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Exactly, I’ll take boring over exciting if it means my phone will be more reliable over time.
It’s the same reason that won’t go for a foldable phone. They look cool, really cool, but moving parts means breaking parts - and if they break, they’re bloody expensive to replace.
Exactly. Why do the hard job of actually safeguarding the kids when you can just use them as an excuse to grab onto more unnecessary powers?
It’s like as though the Government is incapable of coming up with solutions to online problems that don’t involve immediately invading people’s privacy.
I’d say next thing is they’ll be trying to ban encryption, but they’ve literally already started on that one.
Well if we use JD Vance’s Razor, it checks out to me.
You wouldn’t post it if weren’t true, right @obscur_e@lemm.ee
Oh boy, here we go again…
Will the Government succeed in their age ban, or will they learn (once again) that they’re just not that effective.
You tell kids, especially teens, that they can’t use social media, they’re gonna want to use it more - and they will bypass any restrictions you put in their way.
Similar to what I said about Australia, it’s like how CoD is meant to be 18+ yet somehow still full of prepubescent squeakers who all apparently fucked your mother last night and have Dads who work for Xbox.
It would be far better to engage parents/schools in educating kids on how to more responsibly use social media and to critically analyse information - or alternatively force social media companies to implement better safeguards for kids who do end up on there, rather than play an endless and desperate cat and mouse race against them.
Well fair and square might be cutting Trump too fair a deal. He talked big about election rigging right before the vote - and one of the core tenants of the GOP is projection, so I don’t doubt he was up to some scummy shit same as last time.
If you don’t stand for the rights of others, there’ll be nobody left to stand for your’s - so get standing!
It’s certainly an odd situation to behold, and the thought of getting with someone twice my age makes me feel gross, but they’re both legally adults and appear to be happy with the arrangement, so I guess there isn’t all that much to do but wish her the best and get used to the new son-in-law.
Having said that, 65 isn’t all that old for an OAP, so I hope for both their sakes that there is more to it than her being just his sugar baby - I can’t imagine decades of loveless marriage to be good for anyone.
Oh, I’m not surprised at the outcome, I expected the almost 60 y/o man to lose to the under 30 y/o man, but was just surprised to see the stats on just how little Tyson actually did in the fight.
Well this just about aged like fine milk. Far from beating Jake to a pulp, Tyson threw just 18 punches the entire fight. Though I suppose it’s inevitable when Tyson is more than double Jake’s age and he retired years ago
Don’t worry - I’m sure in a few years time when our next election comes up, our population will have forgotten about the previous decade of getting fucked by the Tories, and immediately put them, Reform-UK, or some other alt-right party into power for round 2 just like you guys
To borrow @goatbeard@lemm.ee words, an economic disaster. The price of basically everything skyrocketed overnight, even basic essentials, which pushed swathes of people below the poverty line, and even today is putting increasing pressure in foodbanks. The effects of the Tories’ complete mismanagement of Brexit, the Covid19 pandemic, and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine only served to compound the damage.
This cumulative Brexit damage and mismanagement is what finally got the Tories kicked out (which they should’ve been years ago if you ask me) - and while the economic effects have slowed down somewhat recently, prices are still going up substantially, and I think we’re gonna be feeling it a while longer.
It annoys me to no end that we knew this would happen, economists literally predicted this economic shitshow during the referendum and +50% of our population decided to just put their fingers in the ears and shout racist rhetoric instead.
Well you see, this post is about the ways in a nuanced explanation is inferior to using the phrase “Dumb Fuck!” because it has to be specifically written for a post, can lead to an exhausting back and forth debate where you end up having to write more explanations, can often sound condescending due to the inability of text to carry the subtleties of spoken language, and the length of them can often be too boring to read. Of course simply writing “Dumb Fuck!” has none of these downsides, because it can be copied and pasted into almost any situation, is very hard to debate against, is very cathartic, and loses no subtlety in text versus spoken language.
Honestly using Infowars to raise awareness of gun violence in a satirical way with help from Everytown is such a middle finger to Alex Jones and I’m all here for it
Yes. And this story is indirectly related to one of those. Trump’s 2nd Term will definitely have knock-on effects to the rest of the world, but it isn’t like the rest of the world stops.
It’s like back in the Covid Lockdowns - it’s not like every other disease took time off because of Covid being in the zeitgeist.
Was about to comment exactly this. “We internally investigated our strategic ally and found no wrongdoing”
For the US, definitely… But the rest of the world doesn’t just stop happening because Donald Trump got elected.
Unfortunately the world often does the fucking around part for you, and you’re stuck finding out with them. Sincerely a Remainer being forced to find out on Brexit.
It sounds like you are doing your best to connect with him (I’d have loved for my parents to take an interest in my hobbies back when I was a teen), but not all kids take the stresses of going through adolescence the same way.
… And they’re very influenced by other kids, so if his friend circle puts emphasis on material things, it might be that he feels like he’s struggling to keep up with them or is actually feeling FOMO, and is taking that out on you.
Either way, best thing you can do is to keep extending that olive branch to him. Perhaps try to see if there’s any other hobbies he has that you might be able to connect with him over?
Hopefully it’s just a combination of puberty stress and misplaced teenage FOMO. If you’re doing your best with what you have, that’s all you can do, and hope that he learns to appreciate that in time.
It’s almost like people don’t like paying more and more for streaming services with less and less shows on them, when the pirates will offer you everything in one much smaller subscription (if not for free).