BeepUnsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority"
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Gordon CalhounBut is a surface covered with liquid gallium also considered wetted? Or liquid bromine? All I know is oil oils things, and cannot easily be made wet.
I’ve been saying for years, water makes things wet, so one molecule of water is not wet, but once you have more than 1 the collection of them becomes wet.
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥I make your mom wet. Am I water?
ebolapieDid you copy it from the Internet, or did you do it yourself?
This gave me a sudden flashback to the days when I had a program on VAX VMS that would spit out ASCII art to a chat console from a collection of dozens.
This was also huge on the old WWW III and other BBS Systems over various networks like FIDO. What a time.
Maaan, I read The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll recently and was more than a little jealous of what y’all got to experience. Sounds like it was a blast : )
Ah damn, I loved that book when I was a kid. I can probably blame it, at least in part, for my career…
(I was a massive nerd and a FidoNet sysop back in the 80s & 90s, and got my first VMS and Unix experience hopping onto academic networks over dialup and X.25 gateways using, err, “unconventially obtained” credentials… This experience helped me convince my interviewer at Imperial College to overlook my less than stellar academic record to admit me to their Computing peogramme.
That book - and the movie WarGames - were definitely inspiring, if not life-changing.)
Reminded me of dialing in to BBSs to play LORD. I had a nice collection of ANSI and ASCII art. I thought I was hot shit with my i486 that had two hard drives, 100MB & 200MB. Look out world!
ozonedConnoisseur and collector of fine ASCII art you mean. An online archaeologist if you will. :-)
That’s alao good. ASCII art is a treasure that must be preserved.
At least in Linux, you can do this with any image using something like jp2a which is usually packaged into any distro repo.
😈MedicPig🐷BabySaver😈What is this crap supposed to be?
Fucking stupid.
This article is pro KOSA Act. A tainted report
The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone
Lawmakers who support KOSA today are choosing to trust the current administration, and future administrations, to define what youth—and to some degree, all of us—should be allowed to read online. KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
UnderpantsWeevilThe two options always seem to be:
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Option 1: Do the thing that expands the hyper-surveillance police state.
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Option 2: Do nothing and wait for the problem to get worse, until you’re compelling to accept Option 1.
MalReynoldsYah, their fallacy is false dichotomy.
Avid AmoebaThis is why I hate all the superhero movies of the past 20 years. Their ubiquity has made people subconsciously believe someone else out there with super powers will come to save the day, so it’s okay to continue sitting back helplessly and waiting.
I think that’s why comic writers started going to stories with flawed non super powered heroes.
I mean…it worked in WWII.
See, there was this guy named Hitler, who wanted to take over the world, and kill the Jews.
Then two jewish teens from Cleveland created Superman.
So Superman goes off, fights the nazis, and was on his way to Hitler’s house, to give him a lecture about why killing is bad, but Hitler heard Superman was coming. So he killed himself before Superman got there.
True story.
My only knowledge of WWII comes from Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbor, Schindler’s List, Conspiracy, Enemy at the Gates, Midway, Memphis Belle, Das Boot, Valkyrie, and Band of Brothers. In NONE of those historical accounts is this story told. It’s probably covered in that Inglourioueaus Basteards documentary, which I still have yet to see.
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Boomer Humor DoomergodIt’s the same model as religion and cigarettes: Get ‘em hooked young and you have a customer for as long as they live.
This explains so much! So THAT’S why I masturbate! I was addicted as a teenager, and I guess I’m going to be addicted for life.
Unfortunately, they’ve been so successful, we won’t be able to get our kids to read this report.
Its was also Epsteins priority for his clients.
No shit, Sherlock.
This is why I am glad that social media is slowly becoming age gated in other countries.
I misread this as “teen pregnancy” at first and with everything going on, i believed it.
SlippiHUDAnd people will still say… “oh just parent your kids”… In the face of this and all the other pulls on time and energy in the real world as well as how fast it all changes, it’s so hard to just parent your kids. We can’t rely on every individual parent staying up to date on and understanding how to get around all of this.
I called this years ago. I could see the Dopamine addiction happening, and knew these psychopaths would lean into it and try to weaponize it, and they have. Of course, they have.
It’s not the first time. Tobacco companies were found to manipulate their formulations to make theor products addict users quicker, addict them stronger, and make it harder to quit, all while denying the addictive properties, and even the obvious health issues.
Oil companies had their own studies back in the 80s, that clearly predicted Climate Change from fossil fuels, and yet they continue to deny it to this day.
I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the think tanks that fund and support the Conservative Propaganda Machine have also done studies to identify the addictive properties and triggers in their propaganda, and manipulate it for maximum effect.
WHEN we take back our country, and make major changes to get away from the ugly conservative society that they’ve tried to force upon us for decades, the addictive properties of “products” need to be identified and strongly regulated, to avoid exploiting unsuspecting citizens.