The specific model is rechargeable, unless I’m misunderstanding you.

I’m pretty sure the trend didn’t come from nowhere, although like every other fashion most adherents wouldn’t have necessarily chosen it in a vacuum.

Whether that makes the preference less valid is an interesting question of it’s own.

It’s pretty impossible not to be tangentially connected with someone bad somewhere. Unless I have reasonable grounds to think the production of something was directly unethical I can’t and don’t worry about it.

For example, if you buy a thing from a poor country, there’s a chance a slave made it, but a greater chance it was part of somebody’s ticket out of rural poverty, and there’s no way to tell. On the other hand, meat is always meat (unless it’s lab-grown I guess, but that technology doesn’t work very well to date).

I mean, it’s not really a new problem, although it’s just been ordinary health issues rather than AI.

Usually disability has been addressed very poorly, though.

It sure seemed like one, yeah. One unusual thing is that there was apparently a Discord channel with multiple marks in it at once.

I like how Nichole’s last message to Lemmy was just a bunch of crypto wallets and some lame, one-sentence excuse for why we should fill them.

I might actually prefer winter all year if it wasn’t for that pesky “growing food” thing.

Interesting. Are there workers that cater specifically to women (going by your username)?

Yeah, OP has since clarified they meant that more literally than I expected.

Unless you’re in Europe that’s even more sex-touristy than Thailand. Nobody crosses continents for windmills, but lots of people like Buddhist architecture, beaches and sticky rice.

It’s regulated prostitution in the Netherlands, at least, and sex work is work.

I’m not saying anything bad about the country I’m just saying if you want to visit you probably don’t have the best intentions.

I want to visit. Not for sex.

I wouldn’t jump straight to sex tourism if there’s no other red flags, no.

I have family connections out that way, I am aware there’s lots of other great stuff around.

I’ve never had a guy tell me that exactly, but I’ve definitely encountered people (drunk people? I feel like I’m remembering a drunk guy going on about it) who have mentioned regularly going to Thailand and who make me wonder.

I’m not talking intimate, close confidants here.

Exactly. It’s definitely not for any plausible moral reason.

Although OP also mentioned she’s broke, so it might not work out as planned…

So wait, does this apply in both directions? It seems kind of impossible that people from city A are ruining city B and people from city B are also ruining city A.

It’s pretty known for sex tourism, including the underage kind. That’s only if it’s somebody who fits the profile of a sex tourist, though.

Thailand or the Philippines is actually the right answer, although it heavily depends on maleness and general vibes. If it’s a women I’d just think “have fun eating street curry”.

Dubai consistently knocks them down a couple pegs of respect.

I’ll submit Israel. Unless it’s to visit family there’s no wholesome reason to insert yourself there at the moment.

From what I’ve heard, you don’t have fun in Dubai with no money.

I think that was OP’s point. What’s she going for?

Oh really? I’ll have to go looking for that. Not being able to easily hack things on my phone is a PITA.