I never said a sex shop was going to be bad, I mostly said the opposite. I used it as an example that when a child walks into a physical space meant for adults, the community helps. When a child walks into a digital space meant for adults it’s expected their parent was watching at all times and failed.

I also completely agree with your assessment of good and bad places/neighborhoods being often used as a cover for classism and racism.

That being said there are places near here I would not let young kids play unsupervised because of the crime rate, homelessness and open drug use. There are places near here I do let kids of an appropriate age okay unsupervised because they are nice safe parks and areas even if they’re poor neighborhoods. In fact some of these I feel are safer because there are more kids playing and parents aren’t shy to tell other kids off when they misbehave like they are in “rich” neighbourhoods.

Same with people’s houses. Obviously looking for “shared values” can be a cover for racism, but I’m not a cis-white-straight-nt-male looking for a socio-normative house. I’m not looking for them to be white and rich, I’m looking for parents who care about their kids without being too helicopter-y.

I think you read my message backwards. I meant to say that physical spaces are usually safe for kids even the spaces meant to be adults only. In digital spaces we accomplished the opposite where most spaces are dangerous, even “kids spaces”. But instead of seeing this as a problem caused purposefully by the companies creating and curating these spaces to maximize profit and right wing ideology, we blame only parents for not micro managing their kids. I see digital hypervigilant supervision as a parenting survival strategy rather than a good long term solution. We need more control over our algorithms and digital spaces so that they’re safe-by-default like physical spaces are.

If you take the limit of that you’ll realize that people won’t raise if you turn it off either.

You can see the satellites. Pretty much all satellite orbits are public due to the nature of satellites being in space where we can all see them. When a country’s military satellites pass over a specific location multiple times then that location gets precision bombed everyone knows exactly what happened.

I hear this a lot, but you have to put it in context. It used to be you could let your kids play outside in a nice neighbourhood. Your job as a parent was to make sure they went to play in a nice neighbourhood and at the houses of decent people. You could easily keep them away from bad places physically because they were separate places. Your neighbours would also tell you if they saw your kid in a bad place or being up to no good.

The Internet destroys that concept. The good and the bad are one link away, you need constant vigilance and you have almost no help. It’s not healthy to micromanage your children’s media consumption. It’s like helicopter parents who never let their kids free. Setting this as the expectation isn’t healthy.

I mean we don’t really have a choice, but acting like it’s okay for YouTube to lure my young kids into red pill content, or weird AI nonsense is pretty weird. Why are we just accepting this reality, should we not have some control over our algorithms. It’s basically what our neighbourhood used to be. Why are we saying it’s okay for YouTube to lure kids into dangerous content, and that is every parent’s job to constantly micromanage their kids media consumption as if that’s healthy parenting? It’s SURVIVAL parenting, not healthy parenting!

We should be able to control our algorithms and help our kids control their algorithms because the solution isn’t constant fear and vigilance lest we get taken by the billionaire class and their dangerous ideology.

It’s not normal that we created a space so fundamentally unsafe for kids. Very few physical spaces are like this in real life and I think you should try to imagine what would happen if a kid walked into a “non-kid” space like a sex shop or whatever. Because it’s not let the kid have unlimited access to porn and kink while we blame the parents. It’s usually a human worker working with the kid to get back to safety (usually their parents).

Arguing against adblocker and for YouTube premium is the most center of the bell curve IQ meme take I’ve ever heard.

That’s not the original intent. In the US, HOAs were mostly created after the end of segregation to keep black people out of white neighborhoods, an origin story that puts into context the modern of pettiness and desire to control others we see in stories like this.

In the early postwar period after World War II, many [HOAs] were defined to exclude African Americans and, in some cases, Jews, with Asians also excluded on the West Coast.

A racial covenant in a Seattle, Washington, neighborhood stated, “No part of said property hereby conveyed shall ever be used or occupied by any Hebrew or by any person of the Ethiopian, Malay or any Asiatic race.”

