Bring a pair of foam earplug as well. They weigh and cost nothing, and could be useful of they try to use sonic deterents against you.

This would likely be done through cell phone tracking devices like a stingray, not plates. I don’t know how many people are in their cars at a protest.

I’m not the OP, or an American, but yes I think a lot of the world is looking at them and feeling that they’re getting their comeuppance.

The problem is that America is truly too big to fail. Not that they can’t fail, but they will drag the world down with them if they do. Global trade and global security is anchored to them, so while I want to see them slapped back to reality, I don’t think we can afford for them to devolve into civil war.

I don’t want to downplay sexual misconduct, but the issues we are facing right now are orders of magnitude higher.

You will never find a perfect point it time where life is good for and harmonious everyone. The 90s had their problems, for sure, but the USA wasn’t tearing itself apart, or bringing in and welcoming in a new wave of fascism.

There are a few, the sofabaton is probably the closest to the cheaper harmony remotes, but it’s configured via an app that requires login so not sure how long that will last.

There are other companies that are targeting the high end remotes too ($300+) but they all appear to be based on android and get very poor battery life.

Agreed! I’d say it’s moved from advanced to tinkerer level now, where if you have a use case and know it’s limitations, it can be pretty neat.

Voice control of devices you have in home assistant is cool, but I don’t think I would recommend it to an average person who uses Google assistant. Sure it can turn the lights on and off if it’s aware of those entities, but this user is describing playing games, asking for media streams, podcasts, all things home assistant voice does not support (certainly not out of the box).

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.

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.

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

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.

Instead they did the opposite and gave him the biggest bonus in world history.

Kind of. It doesn’t run Android with the Play Store so it’s a pretty different experience.