care less about Lena!