lucullus

@lucullus@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese social media companies remove posts ‘showing off wealth and worshipping money’ while the gap between the country's rich and poor widens⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds as dumb of an idea as the one child policy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the combined knowledge of humanity safer than it has ever been?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How could one protect electronics/hard disks/etc from a Crrington type event?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people around me tend to increase their responsibility load (i.e. have children, become a manager, do charity, etc.) while I (30M) try to avoid it as much as I can?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What people want in life often comes from what they experienced themselves previously. You mentioned charity. I’ve put 13 years of my life into being a scouts group leader, organizimg weekly meetups, many events and multiple scout camps a year. I’m very passionate about this, since I’ve got so much out of being a scout since I was 7, growing up with a community, that was meaningful and not harsh and punishing as school. I wanted tp give these experience back to the next scout generation. And during my time as scout group leader I could grew even more, making my own life better through helping others. Soon I will shift my focus away from the scouts (currently its too much together with work; also I want kids soon).

  I’m not saying, that you need to do this. I just wanted to explain where my motivation comes from. I get a sense of fulfilment and I’m proud of what I’ve done and I’m proud of the kids, that I saw growing up and now being group leaders themselves.

  Finding something, that you are passionate about is very important. It doesn’t need to include external responsibilities. Taking responsibility for your own self, like putting in hard work to learn a new skill, can be as fulfilling as the above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Social media lobby group sues US State for protecting children from Meta, TikTok and Snapchat⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which then wouldn’t be a legally full verification of your age, thus the legislation would probably require some other means. We currently have a similar discussion in the EU regarding porn sites. Verification methods could be showing your id card and your face to a webcam, or showing up at a verification office in person (at least in germany we have this with our national postal service). Of course the porn sites don’t want to implement this. And I cannot really blame them. Nobody would give a random porn site their real identity and it would still be very easy to get porn without verification.

  Age verification on social media is very similar.