“Some of the dancing styles now practiced would have been condemned as heretical only 20 years ago”.

I really need reminders like this sometimes to comprehend where we’ve come from.

That would be so good if they had a competent author.

Circumstances, adverse childhood experiences, can be huge factors. Experiments have shown mice choose to give up heroin for better living conditions, for example. It doesn’t mean that addiction doesn’t exist within us too. And that biological something needs a name.

Really interesting and specific, thank you. Interestingly I saw a parent online talking about how she plays the cartoons her kids watch at .75 speed. They were stressing her out and she probably suspected it wasn’t good for her kids either.

There are over 3,000 billionaires worldwide, with a combined net worth exceeding $16 trillion.

Even minding one’s own business while the world is as it is could be considered evil, with those kind of resources at their disposal

It’s possible, the first example in the linked video is of a young kid who has become addicted to YouTube. The content seems benign: animated nursery rhymes. But that case is presented with less detail on the exact usage. I’m curious what you’ll make of it. I’m halfway through.

Okay. I updated my original comment.

“It is unclear whether the technology staves off mental decline, or whether people with better cognitive skills simply use them more.”

It’s very early stages of the research then. In my experience elderly people use smartphones very differently to kids. Also, their personal development has past the formative stages so I imagine the devices cause less disruption.

There’s no doubt that they ruin the brains and lives of our kids though, as the research video posted on Lemmy.world recently makes clear.

Edit: Here it is. Brain scans show that screen addiction is the same as drug addiction as far as development of brain pathway changes and brain chemistry are concerned. Only difference is we haven’t had addicts this young and at this scale before. Memory, empathy, cognition and impulsivity are all impacted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ViT6LyLm6E

USA are searching people’s phones for signs of criticism of government policy. They are detaining and deporting people (even citizens). China is not the sole bogeyman you think it is.

“Disposable income in the Republic was 36 per cent higher than in Northern Ireland in 2022 on the back of substantially higher wages”

I had the impression that the cost of living (housing, health, shopping etc) was better in the North despite lower wages. Look’s like that’s not the case after all.

Well, the larger English-speaking instance had a lot. But it’s federated so you can join a different server, which is what I did in the end. So it might be more accurate to say that one of the largest servers has loads of them.

Cinnte. Ban triail as seo https://discord.gg/5XbqeJJQ

We have good equivalents for a lot of commercial platforms now, but Facebook and its groups are still exceptions. Friendica is close but still clunky on the UI. It’s also full of conservative Americans. I hope the fediverse comes up with something sooner than later.

My mother decided my father would explain to me. I was dreading it. He turned up looking pretty uncomfortable / fearful himself. It was excruciating before it even started. He opened with “they teach this at school don’t they?” and I saw my exit. “Yes”, I replied. And that was it.

We spent a few hours on it in school.

How many hours do people work each day? And do people get enough sleep?

Thanks for the AMA.

Most people understand that the people are not the same as the government.

Workers vote on new decisions and how monies are distributed. If senior roles are needed to help keep things orderly, those people are elected into those positions for a fixed term and then they can propose any reforms that workers might vote on. That’s just my surface understanding but coops seem like the way to go. Here’s a link describing it a bit better https://cultivate.coop/wiki/Worker_Cooperatives

If we feel good about it, we’re primed to continue the dark pattern. The first step is acknowledging the problem. If you remove the first step, subsequent steps can’t happen.

I get where you’re coming from. I see land acknowledgements used in colonies like NZ, Canada and USA yet treaties remain broken. I think (IMO) the answer is “all the things” rather than some. But we’re not even shuffling the deck yet as a population so making first steps accessible is important in my own experience. Too much in one go and peoples eyes glaze over.

Can I try it as a user or do I have to deploy it myself?