Just recently me assisting thru remote desktop:

Windows popup comes up

Me: Cancel

He: Presses OK

Me: WHY did you press Ok, I said cancel

He: I thought we’re supposed to continue with this

Lol no, that is entirely different category, those are essentially limited edition engineering pieces. The consumer one is Ananda unveiled, which in my local shop goes for €460.

I get what you’re saying, but there are basically only 3 companies whose headphones are worth 300-600€. Said companies took decades, mountain of innovations and patents to get where they are now.

If you can actually get that kind of immersion and quality cheaper - I’m all ears. Literally

Not necessarily. For headphones it can go higher. I’m currently looking at hifiman unveiled.

This is a wild finding. People reading a text can change their opinion on things? Can we, like, invent written pages that do this? We can even call them books or blogs. Doesn’t matter who writes them or how wrong the text can be, but it’s clear people can read and change their opinions

AI models can work locally. Your bank account on the other hand…

Not sure what this comment means. I’m in a poor eastern country and I use VPN to Netherlands to browse torrent trackers. Pretty sure my country is far more problematic than central EU, but for whatever reason my poor country protects US interests more than most of the EU

He’s ex blizzard dev who opened his own indie studio

The genitals are censored in porn, not in real life. I get what you said, but…

If you get a document with redacted lines, then it’s a censored document.

I’ve always wondered why are comments about overpopulation downvoted on Lemmy when that is objectively, scientifically a real problem. Last I checked, earth can handle around 3-4 billion people under our consumption model. The earth is dying.

I do believe that once problems that commonly at the core occur from overpopulation (ie. rise in cost of living, housing crisis, water problems, etc.) the humans will simply not feel like making kids, so this is self-correcting problem, but still very damaging.

But I already explained that part in a lengthy comment about how scarcity leads to development of desires/lust, which can translate into weird porn categories like public voyeur or touching of private parts in public transport

Wait, are you saying that censorship of genitals is not a censorship of porn? I never said “lots of”, I said strict. Censoring nudity is strict in my opinion.

Technically that’s not porn afaik and does not break their laws. One could argue they adapted, but I too don’t feel like claiming Hentai and others are a byproduct of censorship

EDIT: Forgot to answer your question lol - Yes, Japan has one of the strictest rules on pornography amongst developed countries.

My argument is quite long and hard to describe since English is my third language and this is essentially science.

Long story short, during development of brains, humans develop things they are going to enjoy doing, getting, etc that are often related to what was going on in your life at the time. So if you limit your child from enjoying candies, brain can incidentally develop lust towards sweets. It is believed that limiting your children from masturbating and seeing boobies during puberty can really screw him up as an adult. Psychologically and neurologically, scarcity can lead to development of desire. Intimate desires to see someone naked to the point you act on them (almost all men dream about seeing someone naked, but actually acting on your desires is whole another level of wanting) are a common thing in Japan.

I genuinely don’t know if my Postal 2 is a valid example, but I played some really screwed up games in my young years (10-15), I was fully aware that these things are screwed up, I knew the difference between right and wrong, and I grew up with that idea while exploring the fucked up side of the world, including browsing 4chan at the age of 13. Good times. Still, grew up as a loving human who’s anti-violence and anti-everything-evil

We came up with non-existing problem (kids have never had real problems with seeing nudity. See:Africa. They’re either disinterested or capable of processing what is going on without getting brain-damaged), tried to solve it, and created a real problem during this process.

Generally developed countries do not censor or limit access to pornographic or adult material. Japan is pretty special case and a very good study in this regard, and they have quite a lot of creeps and creep porn, relatively speaking. People like to assume that banning nudity or violence from young minds is going to make humans grow up with less screwed up minds, but turns out the exact opposite thing happened. I remember my favourite childhood game being Postal 2. I’m fully against violence as a grown-up and it’s been 2 decades since I hit someone.

Japan was a real life experiment for censoring access to porn. Why do countries want to follow a bad example? Start buying spy camera finders and protect your private areas in trains

Thank you for this list

Imagine spending 10 years to build a server in space to avoid some law and next month government changes the law

Your wish is granted. Russia with China are now the world’s police. Taiwan invasion finally happens. Western chip availability (and therefore tech prices) in shambles. Russia now convinced they can finish off Ukraine and go for entire eastern bloc, because at this point NATO no longer functions. Every country besides BRICS are scrambling for self survival. China goes all out on imperialism in Africa. Next 30 years we see way more wars and deaths than last 30.

But hey, as republicans say it - anything to own the libs, no matter how painful or stupid it is.

Look back at time you thought was bad (but relatively wasn’t) and realize that it can get so much worse without some balance in the world

Hey if people kept touching me, I’d develop flames too