I’m looking to donate my BTC wallet. Can anyone confirm if they still accept it? All I can find is a tweet from 2022 and nothing current on the site.

Nobody here has at all suggested it’s ok to rape kids. I hope you can understand the difference between thinking something and doing something.

Therapy is well and good and I think we need far more avenues available for people to get help (for all issues). That said, sexuality and attraction are complicated.

Let me start by saying I am not trying to state there is a 1:1 equivalence, this is just a comparison, but we have long abandoned conversion therapy for homosexuals, because we’ve found these preferences are core to them and not easily overwritten. The same is true for me as a straight person, I don’t think therapy would help me find men attractive. I have to imagine the same is true for pedophiles.

The question is, if AI can produce pornography that can satisfy the urges of someone with pedophilia without harming any minors, is that a net positive? Remember the attraction is not the crime, it’s the actions that harm others that are. Therapy should always be on the table.

This is a tricky subject because we don’t want to become thought police, so all our laws are built in that manner. However there are big exceptions for sexual crimes due to the gravity of their impact on society. It’s very hard to “stand up” for pedophilia because if acted upon it has monstrous effects, but AI is making us open this can of worms that I don’t belive we ever really thought through besides criminalizing and demonizing (which could be argued was the correct approach with the technology at the time).

I stand corrected. It seems odd to me that you would relegate all data transfer to the inaudible range, as you’ll have a lot less bandwidth to work with and will likely hit issues with compression technologies that are designed to filter those frequencies out.

I guess the designers didn’t want it to sound so offputting like dial-up did. Still seems odd to me and I’m not surprised it failed my initial sniff test.

I assume people are shitting on it because it’s fake? At least it looks fake to me as the sounds they’re making seem the same each time.

I imagine it would sound a lot more like a dialup modem if it were real as we got pretty good at sending data over audio channels back then. Likely that standard that already exists could be used.

Thank you, I did a quick google but all I was seeing was articles explaining difference between an LED and a laser, none were saying you could use LEDs to make a laser.

What’s an LED laser?

He can if the GOP decides to do nothing, and it seems that the game plan. They’re all in on downplaying his actions and not ruffling any feathers because to speak out is to be cast out. If they play along, they might just get to keep some power when this is all over.

They’ve always been scum, but this is a new low. Dried scum crusted onto the bottom of wherever scum normally resides.

In Canada we see both. It says “Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)”.

That future is now. Most modern cars have the dashboard computer completely integrated and you can’t remove it without crippling the vehicle.

This again? It’s not going to happen.

Dude, I feel this. We had these nice NEC AccuSync CRTs that could so 1280x1024 @ 85Hz or 1024x768 @ 100Hz. Guess what they were all set to? 800x600 @ 60Hz. Not only could you not see a damn thing, but the flicker from the slow refresh rate would give you a headache. Teacher said it was normal and the flicker was in my head.

We weren’t allowed to use USB flash drives because they we’re an up and coming technology that they figured would give them viruses, but we were encouraged to have our own floppy disks to save our work on. Not only does this not make any sense, but now your homework could just corrupt on a whim. Anyway, I had a special floppy disk that I loaded with utilities that could bypass the lockouts and allow me to change the resolution to something sensible.

They also had an HP Laserjet with an IR port and in my last year I was one of the first students to have my own laptop (very lucky). I would take notes in class on it and then print them in the computer lab. One day a teacher caught me and I was lectured because it was against policy to plug personal things into their network. I explained that there was no networking involved, it was a local device to device print job, but she wouldn’t have it. Viruses you know. The next day they had covered the IR port of the printer with whiteout to protect it.

So my options were buy and carry a USB floppy drive, write to floppy, log into a school computer, print from there or… put a tiny little scratch in the whiteout. Which do you think I did?

All in all it was fine. The good old days of early computers where everyone was just figuring things out. Tech was a lot more interesting then and I don’t fault the teachers for not knowing and trying to protect their systems. It was just annoying when you knew more but still had to follow their nonsensical rules.

That was because OKC had long form quizzes and in depth bios. It has been Tinderized and is no longer recognizable.

Sure commercial eggs aren’t, but they’re supposed to be. Egg laying takes a toll on the hens and the conditions they’re kept in are deplorable.

Still, thank you for adding clarification. Education is never bad.

The problem with cable was it was not on demand and contained ads.

I would never, ever pay for cable even in today’s world if it was $10 a month because of the overwhelming amount of ads.

I will say that I’m also vegan and don’t agree with the approach they made. On high moral shaming doesn’t get us anywhere. My mom constantly telling me to clean my room did not make me a tidy person as an adult.

We need understanding, conversation, and education otherwise it’s just a pissy exchange like this and no one is better from it.

I would never be foolish enough to say that nutrition isn’t important, but most people who are becoming frail in the western world are doing so because they lack exercise, not sources of protein.

Fancy processed meat replacements are insanely expensive. Vegan diets? Man that’s the cheapest shit there is. Most of the world lives off a similar diet due to poverty.

They were literally asked how many he eats. What should they have done, just ignore the question?

A little advice: You’re not going to gain any ground with him by saying what he eats isn’t food. Try a more understanding approach. That said, I think history is going to side with your son.