Yeah. We were there! Or close enough… It was a glorious week where everything lined up perfectly… Then we overshot and we are in this clusterfuck of nonsense.

Good boy 😁

Seems like some third-party hosting is in order to support any Rebellion Russians.

Then you should know better.

I agree with you mostly, and thank you for giving such a passionate and important response.

The problem is not the people though. Placing the “blame” or responsibility on the victims of this invasive behaviour is not the correct conclusion. These settings are deliberately obfuscated and people are uneducated on privacy and how it relates to technology. This is not their fault. Life is far too complicated to place yet another burden on the individual who already has so much to think about. The change needs to come from the people, yes, but it is not the people who need to change.

Fucking hell, this was cold and I am a terrible person for laughing at it.

They have that much information on us I’d be surprised if AI was even useful to them.

OOP could be a fully functional Artificial Intelligence in a video game and no one would notice.

Of course it is.

It would have to be cringe to be accurate

You’re not. Jetbrains users are just a lot more vocal. It’s like vegans or people who vape. They will let you know 😉

It’s a word used by children who are worried their mum will yell at them for saying bitch.

This is what confuses me. No one is making these people work so hard. Just have a bowl of dry cereal and a glass of milk.

You could always start switching over then give up half way through. Then you’d be like your Grandpa England.

Depends on their style of emotional investment I guess. Not all romantic relationships are sexual, so physical intimacy isn’t necessarily required. So it reasonably could be the same emotional attachment to the AI as it would be for a real person. Whether or not that is healthy is an entirely different topic, but having a virtual boyfriend is very possible.

Couldn’t afford that 4th “e” huh? I get it. They are getting pricey.

I don’t 👍

I ate crisps with a fork

…how?!

I started writing an annoyed reply then realised that maybe you just have a radically different level of comfort than I do.
I’ll ask some of my friends who are not in the BDSM community for their opinion and I promise to have an honest re-evaluation of my thoughts on this, while taking your perspective to heart.
Please consider that the video does appear to be in a setting where people would be more likely to answer these questions happily. However I am basing that on a few assumptions, so maybe I am mistaken.

I would ask you to consider how your comments come across to others. I’m sure you are simply trying to establish reasonable boundaries for people of your comfort level, and I absolutely respect that, but your comments in response to me were very aggressive from the beginning.
And yes, I do see how my exact complaint with your comments may be related to your point about the video. I will take some time to give that consideration as well.

I’m sure it has nothing to do with the guy who started and continued talking about sex being a baby faced white guy and the other dude being a fit black guy.

It’s not.

I think it’s incredibly telling that very few people are considering it sexual harassment at all for a stranger to come up to someone on the street, shove a camera and microphone in their face, and start questioning them about their sexuality and sex life.

Asking a question about someone’s sexuality isn’t sexual harassment. That’s a really weird thing to think.