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- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 8 hours ago:
You must be a bot. Only a bot could deliver those contradictions in one message.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 18 hours ago:
Are you expecting parents ro tag along when their kid geso over to a friends house as a low tech solution?
And you highlighted that chat didn’t have any controls… but now imagine a parent who doesn’t even know what steam is. They likely also don’t know it even has a chat feature.
Then let’s add that many middle schoolers and up are handed a chromebook at school that they get to take home. And it’s protections are pretty weak. But the kid needs it to do homework. So you are saying that parents should be sitting with them every second they are on any device. Sorry son, you can’t do your homework right now because I have to make dinner. That’s unreasonable.
I don’t understand why some of you want to give corporations a pass, and put all the blame on the parents.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Um, me. No internet until I got to college. And even then, I was one of the early ones to get into it. It technically existed before that, but it wasn’t much of a thing. If we got stuck on a game on our Commodore 64s we had to buy a magazine or order a hint book. I have two kids who I still need to manage parental controls for. And most of the people I grew up with still have kids at home. Same for the ones I went to college with. And I’m not even 50 yet.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Most parents have a list a mile long of things they have to learn to raise their kids. There is only so much effort to go around. Most of the ones I know have tried to manage these things, but not only are there so many different sets of controls, but they are always changing. And of course what if the kid is at a friends house. Do you expect mom and dad to tag along so they can supervise? And when does the kid learn to be independent. You can’t win as a parent. You are either accused of helicopter parenting or not putting in enough effort. And really, these companies have teams of specialist trying to make their product as addictive and enticing to kids as possible. You expect parents to be able to fight that on hundreds of fronts a day. Kids will find a way no matter what parents do.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Oh I get it, you somehow know what everyone can do. And you get to say who should and shouldn’t have kids. Wait, are you God? No. Okay then, get off your soapbox and live in the real world. Can’t believe you think knowing what DNS is should be a requirement for having kids.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Debit cards make sense. Though I would expect those to be usable as CCs for the verification part.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Id checks don’t do anything. They are a joke to fake. I was just responding to all the people who think it’s so easy to “just supervise” your kids. They probably don’t have kids.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Yeah. No. Not everyone has the ability to be tech savvy.
On top of that, the controls are very weak. I’m very tech savvy, and there are things I can’t stop my kids from doing on their devices. Mainly because the device maker isn’t incentivized to make it possible for the control software to stop those things. It always sounds good on paper, but when you try to actually use it, you find out how bad it really is. Plus, each game has it’s own set of controls, and then each device… - Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
You do realize plenty of them were born and raised without the internet, right? There is a big difference between people raised with the internet and those not. Plus, parental controls are not even an after thought for must companies. They are a “we need something to claim we have parental controls”. Most of them just plain suck. Then you have different controls for different games, and different devices… even the tech savvy struggle. Plus the controls often have easy workarounds.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Okay so… all the people who are saying “supervise your kid”. Keep in mind that a lot of parents aren’t tech savvy. So often they don’t know the difference from a basic single player no online game and something where you interact with strangers. And the parental controls on every system are different. So it ends up being an all or nothing choice for these parents.
Add to that, kids these days socialize online a lot. My teen plays lots of teamwork games with her irl friends. And that is great for the development of social skills.
I happen to work from home, and in tech, so I am usually in the same room on a computer. Easy supervision. But other parents don’t have it so easy.
- Comment on Australia says platforms like Steam and Roblox have 'significant' child safety gaps 1 day ago:
Total tangent here… austrailians don’t have credit cards? Tell me more, I am very curious.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
Right, but sending them say to the moon, to perfect the tech, then sending the tech to further places will drastically speed up the process. The moon is at least not too far away. Mars isn’t terrible either. But the overhead is high compared to the distance. So being able to iterate without a launch (human presence) is a big win. If we were talking saturn, then the gains start to diminish. So perfect it on the moon, maybe mars if there is some reason it is drastically different, then use it elsewhere. Maybe even send some outside the solar system. Though without significant improvements in propulsion, there isn’t a lot of point to sending outside the solar system.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
Yeah, but humans are impatient. Each rover has only a select set of tools. It can’t adapt to what it might find. It has to wait for another rover to be sent. To automate modifying the rovers will take a lot of hands on experience. Then ideally they could just ship up parts to be swapped in.
- Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
Tourism. Tell me you don’t want to try sleeping in reduced gravity.
Probably invent some new sports. And because we don’t know what we don’t know. So it’s hard to build a robot to look for what we don’t know about. - Comment on Realistically, what do people plan to do on the Moon and Mars that requires a permanent, or long term human presence there? 1 week ago:
I think though it would help to have people there while they perfect the automation.
- Comment on Unlike her just gaming or whatever 😄 2 weeks ago:
On her right (our left) 45? What are you, 12? I would have guessed she was under 21… but I’m old. So all 20 somethings look the same age to me.
- Comment on gaslighting your boss is not a crime, it's a lifestyle choice 2 weeks ago:
I can really do this with my boss. He is so disorganized and bad with time management that he misses things in slack all the time. So I can just say I missed that message… are you sure you sent it. And he really doesn’t know if he did.
- Comment on Thanks, doc 2 weeks ago:
I wish
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 3 weeks ago:
I had an A5 (in the US though). Tasted nothing like people told me it would. But it was absolutely amazing. Never had anything that good. But cheaper steak with some seasoning was decently close.
- Comment on Happier to use spices on tofu, beans, soy curls, and even sometimes the dreaded processed plant-based mock-meats (when they go on sale). 3 weeks ago:
Spices in quantity are generally used to improve subpar ingredients. If you get top quality meat, it needs nothing but cooking. But most of us can’t afford top quality meats all the time.
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 4 weeks ago:
I guess I also discounted all the people using AI to generate the stupid report their upper management wants but never read. That really does improve their quality of life. :)
- Comment on I'm not sure they will 4 weeks ago:
Not sure who needs to hear this but… the average person isn’t using AI for anything important, nor likely anything that really involves much thinking. Heck they aren’t even choosing to use it, they are just doing a google search. Some of us use it for work. But for that case, I refer back to my first sentence.
- Comment on Not Enough Hate 1 month ago:
In a society where everyday, people are trampled on by a corporate first policy… they feel a need to try and strike back. So they do. Sadly it actually gives many of these horrible people joy to be mentioned at all. And it actually enables them.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 1 month ago:
The real difference between them is the trees.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 month ago:
Apologies. I got threads confused in my head. Some people really felt the need to make personal attacks for stating my opinion. This was not that thread.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 month ago:
Did you need an adjoining room for your kids?
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 month ago:
Ok, so sharing my experience is bad? I never said that the things that happened to me happen to everyone. In fact in other threads I said most travelers are traveling dor business and not with kids. So the adjoining room and such doesn’t matter then, and is probably why plenty of people haven’t experienced my issues. But I’m the bad guy because I didn’t rip on airbnb or something? Ok. I thought this wasn’t reddit. My bad.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 month ago:
I am just describing my experience. Just because it wasn’t yours doesn’t mean it is wrong. Of course with an ego the size of yours, that is probably something you can’t fathom.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 month ago:
The gas one was a luxury hotel in Oregon. The place overall was nice. But very short on staff. And thenone person at the front desk was clearly brain dead.
The others… major chains here and there as well as mgm properties in vegas.
Most travelers don’t travel with kids. They are usually traveling for business. So they don’t have the issues of adjoining rooms, or having to put 3 or 4 people in one room. Even the “suites” often only have one toilet. That’s because they cater to the solo travelers, or couples. They don’t really want families.
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 1 month ago:
Never had either of those issues. And never knew anyone who actually had those issues for real. Just random internet people who claim it happened. Though I do favor vrbo over airbnb. But I doubt it’s much different.