If you are of the belief that AI and anime-style erotica are a reality you are unable to escape, you have a very long way to go my friend.

Yes. I find anime-style erotic content to be super weird and gross. I think people who fawn over drawings of cartoons are suffering from and / or burying mental health disorders.
I don’t think your issue is with AI though. You seem to have some other issues that, outside of professional counseling, may be helped by changing some of your lifestyle choices and avoiding the internet. I mean, there are plenty of horrors in this world (war / famine), but the world itself (the one we call reality) is not a horror; certainly not one with corpses readily on display.
You seem troubled in a lost-control-of-your-addiction sort of way. “Waking up” is a choice you have.

I’m sure there are appropriate places for that. In this case, an “amusing situation” was posted in a forum called “Ask Lemmy” without a question. Could we also start posting pornography here? Can we post recipes? How to guides to perform magic tricks? When questions are no longer relevant to the Ask Lemmy forum, when the first rule of the forum is no longer enforced, does any line exist?

This is the shit that forced me to leave reddit. I guess I should just stop using the internet though since everyone just gets to post amusing situations (in your opinion - I fail to find minor annoyances amusing) anywhere and everywhere.

I’d look at her like she were an idiot and tell her to use the faucet in the tub.

Note that none of the words in the above sentence include posting this on the internet or asking what I should do because I’m a grown adult that can manage handling minor annoyances on my own. I acknowledge that this concept may seem foreign to people under the age of 25.

What exactly is it that you are Asking Lemmy?

Thank you.

I guess the part where I’m stuck is the current volatile state of this “currency” compared to the idea or the promise of it.

Should I buy BTC now or wait? Is it a currency or an investment?

If something is an investment, can it also “be money”? Like, if I buy a painting for ten grand then twenty years later its worth 15 grand, I suppose I could trade the painting for something of an agreed upon equal value or I could sell it for money with which I can buy things. This concept isn’t really how we’ve experienced money in my lifetime.

It’s this push / pull of crypto’s facade where I’m struggling. It’s looked at as both currency and investment at the same time. It doesn’t seem to have much value today to use as currency because as soon as you buy something you’ve lost money. I could take 100USD worth of BTC to buy a thing and tomorrow that hundred dollars could have been worth $110. It’s not possible to say something is “worth” .01BTC because that value will change tomorrow.

It seems it’s only worth something today because people are investing in the promise of it. We don’t know if it will ever really be used as a currency as you’ve described. And, if and when that day comes to pass, what will the value of 1BTC be worth? Should I just wait five to ten years to buy crypto to avoid the speculative market? Maybe I miss out on capital gains over a hundred thousand dollars - is that so bad?

Or, in your opinion, is it inevitable that this will be the world wide currency of the future?

I’ve been “fired” four times from my current job because my boss is a short fused maladjusted inhuman. What’s stopped me from being fired is that I ignored him.

I’m still the original owner of one of these 1982 Pac-Man consoles. Actually, I thought it was lost for decades but my aunt discovered it during a basement clean out and gave it back to me. Last I checked, it still worked. But the volume is so dang loud that I remember I always had to play with it outside.

What a world we live in where this is even a thought someone has.

You should know that little media is being made today that will stand the test of time. It used to be, that when someone was angry or proud or excited, when they were full of emotion that had to be expressed, they would write book or a song or paint a work of art. Now, those emotions can be unloaded instantly on TikTok giving the person the satisfaction they needed. And perhaps some people do still do this but you won’t know about it because the corporations that have historically funded such people full of emotions to express are now dumping money into works their board members know to already be popular.

I’ll add something that I’m personally struggling with. There is so much content available today that staves off any opportunity for boredom that I have little time to spend doing the things I know are more fulfilling. Like, when I get done work, I just plop on the couch and watch YT instead of taking a nap or reading a book or drawing. And now my attention span is shit so it’s a struggle to just sit still and do something requiring more than a few minutes of attention. I mean, I literally have a book called Dopamine Nation on my coffee table that I’ve yet to read more than a couple chapters of.

