Just gift them to the local population and insist that they can drive themselves, the great destructive effect will follow.

Making up a false dichotomy doesn't mean that people fall nicely on one side or the other of it. It probably says something about you though.

The beginning of your answer was interesting. Then you projected things on me that are false, not sure why. Then you insulted me. You could have stopped while you were reasonable and respectful, that would have been a better answer by any sensible criterion. Not sure why you sabotaged your answer like that. There's no need to be a dickhead, and no benefit either.

People stop smoking every day, without external help too. Are you saying that these people were not addicted to begin with? I suggest that your definition is simplistic and not useful for this discussion.

Please elaborate. On the surface it seems like a good analogy: both alcohol and sugar can be avoided by making a choice, both are addictions (including everything that comes with addiction), both cause health issues, both have a cost for society. Analogies don't have to be a perfect 1:1 fit, they just have to work well enough for the points being discussed. We could probably make a decent analogy with smartphone addiction too.

OnlyFans didn't convince anyone, adults make their own informed decisions, it's called free will. Age is irrelevant, we have decided as a society that past a certain age you are allowed to make your own decisions, and that you are responsible for these decisions. Granted, economic pressure is a factor.

Would you extend the same criticism to other things that people regret? For example, are you judging Bluesky or Mastodon harshly because people sometimes post things there that they later regret posting? There have been career-ending posts... Or would you extend the same criticism to a tattoo parlour? Some people regret their tattoos.

Does something make adult content qualitatively different and more serious, beside puritanism? Is it about commodifying the self?

Because if it weren't a self driving car, there wouldn't be a story to begin with. Human drivers have no issue dealing with this situation.

I used KDE for a bit around 2004 and I thought it was fine compared to Gnome or Windows at the time. But ultimately what I liked about it was some of the apps, which you can also use without the DE. I have used fluxbox for many years, these days I use XFCE which does more than I need. I think one significant advantage of more feature-rich environments, these days, is the search functionality, for instance I wouldn't know how to search for a pdf file that contains a certain string of text on my whole system. But that comes at the cost of indexing.

I mean, it can be both at the same time. I don't really enjoy the funny side of it myself these days, but knock yourself out. Mostly I find it depressing that there is so much hate and stupidity. I still think it's good that someone is keeping track.

Here is the page referred to about leopards eating faces: https://www.reddit.com/r/Leopa...

It's a bunch of stories about people who voted for Trump and who then suffer unforeseen (by them but not by anyone with at least two neurones) consequences for it. It's very depressing.

As far as I can tell, this has been the case for the last thirty years. YMMV, I have been staying away from Gnome for example. I think in general UX has been getting slower everywhere, but with Linux you have the choice to stick to a more minimalistic environment.

That is an interesting take. Of course what actually happened is that the USA tried (and are still trying) to impose an involuntary servitude on Cuba, and Cuba is doing what it can to survive. Voluntary is better than involuntary. Regardless, thank the USA for that situation.

I have no chips in that discussion but I'll give it to you, you're excellent at straying off-topic instead of answering the question. I think the term is whataboutism.

The justice system is supposed to give us justice. Do you think it is just that the individual(s) are essentially immune to that form of justice?

To your point, is there evidence supporting your claim? For example I think there's many occurrences of lawsuits related to police abuse, where people earn substantial sums of money in reparation for abuse from the police. Is there evidence that the professional life of the police agents who cause these situation becomes significantly harder afterwards? Or do they keep their job?

Following that logic, there is no reason anyone rich should be entitled to not being stolen from while others are starving. You don't get to cherry-pick the psychopathic rules. I don't care how much you worked for it, you being rich is never more important than poor people having a home and food.