In Florida the (Republican) governor made a big deal about how we're never going to have "digital" driver's licenses. Problem is, they already are digital. If you get pulled over by a cop, they run it though the DMV database and the results from that database take precedence over anything that might be printed on your little plastic card.

Sure, having a physical card you can hold could give you the warm fuzzies, but ultimately it's still those bits in a database that say whether or not you actually have driving privileges.

The most valuable part of a Flock camera is the *thump* noise it makes when it hits the ground.

Yup, if having underage users becomes a liability, they'll just boot off the underage users. Then this also becomes a problem for every other social media network expected to operate under the same legal framework, for fear of that if they don't, they'll also get sued.

I'm really looking forward to age verifying my 6 digit UID /. account, lol.

Traditional, as in earlier generations seemed to have less of a problem with telling their kids no. No, you can't stuff your face full of unhealthy food, no, you're too young for a motorcycle, and no, the TV in your bedroom isn't getting hooked up to receive HBO.

It's basically the raison d'etre for normies to own smartphones. Prior to the advent of social media, only business users and tech enthusiasts wanted to carry around the mutant offspring of a laptop and a cell phone.

You'd need a regime that is even more authoritarian than China, since even they allow social media (albeit, only the censored and state-approved kinds).

There's a lot of things that are marketed towards kids that aren't so great for them. Entire aisles filled with foods that consists mostly of sugars, for example. It might be something of an old fashioned way of thinking these days, but traditionally parents were assumed to be the safety net between the marketing and the children.

You're only getting that if you move to an Amish community. The likely outcome is age gates and maybe a cigarette pack style warning message.

Then what comes along to fill the void, after every potential upstart is now spooked that they can be sued out existence because parents can't manage to keep their spawn off of social media?

The meme of Flock cameras' greatly exaggerated scrap value exists because everyone wants to feel like there's those beneath them to be exploited for their own benefit. Instead of the mentality that we should be trying to make things better for folks who drew the shortest sticks in life, it's "fuck you, I got mine" all the way down.

We collectively don't want to foot the bill to build a society that doesn't need Flock cameras.

Have they considered giving the students some magic mushrooms?

Sure, some people do enjoy education for the sake of bettering one's self, but I'd venture that for most folks education is a means to an end (earning a living). I mean think about it, how'd you feel if the majority of your education consisted of learning how to do things that machines already do better?

Hell, it drove me up a wall having to struggle through math problems that a calculator could solve instantly. Yeah, I get that there is value in understanding how an answer is derived, but it feels more than a little tedious to have to demonstrate that understanding by solving pages of math problems that again, technology can already do in the blink of an eye and with perfect accuracy (well, provided you're not asking a LLM - those do sometimes goof a bit when it comes to math, ironically).

It ultimately comes down to a matter of prospective. If you see education just as a series of hurdles you have to get through to become employable, the idea that there may not be a well paying job waiting for you at the end can be quite a morale killer.

I think that's actually the point - target something highly visible so it appears you're doing something (even if it accomplishes nothing meaningful to address the underlying issue). It's like how here in the US we have states with scary looking gun bans. Never mind some psychopath can still go on his shooting spree with a gun that isn't on the banned list.

Or, as they say on Reddit, Reddit isn't real life, and the normies don't really hate AI. I think most people are aware thet it gets things hilariously wrong sometimes, but as you're quite familiar with - that doesn't seem to be a dealbreaker when it comes to politicians.

I'm fairly certain you can still turn Apple Intelligence off. Lemme go ask ChatGPT just to be sure...

I don't have the privacy settings enabled on my account. If someone really wants to read through my post history on Reddit, it's their sanity to lose.