BlameThePeacock
@BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 10 hours ago:
I mean, Facebook already requires ID in many cases. www.facebook.com/help/159096464162185/
You’re required to prove your age in a bunch of real life scenarios too, like buying alcohol, tobacco, or a firearm.
It is a privacy issue, but the question is on the balance is the privacy concern worse than the harms being done by youth on social media?
Given that there are literally hundreds of university studies showing how bad this shit is for kids, and leaked internal documents from the social media companies themselves, I think it’s the better choice at the moment.
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 10 hours ago:
The same way Australia is doing it, a big fine for companies that don’t comply and add an age verification process to sites.
Will it work 100%? No
Will it work enough? Probably
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s not what I was taught or experienced firsthand while I was there.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
It makes perfect sense, he’s asking for positive examples.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The vast majority of them are just fine, like with most tourists. The problem is there’s just massively large number of them in many tourist destinations compared to other countries (at least where I live), which means you more frequently see one acting poorly too.
The Americans are somewhat the same, we also get a lot of them.
That being said, even though most of the issues are because of sheer numbers it doesn’t mean there aren’t a few key cultural differences which can play a role in western locations being offended by Chinese behaviour.
The big one with China is that culturally there’s no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully, the person you’re dealing with needs to earn your respect rather than having it by default. This comes across as quite rude to many other countries when you only have a single interaction with this person.
This isn’t a Chinese only issue though, Americans can also be quite rude depending on where they’re from and how they were raised, a good chunk of them are entitled assholes who think the world revolves around them when they visit.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 3 weeks ago:
It wouldn’t work.
In order to have a military, you’d have to have at least one or more dedicated people, those people would need to be supported with resources and given that it’s a stateless society there’s zero chance that enough people would voluntarily choose to help them to allow them to operate effectively outside of a wartime event without requiring some sort of payment from everyone and then you’re back to having a state.
- Comment on What phones are the government people using that are supposedly secure enough to discuss war plans? iPhone? Android? Some special custom-made phone specifically for the government? 4 weeks ago:
News flash, your assumption that they’re using secure phones is false.
- Comment on how tf do you warm up plates? 4 weeks ago:
If you want to use the microwave for this, pop in a plate with some water, then heat it up for 1-2 minutes, take it out with something that doesn’t absorb water (or the hot water will wick through the material to your hand and burn you) dump the water in the sink and quickly wipe with a dish towel to dry before using.
Other methods include warming it in an oven set very low, or heating it in hot water from a sink or kettle.
In a restaurant, they may just grab a plate that has just come out of the dishwasher since industrial dishwashers are really fucking hot.
- Comment on Redditors told me to go to a therapist but I can’t afford one nor pick one from thousands available. What now? 5 weeks ago:
I do not recommend this Van gogh method
- Comment on How are batteries recycled? 5 weeks ago:
The simplified answer is, they get shredded, then various processes both physical and chemical are taken to extract the important materials and the rest is disposed of. Often certain metals will dissolve in specific acids or chemicals, then you can take that liquid with the specifically dissolved metal and precipitate it out.
- Comment on Why are autistic people so odd?? 5 weeks ago:
The simple answer is that their brain doesn’t work the same as a neurotypical person.
The question is like asking why driving a motorcycle is different than driving a car. They just function differently.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 5 weeks ago:
Loopholes baby!
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 5 weeks ago:
www.uscis.gov/…/volume-12-part-l-chapter-2
Here’s the US rules for revocation of Naturalized Citizenship. It sounds like the OP has been naturalized for longer than 5 years, so essentially there is no way to do it anymore unless they had originally obtained it fraudulently.
The UK laws are actually a lot more lax in terms of reasons to revoke than these.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 5 weeks ago:
A green card is not citizenship, Naturalized means they have full citizenship.
- Comment on How much of a risk is it for naturalized US Citizens (or those with Derivative Citizenship) to protest against the US government, compared to natural-born US Citizens? 5 weeks ago:
You’re fine for now. Keep protesting, but keep your head in the game if they government starts changing their tactics.
They are going to go after “violent” situations first, so try to avoid those.
- Comment on How would we choose a "world language" in a fair way, for a hypothetical one world government? 1 month ago:
We could never agree.
We tried creating a new one called Esperanto, it didn’t work out either.
- Comment on Nothing against disabled people but how come I can't replace my arm with something augmented that can carry more weight? Also other parts? My disabled bro asked me this and got me thinking 1 month ago:
While you wait, I suggest reading the book called Machine Man by Max Barry which is a fictional story about a person doing just that.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 1 month ago:
He’s going to do it again, you’re being delusional if you think he will change in the next few years.
Move on.
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
What do you think buying $200 worth of honey will save you?
- Comment on Does it make sense to buy a lifetime supply of honey? 1 month ago:
You’re likely better off investing the same amount of money.
Buying it all now is betting that inflation will be higher than your investment return over the next 40 years. That’s not a good bet unless the world literally collapses.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 1 month ago:
It’s only not happening because companies aren’t going to do it on their own, the government needs to force it to happen, and the people need to force the government.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 1 month ago:
I automate business processes across multiple industries (not using AI currently)
My retirement fund looks crap, I’m worried about all of this too but it’s still a terrible idea to try to retain a job when it’s no longer necessary. Just tax the company a little bit less than they saved, and pay people to go enjoy their lives.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 1 month ago:
You won’t even notice when it’s done right. We’re still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.
You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven’t used it.
- Comment on Voice actors speak out on AI in video games 1 month ago:
While we’re at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.
and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker
- Comment on Who gets all the tariff money about to be collected from US citizens buying products from Canada? 1 month ago:
The US government, that’s how import tariffs work.
- Comment on This Modular Phone Concept Is Xiaomi’s Plan to Kill the Camera Bump 1 month ago:
There’s zero chance this catches on, nobody wants to get rid of a camera bump badly enough to carry around a second device.
- Comment on What's easier to shoot, a bow or a firearm? 1 month ago:
Technically bows are also generally more quiet, but that’s a very small point most of the time.
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 1 month ago:
Not really how our monkey brains work generally. We’re biologically programmed to do lots of things, like want to have babies (or at least sex and not be smart about it) and to take care of them. Not everyone does a good job, but historically speaking it’s led to a population of a few hundred people turning into a few billion.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 1 month ago:
I mean, if you want a great example, Genghis Khan killed his half brother at 8 years old in order to “secure his family position” then went on to lose a bunch of battles, then win a bunch of wars and murder his way to the top of an empire.
If you don’t think that’s an example of strongest = leader, I don’t know what to tell you.
Modern cartel leaders are very similar in most cases, they’ve schemed, battled, and murdered their way to the top.
- Comment on How would a stateless society handle serious threats such as mass murder and terrorism? 1 month ago:
In wolves it’s fake, in humans it’s quite accurate.
It still exists today so don’t tell me it was never a case of the strongest = leader. Drug cartels are effectively states, and ruled by extreme violence (even internally)
Even if your argument were accurate, that would be considered a state. A group of people agreeing on rules together is a state.
Like I said, with few enough people and it could be considered “not a state” but there isn’t any realistic way to have a stateless society of even tens of thousands of people, let alone the millions and billions of people that exist these days.