You and I may have two different problems but I think they’re booth seeking the same solution: rediscovering our humanity.

Okay… No one who isn’t an asshole looking to watch the world burn supports breaking the laws than

You’re gonna have to give me a source for that buddy.

Cool. We all should support the legal process to deal with people who have broken laws.

Now ask if they support picking people up off the street and throwing them into foreign jails without ever having to provide any evidence that they’re here illegally. Or even when we know for a fact that people are here legally, if they support arresting them and kicking them out too.

I’m exhausted with this fucking bullshit. No one supports people breaking the laws.

Ask people if they support the constitution and if they believe the government is free to ignore it.

Also. Fuck Newsweek. Here’s the link to the poll https://www.cygn.al/poll-karens-freak-out-over-ice-raids-as-hispanic-support-for-deportations-surges/

Thank you for being one of the few to take me seriously and offer a thoughtful response.

I can understand now the value of a token that represent some amount of effort that is limited in its supply. As “promised”, no other bitcoins will ever be made. So this alone makes it worth something. The fact that it represents some amount of effort achieved does seem to give it some validity. Although, IMO, certainly not $100k worth.

I’ll need to think this over some more and maybe update this post with some more thoughts on the future of the coin.

Thank you for a real answer like I specifically asked for.

The fact that Bitcoin does represent some amount of effort and that there’s a limited supply does seem to give it some value. While there is a theoretical finite resource of gold, it’s still being discovered. Which, theoretically, makes it less valuable than a predetermined finite resource. And, the US dollar continues to decline - almost by design during this administration.

How BTC is used today and in the future can continue to be debated but I’m satisfied in understanding it’s a limited supply of something that represents some amount of effort.

The laziness of the average person continues to amaze me. You’ve chosen to ask and wait for the answer to a question which could have been answered by reading the article you’ve commented on. “Why” is the reason journalists pen these articles.

For what would they hold the administration in contempt and what does this do to block, stop, or reverse illegal actions?

It seems like you’re lacking a basic understanding of how law and government work and it doesn’t seem like you know what contempt means. And, to make up for that, you throw out witless insults in an attempt to derail the conversation.

You, “the internet”, are far too emotional to consider the reality of these situations. Just because something makes you angry or someone does something you think should be illegal does not mean someone is not permitted to do that action.

There are absolutely actions that Trump has done that are illegal and many of those actions have been decided on while other cases are in court now. “The Democrats”, I presume we’re addressing Congress, are not explicitly the group responsible for holding the administration accountable for everything he does. Congress only has authority over a handful of things (mostly, but not limited to, money) with few options to do anything about them.

The point I am trying to make is; (1) what actions does OP suggest are illegal, (2) a court has to determined that action to be illegal, (3) Congress is not responsible for suing the president nor responsible for determining what is legal nor responsibly for jailing an executive officer, (4) this Republican Congress is not going to pass legislation (the main power they have) to block, stop, or reverse actions taken by this administration. And, finally, what the Trump administration is doing, legal or not, is largely what the United States voters voted for. So, the best way to stop these quote unquote illegal actions is to vote for Democrats in two years.

Gotcha. So you either you don’t know or you do know this is not true.

Congress has no power to jail officials. They can hold an official in contempt and potentially have the US Attorney’s office put them in jail. That’s not happening with Trump. That’s not happening with anyone in Trump’s administration.

They can… sue in court (like Dems did to block Trump’s border wall funding)

Yes. That’s exactly my entire point. And this only works if the courts determine the act to not be legal. This is why, as I said, there are over 250 cases against the administration right now.

There’s a lot going on right now which the public dislikes but that doesn’t necessarily make an act illegal. If nothing else, Trump knows how to work the courts. He also disregards the courts and we’re still waiting to see if there’s any repercussions to that.

Trump is not Obama. Obama fucked up by caving to McConnell. Trump would not do the same. There is no comparison of this administration and any other. History is irrelevant at this point.

Yes. Tell me how congress jails officials.

Dems could’ve jailed officials for contempt

How does that work?