nickiwest
@nickiwest@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3 days ago:
This. Times 1000.
Kids aren’t born with internet-connected devices in their hands. Adults give devices to them and then walk out of the room.
Would you let the average internet poster or YouTuber babysit your kid? Because that’s literally what you’re doing.
I grew up in the '80s and '90s. My mom did her best to pay attention to the shows/movies I was watching, the books I was reading, the music I was listening to. And up until I was about 13, it was all very tightly controlled. It’s still possible to have that kind of oversight, but it’s more work than a lot of parents are willing to do.
I live outside the US now, and most of my elementary-school students have parents who very tightly control their screen time and actively monitor their usage. The kids have sports training, dance classes, and other activities that get them out in the world. It’s very, very different from the kids I used to teach in the US.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Donald Trump: I’ve never heard of Project 2025. I don’t know what it is. I’m not a part of it.
Also Donald Trump: Appoints Project 2025 authors to high positions in his administration, signs a ton of Project 2025 policies as EOs on Day 1.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 2 weeks ago:
This is the correct answer. Notice that they have no compunction about punishing parents who secure gender-affirming care for their trans kids, but there has been zero discussion of holding parents responsible for their kids’ internet usage.
Far-right groups in the US have been crying “Big Brother” about everything for years because their whole plan has been to create a surveillance state where to gather information about dissenters. Every accusation is a confession with these people.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 3 weeks ago:
I have definitely worked jobs where I know more than the IT department, and that’s scary.
- Comment on If you turn the Chicago Bulls logo upside down, it looks like a robot is doing a crab. 5 weeks ago:
That was my first thought as well.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 5 weeks ago:
So … wait for the EU to outlaw this practice as price gouging, then use a VPN to appear to be buying from the EU?
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 5 weeks ago:
That was my immediate thought.
(Anyone reading this who doesn’t understand, please trust me when I say that you don’t want to. You can’t unsee that, even 25+ years later.)
- Comment on Him and Elon were cybering, calling it now... 5 weeks ago:
I assume they were trash-talking el presidente together, which could be political suicide for a Republican in Texas.
- Comment on Exclusive: Evidence of cell phone surveillance detected at anti-ICE protest 1 month ago:
Instructions unclear; now I look like Nicolas Cage.
- Comment on Is Google about to destroy the web? 2 months ago:
This is exactly as reasonable as any recipe review I’ve ever read. Which is why I stopped reading recipe reviews.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out more unskippable ads that make viewers wait even longer to watch videos - Dexerto 2 months ago:
Yet
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 2 months ago:
Which honestly seems to be an overwhelming majority of people.
Tech companies took a pretty good predictive text mechanism and called it “intelligent” when it obviously isn’t. People believed the hype, so greedy capitalists went all in on a cheaper alternative to their human workers. They deserve to lose business over their stupid mistakes.
- Comment on That's a good question 2 months ago:
It was a bad three-day weekend.
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 2 months ago:
The DA is supposed to seek criminal charges in criminal cases with enough evidence to prosecute. If the victim of any crime in the US wants financial restitution (for hospital bills, lost wages, etc.), they need an attorney to pursue a civil suit.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 months ago:
A cursory search for “liquid trees micro algae” led me here: liquidtrees.org/urban-solutions
- Comment on To whom it may concern 3 months ago:
If you’re concerned about your anonymity, keep in mind that companies frequently put ID numbers on their return envelopes to help match the returned mail piece with your record in their database. Sometimes the number is invisible (UV ink) so it doesn’t look “mass produced” to the recipient.
- Comment on xkcd #3081: PhD Timeline 3 months ago:
I call this “the Fox News approach to reality.”
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 months ago:
I’m not, really. I just don’t think we have the luxury of taking the amount of time that we would need to educate people thoroughly enough to counteract the algorithm.
Probably what we need is a limitation on free speech where blatant misinformation is involved. In the same way that shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theatre is harmful, so is repeating false claims to stir political discord.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 months ago:
If you’re old enough to draw your full Social Security payment, you’re too old to hold public office.
Sorry, Bernie. You’re one of the good ones, but you’ll have to make sacrifices for the common good.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 months ago:
Yup. I’m 45 and I can’t believe that people older than my parents are still running the country.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 months ago:
Debate, education and engagement take time.
The algorithm is instantaneously ready with the next easily digestible bit of content to send you further down the rabbit hole into radicalization.
I worry that we need a more instantaneous cure in our current information environment.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 months ago:
You give him too much credit. He doesn’t know any of this. But the right-wing think tanks that have been waiting for this moment do, and he’s easily manipulated into following their agenda.
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 3 months ago:
Farther right than Fox. Yes, it’s possible.
- Comment on Clean butt 4 months ago:
Do you also think that saying “Happy Holidays” somehow excludes Christians?
Increasing the size of your umbrella doesn’t discriminate against the people who are already under it. It simply invites more people to join them.
- Comment on No beans, only dogs 6 months ago:
The Colombian one is pretty accurate, but it should probably have bacon on it, too.