When these were found unconstitutional in 1948, they became private contacts until those became illegal in 1968, but because HOAs had to approve new members/buyers, the rules stayed in effect until the majority of a community decided to stop being racist. On top of that, in 1963 the Federal Housing Administration said they would only insure mortgages on homes with an HOA which is really what created suburban sprawl and the ghettoization of the American inner cities.

If you look at the history of HOAs it’s really a long and protracted fight on all levels by racists and bigots against the Civil Rights movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeowner_association

TL;DR: Although conceptually HOAs are a good idea, even trending towards communalism, actually existing HOAs are, with a few exceptions, downright regressive, often criminally so.

Hey. No being John Malkovich!

Porn isn’t something with a victim, it’s something a person gets off to. Sexual abuse material is a picture with an abuse victim whether or not someone is getting off to it, because that’s not the part that matters. It’s not porn because the fact someone gets off to this picture isn’t the important thing about it.

That’s like if you called someone a cannibal was eating “human meat” … Like no, meat is meant to be eaten as food, this is the “murdered remains of a person”.

I don’t even know if you’re being serious at this point. The distinction should be pretty clear.

It’s not about consent. Porn in its usual context is sexual media people use to get off. With CSAM the main subject is children getting abused, the fact that pedophiles use it to get off is a secondary consideration.

The victim should take precedence in nomenclature.

When it comes to stories about Trump, any evidence that he’s being portrayed as anything but a child raping felon implies that the story is purposefully biased to help him.

No reasonable person would hold a differing opinion.

Now whether I give those same people the benefit of the doubt concerning non-Trump matters is a different story.

Reverse Hanlon’s razor applies to Trump and has a transferable property regarding anything related to Trump to at least 1-2 connections.

I know we’re all programmed to give people the benefit of the doubt. To try to find sense in any situation. To use Hanlon’s razor.

When it comes to Trump, please stop. He doesn’t deserve this excess of leniency. He’s a child rapist and murderer running the country. Do not try to find sense when there is nothing but cruelty and abuse. It makes a lot more sense when confronted by evidence of cruelty and malice at such a staggering scale to use a reverse Hanlon’s razor with Trump.

They’re called women to purposefully obfuscate the fact Trump beat and raped a little girl. One of many.

It’s not. They may have the same goals but one side is MUCH FASTER … I suppose the main question is “are you an accelerationist?” Or would you rather bad things happen more slowly and infrequently?

It’s not “taking down” the elite in Europe though. Frankly losing your job is a completely inadequate punishment for raping and torturing kids.

But from the point of view of “at least they’re getting SOMETHING”, it’s better than nothing.

http://andywibbels.com/privacy-email-cloud/

Back when email was new, server storage was tiny and you downloaded your emails frequently. That’s when this law was passed.

Nowadays with gmail etc… no one downloads their emails. They stay on the server forever, and government agencies are free to take them without a warrant.

When you invest money back in the company that’s either R&D or capital expenditure, both are tax deductible and don’t count as profit.

If you seriously think the doctor’s notes about the patient’s symptoms don’t include the doctor’s diagnostic instincts then I can’t help you.

The symptom questions ARE the diagnostic work. Your doctor doesn’t ask you every possible question. You show up and you say “my stomach hurts”. The Doctor asks questions to rule things out until there is only one likely diagnosis then they stop and prescribe you a solution if available. They don’t just ask a random set of questions. If you give the AI the notes JUST BEFORE the diagnosis and treatment it’s completely trivial to diagnose because the diagnostic work is already complete.

God you AI people literally don’t even understand what skill, craft, trade, and art are and you think you can emulate them with a text predictor.

LLM gives correct answer when doctor writes it down first… Wowoweewow very nice!

They’re stealing oil tankers that leave the country and emptying the oil in the US

IEEE style pizza, because then the ingredients appear in the order in which they’re used in the recipe instead of alphabetical by author.