doylio @ doylio @lemmy.ca

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PGP isn't tied to a specific person though.

I'm starting to come around to the idea of gov't backed crypto ID, but I am very worried about the potential abuse of that system

I agree! There's a campaign pushing to avoid giving kids phones until 8th grade, but I think even that seems a bit too young

I said "smartphones" not all phones. If I had a kid, I'd get them a flip phone so they could call or text me, but one without internet capabilities

I was at the right age to see the transition happen. When I started high school it was all flip phones and some kids didn't have a phone, but by the time I graduated basically everyone had a smartphone and the school added wifi. I remember feeling like the school had a less social feel in my senior year and everyone was just on their phones in the cafeteria

I think a good middle ground might be to ban smartphones but not phones entirely. If you want your kid to be able to call you, buy them a nokia or something without internet capabilities

Why not just ban smartphones in school? There's ample research now that they're harmful to teen mental health

Name 5 societies in all of history, that are as diverse as the western world today and have the levels of opportunity for minorities

One truth about the modern media landscape: stories that pit groups against each other play well

It's not a question of productivity now, it's a question of organization. Our governing institutions are too full of rent seekers and mafias now to do the kinds of things it did post WW2. Nobody can do anything big anymore because the system fights them. We can't even stop daylight savings time, which basically nobody wants to keep doing

Oh I'm so sorry! I misread your comment! I'm going to edit mine so it doesn't confuse others

Yeah I agree about the title, but that's just the internet now :(

I hadn't thought about this, it's a good point. Thank you for broadening my perspective

I wonder how Lemmy can avoid becoming an echo chamber

There are many progressives who are calling for the release of the hostages and calling the October 7th attack a war crime, but the problem is that it is a perfectly acceptable in progressive circles to pretend that the attack wasn't that bad, or that it was terrible but was necessary for the liberation of Palestine

As I said, I consider myself a progressive, and I know that a lot of progressives think like me. But there is a strand of the left that is very vocal online that I fear has lost its way

I'm not a fan of hers, but I do think she has a point here.

There was a significantly different response by progressives to the girls kidnapped by Boko Haram and the hostages taken by Hamas. When posters were put up of the kidnapped Israelis they were ripped down by the same kinds of people who tweeted #BringBackOurGirls.

I know there will be many downvotes to this comment, but I consider myself a progressive and am worried that progressives are losing sight of their values in favour of what is the prevailing groupthink online

Good! We need to hold these companies accountable. Around the mid 2010s they realized that it's more profitable to have addicts instead of users. Casinos, bars, and cigarette sellers are forbidden from selling to children. These addictive platforms should be subject to similar limitations

Relevant Tom Scott presentation

The extreme ends of content moderation is Echo Chambers or Nazi Bars

You don't need a reason to see a therapist. And just because you don't have any easily diagnosable label for your mental state doesn't mean therapy couldn't improve your life. There is probably <1% of the world that are enlightened enough that they genuinely wouldn't benefit from the experience