KOSA is evil incarnate and a Reichwing homophobe's goddamned wet dream.
IN NO FORM is this shite acceptable. How about parents monitoring their devilspawns' cell phone usage or--GASP--even limiting/barring their access? HMMMMMMMMMM?????
Incredibly frustrating, because the Horseshoe Theory left continues to insist that this (very bad) bill existing means that the Democrats are "normalizing fascism" and aren't any different than the Republicans, and therefore you shouldn't vote for Harris. I genuinely saw this on Twitter already this morning.
This as opposed to the far more simple explanation that Robyn provides above: that people's brains fall out of their head when children are involved in any kind of political calculus, and a well-meaning party of more or less good people is trying in good faith to do good, helpful things, either unaware of or hopeful that they can ameliorate the more grotesque effects of a party who wants nothing more than to weaponize everything.
I think it's true that most of this legislation the right keeps pushing to "protect our children" is really about censoring and controlling adults. They generally won't come right out and say it because, you know, some adults have a bit of a problem with busybodies and religious fanatics always telling them what they can and can't do.
Speaking as one of the first human beings that was able to be online at the age of 15 when the WWW was invented - the kids mostly did not go into adult spaces! Adult spaces are boring! We were much more likely to have adults invade the kid friendly spaces instead!
I think YouTube's failure is a shining example of the problem. If you label your content kid friendly there, then you lose a lot of advertisement choices and are held to much stricter standards. In exchange you get the kid friendly tag and people can find you by that easily, and if you get an outside sponsorship then the advertising restrictions don't matter as much.
The result has been a ton of actual intended-for-kids content NOT being labeled as kid friendly, because the content creators would not make any money.
i thought that parental filters were a thing - and also aren't they always banging on about parental rights to control their kid, shouldn't those parents be, you know, doing that?
Oh, hell no! I dropped 60 pounds since becoming vegan, which is great. What's also great is that with my metabolism, I can snack frequently. I am in a good place, thanks.
As someone who mightily struggled with anorexia & EDs: it is a real thing & terribly harmful. Tips, tricks, & all of the bones you can see on people being glorified.
This is always a difficult circle to square, really. I assume a lot of lobbying of politicians about the practicality of such bans is important but I also know a lot of politicians are afraid of headlines where "Protecting kids" and "sexual content" are aligned. (After all, it's perfectly fine for the leading cause of kids dying to be gunfire here, because guns are sacrosanct)
I really don't know what the *practical* answer to this except for excessive lobbying and advocacy towards Blumenthal.
I can not imagine how terrifying it must have been for her to have the "twisties", having the skills and ability to fly 12 feet off the ground but while up there not be able to orient herself in the space in order to time a landing position. I don't know how any weirdo man can be tolerated for criticizing a 20 something elite female athlete for anything but tearing down her psyche??? Weird as fuck.
I just realized I'm wearing my "I'm a Mac. And a PC." T-shirt from when we first shipped Fusion. I'm sure that will confuse any MAGAs who even know what those are.
Used to, from Fusion 1.0 to the Great Yeeting in 2017 - all of WS and Fusion got laid off and offshored. Although they're hiring locally again, so I might end up back there.
KOSA is evil incarnate and a Reichwing homophobe's goddamned wet dream.
IN NO FORM is this shite acceptable. How about parents monitoring their devilspawns' cell phone usage or--GASP--even limiting/barring their access? HMMMMMMMMMM?????
Incredibly frustrating, because the Horseshoe Theory left continues to insist that this (very bad) bill existing means that the Democrats are "normalizing fascism" and aren't any different than the Republicans, and therefore you shouldn't vote for Harris. I genuinely saw this on Twitter already this morning.
This as opposed to the far more simple explanation that Robyn provides above: that people's brains fall out of their head when children are involved in any kind of political calculus, and a well-meaning party of more or less good people is trying in good faith to do good, helpful things, either unaware of or hopeful that they can ameliorate the more grotesque effects of a party who wants nothing more than to weaponize everything.
I think it's true that most of this legislation the right keeps pushing to "protect our children" is really about censoring and controlling adults. They generally won't come right out and say it because, you know, some adults have a bit of a problem with busybodies and religious fanatics always telling them what they can and can't do.
Speaking as one of the first human beings that was able to be online at the age of 15 when the WWW was invented - the kids mostly did not go into adult spaces! Adult spaces are boring! We were much more likely to have adults invade the kid friendly spaces instead!
I think YouTube's failure is a shining example of the problem. If you label your content kid friendly there, then you lose a lot of advertisement choices and are held to much stricter standards. In exchange you get the kid friendly tag and people can find you by that easily, and if you get an outside sponsorship then the advertising restrictions don't matter as much.
