insaneinthemembrane
@insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 3 days ago:
I think you’re underestimating the normalcy bias and overestimating how much the average person outside the US understands about what’s going on there.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 3 days ago:
I get it, but if you pitched this to a movie studio they’d say it was far fetched, so the average person can be forgiven, I think.
- Comment on 'Her screams…': Horror as innocent Chilean tourist in New York snatched by NYPD, 12-year-old daughter left alone on streets 3 days ago:
It’s hard for people to believe this kind of crazy though.
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 6 days ago:
Fun fact… The mall was invented to replace the town square that an Austrian immigrant architect missed.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 week ago:
And then throw it.
- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted this sob story 2 weeks ago:
I read it as A I. Moy, which may be a clue to its origin.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure anyone can be prepared.
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 3 weeks ago:
We gave the kids access to Spotify Kids, I think it’s ok so far.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 weeks ago:
Ok, you choose a man instead of Tina Fey to play a Sarah Palin and see how much funnier that won’t be.
- Comment on “This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.” 4 weeks ago:
Same as when SNL wanted men to play female politicians in sketches when Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were right there and smashed it in the end.
- Comment on Lies, Damned Lies, and LLMs: AI is a Con 4 weeks ago:
This is the best mood succinct comment on this I’ve ever read.
- Comment on Sexual abuse of nuns: one of the Catholic Church's last taboos 5 weeks ago:
Probably a lot more to do with power than sex.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
If I say I do X and you say the healthier way is Y, that is a response to what I said and a judgment. If that’s not what it is, you’d need to write it differently.
Yeah the hard part is that there no real established science on this, it’s the wild west online and we’re approaching it slowly with open conversation and trust at an age appropriate level. There’s some risk but that will always be true.
It’ll only be when we look back that we’ll maybe know the right way but maybe not. Like a lot of things, it’s very context dependent… the child, the family, the village, the relationships, the school, etc etc
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
When you say things like “the healthier way is…” that’s a response to me directly and a judgment. So it’s that kind of thing.
But sure it’s fine, I’m open to the conversation, just not up for defending a decision.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
I think you’re assuming a lot from a little. I’m not explaining every thing we do around my home and my kids. I’m explaining 1 thing, it’s not everything.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
You are really telling everyone how little you know about parenting. This is what parenting looks like. You parent the kids you have with the skills and tools available. It doesn’t look the same for everyone.
You should probably sit back down.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
Yes, it’s part of set them up to succeed not fail. And another part of it is I want them to have a clean break from the outside world, from friendship drama or clinginess, from school stuff, etc. Digital switch off isn’t something people are good at doing by themselves as adults!
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
My kid has it in their schoolbag, just wears it on the way home and later if they go out. They don’t have to wear it all the time.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
Yes there are a multitude of reasons, not least that filtering only does so much and constant surveillance is unrealistic.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
None of their friends have phones.
- Comment on Parents turn to smartwatches for their children amid global phone screen-time pushback 2 months ago:
This has been so good for me and my kid. If they are out and feel like they need adult help, we are a watch tap away. If they want to come home early from a friend’s house, send me a code and I’m there. If they want to go to their friend’s house after school, I’m a text away.
We have a no phone until you’re 13 rule so while the watch is a stripped down phone, it’s not a phone so easy for us all to understand, plus it’s already stripped down, no hassle no fuss.
- Comment on America's Next Health Secretary Enjoying A Meal With His Future Boss and Colleagues 6 months ago:
Yeah, climate change is global.
- Comment on IFIXIT: Victory Is Sweet - We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines 7 months ago:
That’s all I used to go there for, but not sure if it’s different ice-cream in Europe.