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  • Canada is responsible for less than 1% of fentanyl entering the USA. Trump, however, wants his tarrifs and it's difficult to impose them legally because we have signed trade agreements (that he signed). In order to skirt this, he declares a national emergency based on a fabricated border crises. This allows him to use presidential powers that are reserved for such crisis and circumvent the normal process.

  • Does anyone know if they still take BTC?

    I'd like to donate my wallet, but I don't see that option on the site and the posts about BTC donations are a couple years old.

    It's a somewhat substantial amount and I want to make sure that it's still an active wallet and not abandoned or wasted.

  • 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.

  • Y'all willing to give us a couple hand me down super carriers?

    The rest of the world will pick up the torch, it's just going to be a long time before we can replace the US due to how large and how stable it's been in the past. No one really expects an ally to flip the table, of a game they're winning at, for the lulz.

  • Current platforms like Lemmy are NOT ready for massive amounts of users. They have very poor moderation controls, no effective strategy to combat bots, and no money to pay people for it.

    The only reason Lemmy is usable right now is because it has nerdy people using it in good faith. If it were to gain critical mass it would collapse under the deluge of trolls and bots.

    It's a quaint little place, and I like it for being that.