Very detailed article and covers well how the loopholes are being exploited.

But I can’t help but wonder, why are they called child sex abuse dolls? No children are being abused in this case, so wouldn’t what other news outlets use (just “child-like sex dolls” be more accurate? Otherwise wouldn’t these be equivalent to calling violent video games “murder simulators”? Feels a bit like a slippery slope. Especially since the article ncludes dolls with adult features in the mix too.

Nahhh, but if you are worried about that stuff, you should look into NordVPN and use the Opera web browser. I think you can even play Raid: Shadow Legends on it.

(/S)

There’s some models that work with Matter and a local home server. There’s also a couple you can flash with open source software to keep it all local.

and the remaster looks the way I remember Arkham Asylum looking.

That’s what happened to me with Metroid Prime

Weren’t you that tankie that was banned recently? Is this your latest alt?

Goes go a desert

Wow, there’s absolutely no food here.

Goes to a grocery store

Wow, look how much food grows here!

Por lo menos en español no tenemos este problema.

You crypto heads always bring up the Argentinian Peso even though it’s still actually more stable than even Bitcoin. People aren’t buying Argentinian Pesos thinking they might become rich one day, because it’s an actual currency, not a speculative asset, which is what crypto is. It won’t spike in value over 3 months or dive off a cliff by multitudes of thousands. I guess if you’re a 300 year old vampire or a Galapagos tortoise it’s not stable to you, but a currency having a crash but then staying at a crashed value, over the course of decades, is in fact stability. Having crashes and spikes over months if not weeks is not stability.

But ignoring that, most of the world does actually accept US dollars - it’s the most traded currency in the world. It’s also safe to say in nearly every country you can probably exchange USD to the local currency fairly easily.

If you can find me a city where more stores accept Bitcoin rather than the designated currency, then sure. I’m not sure a single one exists.

And that’s bitcoin, which actually is well known and traded. What the person in the article lost wasn’t even that, not any other well known crypto like Ethereum.

Do the majority of locations that offer goods and services accept USDC in it’s designated region? Can you buy groceries at basically anywhere with it, watch a movie, pay for a gym subscription etc with it? Can you buy a home or other shelter with it?

If no, then no, I don’t, since it didn’t meet that criteria.

Edit: also, what’s the point of USDC, at least based on your description? Sounds it’s just using more resources to do the same thing a debt card does.

A form of relatively stable currency that is accepted to have value for the trade of goods and services by the majority of locations.

Memecoins from pump fun that are less stable than Trump’s mood and vent be used to buy pretty much anything are definitely not that

I don’t think this is what the public meant when we said “buy European”

It’s more of a:

“If person A acts badly, Person B to ∞ act badly in the same manner to person A”.

But I can see the programming failure of the suggested rule as written, as it can be implied that only person B should act upon person A, rather than everyone.

Sure, the moment I start doing that feel free to take me out. That’s, kinda the whole point. The important part is you remember that it applies to you as well.

Basically MAD except it’s others keeping others accountable.

Counterpoint: Getting rid of the people making others blind makes more of the world see.

I don’t think it’s circular, I think it’ll burn itself out eventually.

Now my experience is purely anecdotal, but the bullies stopped bullying once I fought back, and even more so once I got others to also join me in physically fighting back.

“an eye for an eye” is more reactive compared to this. In this case, it’s not about waiting for the person to harm you, but acting preemptively if they have a history of harming others.

I guess a modern example would be Putin. Let’s say he randomly walks into a bar unprotected for some reason in Comoros, but the Islanders know who he is and what he’s done as well.

In this case, Putin has done absolutely nothing to the people of Comoros, and his actions have had no effect on the island either. Yet, by this rule, he should be treated the same way he has treated Ukraine by the Islanders regardless.

As someone else has pointed out though, if you don’t know the person at all, then the default golden rule is fine enough.

I thought it was “might makes right”. Can’t keep the gold otherwise.

I think the oligarch wants to be treated with riches and subservience.

And if a teen is bullying someone, I don’t see the issue in them being bullied back so they can learn “hey, this bullying stuff isn’t great, maybe I should stop”.

At least you got it.

The golden rule by itself just leaves a bunch of killers who don’t care about it surviving.