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- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 7 hours ago:
Your phrasing here is all but certain to achieve the opposite of your desired outcome 😂
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 19 hours ago:
PBS Kids is a great option for littles! Free, no commercials, and supportive of social/emotional development (Reminder to set up a monthly donation to your local PBS station!). With the PBS Kids app, we’d often download a few episodes of something like Daniel Tiger or Wild Kratts for road trips
We rarely watch YouTube together, most of the time he’s watching a series of some kind through Netflix or Paramount. Trollhunters, Gravity Falls, Henry Danger, stuff like that. His only exposure to commercials is during football games, whereas I can still sing over 100 jingles from my childhood
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 19 hours ago:
Definitely the case! I’m not always on top of this myself, but I do go in and remove anything that may poison my recommendations. At this point, I just get plants, history, and a splash of comedy. Thank you for bringing this to the fore!
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 20 hours ago:
My son is still young, almost 8, so I’m speaking for near that age level. He doesn’t get unrestricted access to YouTube. If he’s watching YouTube, it’s with one of us present and helping him navigate it. He always wants to watch the video that’s the lowest quality shit just based on the thumbnail, because they have thumbnails that stick out. I’ve taught him about “low quality” content and we’ve watched a couple so he could understand what I meant. Now when he wants to watch something I say “no, that’s going to be low quality,” he seems to understand and we move on to find something else.
Eventually, I’m going to let him navigate YouTube alone sometimes, and then go back and look at his watch history to see how things are going. He doesn’t know watch history is a thing, not will I ever tell him. If things go off the rails, we will guide them back to the rails slowly and nonjudgmentally
That said, we were at a restaurant the other day and a woman was there with her baby and a friend. She set that infant in a high chair with AI slop on her phone right in its face. The kid definitely didn’t disturb her conversation with her friend, because it looked like a zombie. Godspeed, child
- Comment on US frackers were already facing a global oil supply glut. Trump’s Venezuelan dream could make it worse 1 day ago:
This is exactly what I don’t get about all this. If Trump starts dumping Venezuelan crude on the market, US crude, which is largely dependent on more expensive extraction techniques, becomes less competitive. This means all the oil fields in Texas and Pennsylvania shut down (among others), and all the associated jobs go away
- Comment on How do I feel comfortable/safe going outside by myself after being so used to have parent(s) be with me outside most of my life? 2 days ago:
The best cure for being too anxious to go to the library or ride the bus is to go to the library and ride the bus. Your rationales for not doing these things don’t hold up, because the entire point of this advice is to help you get used to leaving your house by yourself. Don’t make excuses and just go.
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 3 days ago:
Well that’s a quick path to revolution
- Comment on Trump: The U.S. will 'now' start hitting Mexican land targets 3 days ago:
Oh my god, where does Donald Trump think we get our food from? We import so much food from Mexico. I live in Texas, and probably 75% of the produce in our stores is imported from Mexico. Does the man expect us to eat nothing but corn and soybeans?!
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 6 days ago:
He’s on trial in the Southern District of New York. 20 out of 25 judges in this district were appointed by Democrats. They specialize in white-collar crime and high-profile federal cases, and they aren’t going to go easy on the prosecution
- Comment on After Claiming Maduro Was Its Kingpin, DOJ Now Admits in Court That 'Cartel De Los Soles' Isn't a Real Group | Common Dreams 6 days ago:
So what happens when the DOJ entirely fails to competently prosecute this case? Is he ordered released, and then the Trump Admin illegally jails a foreign leader? I just have a feeling this is going to go very poorly for the Trump Admin
- Comment on idk how to title this one man 1 week ago:
I’ll bite. Tell me what “norwood” means to you
- Comment on idk how to title this one man 1 week ago:
I think the joke is that it’s gibberish
- Comment on I fucking ♥️ industrial society and its consequences 1 week ago:
You’re taking this way too seriously
- Comment on Evidence 1 week ago:
Climate change is real and we’re causing it
“I definitely did not do this and won’t change anything I do.”
Blue M&Ms cause cancer
“How could the M&M people do this to me?”
- Comment on Do I have extreme anxiety? 1 week ago:
Anxiety is usually very treatable. Look for an LCSW, LPC, or PhD psychologist who specializes in anxiety disorders. It can be good to speak with a therapist first before going straight to an MD psychiatrist, but it’s your call. Meds can be useful to get the worst symptoms under control while you engage in therapy, but meds alone aren’t a good long-term strategy to manage anxiety
- Comment on Dusting off the old PS2 1 week ago:
Parasite Eve was an amazing game. Blew my mind my first play through. Parasite Eve and Final Fantasy 7 & 8…a great time for gaming
- Comment on Ska ftw 2 weeks ago:
For the 90s ska revival, I think Reel Big Fish takes the cake for most ska-ish ska band
- Comment on Go on, git. 2 weeks ago:
Shin Godzilla is a whole different level of Godzilla, definitely made Godzilla more creepy than in any other film. While the OG Godzilla was a response to anxiety about nuclear bombs, Shin Godzilla is clearly a response to the Tohoku tsunami.
Also check out Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider.
- Comment on Say, the country/countries you have citizenship in, decided to not want you anymore and threw you to some random "3rd world country", how do you survive? 2 weeks ago:
It’s cute you think you’d still have access to dollars in this scenario
- Comment on 🎵 It means something something... 🎵 2 weeks ago:
This is also how I recall it. They didn’t find out until after Nala came back in the picture when Simba was all growed up
- Comment on It's just not something I could ever get behind 3 weeks ago:
This is a valid counterpoint
- Comment on How come hypothetically if I make meth in my home. Knowing full well it could explode and take out my neighbors houses, why am I not charged with attempted murder? 3 weeks ago:
What constitutes a murder vs manslaughter charge varies quite a bit by state, as do sentencing guidelines.
- Comment on It's just not something I could ever get behind 3 weeks ago:
Shallots are superior to onions in 95% of allium applications
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Both Saharan dust and the overwhelming majority of tropical waves would pass well south of this island, imo
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
That island would probably have amazing weather
- Comment on I’m tired of cornposting 4 weeks ago:
Pretty sure that’s the point
- Comment on Disney Invests $1 Billion in the AI Slopification of Its Brand 4 weeks ago:
That was Universal. You’re thinking of Aladdin 5
- Comment on U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Up 77% Since 2009 & The Auto Industry Knew It Would Happen 4 weeks ago:
Daytime fatalities are up 26.5% on this graph. Not good, but not 40%. Population growth was 8.5% over that period
- Comment on should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it? 5 weeks ago:
I think what you can take away from this is that you’re good at your work and respected by your colleagues. You don’t owe them anything though, and they don’t control you. If you’re satisfied with what you’re doing now, get used to confidently explaining why, and thank them for their praise.
- Comment on This song, it's infectious 5 weeks ago:
Literally true