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Kamala Harris Broke Donald Trump
  • If you had to say one of them won, who would you pick?

    I don't disagree that there wasn't a ton of useful information in the debate, there was barely room for anyone to talk actual policy, but Harris came across as a rational human who at least pretended to care about others while Trump was a blabbering idiot.

  • Man Arrested for Creating Child Porn Using AI
  • In Australia cartoon child porn is enforced in the same way as actual child porn. Not that it answers your question but it's interesting.

    I'd imagine for your question "it depends", some people who would have acted on their urges may get their jollies from AI child porn, others who have never considered being pedophiles might find the AI child porn (assuming legal) and realise it's something they were into.

    I guess it may lower the production of real child porn which feels like a good thing. I'd hazard a guess that there are way more child porn viewers than child abusers.

  • The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten
  • Oh right, I was not aware of JKRs comments on funding anti-trans organisations. I guess my point still stands, I.e. that people often don't have deep insight into the creators of the art they are enjoying, so considering liking Harry Potter as a statement about their feelings on the author doesn't resonate with me but I understand why you'd have issues with it with the funding comment in mind.

    Entirely agree on liking Andrew Tate being a red flag in the same way liking JKR directly would be a red flag. It's more liking the books that JKR put out years before anyone heard her potentially rotting brain driven opinions on trans people that I don't think should be seen as a red flag without at least some questioning about their thoughts on the author.

  • The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten
  • I thought it was funny.

    As far as supporting JKR goes: JKR is a horrible person who no-one should listen to but Harry Potter is pop culture. I'm pretty comfortable personally with disconnecting the two in my head. I don't think people enjoying Harry Potter should be seen as "supporting JKR", hell a lot of them wouldn't even be aware of JKRs noise.

    Obviously I haven't read the comments here a ton but are people really supporting JKR or are you just treating people enjoying Harry Potter as support for JKR? I think there should be a distinction. It's not really people's job to deep dive into the personal lives of the creators or people involved in every piece of art they enjoy.

  • Skill
  • Agreed, but I don't think the world's ready for that. We'll probably let masses of people starve to death/resort to crime before we start paying people a UBI or an alternate arrangement that allows people to feed themselves when they are unable to find work.

  • Skill
  • Yeah, a jobs a job, it should pay a living wage at a minimum. I guess the difference is supply and demand. Anyone can stock shelves at a supermarket, making the employee pool large, meaning they can lower the wage and still get someone desperate.

    The government needs to step in and force companies to make that "lower wage" at least liveable.

    Although to be honest that may speed up the implementation of robot shelf stockers, which creates another set of problems.

  • California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices
  • Good for her, but arguably it's not supposed to be a high paying job. A living wage, sure, but higher than a job that you presumably studied for and required relatively uncommon knowledge seems wrong.

    So I guess the answer is no, we wouldn't expect restaurants to work out how much people get paid in tips and match it, it would be a liveable wage and if the current workers don't like it they would leave.

    I don't know that your girlfriend getting bankrolled is common across the industry either, tips rely on high traffic and customers with big pockets. Most wait staff don't brag about how rich they are.

  • Florida man points AR-15 in Uber driver's face, forces him to ground for dropping daughter off: deputies
  • Are these people living in real dangerous areas or are they just convinced any unexpected car entering their driveway is out to murder them?

    Second similar article in a short period, the other was a pizza delivery that went to the wrong address and got shot at.

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    People in apartments should not have dogs at all!
  • I have a couple of dogs on an acreage roaming all day. One of the dumb shits still gets bored sometimes and tries to chew through an outdoor chair leg, or rips the hell out of her bed/food bowl.

    I don't blame them for the cage thing with that in mind, but personally think it's cruel and the destruction is just part of dog ownership. I tag it as "I should have bought more things to keep her entertained".

  • Temporarily embarrassed millionaires pt. 2
  • I mean sure money itself is just a token, but it's an evolution from trading goods and services for other people's goods and services, right?

    You trade your time for tokens to exchange for something valuable to you, instead of being paid in food/accommodation directly.

    I don't think you'd be happy if you went back to the days where you needed to trade actual items to get a loaf of bread.

  • Which pill do you choose?
  • I'm liking the "going back to when I was 6 with all the knowledge I have now" option, but in reality 6 year old me would probably be too immature to know I need to remember it and by the time I needed to use that information in any sane way it would have been long forgotten.

    I mean some people are saying get bitcoin early days, but 6 year old me was at least 10 years off Bitcoin existing.

    It would also really suck knowing how easy it was to obtain information in the future only to be stuck in the past and barely have access to the internet at all.

  • What are some items that really aren't worth paying the expensive version for?
  • Do the content creators still make money off of your views if you do not see an ad?

    I use YouTube Premium with a family membership and have used all of the slots with family members. $33 a month isn't bad for 5 people to have ad free YouTube, still fund the content creators and also have YouTube Music.

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