obinice

obinice, 8 hours ago

Capitalists ruining things for everyone else? Gasp!

obinice, 18 hours ago

Check it out! Technology survived a Carrington Event

Nope, that wasn’t remotely powerful enough to be compared to Carrington.

For such an event, we’d have to take preemptive measures to protect our power grids by mostly shutting then down and cutting various interconnects temporarily until the danger had passed, for example.

obinice, 1 day 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 :-)

obinice, 3 days 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.

obinice, 3 days ago

We’re aware of that, it’s the popup advert that we can’t click to close that’s depressing :-/

obinice, 4 days ago

“the answer to child poverty, ultimately, is not simply about handouts, it is about a social security safety net, that also acts as a springboard that helps people into work and with good work that makes the cost of living affordable for everyone.”

Holy crap, a politician that actually gets it, for once? Someone that actually understands that a strong foundation of social services will uplift the nation, making them healthier, happier, better educated, safer, etc, and thus more productive, more successful, more able to give back to the state to help support those very services and uplift the quality of the entire nation?

…Does he know that his party is basically at best a Centrist/Center-Right ‘Tory Lite’ these days? He won’t see a strong government run social system under either of the main parties, alas :-(

Labours would be slightly less ineffectual than the Tories, but they’re still just slightly shuffling things around to look like they’re doing something, whilst lining their pockets and focusing only on helping the economy (aka the rich). As opposed to focusing on helping their actual citizens, which in turn will help the economy.

Still, it’s amazing to see someone actually understand the situation for once and admit it publicly. It almost gives me hope!

obinice, 4 days 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?

obinice, 6 days ago

donald tr*mp gets 10 warnings for intimidating witnesses and indefinite trial postponement for hoarding and most likely leaking classified documents. Sweet sweet justice.

Why are you censoring Donald Trump’s name? Is it a swear word now in your country?

We’re big girls here, we can take a little rude language, don’t worry :)

obinice, 6 days ago

They’re Serfs, trapped in servitude with no escape, just how their Lords like it.

obinice, 6 days 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.

obinice, 9 days ago

Fascists gonna fascist.

obinice, 9 days ago

T his is a good reminder that if you work in ANY industry, no amount of good work, overtime, creativity, awards, or anything of the sort, can save you from the chopping block. Capitalism will ruin everything you love.

FTFY

obinice, 9 days 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 …

obinice, 9 days 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

obinice, 16 days ago

Being sacked isn’t ruining someone’s life. There are other companies, other jobs. It’s hardly the end of the world.

What you’re saying is “I want him to know it’s okay to keep doing this to other people with no consequences”.

obinice, 15 days ago

Woah now, what are you, some kinda red socialist commie? 🇺🇲😠🛻

obinice, 18 days ago

You’re saying someone that calls themselves bomber guy is cool?

I mean hey a name is just a name, it’s just uh, not a good first impression 😐

obinice, 20 days ago

Is that you, Ryan Szimanski, Curator for Battleship New Jersey Museum in Memorial?

obinice, 21 days 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.

obinice, 21 days 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.

obinice, 21 days ago

Russia would lose a war with NATO, Poland warns

Well, yes, in the sense that Russia would be a nuclear crater, as would the NATO nations.

Nobody wins that war. Nobody.

As soon as Russia runs out of other options, backed against a wall, nowhere to go, lead by madmen, they’ll do it, and we all die. All of us, together.

obinice, 22 days 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

obinice, 22 days ago

Incredible Mark Hamill Cult Classic Lands On 4K Blu-Ray This Summer

I come to Lemmy to get away from frustratingly annoying titles that intentionally miss out a key piece of information - in this case the title of the film or TV show the article is about - to trick people into loading the page, only to find is a film they’ve already seen or don’t care about or whatever.

I just ignore headlines like this now and move on, don’t give them what they want - clicks.

obinice, 22 days ago

That dude is (possibly) going to be elected leader of the USA not Europe, the place Orban is. I don’t see how his fortunes are going to change much, we’re not suddenly going to be really into fascist dictators and give him everything he wants 😂

obinice, 22 days ago

Context? What’s a bunch of cops standing next to each other got to do with education? Thanks!