Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:The most obvious question (Score 1) 105

ROTFLMAO, you think the agreement range somehow makes it better ?
But its 1-19
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/a...

I DONT live in the USA, I live in a real democracy, with gun control, with universal health, with social safety nets, etc etc etc, not perfect, but its a damn sight better than the USA.

When the US works out that US laws etc end at the US boarder the world will become a safer place.
The US did NOT win WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam , Afghanistan, Iran, etc etc etc, that is false history taught to the US to make them believe they are so great
But the world is moving away from the USA, Trump highlighted the US is no ones ally.
Its moving financially, technologically, trade, etc etc etc etc.
Throw on more tariffs , it will only accelerate the move.
The USA is 4% of the worlds population, betting long term on the 96% is the safe bet, its already much much bigger then the USA and growing.

So keep killing yourselves, so far the US has killed more of its own people than every war the USA has been involved in, including the civil war.
And as the US declines, that carnage will only increase too. And the world has given up caring....school shooting...it must be Tuesday.

Comment Re:The most obvious question (Score 1, Interesting) 105

Does any law work then ?
The USA has the largest adult population in the world behind bars
1% of its adult population, another 3-4 % on probation or other legal monitoring.

Shooting kids is the Number 1 reason kids die in the USA.... do those laws work ?
The murder rate etc is so much higher in the USA than other 1st world countries it's not funny.
What's the difference.... gun control laws, mental healthcare, social safety nets, universal healthcare, good education, etc etc etc all things the USA has given up on or never had in the first place.
Its been 200 years, how much more proof do you need you have it WRONG ?

Comment Re:Facebook and other billionaires are pushing it (Score 1) 105

"Perceived" , its 100% real.
Think of all the dumb stuff you did as a kid.... now think about how, if it was all recorded and never went away, it stuck with you for life..... how F'd up would YOUR life be now ?

The world already look at the USA as being insane....school shootings..... to the USA this is so normal no one will or wants to do anything about it except "Thoughts and Prayers", meanwhile guns are the number 1 killer of kids in the USA.
That is so F'd up
So they are learning right from primary school fear, PTSD, paranoia, hate, bigotry, racism, etc etc and then you want to cause even MORE mental health issues ?
Zuc etc KNOW their service is addictive, it's designed to be. They are no different from Tobacco sellers who denied it all for decades, make up fake research papers, etc etc etc.

How about getting rid of social media....you will keep far more privacy that way. Get rid of internet tracking systems, cookies, tracking pixels, browser fingerprinting, etc etc etc. THAT there is privacy, but you face it away for "free" product without realising YOU were the product.

Comment Re:Facebook and other billionaires are pushing it (Score 3, Insightful) 105

Complete BS and paranoia.
They KNOW their product is addictive, especially to kids whose brains are still developing. Giving them Dopamine hit triggers the pleasure centres of the brain, effectively making them drug addicts , supplied by Social media.

The last think they want is kids without social media, and reaching an age where they have been taught critical thinking, how social and other media works, how sales pitches work, different kinds of addictions, bullying, blackmail, sexual extortion, No means NO, etc etc etc. They will be taught the mental health benefits of face to face social interaction
Social media already knows who you are, they probably know more about you than your family.
They buy and sell information about you from all sources, cellphone tracking, credit card purchases , services you have (internet, power, gas, phone, Netflix etc
Kids have exactly ONE chance to grow up into healthy adults, ones who will have productive lives. If THEY fail, you old age is going to be horrific , poverty, ill health, no services etc etc.

I am 100% selfish, I want ever kid born today to be working so that my retirement is as good as it can be.

Comment Re:What about parenting? (Score 1) 45

Well the parent is probably helping sue Zuc, and while they are at it them and other parents of kids are pushing to get age verification and other ways to limit the harm that comes to their kids.
Those parents are also products of a shitty US education system where religious nutters prevent things like sex education, which amusingly has better results than purity culture and produces far fewer pedophiles (which churches seem to excel at).
But don't worry, the world is rapidly shifting away from the USA, and they have laws/rules/etc, but being in other countries Zuc et al will just stay the hell out of ...right
and you in the USA can have as much "freedom" as you like while your whole society collapses.
What should anyone expect from a country that has a peso for a president and that country works to protect him....

Comment Re:Easily overturned I wager (Score 1) 113

The chemicals are called endorphins. Social media increases the endorphins which are addictive, especially to the brains of growing kids.
And social media knows this.

And one day, YOU will end up paying for this through your taxes.
Lost income tax paid by these people
More antisocial behaviour, that costs money, and putting them in prison costs even more tax payers money
The more kids get addicted, the bigger voting bloc they form, who knows maybe they will get to control your retirement...

Slashdot Top Deals

"Now this is a totally brain damaged algorithm. Gag me with a smurfette." -- P. Buhr, Computer Science 354

Working...