PolarKraken
@PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Please the overlords 12 hours ago:
Oof, a cryin shame, no one down there is even going to find it useful.
- Comment on Please the overlords 13 hours ago:
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
Impressive stuff no doubt, well done mate. And how did the scooter fare?
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 4 days ago:
Kids not having phones at school (or not having access to them or similar) does address huge problems with phones at schools.
I’m not advocating anything like ID verification and have no idea what the pouches are about.
Self regulation is great and the only true solution. But roughly no kid can self regulate under current conditions, as we see. They need an environment conducive to learning those crucial skills.
And I hate the retreat to “well the parents should do more!” which is just an unsympathetic blamey way to say “what we have is as good as it gets I guess” because if it’s largely the parents needing to do more, that’s what we have. The status quo. Not a great recommendation.
If parents doing more was a viable strategy would we need to regulate use of car seats? Would we have seatbelts at all if some flavor of “people making important but annoying decisions correctly all the time” was a good way to achieve healthy societal outcomes?
“Kids probably shouldn’t have cell phones in schools” does not seem controversial, given the evidence, the specific nature of school and kids and those devices, and the blatant obvious evidence we see everywhere we look.
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 6 days ago:
Couldn’t agree more, oddly enough to understand what they are saying you have to zoom way out, see what’s not being said, see how phrasing is implicitly shaping their narrative, etc. All the subtle techniques eventually produce enough evidence to sum up one’s observations into a really big and gross elephant. Standing right there. And somehow kind of invisible to many. Formerly to oneself.
It’s difficult, and I mean, big surprise lol, they’re basically engineered to be that way, it’s all so tiring like ya said.
No hate to elephants, elephants are fucking great
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 1 week ago:
Okay got it, sounds like I just kinda jumped down your throat then. “How dare this person not dunk on those folks as hard as I think they should!” (that’s me lol)
Cheers. Thanks for the info.
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 1 week ago:
Maybe we do, and I appreciate you pointing out what you did! I’ll be the first to acknowledge I never would have known those things had you not posted them (and I’m sure that’s true for tons of folks who saw your comment, so truly, thanks).
But to me even “taking this with a grain of salt”, though, that’s just way more credulity than documents coming out of those orgs will ever merit. So I don’t know, your comment struck me as really strange, you point out the bombshell facts you did, to me those utterly destroy any assumption of good faith investigation/analysis, and then you go essentially “so I’ll take it with a grain of salt and wait for other experts to weigh in”. But…why?
Apologies if you’re simply using neutral language as a way to reach more readers. But the damning epistemological facts about the document make it ineligible for taking seriously. To make an analogy it’s like you said “we can see this bread is half-baked (white paper), and it actually comes from a mold factory (Bezos, Waltons), not a bread factory. So I’ll have a little, not a lot, and then see what other bread experts say about it too”. Which would be a crazy course of action, given the preceding description.
Again, sincere apologies if I’m mischaracterizing your POV, that’s how it reads to me though.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 1 week ago:
Preach!
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 1 week ago:
Okay, I’ve read through your other comments and you’re right, I misunderstood and misrepresented your POV, I apologize.
For the record, just like there is a large contingent of online “leftists” who don’t do much but whine, there’s an accompanying group of folks who also habitually just whine, but they whine in the ways I attacked you for doing, some flavor of “if they’d only have voted (for Harris/Clinton/etc) then we’d all be at brunch!”
But that’s not what you said, and given your other comments, you probably don’t like those folks either. So yeah, I saw what looked like that and had an allergic reaction lol.
Anyway, my bad, cheers.
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 1 week ago:
Okay. Again, from the standpoint of how to get at what’s knowable - my complaint here with The Guardian is that they aren’t pointing out the things they should be, at all, and that the white paper nature (from such “sources”) merits exactly nothing. No further draft on any such topic from such sources could ever be credible.
Your “typical / atypical” is you getting to my point for me, or maybe we just agree.
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 1 week ago:
In practice that doesn’t work, for the same reasons education hasn’t been either. Too few teachers to students, plus the things (phones) are greasily addictive. And we’re talking about the youths, lol dumb-kid brain, most exemplified by teenagers of course. The phase of life that specifically combines “rules are actually just stupid, did you ever notice that?” with “so anyway (I forgot about what we were talking about or any other thing)”.
- Comment on ‘Close to zero impact’: US study casts doubt on effect of phone ban in schools 1 week ago:
Just on the epistemological tip, how is it being a white paper more relevant than having Bezos, Walton, and more sponsors?
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 1 week ago:
And yet, is he treated by other gigantically rich people and institutions as if this is true?
