No Kings!

I am a potato, does this mean if I check the time during the competition that I am disqualified even if I did not physically construct a potato clock?

This is why you need a presidential aide to wake you up Don, you can’t keep firing them just because waking up always puts you in a tantrum.

Kash never got past L in school so would he even be aware of them?

Fuck AI

For real, in my opinion the failure of Google to curate a good playstore where you can find creators who recommend apps that you can trust, when it owns YOUTUBE which is where a lot of review content is posted for all kinds of topics, is stunning.

Daydreaming about little girls isn’t quite the same thing as being asleep.

I step out of the executive office

This is a great lesson that business people are like, super smart, ok guys, so don’t try to tell THEM how to make Video Games while not failing catastrophically OK? Those artists set themselves up to fail by not taking business seriously before business people took their art seriously.

Also go back to work! You are artists, your time is worth NOTHING!!! Do you want to get fired like those Playstation employees?

Fair enough, but for the record I am not just arbitrarily mad about this.

This is the fediverse.

We should be excited about the possibility of social media when it is employed in a kind way for adults and younger people.

How am I supposed to feel optimistic when even here people resort to kneejerk reductions about social media moral panics without engaging with the nuance?

Yeah it is frustrating, but you aren’t wrong. I am angry because I care.

Right but you did not show me positive evidence. Pointing at a forest and saying “Bigfoot is in there, that is proof, I don’t have time to show you, find Bigfoot yourself!” doesn’t count as proof Bigfoot exists…

It is a search result for four words, not a list of positive evidence supporting your argument…?

I found her in a box and am nervous to conclusively check to see if she is dead or not.

I could save on therapy if I never open it right?

Often it happens with me and your mom

There is nothing more low effort than linking to search results for words without any additional context or any indicators which of the search results are relevant or even necessarily support your conclusions…

You… sent me a search result for keywords… you want to be specific?

Yes

Yeah, I included that to show some breadth in my evidence, but the evidence for gaming addiction is fraught with structural issues as well. Certainly people get addicted to video games, but it is also decidedly a moral panic and thus comparing social media to it weakens the case for banning it in my opinion.

I don’t want entertainment, I want you to think harder before you resort to kneejerk reactions and I want you to cite your sources when you make bold claims.

Cite your sources or stop making these claims

As a child would it be ok for you to watch porn all day?

How does this relate to the conversation at hand?.. further do you honestly believe porn isn’t accessible to people under 18…???..???..???

Why not just let children smoke?

What evidence do you have that letting kids access social media is equivalent to exposing them to one of the most physically addictive cancer causing agents on earth?

Let me state the obvious, letting kids smoke cigarettes would lead to many many many many MANY young people dying prematurely. What you are suggesting, cutting off young people from social media, will likely also kill kids who are ostracized in their local in-person social networks when they become desperately isolated from anyone who isn’t bigoted.

I know this seems silly to state explicitly because it is so obvious but social media does not prematurely end people’s lives by massively raising the risk of a terminal illness that can’t be cured, to equate them is an offense to anyone who has lost a loved one to lung cancer or some other health complication from cigarettes.