Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback

• Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think it’s funny.

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• eran_morad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You’re joking, obtusely, about abduction and murder of children. You expect people to be amused?

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is the internet. Some people will. Probably a lot. Do you expect everybody to have your exact same sensibles and kind of humor?

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    • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s a technology sub and I’ve been around long enough to know this is where the morons of the internet hang out but not everyone is as aware of the pattern.

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  • Photuris@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Black comedy/gallows humor is a thing.

    You don’t need to be so uptight. Nobody’s actually advocating for the murder of children here.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes. Get used to it, we live in hell, black comedy is just about all we have left to bring some levity to the situation.

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  • XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I get it. I’d bet the other commenters don’t have kids. There’s hypothetical jokes about kids, then there’s jokes to someone about their actual kid. Commenting on a post VS replying to this person who has a kid.

    I grew up with a very paranoid father. Somehow this guy has a stack of rough city survival stories but I couldn’t leave the suburban block. I don’t know the best way to raise a kid, but a watch and more freedom to roam sounds nice.

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    • HiTekRedNek@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I have a kid. She turns 18 in September. I thought it was funny.

      I also still make jokes about my mom, and she dlis now sitting in top of a shelf at Dad’s house as of a few months ago.

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• grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Sure, normalizing paranoia is very funny and definitely doesn’t have any real world negative consequences. Har-de-har-har.

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  • Railcar8095@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If the neighborhood is safe for a 7 year old without an Apple watch, go ahead. If it’s but the case and they think the watch will make a difference… That’s negligence.

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  • Bach37strad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Sounds like something the secret government cabal would say.

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