[ExI] Internet age verification spreads worldwide

[Kelly Anderson]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> Second pointless aside: imagine...what if... you were the model for
> Michelangelo 's David.  I would be so damn insulted!  He carved what he
> actually saw!  Wouldn'ta cost Mr. Angelo a damn thing to carve me a little
> favor down there for the ages.  He had enough marble there to start with in
> order to create a kindhearted lie.  Now tourists will be parading by for
> centuries, making fun.  Cruel-ass artist he is.  Harrumph.

Spike,

  I know you are probably enough of a history buff to know this, but
just in case someone else isn't... and doesn't get the joke, the
Greeks and Romans saw a large phallus as vulgar and unattractive. So,
by those standards, David's junk is just gorgeous. Since Michelangelo
was copying the realistic style of the Greeks and Romans and not the
weird shit the Egyptians did, this was a very reasonable and valid
choice.

-Kelly