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.

I’m picturing something like Slenderman arriving and dragging me off to the land of model failures forever.

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.

Because if not, I feel like this could get the team in legal or at least financial hot water with investors.

Which doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen, just that it’s not normal and okay.

Yeah, I’m not saying proprietary enshittified hardware is good, lol.

AI may well be done it’s explosive growth anyway. Assume all my predictions in that case are “x existing application continues to expand”.

I actually think AR is still coming - it just needs really specialised hardware to work and have acceptable battery life.

The issue with mobile OSs on desktop is that they’re designed to depend on conventional OSs right now. There’s no way to develop an Android app on Android, and debugging your Android from itself is possible, but only as a hack.

On to my own predictions. I’m limiting this to computers, not all technology, which I think was intended.

The fediverse slowly grows.

Geopolitics significantly weakens the US tech monopolies. FOSS benefits, although they probably are replaced by more commercial platforms for the most part.

More likely than not somebody actually mandates cryptography backdoors. It’s a boondoggle, although it might not fully unravel in the window given.

There’s a chance crytographically-significant quantum computing comes early and causes pandemonium. Bitcoin becomes (nearly?) worthless.

Okay, I will mention one AI thing. It’s going to find a place in rendering pipelines for videogames.

The trend to heterogeneous computing continues. Analog and reversible chips become part of the mix.

Nix-type immutable systems become daily driveable.

The thing is, injection molding is just dummy cheap at scale. If you have a significant run of open source hardware it still makes sense.

Chips are also pretty impossible to make at small scale, so you have to account for that. To date it’s possible to find a decent chipset, but I worry it might not always be.

I actually feel like they’ve beat the heck out of the 5 before that. GDPR is a thing, and Windows increasingly isn’t.