The result has been a ton of actual intended-for-kids content NOT being labeled as kid friendly, because the content creators would not make any money.
I am bigly-er disappointed in Tammy Baldwin for supporting this bill. (She also voted for FOSTA-SESTA).
Yep. Embarrassing and ultra-fucked-up.
i thought that parental filters were a thing - and also aren't they always banging on about parental rights to control their kid, shouldn't those parents be, you know, doing that?
Ta, Robyn. Marsha Blackburn can't help but be an idiot.
And one good video is chased by another, so one more for now...
"Vance VP" - Marsh Family parody adaptation of "Dancing Queen" by ABBA, on JD Vance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYILYILPrXs
Popping back with this gem:
Thank You Joe Song - Vote Kamala Harris '24 (New Scared Ketchup Song 'We Rode Strong (With Biden)'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qD-Iy5Ox78
Um, pro-anorexia content?
I have seen it. It gives tips and encouragement for those who are in the grips of an eating disorder.
I don't recommend it for adults, much less for vulnerable teens.
...and I've never had anorexia (though I did unwisely crash diet for weeks when I was young and not wise), but bulimia was bad enough.
DO NOT GO THERE.
Oh, hell no! I dropped 60 pounds since becoming vegan, which is great. What's also great is that with my metabolism, I can snack frequently. I am in a good place, thanks.
As someone who mightily struggled with anorexia & EDs: it is a real thing & terribly harmful. Tips, tricks, & all of the bones you can see on people being glorified.
Oh my God, I am so sorry. This is majorly fucked up.
Yup. It's a thing.
Google "Pro-Ana". There's more of it than you would think.
Jesus fucking Christ.
This is always a difficult circle to square, really. I assume a lot of lobbying of politicians about the practicality of such bans is important but I also know a lot of politicians are afraid of headlines where "Protecting kids" and "sexual content" are aligned. (After all, it's perfectly fine for the leading cause of kids dying to be gunfire here, because guns are sacrosanct)
I really don't know what the *practical* answer to this except for excessive lobbying and advocacy towards Blumenthal.
Marsha! Marsha! Marsha!
OT:
Finally figured out how to use the Spirograph.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C-JADHqybdI/?igsh=MWs0dWt6eXhoOHEzeA==
this is making me nostalgic for the spirograph I had when I was younger, and fashion plates, lite-brite, I wish I still had them now.
I really liked that toy when I was a kid. It chewed up a lot of time, so my parents must have appreciated that.
My own kid liked it for about five minutes and then was like "meh."
It seems to me that if legislation goes around with the word "Kids" in its title, it's a bad sign.
Or TV commercial donation scams with earwormy jingles.
Yeah. The term has always mildly grated on me. I prefer children even though it is longer to type. Another favorite is little persons.
Isn't a kid a baby goat?
also my dad called us punkin's which I called my little ones too . family tradition.
I use spawn, for it amuses me, and annoys the right sorts of people.
It's the little things that make life worth living
So you're not going for SofaKing Jen?
OT, but 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 an athlete!
...𝗦𝗶𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹-𝗮𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱...
https://apnews.com/live/simone-biles-olympics-gymnastics-updates
I can not imagine how terrifying it must have been for her to have the "twisties", having the skills and ability to fly 12 feet off the ground but while up there not be able to orient herself in the space in order to time a landing position. I don't know how any weirdo man can be tolerated for criticizing a 20 something elite female athlete for anything but tearing down her psyche??? Weird as fuck.
Are we sure, J.D. Vance has called her lazy.
' she be all like lazy, she just stay in bed.' Deep Purple, maybe 1972?
( an interpretation).
You don't want no money, sure don't want no bread
That young woman is amazing. The lass defies gravity.
She really can fly!
She is birb
She is birb, and she is GOAT!
Yes!
I just realized I'm wearing my "I'm a Mac. And a PC." T-shirt from when we first shipped Fusion. I'm sure that will confuse any MAGAs who even know what those are.
Hybrid systems always freaked me out.
Virtual machines :)
Wasn't Fusion a hybrid HDD-SSD machine? If there's another Fusion then I don't know about it. Talking about VMs, I'm a VirtualBox junkie.
VMware Fusion, which got its name because it had more features than Player but less than Workstation.
Oh of course. You work for VMware?
Used to, from Fusion 1.0 to the Great Yeeting in 2017 - all of WS and Fusion got laid off and offshored. Although they're hiring locally again, so I might end up back there.
Unpossible!