Experience shows democracies work better in just about every way. Mainly, there’s questions about how stable they can be over the long term.

I’ve known people who liked the idea of a dictatorship, but they’ve all had funny ideas about how they internally work. Palace intrigue and corruption are inevitable and huge, it’s never just one potentially-wise individual calling the shots.

I don’t know, but the way they’re answered often ends up being very interesting.

Time to find a good counterfeit.

Interesting. Mine is based on a NiCad battery and I don’t think it lasts anywhere close to that long.

The specific model is rechargeable, unless I’m misunderstanding you.

Has he actually given up on the Metaverse thing at this point?

For Lemmings from other areas, it doesn’t read like a warning, exactly, but in the context of what the Alberta government literally this minster has been doing it kind of is.

Edit: Didn’t notice this is signed Devin Dreeshen.

This government has blown up one Calgary transport plan already (they’re literally building two halves that don’t enter downtown at all now), so that may or may not be wise. Cities don’t really have constitutional protections in Canada or Alberta.

I’m pretty sure the trend didn’t come from nowhere, although like every other fashion most adherents wouldn’t have necessarily chosen it in a vacuum.

Whether that makes the preference less valid is an interesting question of it’s own.

It’s pretty impossible not to be tangentially connected with someone bad somewhere. Unless I have reasonable grounds to think the production of something was directly unethical I can’t and don’t worry about it.

For example, if you buy a thing from a poor country, there’s a chance a slave made it, but a greater chance it was part of somebody’s ticket out of rural poverty, and there’s no way to tell. On the other hand, meat is always meat (unless it’s lab-grown I guess, but that technology doesn’t work very well to date).

I’d have no problem if someone did me, for the record. Seems only incrementally different from mental imagery or writing a fanfic.

At this point I’m clearly in a minority, though.

I mean, it’s not really a new problem, although it’s just been ordinary health issues rather than AI.

Usually disability has been addressed very poorly, though.

It sure seemed like one, yeah. One unusual thing is that there was apparently a Discord channel with multiple marks in it at once.

I like how Nichole’s last message to Lemmy was just a bunch of crypto wallets and some lame, one-sentence excuse for why we should fill them.

I might actually prefer winter all year if it wasn’t for that pesky “growing food” thing.

Interesting. Are there workers that cater specifically to women (going by your username)?

Yeah, OP has since clarified they meant that more literally than I expected.

Unless you’re in Europe that’s even more sex-touristy than Thailand. Nobody crosses continents for windmills, but lots of people like Buddhist architecture, beaches and sticky rice.

It’s regulated prostitution in the Netherlands, at least, and sex work is work.

I’m not saying anything bad about the country I’m just saying if you want to visit you probably don’t have the best intentions.

I want to visit. Not for sex.

I wouldn’t jump straight to sex tourism if there’s no other red flags, no.

I have family connections out that way, I am aware there’s lots of other great stuff around.