10 Commandmends for a digital age

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Submitted ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I came up with this a couple minutes ago. I think its funny and maybe helpful? Please be gentle. Have a good one.

You shall not join corporate social media
You shall not subject your children to predatory marketing techniques
You shall spend up to 10% extra to shop locally or with small companies, more if you can
You shall voice your support for fairness, equality and against bullying wherever you go
You shall not think of living things in hierarchical order (x is better than y)
You shall not compromise freedom and privacy for comfort or "sAfEtY"
You shall pay techy friends for their help - at least in food
You shall install an ad blocker
You shall not praise big tech, proprietary products or IP law.
You shall not use proprietary software if a good FOSS alternative exists

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Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I take argument with #5 as a concept.

My region is against speed and red light cameras out of freedom and privacy arguments; so people get slaughtered by cars instead.

Fine for selfhosting though.

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- Kernal64@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Studies show red light cameras don’t decrease accident rates in the intersections they’re installed at. Furthermore, some municipalities have started doing things like varying timing of the light cycle to get more people running red lights for the increased revenue. These cameras haven’t been shown to decrease accident or injury/fatality rates anywhere they’re installed. If you’re against people being slaughtered by cars, it seems you should be against red light cameras since they don’t do any good and have the potential to make things worse.
  
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  - Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    How do you figure? Red light cameras decrease frequency and severity of crashed at signalized intersections. crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46552
    
    There is some increase in rear ended, but those are much less severe than right angle or pedestrian collisions.
    
    Cities adjusting the dilemma zone, or increasing speed limit; is a problem with revenue usage of red light cameras; and revenues should be going to victim funds. It also seems to be a uniquely USA problem? That could be a taxation and funding source issue.
    
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- halm@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I’d argue that’s fundamentally a problem with car drivers, not with the lack of surveillance, but I get your point. People do have a freedom not to crushed by traffic, and it sort of outweighs others’ freedom not to be caught on camera while crushing others with their cars.
  
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  - Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Drivers and road design.
    
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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I agree. The argument would be good against always-on cameras though. I dont see an argument against red light cams.
  
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halm@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Ouch, number one hits hard. Sure, I don’t personally use predatory marketing techniques on my kids but I don’t know how to fully protect them from others that do so.

After that hit of existential guilt your other dictums seem easy! 😆

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- Deckweiss@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  How will they learn to healthily deal with it, if you don’t subject them to it?
  
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  - haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They dont. They vote with you to abolish this shit.
    
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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for the feedback. Had a good chuckle.
  
  I‘m talking about i.e. ingame purchases and more specifically lootboxes.
  
  To make the logic dead easy (i know raising kids is never easy): if all kids in class got heroin to feel better due to the schools inability to provide heating, would you agree?
  
  Didnt think so. Thats how loot boxes work. Companies are broken and have a virus called shareholder primacy. Due to that, they need to exploit children to survive atm. I wouldn’t participate in this so no lootboxes for children, same for other ingame purchases actually but loot boxes in particular.
  
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  - halm@leminal.space ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, I get the logic and I thank you for the example (shudder!). Again, those techniques are so pervasive, so normalised that no amount of parental guidance and handholding can really safeguard a kid.
    
    I’m not arguing against you at all, it’s just a chilling realisation that I can’t realistically co-sign and live by a statement that I would hope to be basic decency…
    
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jaagruk@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Pledge taken Sir.

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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Neat! :)
  
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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
10 (11?). You shall put critical thinking before assumption; empathy before judgment.

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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I love this!
  
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Nougat@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

You shall not think of living things in hierarchical order (x is better than y)

Having to choose between my child and my dog would be a horrible choice to have to make, but I know exactly how I would make it.

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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good point. If you would save your child because it is „better“ than the dog, then you should really work on your empathy. If you save it because it is more dear/close to you I completely agree. The reason I included it is the amount of devaluation people do to other people or other creatures because they only know superiority as if that helped anyone.
  
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  - Nougat@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have also hired exterminators and taken antibiotics.
    
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skatrek47@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I really like #2… I’ve tried to wean myself off Amazon and it does cost more, but Jeff doesn’t need any more money!!

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- secret_ninja@feddit.nl ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Same here! I check Amazon last after exhausting other options first. Also I find that most items on Amazon can be bought on Chinese apps/sites (ali express, temu, shein etc), they’re literally the exact same, just cost 10 times more lol. Oh, and fuck the CCP.
  
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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thanks for the positive feedback. I agree fully. My wife and I are trying to not use it. Works mostly. Just when another (or multiple) have very weird things (like 10x the delivery time) we fall back.
  
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ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So no ads, sure, but then you need a commandment about paying for what you consume. Since otherwise, if we all followed the commandments, we’d be out of content right quick since you can’t make a living producing it.

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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Thats the fun thing about it. We had that and it works without another commandment. The idea of getting everything for free^tm^ is the problem.
  
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Yubishi@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What does #4 have to do with the digital age?

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- haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  This is literally an alt account. A ton of these accounts is exactly 8 months old and this one especially has not made one post before.
  
  Hate, is what it has to do with the digital age. People post their thoughts publicly and get judged very harshly for it. Sure, they‘re wrong, some are very dumb indeed but there is no reason to think of them as lesser, the same goes for any other creature.
  
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  - Yubishi@lemmy.one ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is most certainly not “literally” an alt account. There is no need to constantly post. So congratulations on that mischaracterization.
    
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