obinice
@obinice@lemmy.world
Hi there!
- Comment on Ironing 3 days ago:
… You don’t iron your clothes?
Do you just go places looking like you just got dragged through a bush backwards?
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 days ago:
Why not just open the door with the key like every car ever
- Comment on Train passengers face price hikes and fewer seats after HS2 cancellation 4 days ago:
We are at capacity on the west coast mainline
Don’t worry, as we continue to price people out of rail travel (poor people were priced out years ago, we’ve almost cut the whole lower middle class out too, just a little further, I believe we can do it!), fewer people will travel and that’ll reduce the hit on your capacity.
All part of our genius plan 😎🍹
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm 1 month ago:
That’s pretty much the definition of the job of parent. To control everything around the child and how they interact with things.
It’s not any more difficult than it ever was. For one thing, don’t give kids a smartphone until they’re at least 13, they have no need for one before then.
Similarly, up to that age, they should be taught how to use a computer and the internet, but only in a closely monitored, safe manner.
After 13 or there abouts, they are given more freedom and more responsibility to go along with it, and hopefully have been raised well enough to respect that.
From there, limitations and guide rails will remain in place, be it a traditional curfew in the evening, or a limitation of “screen time”, and if course of what the children interact with online.
Greater autonomy is earned through positive actions and mutual respect, too. Over time as they approach adulthood you will be able to loosen restrictions and worry less, as the strong person you’ve helped raise will be able to make their own decisions with greater confidence and more positive outcomes.
Mistakes will be made on all sides along the way, there will be joy, sorrow, anger, love, parenting is a learning experience for all parties, but in the end, if all goes well, you’ll have a well adjusted young adult who isn’t addicted to their mobile phone or any of the apps contained within, who understands the dangers of such things, and how easily addictions and a warping of reality within the mind can set in.
Eventually you have to let go, let them be adults and make their own decisions, but by then they’ll have this deep understanding of the dangers they face, and that’s the best defence they can have.
It still might not be enough, but all you can do as a parent is try to prepare them, from then on they have to make their own mistakes, you know?
Anyway yeah, that’s how I think about it :-)
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 1 month ago:
We’re aware of that, it’s the popup advert that we can’t click to close that’s depressing :-/
- Comment on A literal depiction of how capitalism invades all aspects of life 1 month ago:
I’m not a fan of evil capitalists, but I think I’d take even them over organised religion, which is at best just a protection racket / cult of control.
- Comment on "Nuisance begging" and rough sleeping as soon to be illegal 1 month ago:
That’s not what the quote you posted says, it says it tackles that two things, not that it makes them illegal.
It does mention some things that are to be made criminal offences right before this bit though, to trick people into posting such headlines, I suspect.
This whole thing sucks anyway, but I think we could use some clarity on exactly what will be made illegal?
- Comment on 29% of US households have jobs but struggle to cover basic needs: They are 'one emergency from poverty,' one expert says 1 month ago:
They’re Serfs, trapped in servitude with no escape, just how their Lords like it.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima, on Steam, will be unavailable in countries without PSN 1 month ago:
I already have a Steam account, I’m not giving yet another company my details and login data just to play a game on a platform I already have an account for. Nope.
- Comment on How come liberals dont hate conservatives the way conservatives hate liberals 1 month ago:
It’s worth noting that you’re looking at conservatives from a USA perspective, which is valid and very informative, it’s just that OP didn’t specify a country, so it might also be worth discussing conservative vs liberal culture in places like Europe too, or perhaps prefacing your wonderfully detailed response with something to clarify that when you’re talking about conservatives, you mean a very specific subset of them (as opposed to, say, the conservatives of the UK, where their political party is itself called the Conservative Party).
Rock on! :-D
- Comment on Report: Facebook Parent Company Meta has been Censoring and Shadow Banning Pro-Palestinian Accounts 1 month ago:
mmm, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I call them Meta, it’s a very transparent attempt to psychologically reset our opinion of them, as if we’re all stupid.
It’s insulting how thick they think we are.
They’re Facebook. Call yourselves “We didn’t do evil stuff we’re good guys honest” I still won’t believe you …
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
Woah now, what are you, some kinda red socialist commie? 🇺🇲😠🛻
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 months ago:
The law requires YouTubers to identify sponsored segments.
In which countries, though? That’s a key point that seems missed from a lot of responses discussing “the law”.
Laws vary quite significantly from nation to nation, and without that key context, there’s not much that can be garnered.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 2 months ago:
SMS are completely free? I mean yeah, they cost money back in 2009, but that was a loooooong time ago.
Wherever you are, you’re being completely screwed, yeah.
- Comment on Modernizing the best Woodworking Joint to use for 3D Printing 2 months ago:
a normal box joint or even a rabbit joint is actually stronger
For anyone confused I looked it up, a rabbet joint is what they call a rebate joint in the USA. Learn something new every day! :-D
- Comment on Education 2 months ago:
Context? What’s a bunch of cops standing next to each other got to do with education? Thanks!
