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Yeah. Young adults are going to have sex.

They can have sex in the safe home where they live. Or they can have sex in less safe places like parties, frat houses, in cars where they can collect a public indecency charge, etc...

That's the choice you get to make as a parent.

It's not as hard as you think to start, but it takes forever. I used to wait until stuff broke and needed replacing. I'd open it up and "try to fix it" knowing that I was going to break it worse and that I was buying a new one anyways. Looked up a lot of videos on YouTube.

Little by little I leaned to take things apart and put them back together without breaking them worse (mostly). Then I started to buy cheap Amazon spare parts to try to fix things without taking a big risk. Again I figured if I could buy a few more months of use it would be worth the risk.

After about 20 years I have a lot more confidence and have a pretty good success rate for household repairs and probably 30% for broken appliances. Sometimes shit is irreparably fucked, sometimes it's still beyond my skill. When I fix something I usually get a couple of extra years out of it. It's a nice hobby, save a few bucks sometimes. Better than spending an afternoon on the Internet.

I had a dryer like that. Ancient thing. Simple as fuck too, unlike modern dryers with 1000 features. I replaced just about every part on that thing, sometimes multiple times. Finally the control board broke and it started turning on the heating elements without running the fan. Damn dryer tried to burn my house down. Can't get the boards anymore.

I almost shed a tear putting that dryer to the curb.

Yet another example of valid criticism of conservative ideological bullshit being silenced by the courts.

https://lemmy.ca/post/46524991

Apparently if someone is in some way attacking natives and native identity you're not allowed to fight back or criticize them.

Recognising the "AI voice" isn't just the voice. It's also the clearly "written by AI" circuitous script that keeps talking without saying anything and non-stop clickbait "but wait until you find out what the answer is" crap.

The other type of AI voice is people just stealing Reddit stories and putting them to AI. Also lame. I want my stories narrated with human emotion. The point of stories isn't to transfer knowledge, it's an art form, I don't need shitty robot emotions thank you very much.

So no, the use case for AI voice is very narrow. Some of my favorite YouTubers use text narration. Maybe they don't like their voice, or speak a different language, I don't know, I've literally never heard them. It doesn't stop them in the least from showing me amazing things. They don't need to resort to polluting their video with the lowest garbage idea humans have created so far.

I'd like to see a video that is improved by the use of any AI.

If nobody bothered to make it why should anybody bother to watch it?

How can opinion and critique be defamation? This is insane. We can't criticize racist bigots anymore apparently.

Sorry, I had to come back to this. The truth isn't an absolute defense against defamation??? That's the most insane thing I've ever heard. Sometimes it's hard being Canadian.

Absolutely. I don't think anyone is trying to tell Spotify users what to do and what to listen to.

This is just Spotify trying to get the advantages of being the new digital radio without the responsibilities that come with being a radio provider.

Spotify is just trying to get out of playing Canadian content to Canadians. When we listen to a Spotify "radio" we're expecting random but themed music, like we get from a radio station. What we don't get is Canadian content. The Canadian content requirements exist because we're attached to a very big exporter of culture and music. It's important to keep our music scene alive in the face of pressure from American artists and American media networks.

If Canadians don't listen to Canadian music who will?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan

You can read Soviet Union negotiation attempt and Potsdam.

Basically Japan was ready to surrender months before the war, disarm, and pay reparations. The Japanese wanted to surrender everything but keep their government and Emperor. The allies knew this right away through interception of communication to the Soviets. But that "wasn't good enough" somehow.

So the Americans nuked them twice, then proceeded to bomb the shit out of the Japanese. The Americans were less than a day away from nuking Tokyo over the concept of "unconditional surrender", which again, the main difference between the Allies and the Japanese was that the Japanese wanted to maintain their government.

Anyways eventually they accept "unconditional surrender" and the fucking Americans let them keep the damn government anyways. Like it's absolutely baffling how insane this was. The only thing like it is the ro-sham-bo scene in South Park.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupation_of_Japan

However, unlike in Germany, the Allies never assumed direct control over Japan's civil administration. In the immediate aftermath of Japan's military surrender, the country's government continued to formally operate under the provisions of the Meiji Constitution.

Now there is an argument that the group of people working on surrender within the Japanese government may not have succeeded. Maybe, without the atomic bomb, a coup would have happened and the side willing to surrender would have lost. It's hard to think of what would have been. It is still historically very clear that we all prioritised warfare over diplomacy and it has likely caused hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.

Not that anyone has learned from that considering Trump is yammering about "unconditional surrender" all over again.

You're right, there is a huge chunk of right of center people who hate women and minorities but keep their opinions behind closed doors. How could OP have lumped them with those who are open about those opinions!

Yeah, I think a physical pass or QR code you could print off would make this amazing piece of socially progressive legislation more impactful. Every time you use it you'd remember that you're getting this deal through progressive government policies, not capitalist market pricing.