QuentinCallaghan

Oh, who could have guessed????

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Good that they got their differences solved and the band can be finally laid to rest with no drama whatsoever. There's a proper closure now. It's however sad how they lost any momentum and chance for new material because of the onstage fight in Boston. Regardless, it's interesting to see what kind of stuff Dave Navarro & co will put out without Perry Farrell.

QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

Watching my country's reputation go down the drain, nothing special. Oh, I also plan to mod my Switch's Joy-Cons with SNES-style buttons and gray triggers. The Joy-Cons are neon blue and red, so they'll become even more colorful.

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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

Well, it wasn't intended for kids but I watched it regardless, same with many other movies on my list.

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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

Basically many movies from the 90s Disney Renaissance era:

Hercules
Aladdin
Pocahontas
Tarzan
Mulan

And of course the Pixar movies from that era:

Toy Story
A Bug's Life

James Bond flicks:

GoldenEye
Tomorrow Never Dies
The World is Not Enough
Die Another Day

Other movies:

The Mask
Home Alone 1 & 2
Ace Ventura
Spirited Away
The first Pokemon movie
The Matrix 1–3
Kummeli Kultakuume
Pahat Pojat
Pitkä Kuuma Kesä
South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park: The Lost World

Note that several of these movies weren't for kids, but I got to watch them regardless.

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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 2mo ago

JD Vance also couldn't absolutely stand Pokemon.

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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

If I remember right, Mastodon and the Fediverse in general isn't included in this ban. Therefore it's interesting to see if Australian teens somehow find the Fediverse, starting a rush of new users.

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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

I don't think libertarianism works, it relies naively on how the free market is omnipotent, how freedom is everything and how having a small government is somehow good. There are no countries that are entirely libertarian, that also tells a lot about the ideology's applicability in practice. A brilliant book about why libertarianism doesn't work is a book "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear". In the book, a group of libertarians decides to take over the small town of Grafton in New Hampshire en masse as part of their "Free Town Project". Of course this group cares neither about the town's original inhabitants nor their rights. What's the result? They hollow out pretty much everything from the library, to the school, the fire department and the police. No regard is given to any laws on hunting or food disposal, and that lures in bears, who turn so aggressive that they invade people's homes. In addition to bears, sex offenders and all kinds of criminals are also lured into Grafton. It's pretty entertaining book, I recommend it.

Another reason why I dislike libertarianism is that it can function as a gateway to fascism. This is a known phenomenon. Several key figures in the alt-right for example used to be libertarians. I stumbled into a clip from some American Libertarian Party convention where Richard Spencer was with Ron Paul. I had to rub my eyes a bit.

QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

"TEPUBLICAN" sounds like "Tee-publican", which is a throwback to the Tea Party movement, in many ways a precursor to MAGA.

QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

No, that's reserved for Nintendo's upcoming Crocs collaboration, the Joy-Con Crocs!

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QuentinCallaghan @sopuli.xyz 3mo ago

Similar discussion is happening also here in Finland. However, if something is to be banned from kids, it has to be clearly defined. What is considered "social media"? Is it platforms like Facebook, Instagram or Snapchat? Does it include messaging apps like WhatsApp or Signal? Most of this discourse is also based on works of Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff and Jennifer Twente, all of which have received a fair share of criticism. There is also a considerable amount of a classic moral panic sprinkled in.

Alice Marwick, an academic that has extensively studied kids, technology and social media, was on Taylor Lorenz's podcast earlier this year. Her organization published a report, where the following is stated:

We strongly believe that reform of social platforms and regulation of technology is needed. We need comprehensive privacy legislation, limits on data collection, interoperability, more granular individual and parental guidance tools, and advertising regulation, among other changes. Offline, young people need spaces to socialize without adults, better mental health care, and funding for parks, libraries, and extracurriculars. But rather than focusing on such solutions, KOSA and similar state bills empower parents rather than young people, do little to curb the worst abuses of technology corporations, and enable an expansion of the rhetoric that is currently used to ban books, eliminate diversity efforts in education, and limit gender affirming and reproductive care. They will eliminate important sources of information for vulnerable teenagers and wipe out anonymity on the social web. While we recognize the regulatory impulse, the forms of child safety legislation currently circulating will not solve the problems they claim to remedy.

Dr. Candice Odgers is also a vocal critic of Haidt, accusing him of cherry picking with a pre-made agenda in mind:

The cross-country comparisons, you know, they’re they’re often a starting point to see whether there might be something interesting correlationally going on, but it’s a very slippery place to start and I think you know, unless you start with the pretty clear hypothesis about what should explain those differences, if you’re just looking at trend lines and then going backwards and starting to fill in an explanation, it’s hard to follow where it goes and whether or not we’re just fitting these lines to our existing theories, but I’ll leave it.