HelixDab2
@HelixDab2@lemm.ee
- Comment on Meta pulls plug on plans for high-end Vision Pro competitor 2 months ago:
Pity. I have a Quest 3, and while it’s very good, there are higher-end features that I’d live to have. The ability to use it as a monitor, rather as a stand-alone item is one of them. (I got the Quest 3 for exactly one thing. It’s very, very good for that thing, except for the batter life.)
- Comment on US man used AI to generate 13,000 child sexual abuse pictures, FBI alleges 5 months ago:
The basis of making CSAM illegal was that minors are harmed during the production of the material. Prior to CG, the only way to produce pornographic images involving minors was to use real, flesh-and-blood minors. But if no minors are harmed to create CSAM, then what is the basis for making that CSAM illegal?
Think of it this way: if I make a pencil drawing of a minor being sexually abused, should that be treated as though it is a criminal act? What if it’s just stick figures, and I’ve labeled one as being a minor, and the others as being adults? What if I produce real pornography using real adults, but used actors that appear to be underage, and I tell everyone that the actors were all underage so that people believe it’s CSAM?
It seems to me that, rationally, things like this should only be illegal when real people are being harmed, and that when there is no harm, it should not be illegal. You can make an entirely reasonable argument that pornographic images created using a real person as the basis does cause harm to the person being so depicted. But if it’s not any real person?
This seems like a very bad path to head down.
- Comment on How Facebook Messenger and Meta Pay are used to buy child sexual abuse material 8 months ago:
What makes you think that law enforcement doesn’t? The bigger problem is that law enforcement is sometimes the people that are actively distributing and soliciting CSAM; in looking for child molesters, they enable child molesters and spread the CSAM created by child molesters.
Back in something like 2018, the FBI took over and ran a website that distributed CSAM for several weeks. And after they were done assisting with the distribution of several terabytes of CSAM? Very, very few convictions. IIRC they boasted about over 100,000 unique visitors, but ended up with less than 10,000 arrests globally, and only a few hundred convictions. Some of which were tossed out because the FBI broke the law and lied on their warrants.
- Comment on Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long? 8 months ago:
Too soon: Firefly (obviously) Black Spot
Too late: Supernatural (by, like ten seasons)
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
The Appalachian foothills in Kentucky are pretty geologically dead; there aren’t any fault lines anywhere close by. It’s about as safe as any cave network can be.
I do recommend going to that are and taking some tours, especially in the middle of summer where you can see the inversion layer where the air goes from being 95F to 60F. Even the fully-accessible tours that don’t go through any tight spaces are pretty cool.
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
SCUBA is even worse because any movement kicks up sediment, so that visibility quickly turns to nil. Cave diving has a very, very high mortality rate; BASE jumping is safer.
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
Honestly, they’re pretty neat. I’ve gone through tours of Mammoth Caves that require waivers, and they strongly recommend that you not take that tour if any part of you has a circumference of more than 42", because you won’t fit. There was a spot that was about 12" high, and 72-ish wide that you had to crawl through that took a sharp right; you had to take your helmet off to get through. But then you get out into this enormous cavern filled with rock formations that are seen by less 100 people/year.
But if I didn’t know that that crack was passable, that I’d be able to get through or get back out again? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck no.
- Comment on Why do it 11 months ago:
Like having a good life insurance policy that pays out even if you die doing something stupid? And maybe having a fake tooth filled with cyanide so you can go out quickly instead of dying of exposure?
- Comment on Free sex... (party)*… Become poor dog 11 months ago:
Huh? No, of course you can’t, because you’d first have to be able to prove that any person in question had lived a previous life, and that kind of belief isn’t falsifiable.
If the whole thing could be proven or disproven, then it would be science and not religion.
- Comment on Free sex... (party)*… Become poor dog 11 months ago:
No, that’s a core belief of Buddhism. You move up or down as you achieve–or lose–enlightenment, and once you’ve extinguished all desire, you achieve enlightenment and nirvana. Hindu might also have beliefs in reincarnation, but IDK.
- Comment on Free sex... (party)*… Become poor dog 11 months ago:
Is this like some weird evangelical Buddhist bullshit? Like, any sex that’s enjoyable results in being reincarnated as a dog, or insect?