You’re arguing the pedantic point, something like “he doesn’t really have that many dollars, you said dollars!” while (I guess deliberately ignoring?) the OBVIOUS, clear way him and others like him wield influence and power.
Everyone who makes him actually powerful, by lending to him and facilitating it all, understands his net worth better than you do. Kinda de facto, by being in his spheres in the first place.
What is it you think you’re adding here?
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 1 week ago:
If only we got more of those DNC ghouls in office they could have slowed down some of this a bit!
Couldn’t be that the “other party” just absorbs every complaint, atrocity, demand for real change and delivers none. It’s probably those annoying leftists who are messing up progress!
FWIW I vote as often as I can. It’s not hard for me to tell who is more evil and what levers are available to me at the moment.
Your take sucks and smells like a real Reddit-ass analysis of why things are going badly.
- Comment on It's unacceptable that people like Jeff Bezos exist. 1 week ago:
If only we got more of those DNC ghouls in office they could have slowed down some of this a bit!
Couldn’t be that the “other party” just absorbs every complaint, atrocity, demand for real change and delivers none. It’s probably those annoying leftists who are messing up progress!
- Comment on Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise. 2 weeks ago:
Feel like elaborating?
- Comment on holy moley 5 weeks ago:
Group in power has ratcheted up political violence in multiple staggering ways, deliberately, they use it constantly to brutalize people.
What are you even talking about? There is no peaceful baseline that exists to be maintained. They have broken the social contract entirely. Where have you been?
- Comment on dyk 5 weeks ago:
Holy fuck, what a ride.
Wondering where he got that.
Left me deceased as well.
I’ve gotten to experience some bargain basement mortuary services myself - and sidenote, I swear, people say Americans have no sense of culture?! Please!
We got to enjoy a mortuarily-approved ($$$) small plastic bin for the remains in question in our case, as well as a quiet little moment of our own, ours being more Lebowski than Tucker and Dale lol.
We weren’t asked to help carry, at least. Yeesh homie.
- Comment on dyk 5 weeks ago:
DoorDash getting in the mortuary services game huh?! Those rascally innovators, what’ll they innovate next!
- Comment on Turbines are our friends 1 month ago:
Your machine god likes fancy shoes 😂 Embarrassing.
These generic suits are sacrificial “meat candles”. They do what they sound like, and everyone knows shoes just kinda get in the way and slow things down. Simple as. Power don’t flow quite right without a few of these suits startin to sizzle just right, oughta have yer meat candles primed before ya start 'er up.
Fancy shoes! The things ya read on the Internet, by golly.
- Comment on Bet you wish you had one of these in your car 1 month ago:
To certain kinds of kid (😅) it’s an unignorable urge, have to eventually find out. Satisfying “ka-thunk”, brief pause, sudden weird dangerous magic.
Curiosity is one hell of a drug, lol. Available to all from the jump, so to speak, some folks can’t resist knuckleheadery.
- Comment on Bet you wish you had one of these in your car 1 month ago:
Eh, you’re just…fermenting. Makes most stuff better.
- Comment on 13,492% sudden interest increase in local Alabama news station 1 month ago:
It’s hard to describe great art but ya always know it when ya see it.
OG pepe was in fact a silly lil guy and that’s about all 🤷♂️. But then!
Oh no. (another good art btw, cautiously confident saying not-fascist…so far squint)
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 month ago:
Who could? I already don’t use them. I wish more would do the same.
- Comment on GTA6 is gonna be crazy 🔥 1 month ago:
I’d argue it also thereby normalizes, memetically spreads, and even to a degree enforces the very thing it means to circumvent. Damn this horseshit, forever. Not attacking you, just the self-censoring nonsense.
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 months ago:
I’m not sure where I came across it, but it’s out there somewhere. You can do it!
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 months ago:
For the lolz? Little harmless fun? Sheesh.
- Comment on every time 2 months ago:
Oh neat, idk I could see lil glowy + magnet or Velcro for camping gear or something being useful.
- Comment on every time 2 months ago:
crikey, d’ya hear that?! That’s the unmistakeable sound of an aspiring young content creator - they’ve just spotted their elusive prey - an unfilled niche! Let’s go poke em with a stick, see what happens!
(RIP Steve Irwin, zero shade meant to a real one)
- Comment on Just one more square bro 2 months ago:
(this is the part where you tack on a silly harmless lie at the end, like - “this specific packing optimization improvement was actually discovered accidentally, through a small mini-game introduced into Candy Crush in 2013. Players discovered the novel improvement, hundreds of individual times, within the first several minutes of launch.”)
- Comment on every time 2 months ago:
Yeah, I have some of those already 😅. Was hoping for some weird nixie tube type clock or something, idk.