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 months ago:
Can I? The article only mentions American regulations and laws regarding flamethrowers (and even admits that those laws may restrict the sale or use of these weapons platforms).
Makes no mention of European laws. Somehow I’m doubtful that weapons heavily controlled by geneva protocols, mounted to drones, are legal for civilian use here. I’m surprised they’re even okay over there!
(Outside of specialist equipment for trained and qualified civilian personnel, I’m sure someone somewhere still uses them as a defoliant for example, as unwise as that seems given all the wildfires these days…)
- Comment on Thames Water nationalisation plan could move bulk of £15bn debt to state 2 months ago:
Sounds like we’re up the river without a paddle my friend
- Comment on Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew 2 months ago:
Ooh this is the painting my parents have but their print is super faded and blue, I’ve wanted to get them a new one for years but never knew what it was!
Does anyone know what this is called please? Thank you :-)
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 2 months ago:
Oof, they don’t have net neutrality over there eh?
Gonna be bollocks for them until they can get that brought in. There’s an election coming up there right? Maybe they can vote for the party that pledges to bring in net neutrality laws, it’s about time they had them considering it’s 2024.
I wish them the best of luck <3
- Comment on It's always gets sloppy after the bars close 2 months ago:
What the fuck is that, mince meat in tomato sauce? On a burner bun?
What abomination is this.
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 2 months ago:
Why 👏 is 👏 every 👏 word 👏 padded 👏 by 👏 emoticons 👏 ?
- Comment on I'm not bored or anything, it just feels like forever. 60 more years left of my shift on earth... 2 months ago:
60 more years? What are you, 10? :-P
- Comment on "Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI 2 months ago:
Damn that track is fire, I’m saving it to my music library 😂
Wish it was the whole thing!
- Comment on How does the day-to-day work of not wearing shoes in the house? 2 months ago:
I have slippers for when I want to cook in the kitchen or nip outside for a minute, etc. Other than that, I just wear my socks indoors.
Also of course, don’t wear dirty shoes past the entryway of the house. If they’re not dirty that’s another story, but if they are, off they come.
- Comment on The diagnosis is in—bad memory knocked NASA’s aging Voyager 1 offline 2 months ago:
Hell yeah! My favourite space probes, those two.
I know Voy1 will lose power soon anyway, but until then keep fighting right to the end!
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Comment on An Exercise Program for the Fat Web 2 months ago:
Any qualms you might have about switching to firefox are either false (firefox is now faster than chrome in lighthouse tests) or Google brainwashing you into thinking your workflows are completely static when you could easily adapt to not having the exact extension you so desperately “need” to work
Honestly, why are people so uppity, angry even, about other people’s browser choices around here? Heaven forbid someone dare use something other than Firefox. We must be brainwashed!
The most important aspect of a browser for me currently, besides of course all the stuff both browsers do great already (I love Firefox and would love to swap back to it, I used it for years before Chrome came out), is integrating my Google account at the application level.
I want all my Google integrations to carry across, and all my search history, maps history, location history and so on to be seamless and detailed across all my devices, and there’s just no other browser that does that right now.
I wish I could do that in Firefox. Does it mean Google gets to look at what websites I go on? Sure. But their knowing that I browse amateur radio forums and GitHub doesn’t bother me - it probably helps refine my search results, even. Handy!
Google is evil and capitalist and they don’t have my best interests at heart, but I use android, I’m in their ecosystem and I mostly like it, I like all the Google apps, I like how they work and how much easier it makes my life vs not using them, or using lots of random disparate apps made by many different people that don’t have a shared design ethos, or the same level of quality across the board, and now my data is spread across many places instead of just one, etc.
Sure, I could get an off grid Tomtom GPS for example, but Google maps works so much better, is so much more accurate and less fiddly and time consuming, and does so much more.
I do love firefox though, it rocks. I just wish people would dial back the soapboxing about how everyone should be using it and if you’re not then you’re making some sort of grave awful stupid mistake because you’re a brainwashed idiot… it’s getting tiring :-(
- Comment on Princess of Wales says she is undergoing cancer treatment - BBC News 3 months ago:
Impressive that she got from diagnosis to treatment so fast on the NHS.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 3 months ago:
What if it’s not a larger vehicle, but transitioning from a petrol burning vehicle to an electric vehicle?
We don’t want to give people reasons to hold on to old combustion vehicles any longer than they have to, but the roads of course need to be made safe for passengers and pedestrians and wildlife, I agree.
- Comment on Sweeping EU rules for tech giants take effect today. Here’s what’s changing | CNN Business 3 months ago:
changing European Union citizens’ experience with phones, apps, browsers and mor
Hmm, I’m an EU citizen but don’t live in the EU, I assume I won’t benefit from this?