Out of the top collections, the most common price for an NFT is now $5-$10.
Still overpriced!
I migrated entirely to Lemmy and I don't regret it. I do miss the amount of content on Reddit, but at least I know I'm not supporting them anymore.
Sure.
Bill Gates and the Gates Foundation will probably eradicate polio.
Before people jump on the bandwagon about how Gates is evil and problematic, that there are no virtuous billionaires, and a government or an NGO or an equivalent should have been the one to do it... I know. But the question was "name one billionaire that's done anything good," and I think it's pretty difficult to argue that eradicating polio isn't good.
All we need to do is find a woman bigger, faster, and stronger than him, and then he's officially a woman by his own legislation.
Most defederation isn’t because people are disagreeing though. It’s because the people they’re defederating from are assholes.
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca
Both of these have been journalism then and now. Fluff pieces have existed since literally the earliest days of journalism. And obviously we have reporters still going to Afghanistan and Ukraine despite enormous risks to their own personal safety.
So… meh.
I want to imagine Republicans actually care about driving out good teachers. But getting rid of education is probably just a win for them.
The older generation has basically always resented the younger generation for:
It's like a constant of recorded history. The Romans said these things in ~300BC.
There’s nothing inherently superior, just what people like more. If you want to use Mint that’s totally fine and valid.
Yeah it's truly awful.
The worst part is how disingenuous it is. It clearly exists because Google:
If they just said they were doing it because they're an advertising company and they need better ads targeted to people, at least they would have the benefit of honesty. And in that case you might actually get some big sites on-board; like if a site can explicitly say "I need to recoup hosting fees and the only way for me to do that is targeted advertising and that makes this easier/better" there's actually a value proposition there.
But don't pretend this is for the benefit of consumers or the Internet overall, and definitely don't cloak your meaning behind vague platitudes about identity authenticity.
I'm only going to answer the first part of your question, not the AI/generated part.
No one really chooses what or who they're attracted to; it kind of just happens to you. For example, you might be watching a TV show and someone gets lightly, comically spanked... and suddenly a light bulb goes off above your head and you think, "whoa, that might actually be kinda fun." People are wired in ways we don't understand to want things we don't even know we want.
To that extent, pedophiles are themselves victims of their own desires; there's no "logic" behind it. It's simply an urge they experience.
Of course that doesn't make succumbing to this urge excusable, and any children who are impacted are of course victims and the pedophiles, predators. But no one is training pedophiles in pedophile camp. It's just humans being human, unfortunately.