DogMuffins

I struggle with anxiety but I never have any of these physical symptoms. I've had propanolol and it doesn't do anything for me.

Makes me wicked drowsy all day.

What is usually the front line for HRT? Is it Oestrogen? Is that the same hormone that's in contraceptives?

The thing is, this study is talking about "chiropractic manipulation" which is a very specific thing. (With that clicker thingy I think?) The thing is, chiropractors tend do do lots of different therapies, like stretching and massage. So you could go to a chiropractor who performs some kind of massage which is effective at temporary pain relief.

It doesn't, but it might be perceived as treatment.

Suppose you ask your GP to make it rain because your garden is dry and they tell you to go away. Then you go to a chiropractor that talks to you about your garden and then performs a complex ritual that takes a half hour or so. 2 days later it rains.

For the love of everything holy. This is not how grown ups discuss things. Make your point and stop asking dumb questions.

As you well know, no one is directly harmed by the simple act of someone viewing AI generated porn which does not depict a real person.

That said, the law in my jurisdiction does not discern between real or not. If it's an image (even hentai) depicting sexual abuse against a minor then it's CSAM. How do you know if the depicted person is a minor? That's a question for a jury. I'm sure there are arguments against this position, but it's merits are obvious. You don't need to quibble over whether an image depicts a real person or not, if it's CSAM then it's illegal.

This is so tedious. If you have a point, then make it. Stop asking inane questions.

So do people in images that are purely AI generated exist, or not?

This question is based on a false premise, as though the technology used to create an image is relevant to what it depicts.

• If michaelangelo paints the likeness of a model, does the model in the image exist?
• if a child draws a stick figure likeness of their dad, does the dad in the image exist?
• if you take a photo on your phone, and it uses complex mathematical algorithms to compress and later render the image, do people in those images exist?
• if you run a filter over that image on your phone, does that person still exist ?

Of course in all cases, for all intents and purposes the depicted person exists. You can argue that a painting is just an arrangement of pigments on canvas and you would be correct, but to everyone else its still a picture of a specific person.

If you use a computer to generate an image that "looks like" a school-mate doing whatever thing, then an argument that the person in the picture does not exist because the image was generated by AI is moot, because for all intent's and purposes it's a "picture of" that school mate doing that thing.

Oh, I don't know, but probably something that doesn't involve gunfights at polling booths.

Fascism and dictatorships are not good for business.

I don't think that this is really true at all.

It may pose additional risks for small businesses but that's not so for multinationals. looking to exploit populations, resources, or markets.

Well, Biden got the "not-Trump" vote last time but he's shat the bed with the Israel thing.

Seriously? Maybe we don't read the same stuff but that's not something I've noticed.

I just can't imagine how that's possible. I wish someone would fire me over porn so I could sue them for unfair dismissal as well as defamation and or libel.