So now I can get ChatGPT to tell me my question is stupid and a duplicate of something that only applied in 2002?

I decided to look at your history here.

I think you’d feel more at home on /b/. (derogatory)

Sorry, but that’s a naive perspective itself. Knowledge of advanced topics and maturity don’t necessarily go hand-in-hand. For instance, my first plunge into such topics was in 2007 at age 11.

Your typing and mannerisms are very child-like, and your responses show a naivety indicative of immaturity. Not an insult, just an observation, but I did see your post a few days ago, and the statement “Xenia wouldn’t say that,” struck me as… Prepubescent.

So you think going from “This didn’t exist yet” to “This existed, it just wasn’t used,” doesn’t in any way cheapen the older stories?

You’re right, it doesn’t violate the canon.

It just cheapens it.

That’s all well and good for the lore, but it doesn’t make it feel any less like a way of getting out of the corner they wrote themselves into. It would also probably be little comfort for the version of the Voyager crew that took something like 70 years to get home.

I’ve enjoyed Discovery. Not as much as other series, but I have enjoyed it. I still think the spore drive is a story that should’ve been told later in the timeline, though.

Gotta admit that introducing big fancy transwarp highway in a prequel wasn’t the most clever move… Especially considering Voyager…

I mean, it pretty much is. They’re both transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, one just emerged in cows.

“Any” is probably fine. It tends to be my choice. That said, you’re better off just not using Hexbear. Ya know, unless you’re chill with things like genocide.

Should AI generated CSAM and CP be treated the same as a real person since it promotes the same issues?

That’s where things get difficult. An episode of Law & Order: SVU tried to tackle this question a long time ago (but with Photoshopped fake CSAM) and the answer was a resounding “I dunno.”

On the one hand, it’s disgusting, deplorable, etc. On the other, a fake image means no one was victimized for it.

Does the content further radicalize these people, creating further risk of them victimizing a child, or does it sate their desires, helping to prevent them from victimizing a child? These questions are incredibly difficult to actually answer, and no answer can ever really be definitive, as you can’t really predict how any one person might react.

Oh God, I never saw the rest of the no poop challenge. From “Help me not poop for three days,” to “Help I ate gummy worms and have to not poop for three days,” to “I didn’t poop for three days and now I can’t poop help.”

Wait, Britain was compensating the descents of slave owners for the loss of their slaves less than ten years ago? Wtf?

90% of the time the whole box collapses before the perforation breaks.

Yeah, it’s fediverse/federation/federated+reddit. The main one I think of is feddit.rocks, run by the lead dev of Piped.

Me: *Suffers from severe depression and anxiety as a teen*

My family: You’re just gonna have to deal with it!

They’ve since gotten my brother treatment for the exact same thing. Meanwhile, I’m still severely depressed and totally untreated because I can’t fucking afford it.

In terms of overall users, probably not. In terms of valuable, knowledgeable and hardworking users? Totally.

Take r/AMA for instance. The place was a gigantic draw for Reddit as a space for trustworthy, verified celebrity interactions. The entirety of that work was done by volunteers who have since left that work behind. As such, the place literally can not function as it was.

Another example I saw much closer is r/piracy. Despite what astroturfing bots and Spez Stans would have you believe, Reddit absolutely wanted that sub opened because of what a huge draw it is. Just looking at what they did is enough to prove that. They removed the top mod, manually un-privated the sub, then removed the next top mod for continuing to protest before installing their own. The place is open now and working “normally.” Despite this, there’s really no one knowledgeable left over there. I looked recently, and I found a lot of highly-upvoted, really awful advice. Like, some borderline dangerous stuff.